I am looking for goose berry and yellow raspberry canes/ sprouts. I am also looking for thornless blackberry canes. I have strawberries I can trade, These are everbearing strawberries, I have chocolate mint and curley mint I can trade.(limited amount of mint) I live in the south and I am sure I can come up with something I can trade for the plants I am looking for. I would also do postage for the raspberries and gooseberries. Please let me know, and unblock your email so I can email you back,I got the followup posts before but I don't know how to email you back Thanks

We have everbearing red raspberries, growing in alkaline clay soil, here in Madison, Wisconsin. I cut them back in the fall, to about 8 inches, and heavily mulch the patch with shredded leaves. Then it turns cold, we have snow, and the ground freezes up 'till spring. When the snow melts in March, the canes begin to grow, and green leaves emerge. We generally begin to get flowers and fruit in July, but the patch needs another month before fruit production picks up. There is heavy fruit yield in September, and the patch continues to flower and fruit right through October. I have to thin the patch every year, or it will turn into an inpenetrable thicket. Your growing conditions are much different from mine. If your raspberry canes are not producing volunteer plants, a few feet away from the original clump, then there is something missing, either soil moisture, humus, or not enough nutrient available. A healthy patch wants to spread out. There is a very thorough description of raspberry pruning on the "backyardberryplants" web-site. However, he is located in Indiana, which has a different climate, and different soil type, compared to California.

I have those growing all over my neighbourhood wild and in the next town. Some are in front of people's houses, there's some by the train tracks, just about everywhere and no one seems to care about them as much as I do. They are black raspberries pretty much all over near me, but the yellow ones were a surprise. I didn't know they existed until I saw them by the train track. I thought they weren't ripe yet, but they are wonderful! They are also in front of some guy's house with black ones, so perhaps it is a mutation. How long do they take to ripen? I can't wait any longer. I want to eat those berries. I wonder if it's possible to grow them on my apartment deck... There's also some berries that aren't black berries but something else. They are sour. I don't like them and there are black berries behind the supermarket.

They were planted in 2012, so 4 years ago. The raspberries tend to be small, but they are too "crumbly." The plants do produce a lot of raspberries every season. Maybe fewer this year, we'll see. I don't know if there is a virus infection, but the floricanes have looked like this for the past few year (maybe since 2013). If I were to decide to remove the raspberry plants, would waiting one year before replanting the same spot get rid of the virus? Same is limited in my garden. Or how replanting them a meter away in a new raised bed?