Fresh raspberries in March

摘要

Unless it's summer and you happen to have some berry bushes in the yard, a bowl of fresh raspberries is rare, and regional out-of-season sources of this fragile crop do not exist. When the berries are found in stores, they're not very fresh, and they're expensive. Retail prices between 3 dollar and 6 dollar for a half-pint are common. The idea of raspberry production in the greenhouse, which apparently originated in New England in the late 1990s, has now been tried at UAF. Professor Meriam Karlssonand research associate Jeff Werner reported their research in Greenhouse Product News, Vol. 12, No. 10, October, 2002.