When you ask me what my favorite season is, I might answer “berry season!” I pretty much love any and all berries, and raspberries are no exception. Most people would have a special area of their garden set aside for raspberries and tie them to wires and keep them tame and tidy. I’ve inadvertently taken a differnt path–I grow them in my borders and they have increased their footprint over time so that now there are probably 100 plants or more, in both gold- and red-berried cultivars.

I would guess I’ve had these red raspberries in the garden for twenty years. They never fail to produce two crops of delicious berries, mostly in the bed on the north side of the driveway. They lean way over the driveway and the car gets less and less room as the seaon progresses, but I don’t want to cut them back because, well, BERRIES!!!

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My future plans for these plants are to remove old canes in late winter and trim the remaining canes down to about two feet tall. I’ll feed them some organic berry fertilizer and stake some of the taller ones that lean into the driveway so there might still be room for the car.