Our raspberry patch has been thinning of late. The glory years yielded a bounty of 8-10 quarts, but the last few years have given only a quart or so at most. Raspberries give us jam and add lovely color and flavor to the chocolate raspberry ice cream that I often make. Some years ago a fellow with raspberry experience advised Kris to mow down half of our raspberry patch each year to encourage good growth the next year. Hah! We did it once and it took our patch a few years to recover from that. The raspberries themselves are eager to expand but keep coming up in our lawn and we’ve been reluctant to let the patch take over that part of the lawn. What to do?
It seems obvious that we should get new stock and plant some more. But it’s such a shame to keep mowing over the new plants that are already coming up. As you may know, raspberries spread through a root system underground. It’s not easy to dig up these fledgling plants and transplant them because it necessitates cutting them off from the mother plant, but I gave it a try anyway. Results below are pretty much what I expected.
Then we had an eureka moment. What if we dig up the new babies, separate them from the grass, put the grass back, and plop the little dears into jars where they could establish new roots and then be transplanted? So it has begun.
I’ll keep you updated on the results of this very scientific experiment. Very sciencey.
I’ll probably uproot this post in the morning.
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Good thinking! Are you going to put them in dirt/potting soil for awhile first (in cottage cheese or sour cream containers) or try to bury the new roots of “the little dears” directly into the warm soil and hot dry sun of the garden?
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We’ll probably put them in putting soil first. Kris thought of the same thing, so great minds think alike. I hadn’t actually thought that far ahead. 😊
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