365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Succulence
Day 304: Heritage is an "ever-bearing" raspberry, which means that it produces one crop during the summer, then takes a short nap before producing a second (and usually smaller) crop in early Autumn. While it purportedly requires little pruning, mine put up a mass of bull-canes this year and because I neglected to clip them out in a timely manner, I'm paying for my laziness with fewer berries. Strangely, the Steller's Jays who usually get first pick seem to be respecting my desire for sweet, succulent fruit and have been allowing them to ripen for my pleasure. There's nothing quite as delicious as a sun-warmed raspberry fresh off the vine!
Labels:
ever-bearing,
gardening,
Heritage,
raspberry
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