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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: raspberry sources?
  • Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:50:04 -0800

Canby IS good, though here in the NW where it came from, it's usually a good
idea to plant it in a raised bed to reduce crown rot, which it is
susceptible to.
I live just about 5 miles from the town of Canby.
-Lon Rombough
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>From: "crmauch" <mauch1@aol.com>
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [nafex] Re: raspberry sources?
>Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2002, 7:12 AM
>

>I'll put my 2 cents in for one Spring bearing red raspberry - Canby
>Thornless. Very good flavor, soft, and effectively no thorns (near
>the base of each cane it does get "razor-stubble" like thorns, but
>they've never bothered me in handling the canes.
>
>I do have to admit to having a fondness for black raspberries over
>reds, but Canby threatens that fondness every year.
>
>I planted "Goldie" over a year ago, though I don't have much
>experience w/ it, I like it too.
>
>Chris Mauchline
>SE PA, zone 6
>
>--- In nafex@y..., <redherring@t...> wrote:
>> I have finally decided to break down and buy some red raspberries
>(a real
>> concession, because as a proper NAFEXer should, I have gotten most
>of my
>> stock free or swapped for it. Now and then I actually spend money
>though).
>> I have found websites for Pense, Indiana Berry, Winfrey, and I've
>read there
>> is a Nourse company. I have been very pleased at the prices,
>somehow I
>> always seemed to have seen raspberry plants in general nursery
>catalogs at
>> horrific prices like $16 for 3. Can you all tell me if you have
>had good or
>> bad experiences with these companies, or is there a better source?
>In
>> general, I prefer to buy nursery stock from this side of the
>Rockies.
>> I've taken notes from the many comments on varieties and
>flavor, but
>> more would also be welcome. I'd not been interested in raspberries
>because
>> the only gardener I knew who grew them must have been
>growing "Dorman",
>> listed as only "fair" flavor. (We don't generally have access to
>farmers
>> markets here, this place is exactly backward enough to have neither
>old
>> fashioned farmers markets, nor trendy new ones. They've finally
>built a
>> place for the trendy new type for next summer. Maybe I;ll have a
>bumper
>> crop and be forced to set up there.) I've tasted some at Hectors
>since that
>> were excellent. Thanks all. Donna Tenn, zone 6 in the
>1980's, zone 7
>> in the 1990's
>
>
>
>
>
>
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  • Re: [nafex] Re: raspberry sources?, Lon J. Rombough, 02/15/2002

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