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Another season of tending the berry patch winds down with another year's worth of lessons learned and reinforced.
A good gardener is always learning, always evaluating what works and what does not, hanging on to the former, letting go of the latter, forever making adjustments and trying to do better. Working a garden is like working life, in ways large and small.
That's true for any crop you grow, but it's especially true for raspberries, at least for amateurs like us for whom producing a luscious raspberry is a backyard grail.
The first thing you learn is that this is hard work. OK, perhaps not that hard in a physical sense, but it is exacting. You balance the nutrients in the soil and the exposure to the sun and the offerings of water because too much or too little of anything is not
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