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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Raspberry Taste
  • Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:00:20 -0600

My fall bearing raspberries taste sweet right up to 22 degrees when they freeze beyond come-back. My secret? My soil gets tested every year and I apply whatever fertilizer the soils laboratory recommends.
When the weatherman predicts an overnight low into the lower twenties, I pick all berries (including stems) that have expanded. So long as the peduncle stays in the berry, they will ripen. After a day or two, they ripen fully and taste as good as if they were just picked.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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Here in zone 6/5 Massachusetts, I have some Heritage plants.
To be honest, I neglect them during the year.
Usually they are a bit sour.
This year, I had some extra 10-10-10 so I chucked it in the general area of the raspberries.
They not only responded in plant vigor, but the berries actually tasted sweeter.
Could have been a coincidence.

Murph





  • [NAFEX] Raspberry Taste, Jim Fruth, 11/23/2007

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