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["Bob Kelly" <bkelly66@bellsouth.net>]

Touche!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Road's End Farm" <organic87@frontiernet.net>
To: "nafex mailing list at ibiblio" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [nafex] Do not plant blackberries next to raspberries?


> Wild black raspberries in this area carry a virus that will gradually,  
> over several years, render red raspberry and blackberry plantings  
> useless. (In my experience, this is likely to include varieties sold  
> as virus resistant; though this may depend on local strains of the  
> virus.) Domestic black raspberries can I believe also carry it  
> asymptomatically; so planting black raspberries that aren't virus  
> tested and clean near the red ones can indeed cause problems.
>
> If the virus isn't present, then I doubt there's any problem with  
> planting clean red and black raspberries near each other. If it is  
> present, I don't know how far it travels; though I'm fairly sure it's  
> more than twenty feet.
>
> The "old wives" are, as usual, right in some circumstances and wrong  
> in others (much like old husbands.)
>
>
> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
>
>
>
>
> On May 21, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Jim Fruth wrote:
>
> >    Horsefeathers!  Balderdash!  Baloney!  Old Wives Tale!  Etcetera!
> >
> >    My black raspberries are twenty feet away from the red  
> > raspberries which
> > are six feet away from the blackberries.  So long as I deeply till  
> > between
> > the varieties to prevent invasiveness, I have had no (NO) problems  
> > in twenty
> > plus years.  I have not seen a single interchange of diseases .  My  
> > ONLY
> > problem is that my next door neighbor grows wild raspberries and does
> > nothing to control Cane Borer which makes extra work for me every  
> > year.
> >
> > Jim Fruth
> > Brambleberry Fruit Farm
> > 4002 Davis Street
> > Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
>
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