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Ezhemalina (lat. Rubus ursinus) - a berry crop from the Rose family, which is characterized by larger fruits and a higher yield compared to ordinary raspberries.
Description
Ezhemalina is a more than successful hybrid of blackberries with the beloved raspberries. Adult plants are equipped with flexible long stems, and their rather large berries are collected in incredibly effective clusters.
The most common varieties
These are:
Texas. It is a rather thorny creeping bushes, while the size of the shoots often reaches five meters. It boasts the presence of elongated berries, the weight of which can reach twelve grams. The berries have a sweet and sour taste, somewhat reminiscent of raspberries. This variety is considered the most resistant to frost.
Loganberry. These are creeping and thornless bushes on which sour red berries ripen (by the way, such berries ripen early), gradually darkening as they ripen. At the same time, they ripen extremely unevenly. The length of such berries can be up to three and a half centimeters, and their weight is about five grams. Suitable for cultivation in central Russia.
Tayberry. One of the last early maturing hybrids with impressive yields. The bushes of such a raspberry are always covered with soft thorns, and its large berries are painted in juicy dark red tones. Here are just the berries from the stalks, just like in blackberries, it will be extremely unimportant to separate.
Boysenberry. Creeping bushes that can be prickly or thornless. Large oval berries are colored in pleasant brownish tones, and their taste is as close as possible to the taste of blackberries.
Darrow. And behind this name is an erect variety, the length of the stems of which can reach three meters. All bushes are very thorny and incredibly frost-resistant - they can easily withstand frosts down to minus thirty-four degrees. One bush that has reached the age of five can easily produce up to ten kilograms of sweet and sour berries weighing up to four grams each.
Growing and caring
Reproduction of the jermaline can be carried out in several ways: by means of seeds (the rarest method, since the seedlings obtained in this way are not able to maintain parental properties), root suckers or root cuttings, as well as by layering (both horizontal and apical) or lignified and green cuttings.
As a rule, seedlings are planted in autumn or spring. On the bottoms of the dug holes about forty centimeters deep, a small handful of earth is first poured, and only then each seedling is placed on it. Having carefully straightened the roots, the pits are immediately covered with the top layer of earth connected to the humus. And in order not to inadvertently provoke too intensive growth of young shoots and thereby not cause significant damage to the winter hardiness of the bushes, you should not apply too much organic fertilizer.
Since ezhemalina needs proper support, it is customary to grow it on trellises. At the same time, it is important to take into account the fact that each matured bush occupies a fairly solid area, therefore, when planting seedlings, it is recommended to maintain a distance of at least one meter between them, and if it is planned to plant a seedling in several rows, the distance should be even greater - from one and a half to two meters …
Despite the relative unpretentiousness of the Yezemalina, it is best to plant it in sunny and at the same time slightly shaded areas. Ideally, plants should also be provided with reliable protection from piercing winds. As for the soil, the most suitable option in this case would be a fertile and well-aerated soil, in which moisture should not stagnate in any case.
