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Posted: 8/3/2009 5:29:29 PM EDT

Well, they're coming.

Barring a natural catastrophe (always possible between weather and various garden pests) we should have a HUGE crop of raspberries this year. Mrs. Feral has spent many hours rehabilitating our 300 feet, or so, of raspberries and the work is looking like it'll pay off. We have immature fruit coming out our ears.....another few weeks and we should be rolling in 'em.

Got any suggestions as to good things to do with raspberries?

Posted: 8/3/2009 5:55:03 PM EDT

[#1]

Good luck, when they come in.. get ready to pick pick pick :) stock up on ice cream :)

Posted: 8/3/2009 5:57:50 PM EDT

[#2]

I'll go ahead and tag this one. I am planning on starting some raspberry plants next year.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:49:17 PM EDT

[#3]

Send 'em my way. ;)

Seriously Feral, I've followed your posts here in the SF and especially in the Food & Garden section for awhile now. How big is your garden?!?!

Posted: 8/3/2009 7:00:11 PM EDT

[#4]

Good luck with the birds. Better net them, and fast.

Damn, they were here and gone weeks ago around here. Blackberries are next.

Posted: 8/3/2009 7:43:22 PM EDT

[#5]

You can dry a lot of it for fruit leather
can preserves or jam - I freeze my jams though
I like storing whole raspberries frozen in quart bags. Then you can take out what you need for adding to recipes and also fruit smoothies.
With 300 feet I hope you have a lot of freezer room.

good luck with the birds and harvest.

Posted: 8/3/2009 8:08:01 PM EDT

[#6]

raspberry and jalepeno jelly poured over a room temp hunk of cream cheese is pretty good. I'm going to try to make some when mine ripen this Fall.

Posted: 8/4/2009 6:56:55 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Seriously Feral, I've followed your posts here in the SF and especially in the Food & Garden section for awhile now. How big is your garden?!?!

We have six different growing areas so it's hard to give a straightforward answer.........best way to put it, I guess, is that we have roughly 10,000 square feet planted.

Posted: 8/4/2009 6:58:38 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Good luck with the birds. Better net them, and fast.

Damn, they were here and gone weeks ago around here. Blackberries are next.

We'll compete with the birds.....I'm going to hang some pie pans up I think, but netting just isn't in the cards.

Posted: 8/4/2009 5:13:55 PM EDT

[#9]

My practice raspberries planted in Feb. aren't in enough sun. Got some berries but they were leetle beety. After I so some logging this fall I may have a chance at bigger berries.

Posted: 8/4/2009 5:27:13 PM EDT

[#10]

I planted some this spring along the south side of my garage. They're doing double-duty as a source of food, and as a nasty barrier to the garage windows. I don't expect much from them this year as they're still pretty small, but next year we should have a decent little harvest.

Posted: 8/4/2009 5:27:21 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
My practice raspberries planted in Feb. aren't in enough sun. Got some berries but they were leetle beety. After I so some logging this fall I may have a chance at bigger berries.

Did you just plant them this year? It may be that they just need some time to set their root systems. Mrs. Feral hacked our canes down to the ground last year.......they came back with a vengeance. IIRC, raspberries set fruit each year on new growth.....I might be wrong on that though as Mrs. Feral has been tending the raspberry patch.

Posted: 8/4/2009 5:54:44 PM EDT

[#12]

That's possible......... I planted some kinda spindly plants in February. I'm surprised that they produced anything at all as I put them on an end of the garden that gets about 4 hours of sun a day, this was just a test. I've been reading up and it's time to prune out this years dead canes and clip the ends of the new canes. I've also got to get over my fear of pruning my blueberry bushes also. They are two years old and need a pro to prune them properly the first time.

Posted: 8/5/2009 1:05:52 PM EDT

[#13]

I thought raspberries liked shade. The wild ones do, anyway. Your plot looks very good, regardless. I love raspberries.

Posted: 8/29/2009 5:53:41 PM EDT

[#14]

The raspberries have come in with a vengeance.

Mrs. Feral and I picked for an hour between thunderstorms today. Eight pounds.

The food strainer does OK with pureeing them.

But it helps to put the resulting pulp through a manual strainer to get most of the pulp.

This oughta give us a dozen jelly jars of jam, we'll see. Still cooking it.

Posted: 8/29/2009 5:57:37 PM EDT

[#15]

Niiiiiiice.

I like them frozen. Pour a little cream on them and enjoy.

Posted: 8/29/2009 6:16:42 PM EDT

[#16]

Feral check out my jelly thread to see how your jelly should come out ;)

How many gallons of fruit do you guys think you'll end up with?

Posted: 8/29/2009 6:39:29 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
How many gallons of fruit do you guys think you'll end up with?

Dunno really.......at a guess, maybe 8 gallons if we're really diligent about picking for the next few weeks. Definitely plenty to make jam for giving away at the holidays.

Posted: 8/29/2009 8:09:32 PM EDT

[#18]

I haven't tried this, but I'll bet those raspberries would make an AWESOME homemade ice cream!

We like to make blackberry ice cream here, raspberries don't grow so well. We squish out the seeds and use the juice. Starting with our vanilla ice cream recipe, we add 24-32 oz juice and then last add milk to the fill line. Give it the taste test before freezing to make sure you don't want to add more sugar. Actually, my wife cheats and uses store-bought jelly (no seeds) most of the time because the berries have to be used for making cobbler (unwritten law at our house). Most visitors look at that purple stuff kinda funny but once they taste it they are hooked.

Posted: 8/29/2009 8:10:59 PM EDT

[#19]

Also, I have determined that fresh raspberries and whipped cream are wonderful additions to a hot Dutch Baby!

Posted: 8/29/2009 8:22:28 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I haven't tried this, but I'll bet those raspberries would make an AWESOME homemade ice cream!

We like to make blackberry ice cream here, raspberries don't grow so well. We squish out the seeds and use the juice. Starting with our vanilla ice cream recipe, we add 24-32 oz juice and then last add milk to the fill line. Give it the taste test before freezing to make sure you don't want to add more sugar. Actually, my wife cheats and uses store-bought jelly (no seeds) most of the time because the berries have to be used for making cobbler (unwritten law at our house). Most visitors look at that purple stuff kinda funny but once they taste it they are hooked.

That's a great idea.

We haven't even broken out the ice cream maker once this year. I'll have to remedy that.

Raspberry-vanilla ice cream sounds pretty tasty. Care to share your vanilla ice cream recipe?

Posted: 8/30/2009 2:22:26 AM EDT

[#21]

feral, can you explain pruning on those everbearing rasberries? I understand primocanes/floricanes for blackberries that bear in spring, but I'm a little confused on the everbearing ones...thanks.

Posted: 8/30/2009 4:01:48 AM EDT

[#22]

We also have varieties of ever bearings.In the late fall, or very early spring, I just cut all of them down to about 6" . They will grow back through the summer and produce large crops like pictured . They are easier than non ever bearings.

Posted: 8/30/2009 4:58:09 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
We also have varieties of ever bearings.In the late fall, or very early spring, I just cut all of them down to about 6" . They will grow back through the summer and produce large crops like pictured . They are easier than non ever bearings.

I think that's how Mrs. Feral plans to do it this year. It'll get rid of next year's summer crop but be a hell of a lot faster than pruning for two crops.

Unlike the non-everbearing raspberries, everbearing varieties produce on both one-year canes and two-year canes. If you cut everything down in the dormant season, you never have two-year canes, so you get your harvest only in the fall on the one-year canes. Makes perfect sense?

This .pdf does a better job explaining it than I can:

http://horticulture.psu.edu/files/hort/extension/pruning_blueberries_raspberries.pdf

Posted: 8/30/2009 5:50:23 AM EDT

[#24]

Thanks for the pruning link. I'm generally scared that I will FUBAR

the plant if I prune wrong so I haven't. This helps alot. I've got 2 year blueberries and 1 year raspberries to do.

Posted: 8/30/2009 7:16:40 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Care to share your vanilla ice cream recipe?

The one we like is a very basic vanilla. (We use a 4 qt. freezer)

Stir together with a fork or whisk:
6 eggs
2 3/4 cups sugar
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1 quart cream

Pour into freezer
Add milk to bring volume up to freezer's "fill" line

We don't cook the custard but most recipes recommend that you do when it contains eggs (health reasons, salmonella I think). Various flavors are made by adding them to the vanilla recipe. Fruits like strawberries and peaches work best if slightly over-ripe.

You can replace about 1/2 the milk with mashed fruit, juice or jelly to create various flavors.

When we use jelly, we cut back to about 1/2 the sugar since the jelly is sweetened already. It helps if you warm the jelly (microwave is OK) and stir it in before adding the milk.

Adjust the recipe to your tastes.

It will probably be best if you use juice without the seeds.

Posted: 8/30/2009 9:59:32 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Care to share your vanilla ice cream recipe?

The one we like is a very basic vanilla. (We use a 4 qt. freezer)

Stir together with a fork or whisk:
6 eggs
2 3/4 cups sugar
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1 quart cream

Pour into freezer
Add milk to bring volume up to freezer's "fill" line

We don't cook the custard but most recipes recommend that you do when it contains eggs (health reasons, salmonella I think). Various flavors are made by adding them to the vanilla recipe. Fruits like strawberries and peaches work best if slightly over-ripe.

You can replace about 1/2 the milk with mashed fruit, juice or jelly to create various flavors.

When we use jelly, we cut back to about 1/2 the sugar since the jelly is sweetened already. It helps if you warm the jelly (microwave is OK) and stir it in before adding the milk.

Adjust the recipe to your tastes.

It will probably be best if you use juice without the seeds.

That sounds excellent.

I'll look into how long to cook the custard since I'd probably want to do that.

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