#framberry

[allthingssoulful-garden]

Framberry, yellow alpine strawberry, alpine strawberry, pineberry & strawberry.

[allthingssoulful-garden]

The framberry bed is looking its best and I cannot get enough of staring at it.

I went a little overboard with thinning last autumn and then my dog decided to sleep in it a couple of times, so it was looking pretty pathetic at the beginning of spring. I didn't have much hope for it this year. I'm very surprised by how well it bounced back.

[allthingssoulful-garden]

Summer colors.

[tenpolegardener]

May

I have a blackberry plant; this one is a pot ideally use in a hanging basket.

I use the blackberry pot to help me plant. I fill the hanging basket with my coir/soil mix.

Drop the plant in and firm in. I’m going to put perlite on top then water.

Next is a Framberry to pot up. It’s a hybrid of a strawberry and raspberry.

I use a pot the size of the plant to help me. This is my coir/soil mix.

I drop the framberry plant in and make up the difference with my coir soil mix.

I put perlite on just to help prevent weeds from growing. You can use bark and other mulch to do this. It just needs a good watering.

[allthingssoulful-garden]

Every week more and more berry varieties ripen. Here are strawberries, gooseberries, tayberries and framberries.

[allthingssoulful-garden]

There used to be some other things in here, but I decided to let this become a framberry bed and I moved everything else in the garden last autumn. There’s still a lone cranberry in the middle, that doesn’t seem to grow (or die), I need to find a better spot for it at some point. All the others are framberry plants that grew from the runners from that plant in the top left corner. I pulled out some so the rest of them will be fairly evenly spaced out.

[allthingssoulful-garden]

We have new berries in the garden! 

Japanese wineberry, Black Jewel black raspberry, framberry, balloon berry,  pineberry and yellow/orange raspberry (have yet to find out). Also not pictured, jostaberry. 

I realized I have the tendency to buy and plant new berry plants before I even taste the fruits, but so far I’ve never tried a berry I didn’t like, so I’m willing to take the risk. 

[nektarinadailyblog]

It looks like a Strawberry but tastes like a Raspberry - the Framberry

I read about this one on the train today. They say it looks like a strawberry but it tastes like a raspberry. It's called a framberry and it's new on the catwalk. 

Leading plant retailer Crocus describes the framberry as a fast growing, hardy fruit that your taste buds 'won't believe'. 

But it turns out this hybrid strawb/raspberry combo already exists - in straspberries. Apparently straspberries have a longer history. The British Daily Mail (not my favorite source) claims the fruit  "was "born" in South America in the 1900s but virtually disappeared for the last half century until some Dutch growers rediscovered it." ...

^ Straspberries look the same. 

Personally I think they both look delicious. The strasberry and framberry promise good things. 

You can grow berries yourself.  They are often among the easiest fruit for amateur gardeners.  Grab a packet of seeds online or at your local store and get growing!