Pesticidal?

TrixieCat

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

This year, the bees are going crazy making raspberries for me. After they carefully harvest each flower pod, the petals drop off and the berries appear, and begin their journey towards ripeness.

Funny, for three years in a row I always found this lone gigantic bee that would decide to up and die die on the same area on my driveway every spring. Bizarre.

Now that I have a virtual mini forest of raspberries bushes 4 years in the making, the bees are now coming and going in droves, pollinating every last flower pod judiciously. Win win..

At my parents house, they have a HUGE raspberry patch that has been growing for about 30 odd years....everytime I go over there they laugh because they will see my car, but no Tracey. I am grazing.
Mom actually told me she was ripping them up this year! :eek:
Thankfully the guy she hired to do it didn't. phew....
What was she thinking?

libragirl

I'm growing strawberries. So many came in I can't eat them all. Im giving them away.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Hippies.

urbanhippie

libragirl wrote:

I'm growing strawberries. So many came in I can't eat them all. Im giving them away.

Theres nothing like growing your own food...Had a salad for dinner today that came straight from the garden just 10 minutes beforehand

libragirl

urbanhippie wrote:

Theres nothing like growing your own food...Had a salad for dinner today that came straight from the garden just 10 minutes beforehand

Oh yeah I agree, I have tomatoes too...they are just starting to come in. I have some basil too.

urbanhippie

libragirl wrote:

Oh yeah I agree, I have tomatoes too...they are just starting to come in. I have some basil too.

Tomatoes, herbs, salad leaves and trying blueberries this year for the first time

libragirl

urbanhippie wrote:

Tomatoes, herbs, salad leaves and trying blueberries this year for the first time

I would like to grow blueberries..maybe next summer.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Collin wrote:

My grandfather used to have them and I saw a plant in a store and I bought it. They do expand rapidly, they shoot up everywhere. They've started ripening here and everyday I get a little more, it's awesome.
I originally planted them on our old patch of land where our chickens, geese and goats used to roam... (they were already gone, though) but we didn't use the land... now it's part of our backyard with this huge raspberry bush right in the middle! I'm thinking about putting the shoots next to the fence.

Also, close to my home there are huge blackberry and dewberry bushes.

Funny, my grandfather had the same at his cottage near the beach when I was growing up. I'll always remember picking them each morning to put on my cereal and eat breakfast outside on the back deck. Every time I eat one of my own, I get flashbacks.

Good times.

TrixieCat

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Hippies.

Musician.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

TrixieCat wrote:

At my parents house, they have a HUGE raspberry patch that has been growing for about 30 odd years....everytime I go over there they laugh because they will see my car, but no Tracey. I am grazing.
Mom actually told me she was ripping them up this year! :eek:
Thankfully the guy she hired to do it didn't. phew....
What was she thinking?

lol... You should drop off your laundry at the door at the same time.

They replant amazingly well once uprooted, so if that day ever comes, make sure to get a few and continue the lineage.

Collin

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Hippies.

We grow our own.





Raspberries, that is.

Collin

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Funny, my grandfather had the same at his cottage near the beach when I was growing up. I'll always remember picking them each morning to put on my cereal and eat breakfast outside on the back deck. Every time I eat one of my own, I get flashbacks.

Good times.

I get the flashback too! Just thought about it right after I posted when I threw one of those delicious red berries into my mouth. Takes me right back to my childhood at my grandfather's.