My Chicago Garden

My wife and I have decided to plant the remainder of our driveway fence line with ‘Heritage’ raspberries.  We’ve never grown raspberries so this should be interesting. From what I’ve researched the ‘Heritage’ variety is the most popular world wide and is one of the varieties recommended for Northern IL by the extension office.  Also, if I whack it down to the nubs in late fall I don’t need a trellis system and I’ll get one large harvest in early fall.  At least that’s the plan.

If anybody has advise for me feel free to leave a comment.  I found a local supplier I’m going to use.

An update on the cold frame…..it isn’t doing anything to stop the cold nights.  By early evening it has equalized with the outside (except for a higher humidity, which isn’t necessarily good). It does improve heating during the day.  Unfortunately I’ll be spending the next couple weeks in Connecticut for my day job so I won’t have time to try any fixes.  An interesting note though….I had grown oregano last year and when I moved everything around and built the new raised bed for the cold frame I left it in place.  It has survived perfectly fine in the cold frame so far.

No sign of the garlic so far.  Not sure if I should be worried or not.