intro post!

[rafiwinters]

Hi all, and I'm glad to find this community. Found out about it on the gardening community.

I have a moderate-sized raised garden bed at the back of the property we rent, and a neighbor and I have just started to work on it this morning. Another neighbor told us nobody's used it in more than a decade. So gods only know what-all it will grow and what it won't, but I'm looking forward to finding out.

Comments

[melannen]

It's always exciting to see what will grow in a new spot!

[rafiwinters]

What's your garden like?

[melannen]

Overgrown. :D Currently it is full of transplanted wild raspberry bramble, pokeweed, and self-seeded asters.

[rafiwinters]

Do you get any fruit from the raspberry?

[melannen]

Yep! They are small and seedy and only ripe for a couple weeks but very flavorful - I often end up making a couple batches of raspberry leather at the end of the summer out of what we can't eat. (I would probably get more if I made the effort to prune and tame them a little.)

I transplanted them from a wild patch I'd been harvesting on a vacant lot that was about to get developed, so I knew they'd give good fruit if they established, and they sure established!

[rafiwinters]

My dad had a big garden when I was growing up. The owner before us had put in something like two dozen raspberry canes, which fruited bountifully. This was in Baltimore so the growing season was fairly long. One year there were berries on Thanksgiving morning. Only three, but still...