Our raised bed finally has the raspberries in it. My husband was out there with his angle finder, saw, PL Premium Glue, and air nailer getting the caps on the raised garden he built yesterday. Gee it didn't have to be perfect. Its not like he was doing a crown molding job! We still have to put in the stakes and clothesline, just didn't get to it today. Excuse the mess. We have a lot of projects on the go that don't all necessarily belong to us. I bought the raspberries plants at a local nursery last year on their 50% off sale late in the summer. They have 3 different stores in the area and usually have good prices. The raspberries were originally priced $13 - $15, about 3 different varieties I have, mostly everbearing. What really ticks me off is 2 days ago we were at a different nursery and I saw everbearing raspberries for $3.99 each. And up in price from there, but I think the most expensive was under $10. Oh well. I have 2 raspberry plants that may not have survived the winter. Still not showing any green growth. I may be going back for a couple of those $3.99 ones yet. Husband planting raspberries in raised garden ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden ) Raspberries now planted in raised garden ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden )
Looking good. I'll be looking you up when the berries come on for a nice bowl of berries and cream :-D
Very pretty raised beds! Congratulations with a job well done. I hope the bushes will appreciate your efforts and bear plenty for you.
I hope you'll be seeing signs of new growth on your canes soon. They do look good in their new home don't they? :-D
Very nice raspberry bed! At least that will stop them from spreading. The ones that may not make it,,are the stems brittle or is there still some bend to them. I know here i have broken a cane off by accident and just stuck it in the ground and it took off growing. Its pretty had to kill them so maybe the root system is still healthy for you.
Very nice raised bed. Sometimes their perfectionism will drive you crazy but the end product is always very well made.
Your raised beds look real nice! Looking at your photos, I can hardly believe we are in the same world! We still have so much snow cover, and cold here. I can not wait to see my ground again! Enjoy your raspberries!
That raised bed turned out quite nicely. The raspberry bushes look good there. Do you plan on making any sort of frame or trellis to organize them on?
Yeah, you'd hardly believe the 2010 Olympics were 30 miles from here. We can see Cypress from our house, you know the mountain with no snow on it! We had one inch of snow back in December and that's been it this year. We've had the warmest winter in recorded history since 1895. We haven't got around to it yet but we have stakes and clothesline for the raspberry plants to grown on. They're sitting close to the planter right now, just haven't quite finished it yet. Husband is even talking about putting up bird netting too so birds don't steal any berries. The plants that may not make it aren't showing any greenery yet. There are 9 plants, 3 different varieties. 2 plants have a fair amount of green, 3 have some green, one a little bit, and one just starting to show a little bud ready to green. So the 2 that don't have anything yet may just be a little bit behind. They've only starting showing green the past couple of weeks. If they're duds I know where I can buy $3.99 plants to replace them!
It sounds very well organized, Whistler. I wouldn't give up on those "laggers" yet. Sometimes with transplanting, things can take their time in showing colour. With nine plants, you are going to have an unbelieveable amount of berries once those plants establish themselves and become adult plants. Back when I had Rasp. bushes I had only four and it was way more than we, friends, family, aquaintances or stranger could hope to eat or process. Maybe you'll 'go commercial'! Good luck.
I loved it when we had raspberries...so did one of our dogs at that time. You had to sneak out there before she got them...the stinker. I just noticed in one of the spring books a month ago that there are raspberry plants that you just mow over in the fall and the start from new every year...it sounded interesting but then the book must of gotten recycled. I really don't have room for them now. Your area looks great...I can't wait until our snow is gone..
