One of the local ladies I see at the saloon occasionally told me she was taking out her 24 year old gooseberry bushes. Last year I thinned her raspberries and she asked if I wanted them. Well I finished digging the last one out yesterday, I had to dig a hole 20″ in diameter, they were that big. Now, our raspberries won’t be lonely. Oh, and we had snow flurries this morning. 
we ran down and covered the baby plants in the lower beds with packing blankets.
