Why are raspberries so expensive?

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And so bloody difficult to get. If you aren't there early, the shop round from us sell out by mid morning and they cost £2 for 150g.

They have a very short season - like asparagus so the growers want to make as much as pssible from us raspberry lovers. That's why I get frozen ones!

nick them from someone's orchard.

do you have an orchard? ooo i'd love an orchard.

OOh expat - Scottish raspberries are the BEST!

buy some raspberry canes next spring and you only have to go as far as your garden for some!
very easy to grow

They're delicate to pick and transport.

Right, I'm off to the garden centre for respberry canes.

Do the frozen ones go sqishy when defrosted?

There's about 440g to a lb.

Not the frozen ones I've got - can't remember whose they are (at work so I can't check) naughty me - MNing at work - but it is lunch time

I have been known to mumsnet at work on nightshift.

mmmmmm raspberries
do the frozen ones actually taste the same as fresh ones?
dd1 loves them and can eat a hole bowl every day but they are so expensive i can only buy them once a week, and they all go within 2 days

mmmmmm raspberries
do the frozen ones actually taste the same as fresh ones?
dd1 loves them and can eat a hole bowl every day but they are so expensive i can only buy them once a week, and they all go within 2 days

I agree with Alicemama, grow your own.

We inherited a raspberry patch with this house -neither of us are what you'd call gardeners but they don't really need any attention other than cutting back once a year and picking the fruit.

The raspberry patch is about 10' x 6' and we have more than we can eat through the summer and end up giving them away to friends and neighbours all the time. In fact DD is out there now with a school friend picking them -first week of picking so only a bowl a day at the moment.

where are you? we have a fab PYO place near us - the kids love going there and we end up with punnets of all sorts and loads of veg aswell

if you are anyway near Esher - Garson's Pick Your Own is well worth a visit

(if you are, would probably wait till the Hampton Court Flower show was over because of traffic etc.)

expatinscotland trip to Sutherland required up to Bonnar Bridge best pick your own strawberries and raspberries I've ever tasted.

Went fruit picking today and got 2kgs of strawberries for £4. Also bought raspberries from the farm shop for half the price of tescos. They didn't ahve pick your own yet but they should do in a couple of weeks. The place I found also does vegetables too.

I have them in the garden too. V easy to grow, totally fresh and more than you can use. I filled a pint jug with them yesterday and gave them to my friend, just saw some in Sainsbury's 3.99 for a tiny punnet about a third of what I picked yesterday, shocking.

We tried out the local market this week and was stunned how cheap the local produce was.
I got a massive punnet of strawberries, raspberries and 1/2lb cherries for £3!

Theres no way I'd have got that in the supermarket.

mine were 2 punnets for a quid at my local fruit and veg shop!!

I can def recommend PYO, if you have kids take them too, my 3 year old loves to help. There is a list of some here but also try your local paper as list is by no means exhaustive. Much cheaper - our local one has strawberries 70p a pound, blackcurrants £1 a pound, I think raspberries were either somewhere inbetween.

K

Raspberries cost a fortune in Oz, they're really hard to grow apparently. It's $8 for about 10 of the things. That'll teach me to throw a few boxes into my shopping trolley without checking when I first got here (cue nervous breakdown at checkout)

All of the bananas were wiped out by a hurricane too, so they're about $2 EACH.