Fried Berries

The weather has been terrible this year. Five inches of rain since January. It has been 104-109 degrees all week. No rain in sight. The strawberries are surviving just fine but the blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries are struggling. We shaded the greenhouse a few months ago which helped with overhead sun but the western sun is torching the blackberries. In just the past week all the leaves dried up from such "magnified" sun coming in the front doors of the greenhouse. Root systems are fine on the plants so we will keep watering hoping for more canes to come up. The raspberries have started a few new shoots so we are hopeful the others will too.