Autumn is the best time for raspberries here. They do try to fruit in spring, but its really too hot for the little morsels. Now they are plump and sweet. I think they taste better at the end of the day. I wonder weather its the same starch-converting-to-sugar thing that goes on with peas (I've read you should pick peas at the end of the day for this reason). I was picking some for desert by torchlight the other night - they were chilled and so sweet. I have to share with Molly - she finds them rather tasty and has learned to pull them off their cores one by one. I mistakenly pruned half my canes to the ground in summer - I did an experiment as I wasn't sure when to prune... shouldn't have cut them to the ground - i'd have twice as many raspberries if I'd left them alone. Note to self for next year: leave raspberries 'til winter. The more vigorous neighbouring youngberries are growing everywhere, and are being transplanted to climb the chookyard fences. Gosh I hope they do as well over there, we had so many huge and delicious fruit last spring.
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