topic Re: 🌸 FRESH RASPBERRIES 🌸 in Garden

🌸 FRESH RASPBERRIES 🌸

cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 18:04:27 GMT

Since March, I've been chronicling the growth of my Raspberry bushes. They finally have enough sweet ripe berries for a delicious cobbler this Memorial Day weekend. I'm hoping to bake a couple to bring to my family's celebration Monday. The kids especially enjoy these.😃

I'm including pictures starting with today going backwards. Just in case you ever decide to plant some, you'll know what to expect. They begin with new green vines that erupt in blooms of small white flowers that eventually turn into each berry.

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santorini — Sat, 25 May 2024 18:26:51 GMT

Love these! I've never tried to grow raspberries but I love them. Congratulations! Enjoy that cobbler!

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LTT1 — Sat, 25 May 2024 18:31:14 GMT

@cheriere @santorini

This is just beautiful!

YUM

ENJOY!

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geezerette — Sat, 25 May 2024 18:35:54 GMT

@cheriere

How do you keep the birds from eating them?

We used to have raspberry bushes when I was a kid and the birds ate all the ripe berries before I could pick them!😩

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cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 19:40:50 GMT

@geezerette wrote:
@cheriere

How do you keep the birds from eating them?

We used to have raspberry bushes when I was a kid and the birds ate all the ripe berries before I could pick them!😩

Lol, I guess they've been too busy working on the cherry trees. Really though, I'm not exactly sure. Some, of course get eaten, but not a whole lot fortunately. They're planted on the opposite side of our unattached garage, just in front of two outbuildings. There's two birdhouses on the buildings too, so I'm honestly not sure. The bushes are quite large and expansive, so I'm sure they get some, maybe not just enough to notice.

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cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 19:42:42 GMT

@santorini wrote:
Love these! I've never tried to grow raspberries but I love them. Congratulations! Enjoy that cobbler!

Thank you so very much.😃❤️

Im thinking I'll just make one large cobbler and take the rest of the picked berries so the kids can much on them. They love them both ways.

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cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 19:43:43 GMT

@LTT1 wrote:
@cheriere @santorini

This is just beautiful!
YUM
ENJOY!

I really appreciate your liking them. I've been waiting all winter for the taste of fresh raspberries.❤️

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Estellee — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:10:03 GMT

@cheriere Beautiful raspberries, now I want some cobbler

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Kachina624 — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:18:56 GMT

@cheriere. I dearly love raspberries but they're too expensive to buy more than a few for cereal. I'd never buy the quanity needed for a cobbler. Lucky you!

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DSD2 — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:23:32 GMT

I'm salivating already!

I'm sure your cobbler will be delish.

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Yahooey — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:31:41 GMT

@cheriere

where do you live?

i live in NYC zone 7B

i have a raspberry and blackberry - is it a bush - vines? stalks?

both are just about finished flowering and i get berries end of june and july

i dont have a lot of space and didnt know that raspberries are notorious trespassers

i have hacked many a new growth stalk since it was creepiing into my flower bulb area

i keep 3 stalks for each plant only

you must have a very large area to let them run free and get enough for a cobbler

all them berries - lucky you

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luvzchiz — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:33:54 GMT

@cheriere Yum! What time's the party? I'll bring some whipped cream 😁

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2sisters — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:08:26 GMT

Those look so good @cheriere and I know your cobbler will be so good! Maybe a small scoop of vanilla ice cream!

Growing up we had blackberry and rasperry bushes. My Mom would send me, my brother and sister to pick them and we ate more than we brought in the house!😄

I hope all went well yesterday and I do hope your Mom is feeling better💕

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Pezzie — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:11:48 GMT

@cheriere I like how you casually mentioned raspberry cobbler so the rest of us can salivate.
Enjoy your cobbler. I am sure it will be delicious. I have some lemons to use up, as we are going to visit DD for the week, so I made lemon bars. I love those too.

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cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:43:13 GMT

@Yahooey

Thank you.😃❤️

I have both raspberry and blackberry bushes, but they're not growing close to one another. I do have a large section of each however. They're both the cultivated type, so the berries do grow quite large and very sweet. I live in southeastern Ky right on the border of Tennessee. Our raspberries always come in about a month or so before the blackberries do.

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cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:45:03 GMT

@luvzchiz wrote:
@cheriere Yum! What time's the party? I'll bring some whipped cream 😁

Thank you.❤️

Please drop on by. I'd love to be able to give all my friends some raspberries to take home too.

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cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:46:57 GMT

@Pezzie wrote:
@cheriere I like how you casually mentioned raspberry cobbler so the rest of us can salivate.
Enjoy your cobbler. I am sure it will be delicious. I have some lemons to use up, as we are going to visit DD for the week, so I made lemon bars. I love those too.

Thank you.😃❤️. I'd sure love to have you ver for some.

Lemons are something I'm envious over. I love ❤️ lemon everything too! We have one of the lemon patio trees, but it's unable to produce anything like I'd love to see lol.

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cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:48:06 GMT

@Estellee wrote:
@cheriere Beautiful raspberries, now I want some cobbler

Thank you so much.😃❤️

You know, you're always welcome anytime!

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Sooner — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:49:25 GMT

I've been buying organic ones at Sam's and they have been good! Birds would snap up any I tried to grow. Probably squirrels too--they would eat anything!

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cheriere — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:51:10 GMT

@Kachina624

Thanks 😃❤️

I still have a few bags in the freezer I should probably use up to make the cobbler with and just bring the ripe ones I've picked for them to eat.

It really doesn't take a long time to start getting a lot of fruit from them. Since you really enjoy raspberries, you should try to put some out. I'll bet they'd do great where you live.