On Jul 4, 9:52 am, Terry > wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:45:10 -0700, Cindy Hamilton
>
> > wrote:
> >On Jul 2, 4:38 pm, Kate Connally > wrote:
> >> The black raspberries are in so I drove out to Schramm's
> >> Farm Market and got a pint. (If I could have afforded it I
> >> would have bought all they had!) Anyway, I got some heavy
> >> cream on the way home and for dessert last night I had a
> >> giant bowl of berries with sugar and cream. Yum!
>
> >I picked a couple of quarts out of my raspberry patch yesterday.
> >Probably will get a couple more quarts Wednesday. They're
> >dead easy to grow--do you have any space?
>
> >Cindy Hamilton
>
> Hi Cindy,
>
> 'It all depends'...
>
> Where I grew up in PA, we used to go out around July 4 and pick dozens
> of quarts of wild black rasperries. We ate all we could---which was a
> lot, with 13 siblings---and Mom made preserves from the rest. We went
> through 50 quarts or more of those preserves each year. Ambrosia!
>
> Tried growing them about ten years ago, here in western KY. The
> plants grew but no significant amount of fruit was ever produced.
>
> I was amazed to find that almost no one in this end of KY, or in
> eastern KY, or in the area of GA (Athens) where I've lived had ever
> heard of black raspberries. "Y'all mean 'blackberries', don'tcha?"
> [No, no, no, nononononNO! A world of difference!!]

Well, I figured if the farm market near Kate could grow them, then she
could.

Cindy Hamilton