2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
There are few gardeners who do not have a single bush of this super popular berry on the site, about which so much has been said, written and sung. If earlier they planted mainly classic varieties of raspberries, now amateur gardeners are more and more boldly cultivating new, once rare species. One of them is very beautiful and unusual - rose-leaved raspberry. Let's get acquainted
In the Baltics, this type of plant is already well known to gardeners, and for Russia, where it has recently been grown, it is a curiosity. The plant is a semi-shrub no higher than one meter. Its crown is semicircular, and the leaves are green corrugated, toothed. The berries on the bush are bright, large, coral-red, and stick up. Rose-leaved raspberries belong to the genus Rubus. Its second known name is Tibetan, since it was first learned about it in the Himalayas. There is a lot of it in South America and Madagascar.
Why is raspberry rose-leaved good?
Sweet and sour raspberries are similar to the taste of drupes and are excellent thirst quenchers. Jam and jam, which are made from rose-leaved raspberries, have a unique pleasant taste and delicate aroma of strawberry. When cooking, you can add berries of white and red currants to them, which make jams and jams original.
To prepare a fragrant and very tasty fruit drink, raspberry berries must be rubbed through a sieve, and then strain the juice. The pomace is diluted with water and lemon zest is poured into it. All this needs to be boiled for no more than five minutes. After cooling, you can add a little juice and sugar.
Plant in the "classic way"
To get a good harvest, as well as to enjoy the flowering of rose-leaved raspberries, you must follow the same steps that are used when ordinary varieties are planted:
• Plant raspberries in well-lit, sunny places, not forgetting that they are growing. In order for the plant to grow in a certain place, it is necessary to fence the area with pieces of slate or tin dug into the ground,
• It is good to plant this type of raspberry in light, nutrient-rich loamy or sandy loam soil that has a slightly acidic reaction, • The plant has a shallow root system, so it is not worth digging deep holes during planting - the manured and composted soil should be up to 30 cm deep, • It is better to plant seedlings on cloudy autumn days: in frosty conditions, it is good to dig the roots with earth. After the spring planting, if it cannot be postponed until the fall, it is necessary to water the seedlings more often.
We take care of it properly
• It is necessary to form a crown. For the winter, the branches of the plant must be cut almost to the ground and sprinkled. In the spring and summer, so that it does not grow much, you need to cut off the branches that intertwine with neighboring bushes.
• It is necessary to regularly moisturize the superficial raspberry roots. When the weather is sunny and dry, the plant should be watered regularly. Every day in the evenings, watering is carried out in the hot summer season.
• The soil near the bush is mulched with peat, peat compost or rotted manure. Carefully loosen the soil around the raspberry to avoid damaging the surface roots.
• Weeds must also be removed carefully - it is better to do it by hand, because if the roots are damaged, the plant may die.
• Just like all garden crops, rose-leaved raspberries must be fed, which is produced twice a year: in spring and autumn. In the spring, feeding is carried out with ammonium sulfate - no more than 20 g per square meter, in autumn - with potassium sulfate - up to 30 g per square meter. Mineral fertilizers must be spread evenly over the ground, and then proceed to mulching.
• During each wintering, it is necessary to thoroughly cover the raspberries in regions where winters are harsh and with little snow, as well as where there are often sudden changes in air temperatures. Low bushes of rose-leaved raspberry do not need garters and supports.
Great decor for the site
Raspberry bushes are widely used by landscape designers who know perfectly well that to revive the coniferous walls or compositions in the orchard, only the bushes of the rose-leaved raspberry can be the best plant. This is due to the flowering and fruiting of an unusually beautiful plant, starting in July and ending with the first frosts. In addition, the red color of the berries and the white shade of the flowers on the juicy light green background of the foliage looks very beautiful.
Raspberry bushes can be used to decorate both an alpine slide and a green lawn. You are unlikely to get tired of admiring this exotic plant, no matter where it is planted.
Recommended:
Falling Leaves At The Rose. Common Causes
Autumn leaf fall is a natural process of completing the growing season of trees and shrubs. Premature fall of foliage in the summer is a reason to seriously think about the causes of this phenomenon. Rose bushes show gardeners that significant deviations are observed in the development of plants. First, let's figure out what factors affect early leaf fall
Falling Leaves At The Rose. Pests. Continuation
Weakened rose bushes after wintering become easy prey for pests. Sucking the juice from the leaves, they provoke early leaf fall. At the first sign, gardeners begin to treat plants with chemicals, destroying at the same time beneficial insects. What preventive control measures can be applied to roses?
Rose-leaved Raspberry Is An Unpretentious Beauty
Some summer residents are very fond of growing a wide variety of outlandish crops on their plots. But, to their great chagrin, not all of these cultures are able to take root in our latitudes. Why not try planting a luxurious rose-leaved raspberry on the site? This completely unpretentious plant will certainly delight the eye with its bright and juicy colors - most often it is grown precisely as an ornamental crop, although such raspberries bear fruit quite an asset
White Spot Of Raspberry Leaves
White spot, or septoria, affects not only raspberries (both cultural and wild varieties), but also blackberries. As a rule, the first signs of a harmful misfortune can be seen on the leaves by mid-May, and the peak of the development of white spot usually occurs at the stage of berry ripening. To a large extent, the development of this ailment is facilitated by moderate temperatures in combination with abundant rainfall (mainly spring). White spot especially affects old leaves
Phylostictosis Of Rose Leaves
Phylostictosis, or brown spot, is an extremely unpleasant disease of roses, which manifests itself on the leaves in the form of oval, round or irregular specks. And the early development of this ailment is facilitated by a temperature of more than twenty-five degrees and high humidity. Roses attacked by an unfortunate misfortune lose their decorative effect, and if their treatment is not started on time, they may even die
