Interesting facts about raspberries – the world’s most delicate fruit

During WW2, when I lived in Potter Valley, 17 miles NE of Ukiah, CA in Mendicino County, CA, the banks of the Russian River were lined solid with the sweetest, blackberry briars. We used to pick them by the buckets full to make jam and fantastic blackberry pies. The source of the Russian River was in Potter Valley where water was piped through the mountains from the Eel River, with a hydroelectric power plant providing electricity to the entire valley. In the fall and winter Steelhead Salmon would migrate up the river to spawn in the numerous creeks throughout the valley. Locals would illegally gaff them with barbed gaffs on long bamboo poles as the jumped or attempted to swim up the concrete apron of the 4-5' high dams built to slow down the flow. The RR ran all the way to the Pacific at Drake's Bay just North of San Francisco.

I simply love them with cream or ice cream or sugar. Being diabetic I know I shouldn't take sugar but I'm 77 so what the hell

Ian Swindale, i am diabetic too. But raspberries taste too good to add anything to them..

This is my favorite fruit. They don’t last long enough in my home for me to eorry about mold.

I have one raspberry plant in my garden,, not planted by me so I leave the few berries it produces each year for the birds who gave it to me (actually I keep forgetting to check when they are ripe, which is what happens to most of my soft fruit).

In Europe they grow naturally along dusty country’s roads. I used to eat them when I was walking by with other children. They were very nice and fresh!

Raspberries need a soft touch when picking. Do not wadh your raspberries until ready to eat.

My brother in law grows beautiful raspberries and tay berres logan berries American brambleberries boyson berries and many others. You pick and eat on the same day or the next. If you wish to keep they go on an oven tray into the freezer till hard and then they can be bagged and not stick together.

Carol Bedrossian, please see my reply to Pat Larsen Gunn.

Pat Larsen Gunn, Fowler's Modern English Usage gives learnt and learned as past tense and past participle of learn. Learned is also given as an adjective. (the learned Council etc as used in a court of law)

Yummy I adore raspberries

Enjoyed the learning not to wash Intel your ready to eat them

Raspberries - truly yummy!!

Quite interesting.

wmcbhere, no comments from mean spirited bigots make people sick.

I grow raspberries, strawberries and blackberries alongside my herbs and vegetables. Fresh is best!