Appreciation post: The neighbor's raspberry patch I saw in Portland

Was visiting a friend near Laurelhurst Park last weekend. Her next door neighbor has this massive raspberry patch along the fence line. Nothing fancy, just wires and some old posts. But the berries were huge. Like twice the size of store ones. She said they just throw coffee grounds and eggshells around the base every few weeks. No fertilizer, no special soil. Just garbage and water. Made me rethink my whole setup at home. Anyone else have a neighbor with a random awesome growing hack?

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morgan5127d ago

@robert_roberts coming in hot with the raspberry soil science, huh.

robert_roberts7d ago

Hold on a second. Coffee grounds aren't really "garbage," they're a good source of nitrogen for things like raspberries. Eggshells take forever to break down and mostly just add calcium, which isn't usually a big deal for berry bushes. Worms love the grounds though, so the neighbor's probably getting better soil from the worm activity than from the scraps themselves.