We got around two feet of snow yesterday. Join me for a quick walk down the steps and through the raspberries to look at one of our bins to see how it’s doing.
Compost and 2 feet of snow
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Making time for raspberries
I made a bit of time this morning to trim some of the raspberries and improve the soil with free used coffee grounds.
If you look at the photos below, you’ll see that all fall and winter, blowing leaves have collected and begun to break down around our raspberries. This required no work on my part (it actually required that I do no work) but it protected the soil, provided amendments as it broke down, and more. Continue reading
We keep our harvest, but we don’t can
By this time in the season many people have pulled out their ball jars, boiled their lids and are well on their way to filling their pantry with home preserved goods.
We’re not doing any of that, and that’s by design.
Raspberries and coffee and raspberry coffee cake
Coffee and old friends go together beautifully.
The recent warm winter weather provided a good opportunity to do my simple and free winter fertilization of the raspberries with coffee, and a favorite raspberry coffee cake recipe.
A few years ago, the area where these raspberries grow was little more than gravel and rubble (literally, piles of bricks and rocks). At this point the rubble was removed, the gravel is still there if you dig, but there is beautifully rich soil on top and the raspberries are thriving.
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