Organic Gardening – Raspberry Transplants
Here’s a photo of 3 raspberry plants I stumbled across at my in-laws back yard. I can’t call it a garden ’cause it’s more like a jungle at the moment. It hasn’t been well cared for in a long time.
But I found this tiny raspberry plant growing in heavy shade and dug it up to bring home (with permission, of course).
There were three canes that I brought home and planted. Each had some roots, but I wasn’t sure how they’d go. I haven’t ever transplanted raspberries before and they were growing in heavy shade, so now they are in very different conditions. I put shade around them for the first week after transplanting and mulched them heavily.
If you look hard at the photo you’ll see three brown sticks and two with greenery. The middle plant died, with only the other two surviving, but the one on the right-hand-side looked like just a brown stick for many weeks.
I kept watering them all and eventually a new leaf appeared, and then another. It just goes to show that you can never tell what’s going on just below the surface!
Raspberries fruit on the second year canes, so I’ll have to wait another year to taste them, but I’m sure they’ll be delicious. Organic gardening brings so many joyful moments into my life – and my mouth!
Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…
Warmly,
Julie
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