Lent: Fruit

I planted raspberry cane in a sunny corner of my back yard several years ago. New shoots have grown and old ones have died, but every year the cane grows a crop of berries. Not now, and not next month, but only during raspberry season.

Every year I've had to remove some stalks. They look healthy enough right now, in the early spring, but by the time summer comes, these stalks have turned brown, and produce no fruit. And if you're not going to produce fruit, what good are you anyway? I cut them off at the base and toss them into the compost pile, where they decay in short order and end up boosting the garden some other way. (I mean, come on, raspberry cane. You had one job.)


Copyright © 2019 by David Learn. Used with permission.


Tweet