Jason bought some posts and wire and set them up - I followed behind tieing up the canes to the wire. I am definitely an amateur at this... but at least it will help to manage them before they take over by early summer.
We have everbearing raspberries, which means we get crops in waves, starting in late June until the fall. We harvested so many berries we didn't know what to do with them all. We even tried selling some from our driveway. We still have jam from last year and we gave oodles of it away for christmas and birthdays this year. Time to start getting familiar with new raspberry recipes.
Each year we end up with more raspberry canes than we first start out with. New shoots grow each year. We make sure to pot them up or move them to a better location. This year, we put an ad on craigslist to sell some of our canes. We have made about $100 so far [one week]- money we have alrady put back into garden supplies- and we have more to sell. Jason is talking about building a large planter box and growing some of them on the roof [because we are running out of garden space]. That could be interesting. I wouldn't mind a sun chair or two up there as well - nice place to relax and look over at the garden.
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