Raspberries

  • Storing red currants for winter

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    June is red currant time. Like all berries, currants don’t ripe all at the same time, so they can be hard to store for winter. The usual way of storing them is to freeze them in bags or processed them in juice, syrup, or jam. I used to store my red currants this way before.…

  • Annual raspberry pruning

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    This week we had lots of sun and unusually warm weather so I used it to do as much garden work as I could. The manure has been spread and mixed with soil, I’ve pruned my roses and now came the time to prune the raspberries. Due to the almost extremely warm weather, they have…

  • Pruning raspberries

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    rollinggarden

    Most of the people I know grow them as a bush and cut them in Autumn all the way. They get their raspberry fruits in late Summer. I grow my raspberries on a fence (easier to tend them) and cut them in early spring. This way we have fruits from June till August. My pruning time depends…