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Brebas, berries, Cherry, poppies...(after rain drops)

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Wow! And what do the yellow raspberry taste like?

Like figs their taste improve with aging.  I cannot describe the taste. It is very sweet and  delicious.  you have to try for yourself.  
 

Yellow raspberries generally are sweeter than reds, and don't have as much tart counterbalance. I grow Fall Gold (very vigorous) and Anne (low vigor, better tasting). Yes, you should plant some for yourself they are easy to grow and you can't get yellows in the store (or good reds for that matter)..

I have Fall Gold, but they are small, maybe a sample in the fall?  I also have a  Yellow black Raspberry (AKA Honey Queen) this later I got from UCDavis- corvalis,  such tiny tip layer, I did not think it would survive...but it did, supposedly black Raspberry grows like blackberry in a crown and won't spread by suckers.  I am looking forward to try these as well.  I love my yellow Anne.  After the rain we had, they swell up and are very sweet.  I am working on a Brandwine (purple kind) it is very thorny, also grows by tip layer.  I love raspberries, can you tell?

Honey Queen sounds cool. I grew a black raspberry (Munger) and it does grow from a crown and tip roots, no suckering. The taste was unique but I took it out because the location wasn't good for a thorny, trailing plant.

Raspberries are hard to beat! I have 6 reds and 2 yellows. They never make it into the house, too easy to just eat them off the canes like candy :) WA grows lots of great berries. My best berry is probably Marion (rasp/black cross). I'm sure you've had those up there....

Wow! What an awesome display! But I see your chickens are missing... How do you keep them away from the goodies?

Hi Grasa,
Nice display. You should try a pear-tree .
I almost gave up on raspberry and got Tayberries going . At my place those lasts are much more productive .
I bought a yellow raspberry, and believe me or not, the plant does red raspberries - mislabeled :( !

Hello Grasa, if I can see right the Dezert King formed figs on old wood, right ? My did not formed figs on old wood but on new wood there is leave fig leave fig. would that be main crap which wont ripen unless pollinated with fig wasp ? Thanks .

My partner and I argue as to what 'free range chicken' really means... so, they go the run of the yard and I fence my plants.  They do not like figs, but trip on them breaking young shoots, so, they too have to be fenced.  The Berries are  fenced, the garden is sectioned and fenced. I do let them in there, supervised, so they eat the bugs- mostly they scratch the wood chips of the paths, and when they jump in my beds, they are gone to be free somewhere else.

I have 2 Marionberries, but young (1 and 2 year old) very thorny. so I am figuring out how to manage them.  I have also others in buckets, still deciding where would they be best (4 kinds of currants: black, red, white and yellow), salmon berry, longanberry, triple crown blackberry, and some other 'tay' (Meeker, perhaps, round, fat, juicy and delicious raspberries.  they grow under my Cherry, plum and Fig trees.

Pears? Yes, I got them also all 2 year old. I will have a sample this year. A few put out flowers and have little pears on them. I have them planted 2 feet apart and on a   20degree incline. I will espalier them in my front yard.   I have a few asian grafted onto Bartlet, and their shoots are doing very well.  On the other side of my yard, I have 5 apple  trees, which I am working on making them espalier about 2 feet from my fence with neighbors. 

I also have several hardy kiwi in pots... Bluberries also.  and over 2 dozen of exquisit tomatoes. 
I am monitoring these fig trees closely. I want figs that ripe here in the North West.

I will have raspberry start to trade later on when they go dormant.

I feel sorry for people who do not have a garden or a yard or plants to tend... they are life fulfilling for me.

Grasa,

Congratulations! That's a very nice mix-crop
and it could as well be hard work to keep all of them happy and giving you those nice fruit.

cheers
Francisco

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