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  • From: <bobbett AT windstream.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] New red raspberry pest
  • Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:59:48 -0400


---- Marlin Burkholder <burkholders AT glenecofarm.com> wrote:
>
> For the first time in nearly 20 years of growing the fall crop of Heritage
> red raspberries we are having serious problems with some sort of fruit fly
> that apparently lays its eggs in beginning to ripen berries.

While I don't know what problem your berries are having, I feel for you.
This year I lost my entire black raspberry cane crop (not just the berries
but ALL the plants) due to orange rust. We didn't realize the rust was
spread through the root system and that's why our berries were down 90% these
past two seasons.

There's nothing organic or otherwise to control this. We can only rip out
the plants and put red raspberries in their place (they are immune to orange
rust). More black raspberries will go in new sites, and I hope the rust
doesn't come back. But in time, it might, since it's spread naturally
through the native blackberry population :-(

Bobbett in KY




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