Favorite by many raspberries - one of the most popular garden berries. In addition to excellent taste qualities, its medicinal properties are also known: raspberry jelly helps with colds, and delicious and fragrant tea is prepared from leaves.
If you want to plant raspberries in the open ground, then first study what are the features of planting and caring for this plant.
Planting raspberries
Raspberries are usually planted in late September or early October. If desired, this can be done in the early spring, only the earth is wiped out. Raspberry grows well along the fence of the site or the wall of the house, because in winter it needs snow "protection".
To do this is best done with a tape or trench method: each plant bush is equally provided with nutrients.
Prepare the trenches in advance: free the soil from the weeds, mark the plot with pegs and dig holes (depth 40-45 cm and width 50-60 cm). The length of the trench is arbitrary - it is usually equal to the planned length of the raspberry, and the number of such trenches coincides with the number of rows of raspberries. Then fill the pit with a nutrient mixture from the manure, compost and mineral fertilizers. The upper fertile soil layer can be mixed with wood ash, but it is better to refuse nitrogen fertilizers.
Saplings should be instilled vertically, for 2-3 cm deepening them into the ground. Try not to damage the root neck of the plant with the kidneys!
After planting, pour the earth (1 bucket of water per plant bush), and then compost.
When planting raspberries in a good fertile soil and care for it will be easier, so try to choose a place of sunny and moist, with a neutral reaction of the soil.
Features of care for garden raspberries
Care of the plant is as follows:
- watering - it is believed that during the summer you need to water the planting of raspberries 7 times. This plant likes a rare, but abundant watering (no less than 2 buckets per 1 sq. M.). Begin to water should be from the end of May, and finish - in October, but most importantly care for raspberries in the summer, when she most in need of life-giving moisture. Usually, furrow irrigation and sprinkling are used. Each of these methods has its advantages;
- loosening - loosening the soil should be at a depth of 8-10 cm. Note that raspberries can expand in breadth, despite their superficial root system. If you want to limit the raspberry territorially, then before planting it is necessary to make a barrier from a sheet of galvanized iron or tin, which is buried along the perimeter of the trench and will not allow the raspberry to go beyond the enclosed limits;
- mulching - it is not necessary to do this, but it is highly desirable, using compost or manure as mulch. Every year the layer of mulch needs to be updated;
- pruning - in the spring, caring for raspberries includes the obligatory pruning of its shoots, which should be carried out after the snow has fallen, but the soil has not yet warmed up. When pruning remove weak, broken and frozen branches,
and all the others are cut to the first healthy kidney. The second pruning of raspberries is carried out in the autumn, 2-3 weeks before the first colds; - feeding - in September to care for raspberries is added the need for its additional feeding: for each bush, 2-3 buckets of organic matter are introduced in the form of humus or peat with the addition of 100 g of saltpeter or urea. It is also often used mullein, bird droppings, superphosphate;
- Reproduction - the matter of caring for raspberries also applies to its reproduction. For this, several methods are available, the most popular of which is propagation by cuttings or root offspring.