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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

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.
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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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