The LENNDEVOURS family garden isn't doing as well as I would have liked. Unfortunately (for gardening anyway) our back yard is mostly shaded, and I am not sure that our tomatoes are getting enough sun. They are growing fine, but they don't have any buds/flowers yet.
On the other hand, our cukes are doing okay so there may be some pickles in the future.
What might be the most interesting part of the garden is something I didn't even plant. We have a ton of wild raspberry bushes along our fence line.
So Nena picked one over the weekend and volunteered me to taste it.
I'm not sure if wild raspberries are just super tart or if they just aren't ripe yet...but yowza...it was really tart. Does anyone know anything about these little gems?
Come to think of it, we have a lot of birds and if they were ripe and sweet, I'm sure the birds would pick them clean. I'd just like to have a few ripe ones later in the summer to toss onto salads or on my cereal in the morning.
Hi Lenn! If you want to beat the birds, go buy some netting (you can get it in the garden section at Home depot) and cover those raspberries now! My girlfriend has a giant blueberry bush that puts out a ton of berries every year. Last year, we only got a handful before the birds picked the bush clean. A couple of weeks ago this year, I spent an afternoon putting bird netting up on it (yes, a whole afternoon! I said it was giant!) and we have been spending a ton of time out picking the berries daily for the past 5 days! We've got about a quart so far, and these are just the early ripeners. It won't be long until we get a ton of them.
Posted by: Rob Cole | July 17, 2006 at 10:50 AM
I think your best bet is to pick 'em when they look good and let them ripen indoors for another week or so. Most wild raspberries I've picked are, in fact, very tart - but they make great pies and smoothies.
Posted by: Jared S. | July 17, 2006 at 12:18 PM