Dee's Raspberry Fallgold
Rubus idaeus

not expecting many fruits as its, its first year – will take photo when hubs stops eating them

The canes are not that tall yet but they have a few fruits on them – enough for me to snack on anyway :)

I desperately need to trench along my Raspberry bed and find a way to stop the grass from the path from creeping across – im finding it more and more difficult keeping the grass and weeds of the bed. Mulching alone is just not working…. I have a few months to figure something out before i attack the bed…. i intend to win this one :)

Starting to get quite a few leaves now

I extended my Raspberry bed today. My bed now has 8 more canes of Autumn Raspberries. These are Fallgold that produce yellow fruits They should start fruiting around the end of July. All i need to do now is cut down the canes to the second bud in a few weeks time once they have settled in; Ill do that when i mulch the bed. Im still undecided what to use as a mulch-straw,manure,bark-chip! I had read somewhere that you should not use mushroom compost on Raspberries and im toying with the idea of putting some cardboard down and covering with soil. Cardboard would be the cheapest (free)option!