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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Do not plant blackberries next to raspberries?
  • Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:24:51 -0400

Wild black raspberries in this area carry a virus that will gradually, over several years, render red raspberry and blackberry plantings useless. (In my experience, this is likely to include varieties sold as virus resistant; though this may depend on local strains of the virus.) Domestic black raspberries can I believe also carry it asymptomatically; so planting black raspberries that aren't virus tested and clean near the red ones can indeed cause problems.

If the virus isn't present, then I doubt there's any problem with planting clean red and black raspberries near each other. If it is present, I don't know how far it travels; though I'm fairly sure it's more than twenty feet.

The "old wives" are, as usual, right in some circumstances and wrong in others (much like old husbands.)


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




On May 21, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Jim Fruth wrote:

Horsefeathers! Balderdash! Baloney! Old Wives Tale! Etcetera!

My black raspberries are twenty feet away from the red raspberries which
are six feet away from the blackberries. So long as I deeply till between
the varieties to prevent invasiveness, I have had no (NO) problems in twenty
plus years. I have not seen a single interchange of diseases . My ONLY
problem is that my next door neighbor grows wild raspberries and does
nothing to control Cane Borer which makes extra work for me every year.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472





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