Canberra artist Julie Ryder's productive kitchen garden

By Susan Parsons
Updated January 9 2015 - 10:08am, first published December 16 2014 - 11:45pm
Julie Ryder's freshly harvested raspberries.
Julie Ryder's freshly harvested raspberries.
Kipfler seed potato ready for planting.
Kipfler seed potato ready for planting.

A bowl of freshly harvested raspberries sings of Christmas.  In the Aranda garden that Julie Ryder shares with her husband Dr Chris Bourke, the first picking of this season yielded 278 grams of raspberries, not including the ones that missed the container and went straight into Ryder's mouth.   Her sculptor friend, Mary Kayser, gave the canes to Ryder three years ago.

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