Posts Tagged ‘raspberry’
The Key to Preventing Moldy Berries
(From the AMGA Gardener Loop) Berries are delicious, but they’re also delicate. Raspberries in particular seem like they can mold before you even get them home from the market. There’s nothing more tragic than paying $4 for local raspberries, only to look in the fridge the next day and find fuzzy mold growing on their…
Read MoreOrchard Report
By Tami Schlies If you’ve been to the membership forums, you’ll find a section where people are posting the results of the past winter. Very interesting to see what survived and what didn’t in various parts of the state. Like many people, I had terrible dieback on my Evans cherries. They are about eight years…
Read MoreFrom the President
By Pat Mulligan Hello members. Much of the value of this group is the sharing of experience. When one member tries something new, we all benefit. Why should we miss new, hardier plants or make the same mistakes? Our newsletters convey some of our experiences. Please join me in thanking Dawn Deiser for scanning…
Read MoreRaspberry Production in South-Central Alaska
Dwight Bradley We’ve been growing raspberries organically for at least 10 years and now have about 600 feet of raspberry row. Here are some lessons learned. Raspberry basics Raspberry roots live for many years, but the canes themselves are on a two-year life cycle. During year one, a new cane will sprout from…
Read MoreThe Editor’s Garden
By Tami Schlies Greetings from the Editor’s Garden! Our heat wave this summer has been great to many of my plants, and I wish I’d planted more beans and corn. As they say, it is either a bean year or a lean year, and this is definitely a bean year! My potatoes are suffering from…
Read MoreRed Raspberry
Red Raspberry Rubus idaeus Native to North America, red raspberries grow from perennial roots. The tall, thorny canes are brownish red and woody, reach full size the first year, produce heavily the second year, then die and are replaced by new canes. Leaves consist of 3 to 5 irregularly toothed leaflets, whitish and hairy…
Read MoreAugust 2002 Tours
by DAN ELLIOT APFG Members had an enjoyable and educational visit to Gene and Alaine Dinkle’s on Fairview Loop Road in Wasilla on a wet evening in August. From giant cabbages to little crabapples, we were impressed by the variety and productivity of the established plantings. The prolific, large clump of red currant was called…
Read MoreOrchard Report – Edmonton – 2001
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada by THEAN PHEH November 28, 2001 I live in Edmonton which has a microclimate in Zone 3. I also have contacts with other growers in Zone3 and 2 in Central Alberta. The first killing frost of 2000 arrived late, giving the plants about two extra weeks to prepare for the…
Read MoreMAXIMIZING RASPBERRY YIELDS
The following information may be of interest to Alaskan raspberry growers. It is from the World Wide Web at: http:/gus.nsac.ns.ca/-piinfo/newsletters/otherberries/961rasp.html Research by Dr. J. P. Prive of the Michaud experimental Farm in New Brunswick, Canada, has shown that light interception is critical to maximizing yields, and that the best way to…
Read MoreFRUIT TREE THOUGHTS
by Bob Boyer Anchorage The following are blossoming dates (B) and fruit pick dates (P) for trees in ground or buckets. Nanking cherry. B May 5, P Sept. 26. 1 gallon. Cavalier cherry. B May 22. No fruit. Chokecherry. B May 22, didn’t pick; put Cygon 2 on tree. White Nanking cherry,…
Read MoreREPORT ON KILLARNEY AND CANBY RASPBERRIES
by Dwight Bradley Over the past three summers, we’ve had two 50-foot rows of Killarney Raspberry come into full production. Killarney is a red, summer- bearing raspberry developed in 1961 at the Morden Experiment Station in Manitoba. We chose Killarney from the North Star Gardens catalog (raspberry specialists: 91098 – 60th St., Decatur,…
Read MoreEstablishing Tissue Cultured Red Raspberries
Most of the following information was gleaned from the 1991 Proceedings of the Illinois Small Fruit and Strawberry Schools and the North American Bramble Growers Association meeting in St. Petersburg. We thought a quick review would be worthwhile. Tissue culture (TC) is a system whereby small portions of a plant, normally buds, are grown…
Read MorePruning Raspberries
I just finished pruning my raspberries. If there is one job I hate more than anything else in my garden, it is pruning raspberries. Invariably, I pick the hottest day in spring so I am constantly debating whether the discomfort of a few scratches from the raspberry prickles would be worse than the streams of…
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