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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] suggestions needed for bulletproof fruiting plants
  • Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:05:40 -0500


On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Ginda Fisher wrote:

My "fall red raspberries" are by far my most reliable crop. i prune them once in the winter, and spot prune for cane borer during the growing season. They produce more fruit if I irrigate, but don't require that. I feed once in the spring, and don't know if that's important or not. I've never had any disease problems, send the berries rarely rot, even if I forget to pick to pick them. They just dry up.


That's liable to depend on where you are. Even when I plant "disease- resistant" cultivars, domestic raspberries always succumb to disease for me: the area's full of wild blackcaps which are tolerant carriers. Those aren't reliable croppers either, because if weather is dry they produce tiny dry fruit that's all seeds.

I suspect that there isn't anything that's "bulletproof" wherever you grow it; the list is going to be different in different locations.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale





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