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[Don Yellman <dyellman@earthlink.net>]

Ginda: I am still learning about the Baba myself, but it this point it 
appears that the best production is from first-year canes that start from the
ground in spring.  I left a few canes from last summer this spring, but they 
were not nearly as productive as the new ones, and I soon took them
out.  This winter, I will cut all the canes back to the ground at the same 
time I dig around the perimeter to control spreading.  Rgds, Don Yellman,
Great Falls, VA

Ginda Fisher wrote:

> Don, I'm definitely not replacing the Fall Reds.  They may not be the
> most productive plants in the world, but they are doing very well.  I
> suspect they'd be more fruitful if they got a full day of full sun, so
> it's not fair to compare them to other patches that do.  (They get 6-8
> hours of full sun, and light shade the rest of the day.)  I'm not going
> to get a quart a day, but the fall crop may be enough to make it inside.
>
> I was wondering if I could find a spot for the baba.  We traditionally
> get temps below 0F, but not very often, and not for long.  I have plenty
> of oak leaves with which to mulch roots, and good wind protection.  And
> what with global warming, 0 may be less and less common.  Do they bear
> mostly on 1 or 2 year old canes?  I'd have better luck with 1-year
> canes, I suspect.  (The 0 limit does mean it's not worth trying them at
> my uncle's, in the catskills.  It's too cold for poison ivy there, just
> barely.)
>
> If you remind me in the spring when you're digging them up, I'll look
> hard for a place to experiment with a bababerry.
>
> Best,
> Ginda
>
> Don Yellman wrote:
> >
> > Ginda:  I put in 10 Baba plants, spaced at about 2 ft., so the row is
> > close to 20 ft. long.  As vigorously as they have grown and spread, I
> > could have gotten by with 6 plants.  Now that they have spread (actually
> > under the fence and into the neighbor's yard --- they pick them too),
> > the row has become 6 ft. wide in places.  Too wide.  And it won't stay
> > that wide.
> >     I don't know if you noticed Mn. Del's note with the observation that
> > Baba tolerates only down to 0 degrees F.  That's fine for me here, but
> > it might not work for you.  It is possible that the high productivity of
> > my patch (wife is still picking over a qt. per day) owes much to ideal
> > conditions: enriched soil, full sun, and good rainfall this summer.  If
> > you are happy with your Fallreds, I certainly would not, under the
> > circumstances, suggest replacing them with Baba.  But if you can find a
> > spot and want to experiment, I will certainly have enough plants, and
> > don't mind a little trouble packing them up and sending them.
> >     Somehow, you need to get enough berries that you can't eat them all
> > on your way back to the house.  Then you can save them up in the freezer
> > and make some raspberry jam.  That is a product that really brings out
> > the best of the raspberry.
> >
> > Rgds, Don Yellman Great Falls, VA
> >
>
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