#raspberry planting

[soykaaino]

Growing Raspberries in Your Backyard: A Comprehensive Guide

Raspberries are not only delicious and juicy but also a great addition to any garden. While they require some care, with the right approach, you can enjoy a bountiful harvest. This article covers essential steps for growing raspberries, from soil preparation to pest control, and includes some handy tips for success. Continue reading Growing Raspberries in Your Backyard: A Comprehensive Guide

[heaveninawildflower]

Raspberry fruit and flowers taken from 'Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona' by Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop.

Published 1879 by J.B. Wolters.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library.

[summerwages]

misty morning...

[ancientstarrydynamo]

Berries!

[vegan-nom-noms]

Unbelievably Vegan Chocolate Raspberry Fudge Cake

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Sweet, juicy, and mild. A little wild treat for a walk.

[squishsquishy]

❤️Red + Green💚

x/x/x x/x/x x/x/x for @starry-stims

[morethansalad]

The Best Chamomile Cake with an Irresistible Raspberry Buttercream (Vegan)

[yorksnapshots]

Raspberry Crop.

[kedreeva]

I just want to send solidarity vibes as a fellow michigander looking at their black raspberry bramble in mild horror as they start to ripen during the wave of hot'n'humid we're dealing with. mine are going to be so wildly overgrown bc this was supposed to be my weeding / thinning week as the harvest started ;-;

I'm so glad I'm not along but also a moment of silence for us both. I started weeding on sunday, at least some, to at least clear around where I put my feet to grab berries, but yesterday was too much even for me, who normally wears hoodies year round. I feel like maybe I should go out in the middle of the night but the choices seem to be harvest while standing on the surface of the sun or harvest while being eaten alive by mosquitos who are LOVING this "hot days to rot everything, rainy nights to make children, so humid NOTHING EVAPORATES OR DRAINS EVER" weather. I've been doing my best to water the raspberries early in the morning, before the sun gets to them, because if I don't, I just know that I'll have a year like the one where I decided not to water them and the berries were all itty bitty.

The rest of my garden seems to be enjoying whatever the fuck is happening, too. Te cucumber/zucchini plants are fucking LOVING this, somehow, when I thought it would kill them. They've all been kind of sad and wilty since being planted and I figured 90F+ would do at least one of them but nO. They're all perky and putting out new leaves and feelers and the tomato plants too are finally turning green (I rescued some sadder looking tomato plants that were turning yellow all over) and growing fast.

I wish you luck with your raspberries. Maybe they will realize their folly and give you a few more days to get to the weekend...

[bethanythebogwitch]

Native Wildflowers collection

Native wildflowers from my previous job. All pics by me. Not an exhaustive list. Split into multiple posts due to the image limit.

Starting off with everyone's (read: monarch butterflies') favorite: milkweed. Common milkweed is on the left. I think what we called common milkweed was actually 2 closely-related species. On the right is swam milkweed, which likes wetter soil. Butterfly weed in the bottom is a milkweed, but its sap is clear instead of white so some people don't realize that. It's also much shorter than most milkweeds.

We have 2 main gentian species. These flowers don't open all the way and only larger insects like bees can force their way in. These bees then seek out gentians as an exclusive food source, making it more likely for them to pollinate the gentians. Cream gentian (left) is white and can get very tall on good years. Bottle gentian (right) is a small, low-lying plant that hides under other plants. This picture was taken early in the season so they're pretty pale. They turn bright blue when they're in bloom.

Yellow (left) and purple (right) coneflower

Mountain mint (right) and downy wood mint (left)

Wild raspberry (left) and dewberry (right). My personal nemeses when I was moving through the prairie. Thorns are not my friend

Foxglove beardtongue, which comes in a common white color (right) and a rarer purple variant (left). Below is false foxglove, which is a hemiparasite (plant that gains nutrition through parasitism and photosynthesis) that leaches off of oak roots

Bee balm, this one has a lot of ornamental cultivars

Rattlesnake master, a badass name for a weird and spiky plant

Ironweed. We have a few species and I don't know how to tell them apart

Wild quinine. In the 3 growth seasons I worked here, this one became much more common.

Prairie coreopsis (left) and tall coreopsis (right). Guess what the difference between these two is

Rosinweed (left) and cup plant (right). Two closely related species.

Maryland senna (left) and partridge pea (right). Similar (but not closely related) species that grow pods full of seeds. As they dry, the pods peel open and send the seeds flying out.

Prairie dock. These grow very tall and have huge leaves that are cool because the roots bring up water from deep underground

Ashy sunflower, a hemiparasite that kills goldenrod and tall grasses. As those two are very aggressive plants that can take over whole fields. ashy sunflower seeds are a great way to fight back against them and help increase biodiversity.

Cardinal flower. This one is endangered so its great that it's doing well and even spreading where I worked.

Common thistle. This one is unfortunately losing ground to invasive Canada thistle (not actually from Canada) and isn't very popular, but bugs love it.

Black-eyed Susan (left) and sweet black-eyed Susan (right). The latter is larger and doesn't tolerate shade as well.

Continued in part 2

[samirafee]

#BÄRLI & CATS🐈WE ARE ALL OUT & ABOUT TO HELP MOM WITH THE RASPBERRIES🔺🍃🩸🫙🍷

@samirafee

[ancientstarrydynamo]

Raspberry

[vegan-nom-noms]

No Bake Vegan Cheesecake

[kirbyfigure]

hii, can you please make users with "kaoru"?

(*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂)⸝♡ stamps

[killyridols]

deep breaths by sean norvet, 2021, oil on panel, 14 x 11 inches