This was the primary bowl of Raspberries from right here on the bungalow – just a few from the couple of canes that have been in opposition to the fence right here after I got here and some extra from the brand new raspberry mattress I planted up lower than 2 years in the past in Autumn 2021.
Since then I’ve had 5 extra greater bowls full and I have been very pleasantly stunned to have so many after how poor the canes regarded throughout final summers actually sizzling climate.
The canes within the half of the mattress furthest from the fence and magnolia tree are wanting 100% higher than these nearer and I would like to verify to provide them much more water at any time when I can to maintain them going.
Within the e book Meals In England by Dorothy Hartley I discovered this which is a part of Thomas Tussers 500 Factors for Good Husbandry written means again in the midst of the C16.
“Spouse, into the backyard, and set me a plot,
With strawberry roots, of the perfect to be obtained:
Such rising overseas, amongst thorns within the wooden,
Properly chosen and picked, show wonderful good.
The barberry, raspberry, and gooseberry too,
Look now to be planted, as different issues do:
The gooseberry, raspberry and roses all three,
With strawberries below them, trimly agree.
Have been strawberries actually as soon as grown below raspberry canes? Appears odd in the event that they have been, as strawberries want extra solar than raspberries which do finest when the climate is not too sizzling. They do rather well in Scotland and are bred there, with most of the names are of the varieties beginning with “Glen” (Scottish Valley) …Glen Moy, Glen Ample and Glen Prosen are three that I do know.
Again within the Knodishall smallholding days we grew an enormous fruit cage stuffed with raspberries all in three lengthy rows, they bought rather well after all and it was one of many on a regular basis summer time jobs for me to choose and put out on the market.
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| Image from practically 10 years in the past of the smallholding fruit cage with lengthy rows of canes and redcurrants within the foreground |
On the finish of the rising season it was additionally my job to chop out all of the canes that had completed fruiting and weave the brand new canes in between the wires that held them upright. It was a job that I loved although it took some time to do as a result of as soon as the outdated have been minimize out all of it regarded so tidy and proper prepared for the subsequent 12 months.
It will not take me so lengthy to chop out the canes right here in my less-than-4 metres-long mattress!
Again Tomorrow
Sue
