Planted nine raspberry canes over the weekend. Days later and I’m still a broken man.

Growing up, my grandmother had a swath of raspberry bushes that produced more berries than we could eat. That seems impossible now (I can eat a lot of them) but I think it’s true. Raspberries are my favorite food, hands down. Recently I had bought a pack of them at the grocery store to use in a dessert or something and ended up eating almost all of them while standing over the kitchen sink. In this economy? I figured it was time to make my own.

So, fingers crossed we should see some next year.

(Note: Latham is a University of Minnesota variety originally released in 1920 and “was the most widely planted raspberry in the United States during the 1930s and ’40s.“)