Had my first crop of raspberries today...
Not from the new canes, but from the ones I'd given up on (I forget the
variety). They weren't as sweet as I seem to remember the blurb in the
Dobies catalogue leading me to believe, more than a little tart, but very
palatable - rather small berries, but there were enough for the three of us
with ice cream. I guess they were just taking their sweet time becoming
established. I honestly thought they were dead - the canes looked very brown
and shrivelled.
I knew they were early fruiting, but late June does seem excessively early!
I thought early fruiters didn't really begin to get going until end of
July/middle of August (but what do I know...?)
Sarah
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