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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] raspberry vigour
  • Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:54:21 -0400

Yikes!! I have maintained a patch of 'fall red' for 10 years in a 10x3
strip of land with modest effort. I guess it took more than a year to fill
the space, but the extra waiting was worth it for a managable and tasty
raspberry.
___
Ginda

...... Original Message .......
On Fri, 16 May 2008 13:44:24 -0700 Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>
wrote:
>Sheridan described a raspberry he's growing in Montana which filled a
>four foot square in a year. That sounds like one I am trying to
>eliminate.
>
>I tried to buy Tulameen for a couple of years, without success, so I
>bought what was available: Boyne, Autumn Bliss and Fall Gold.
>
>I planted six canes of Boyne two years ago, on a community garden plot
>I rent. Last year they fruited early, then all summer till late
>fall. I kept pruning out new canes, but finally decided it was just
>too enthusiastic for the restricted space. It had infiltrated not
>only my entire 20 x 50 foot plot, but was in the pathways and over
>into the neighbour's plot as well.
>
>My nephew, who owns ten acres, dug out all the canes in the winter -
>two full-sized pickup loads of them.
>
>I have been digging out resurgent plants all spring, digging and
>redigging the same areas. I am amazed to see buds sprouting from such
>thin roots. It is worse than couch grass and Canada thistle.
>
>Meanwhile, the Fall Gold has perhaps doubled its space, and the two
>plants of Tulameen I was finally able to get have a few new sprouts
>right around the original cane. That's probably why it is hard to buy
>- it only increases modestly.
>
>I think Boyne should be restricted to places like the Yukon.
>
>Diane Whitehead
>Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>maritime zone 8, cool Mediterranean climate
>mild rainy winters, mild dry summers
>
>
>
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