Our first raspberries!

I got home from work today to have The Boy meet me at the door and proudly show me that our first raspberries are about ready for picking.  I'd been watching them slowly get a bit of a blush on them, but the two berries he found had been hidden behind some leaves.  I'm going to give them one more day, but tomorrow we'll each have a berry.

I think this is pretty exciting.  Since we started our gardening a few years ago, I've always wanted to grow fruit.  That's why I tried the ground cherry experiment last year and strawberries in the first plot back in 2009.  To have a potted raspberry plant on our front porch seems somehow extravagant.

I'll see if I can transplant a few of the runners into another pot to double our yield next year.  Need to research when is the best time of year to do that, though.