2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Raspberries are a healthy, tasty product. Harvesting a large harvest in modern conditions is possible only with good agricultural technology. Achievements in breeding make it possible to obtain large berries weighing 4-10g (old varieties gave a maximum of 2g). Now 4-5kg per bush is not the ultimate dream. A caring owner collects 2 times more sweet products. How can you achieve outstanding results?
Variety selection
The weather conditions change every year. The dry season alternates with rainy, warm and cool summers. Varieties react differently to climate change. One and the same specimen, under certain conditions, gives the maximum yield, in another year it drops to a minimum.
For the stable production of fresh berries, it is necessary to plant 3-5 varieties that have proven themselves in the area. Extend the fruiting period due to early, medium, late options.
Landing
Raspberries are planted in spring or fall. In dry summers, the second term is preferable. In a young seedling, the shoot is shortened to 30-50 cm, cutting off the crown. By stimulating it to form, good root system survival.
Carefully dig up a place for landing. The roots of the malignant weeds are selected. Form trenches 50cm wide, 30cm deep. Filled with organic matter: rotted manure, compost, sand in a ratio of 2: 1: 1. Ash, nitroammophoska are added. On acidic soils - dolomite flour, according to laboratory data.
The best planting pattern is two-row. 1.5-2 meters are left between the stripes, 70 cm in a row. Place the raspberries in a checkerboard pattern. After 4 meters, pillars are installed, the wire is pulled with a step of 20-40 cm, depending on the height of the bushes up to 120 cm level.
Dig holes, straighten roots. The dried ones are removed, leaving healthy ones. Fall asleep with a fertile mixture. They trample the earth around the trunk. Watered abundantly with water, add soil when shrinking. From above they mulch with sawdust, peat, rotted grass. Tie the stems to a wire at several levels.
Care
To realize the full potential of the variety, it is necessary to pay attention to the plantation throughout the season. At first, raspberries need frequent, abundant watering. Surface roots go down to a depth of 10-20cm. When the soil dries up, they partially die off. Plants produce minimal yield.
Nitrogen fertilizing in the fall, annual at 80-100 g per 1 square meter, improves the quality and growth of replacement shoots. Root growth grows less compared to spring application. Phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are used every two years.
Experienced gardeners consider raspberries to be a trash crop. She loves the annual introduction of rotted organic matter, which loosens the topsoil, enriches the roots with oxygen. Try to pamper your pet with compost, humus, peat, cut weeds, chopped twigs, leaf litter.
Please note that in the wild, raspberries grow at the edge of the forest, where organic matter from rotted leaves is abundant. Renew the mulch layer annually.
Weed control will help retain nutrients and moisture for the main crop.
In the fall, cut off the extra shoots of replacement, leaving 7 pieces per bush. Varieties requiring shelter for the winter are formed with a reserve of 10-12 stems. Removing excess branches in the spring to normal. They choose specimens without cracks, signs of disease.
Overgrowth control
The green shoots of raspberries in the aisles are a weed that takes half of the food from the main bushes. They are pruned at the very beginning of growth with a shovel at a depth of 6-8 cm, freeing up space around the plants.
Constant struggle gives positive results:
1. Perceptible increase in yield. Scientists set up an experiment on plants. One and the same variety, without removing the shoots, has formed up to 18 berries. With cleaning from "weed" - 2 times more.
2. The illumination of the whole plant is increased from the crown to the ground.
3. Berries are laid evenly throughout the bush, not only at the top of the branches.
4. The quality characteristics are improved. The fruit is larger and tastes sweeter.
5. Free ventilation of the plantation reduces the damage to the bushes by diseases and pests.
When growing raspberries on your site, try to give them enough attention. Follow agrotechnical practices. Remove excess stems. Yield increases will not keep you waiting. In the same season, raspberries will thank you for your care with sweet, large berries.
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