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We have just two more weeks with the kids at Ujima- with this school year ending, the kids will be off to their summer fun. We are hoping that they will continue to come to the garden through the summer to taste ripe raspberries and blueberries, watch the corn grow and poke around for the ripest strawberries in the patch! We’ll see them around, i’m sure- because….kids LOVE berries!
The salmon berries (native raspberries) are just starting to ripen, which is exciting because the kids will have fun searching for them tomorrow.
It will be a bit longer before the raspberries will be in full fruit, about mid to end of June we’ll have two varieties ripening and in mid summer a third variety, with the forth one fruiting late summer to October, can you guess that we like raspberries!!!
The blueberries will begin ripening around July/August, we moved them last year- so it is uncertain whether they will fruit much this year. They had a great flowering, so we’ll just wait and see.
:::One of the raspberry patches is middle right side of this photo, the strawberries in the foreground:::
The strawberries are going wild- SO many berries!!! I only hope that they will ripen before next Tuesday, so the kids can have some fun! I’ve heard that if you want the plant to focus on fruit, then you need to cut back the runners that the plant sends out to make more plants. So i am trying this on most of the patch, and encouraging the runners to an area where more strawberry plants will have room to grow. I’m sure that the amount of berries on now will be enough to keep us busy for a bit- and the birds, as well! Corey shared a tip with us on birds and berries…if you want to harvest berries, you have to be the ‘early bird’…
Blessings of abundance for all beings! linda
