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[Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>]

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