Raspberry patch

[ozark hen]

We visited a neighbor yesterday who has some raised beds. He took a bag of frozen raspberries and PLANTED some in a raised bed last year. He has the entire bed full of raspberries plus a couple strawberry plants that came up to....FROM THE SEEDS FROM THAT FROZEN BAG OF MIXED BERRIES! I have never heard of the likes of it. They are gorgeous bushes and all contained in the raised bed. I mean it is full, almost reminded me of square foot gardening! I would have thought that the seeds would have been ruined by the processing and that they had to be started from the off shoots or roots? Has anyone else ever tried this? Makes me want to try it. Love the idea that they are completely contained, too.

 

[Tutter]

Don't forget, we freeze seeds to keep them for growing out later on, so I'm not surprised they were viable.

While some seeds are very particular, and there are methods which are better than others for some types of fruits and vegetables; most seeds have the will to survive, and unless you really do something horrible to them, will grow, given the chance.

It's not generally recommended to start raspberries from seed, but what the heck?

I hope they do great!

 

[ozark hen]

I wish you all could see this patch of his. It is absolutely full of rasp. bushes and they have flowered already. Amazing!

 

[OaklandCityFarmer]

Also, many berry seeds require a cold treatment before they can effectively germinate so I'm sure that frozen berry seeds fall under this category.

That is pretty cool actually!

My grandmother throws fruits and any seeds she has in pots near her kitchen window all the time. It's amazing how many commercially processed fruits can produce viable seeds.

 

[ozark hen]

Makes me want to go buy a bunch of frozen fruits and throw them in a raised bed What a wonderful way to contain the acres of wild blackberries we have here. I am thinking of transplanting some into these beds. Really cool.

 

[OaklandCityFarmer]

Me too!

Don't even get me started on wild blackberries. I spend half the year keeping them down and the other half healing from the cuts and scrapes from the thorns.

 

[ozark hen]

Me too!

Don't even get me started on wild blackberries. I spend half the year keeping them down and the other half healing from the cuts and scrapes from the thorns.

Same here but I also seem to attract every tick within a mile, too!! But think of it, to have a whole patch of blackberries CONTAINED in one spot that you can walk around and pick from? Too good to be true. LOL Yesterday we filled the last two raised beds. One with tomatoes and the other one different melons, just five of them but it will be crowded. Hopefully, enough that the weeds stay out. LOL I seriously want to do a raised bed with berries for next year now.