Harvest and Store Raspberries

Harvest and Store Raspberries

Since we already chatted about how to sow and grow raspberries and my favorite variety called Raspberry Shortcake, not it’s time to harvest and store Raspberries. Harvesting Tips:  1) I wait until the raspberries are a nice shade of light red all around.  Timing is everything.  I definitely want to harvest the raspberries before the birds […]

Cocktails from Pittsburgh Bars

Porch Pink Lemonade

Pittsburgh had a beautiful afternoon midweek and The Porch at Siena did not disappoint.  If you don’t like sweeter cocktails, you might like to move on.  I thought this cocktail was refreshing. Ingredients: Limoncello Lemonade Raspberry Puree How can you go wrong with this fruity cocktail which includes limes, lemon and raspberry! Last time the […]

Berry Varieties

Raspberry Shortcake

I purchased my first Raspberry Shortcake plant in spring 2014 and the second one in summer 2015.   This raspberry plant is part of the Bushel and Berry collection. Previously, I had them in my herb garden.  In 2017, I moved these plants along with my blueberry plants to their forever home which I call the berry […]