raspberries

Just have to share my new raspberry bed.

These plants came as bare root canes with no leaves, hardly any roots, and looking unpromising. I potted them up in individual pots and have kept them well watered and in the sunshine. Many of them even have flowers. Those farthest away in this photo only arrived a couple of weeks ago and are now also leafed out. Don't they look snug and happy?
What I really like about some of the structures we've built here at the farm is the reuse of old wood. The center posts of this fence were on a heap of old fencing stacked up with weeds and grasses growing around and through them. About a dozen of them went into the chicken yard fence last June. These last two are now part of the raspberry fence. Eli took a few home and along with some fencing pickets and other "scraps" is building my new double compost bins. If all goes well they should be installed next week.
Yahoo.