Oh, *I* **adore** raspberries. They just hate the deep south. Between soil diseases/pests and the fact that all but one or two varieties simply stop respiration when temps are above 90 they pretty much all die down here. Ask me how I know that ;)
*sigh*
I will try the one variety that’s pretty much ‘it’ for around these parts next year. I found a nursery in Arkansas that’s pretty well rated on Daves Garden forum that actually sells them. Yay. The variety isn’t supposed to be great for fresh eating but supposedly cans and makes jelly just fine. Which is all I usually want anyways.
We’ll probably do the tpost wire thingie for my thornless blackberries just outside my window. Just enough support to keep them ‘in line’. The blackberries along the fenceline will be trimmed brutally to keep them in their place. I’m not looking to maximize production with them. Just keep them ‘neat’ looking on ‘my’ side of the fence.
I didn’t realize that. (That they hated the deep south.) That’s what I love about this forum. Youlearn something new every day.
My husband loves raspberries, but hates the thorns. That’s why I have to be careful where I plant them — some place where he’ll never run into them. I was going to plant the blackberries and raspberries all together. After all, that’s how I buy them in the store — 2 boxes of blackberries and one box of raspberries every week that they are in the produce department. But, hoosiermama says that I can’t plant them together. After all, who am I to argue?