It is hard to imagine that there is still snow on the ground in Banff. It is cold, but it is still spring on the west coast. Ever since I returned from Banff, we have digging a small section of the garden at a time. We are now almost three quarters of the way through.
We lost most of our raspberry crop last year. I spent all day yesterday digging out the old bed, trying to take the first four inches of soil away. I ended up digging out fifteen wheelbarrows full of very wet sod topped clay soil. We will replace this soil with a sandy mixture to improve drainage. We will then transplant some raspberry canes from a very old bed that was unaffected by the blight.
It might have been better to just relocate the canes, but we really didn’t have a place for them to go this year. If they fail again, we will move them next year. Also, from what I read replacing the soil should suffice.
We lost all but two of our Tulameen raspberries which is a real shame. They are such a nice berry. Big and sweet and no prickles. I don’t know why they are not more well known. Nobody seems to grow them around here. Maybe they are prone to blight? Which would explain why we lost so many, although we lost almost as many of the hardy regular plants.
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