score. free plants.

[CJ1]

Ok. Thanks. Have no easy access to willow.

Two of the plants are doing very poorly. One is great. I was thinking about cutting the two back like was mentioned earlier. Not a botanist or anything. But I was thinking that cutting them back to stems would force the plant to focus on roots instead of devoting Entergy into saving unsaceabke branches and leaves. Or is that something that will naturally happen after the rest dies? Cause the other two are really bad off.

 

[baymule]

Cut them back.

 

[CJ1]

How far back should I cut them?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

http://empressofdirt.net/transplant-raspberries/

"PRUNE THE CANES
I cut my raspberry canes down to about 10″ long. Advice varies (6 to 18″) but this has always worked well for me. When I trimmed these ones, I also removed any dead canes."

 

[CJ1]

Ok. There aren't any leaves that low. Living or dead. I'll prune them after I go shopping.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Just hope they'll come back for you. I'm rooting for them/you because I've never been able to grow them here. Blackberries, yes! Raspberries not so much.

 

[CJ1]

I need all the hopes I can get.

There was a patch of wild raspberries on the southern facing side of the treeline. But they cut all that down to make it look better to buyers. wish they hadn't of done that.

 

[sumi]

they'll come back for you!

 

[CJ1]

I'm sure they eventually will. But I was hoping to have some this year. Oh well.

 

[CJ1]

Ohhhhh.

Someday. Some,,,,day. I'll be set up like that. I want to do a pure raspberry wine. No sugar. No extras. Just raspberry and yeast. But it'll take like fifteen pounds of them.

But the fruit perishes so dang fast. The natural yeasts start to ferment the fruit almost as soon as you pick them.