Eating
Fresh Your Own Yard
As published by Health Living of
Missouri Department, growing your own in a backyard garden or in your front
porch, even in balcony is a great way to add flavor to your meals and improve
your health.
Fresh fruits and vegetables are
full of nutrients – vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants – that can help
prevent a number of diseases, and the fresher they are, the better they taste.
Gardening is also a good way to
increase physical activity, another important factor in maintaining good
health. For the do-it-yourselfers, a small backyard garden can produce many
pounds of fruits and vegetables every year. Even planting a couple of tomato or
raspberry plants in a pot on a deck or patio can provide fresh tomatoes for
salads and sandwiches all summer long. And don’t forget about freezing and
canning homegrown fruits and vegetables when they are in season to provide
garden-fresh flavor throughout the year.
Today we focus on your own mini
raspberry farm.
Greenhouse Product News recommends using at least a 3 gallon pot (10” pot) for bare-root multi-cane raspberries. The Royal
Horticultural Society suggests a pot of at least 15 inches in diameter for
smaller single raspberry plants. The long trough (available in Wellco
Industries, Inc.) trough is 14” in width, and 12.5” in depth, provides
continuous planting area for raspberries’ bare-root, more like an elegant
raised bed.
The most important thing is, raspberries
can grow to significant heights and become top-heavy, toppling smaller pots. The
fiberglass planting trough easily overcomes the short. It is especially ideal
and perfect for people who like gardening but do not have the conditions for
doing so. If you are having concrete decking or wood decking in backyard, do
not have any soil planting area, or you only have a balcony area for planting,
or the soil in your yard is not nutritious enough for gardening, get the
fiberglass planting trough, buy nutritious soil and seed from your local garden
center, then you are ready to go.
There are usually three ways to
stake raspberries, hedgerow trellis systems, 干 trellis or T
trellis or V trellis systems. However, 干 or T raspberry
system is most suitable, although may have some cost increase in stake
purchasing, but it does make a better harvest， because this
system can give raspberry more light and more air and its steady structures
successfully give their healthy growing great support.
Staking in a right way is very
promising for healthy and prosperous growth of raspberry, tomato and cucumber
in Farms. Especially for raspberry, the stake systems may probably need to be
supporting for around 10 years, which is nearly impossible for metal T posts
and wood stakes going through. Watering and sun exposure bring fatal damage to
wood and metal stakes in years' growing.
Fiberglass Stakes are naturally
suitable for humidity environment, will not rot or rust and no pest problem.
Specially handled, fiberglass stakes resist UV, will not be fragile after long
time sun exposure. Its reinforced roving and mat features great strength for
heavy duty planting support.
Wellco is launching a
professional raspberry systems made in fiberglass, structured in 8ft post with
two cross bar across the top and middle of each post. Stretch lengths of 12~16
gauge wire from each cross bar will make it there perfect for raspberry
staking.
The combination of the trough
and the trellis makes it perfect. Grow
your own raspberry now! When we harvest, let’s do the canned raspberry and
raspberry jam together. Any questions on raspberry planting, I’d like to share
and discuss.
Raspberry Trellis, Raspberry Trough, Raspberry Raised bed
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