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@(#&*^$% murrain
Sep. 19th, 2018 02:40 pmWe arrived home Monday afternoon after a week's vacation. It was a rainy day, and we were jet-lagged, so we didn't get to the raspberry bushes until Tuesday. There were lots of berries, but the majority of them were covered with grey mold: 
This is apparently a common problem of fall raspberries, especially when the weather has been wet. I still got over a cup of usable berries yesterday, and half a cup today, but I've spent much more time picking and discarding moldy berries than retrieving good ones for use. There are a variety of sprays recommended for this stuff, but I think the main preventive measure is trimming the canes so there's good air flow to dry things out.
And the quinces are still infested with oriental fruit moths. I put out a few thousand eggs of a wasp species that parasitizes oriental fruit moths, one tab every few weeks throughout the summer, and I think the fruits look better from the outside than they did last year, but still every windfall fruit that I've cut open has been largely worm-dirt.
OK, 1258 or 1315 it's not, but annoying nonetheless.
This is apparently a common problem of fall raspberries, especially when the weather has been wet. I still got over a cup of usable berries yesterday, and half a cup today, but I've spent much more time picking and discarding moldy berries than retrieving good ones for use. There are a variety of sprays recommended for this stuff, but I think the main preventive measure is trimming the canes so there's good air flow to dry things out.And the quinces are still infested with oriental fruit moths. I put out a few thousand eggs of a wasp species that parasitizes oriental fruit moths, one tab every few weeks throughout the summer, and I think the fruits look better from the outside than they did last year, but still every windfall fruit that I've cut open has been largely worm-dirt.
OK, 1258 or 1315 it's not, but annoying nonetheless.
