OK, well fall bearing bear on the end. Unlike blackberries, raspberries seem to grow lateral branches just fine, so it wouldn't really help there. But it may give you bigger berries, yes. It will not hurt anything. And maybe some cultivars would grow better laterals. I have only been growing one fall bearer, I added some more this year. You could also grow cultivars that are smaller like Fall Gold. It rarely get's over 3.5 feet. Great taste too! I wish i had a problem with a long growing season!

That's good to hear -- some penstemons can take heavy soil, like Gulf Coast, foxglove, and smooth, and a lot can't. Smooth beardtongue has done very well here. I have at least 3 dozen plants that are going on 4 years now. I thought smooth beardtongue would do well after reading that there's a lot of it at Mason Farm Biological Reserve in Chapel Hill. The Gulf Coast, Eastern Gray, and Small's bloomed like crazy last year and then disappeared in the fall, so I collected seed to keep it going. I already knew that Small's is best treated as a biennal so that wasn't surprising. After the swap I'll try some of the Sour Grapes next to my house and some down in my garden and see which lasts longest.

Kitchendetective, the pie rings are in this thread by Shirl36, including the way Grainlady uses them. Do it on a Silpat, and you don't even need the extra wide plastic wrap to make it pie crust heaven. :) Which is a good thing. I too use Stretch-Tite, and always hate that the box wears out before the wrap is done and ends up living on the counter so it won't be a mess in the drawer. Thanks to Nancedar, I too got the plastic cutter box. I'm still using up my fairly new box, so it might be a year before I get there, but with the silpat trick, I'm thinking other uses, like pounding meat for roulades, might be in my future...

Here is my 2018 update on Jaclyn. I decided to keep all of the primocanes intact over the winter, and did not trim them until they budded this spring. While there was significant winter die back as in previous years, there were enough floricanes to give a surprisingly decent crop that is ripening now, with the same great taste as the primocane crop. This is significant to me because now is also the time when Prelude ripens around here, so I'm getting a great early harvest between the two varieties prior to the emergence of SWD. Also, the primocanes are approaching 5 ft tall already. I'm definitely keeping this variety for the early floricane crop, the trick is to heavily fertilize them based on soil analysis. I may even expand my planting using suckers...Nourse doesn't sell this variety anymore and I wouldn't buy from the nurseries that currently do. Glad I got them when I did and stuck with them.