Wineberry production
We decided to dig up our
wineberry patch today.
The berries are beyond
delicious, but if they decided to bloom we typically only got enough to
fill a small bowl.
It was a tough decision, but
deleting it gives us a new spot to try something different. The goal is
to find varieties that can handle our climate without being
temperamental.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Mom --- I'd read something about tomato and raspberry diseases hopping around, but I never figured out what they were talking about until now. The two are in completely different families, and tomato blights only affect potatoes and tomatoes (not even peppers, which are much more closely related than raspberries are).
A quick search of the internet suggests that the diseases all go in the other direction --- raspberries can come down with tomato ringspot. I can't seem to find any information about tomatoes actually getting sick from ringspot, although raspberries do, so I guess you don't want to plant raspberries after tomatoes to protect the raspberries.
We dug our wineberries out of the wild, and there are plenty of wild patches, so no worries about losing them.
We have wineberries running up our tree line. This year I was able to harvest about 1/2 gallon of them. My favorite use is to freeze them and snack on them frozen.
If you are looking for a good raspberry to put in there, the Anne variety are delicious. They are one of the "white" varieties. I only put in one this year, but they are so good that I'm expanding their domain next year.