Black Raspberries are Ready for Picking

I usually look for the black raspberries to ripen on Memorial Day weekend. That did not hold true this year. The holiday was comparatively early. But here we are, the last weekend of May ... the raspberries are ripe.

Alas, Mother Nature always wins. She and her weedy associates are taking over the berry patch! We have tried to eradicate some of these pesky plants over the past couple of years, but looks like we're overrun this year. Rouse the Spouse took his handy machete to it this morning, just to make a few access paths.