9 secrets of a good crop of raspberries

Who in the suburban area there's at least a few bushes of raspberries? To recruit a handful, and threw back his head, sent to his mouth fragrant, smelling of summer and the sun, red berries, eyes closed from the pleasure... to Stock up for the winter as its raspberry jam — especially since the best cold medicine difficult to come up with...



However, not every raspberry happy owners with an abundance of berries. Well, if you were able to buy from a retailer yielding different maturing varieties, and even a few everbearing bushes — then we are "on a white horse." But if raspberry is the "most common"? Is it possible to do something to get her too delight excellent good yield and large berries?

You can! There are a few simple secrets that will definitely help to keep the raspberry patch in excellent condition. Secrets are secret desires raspberry Bush, which he certainly would have told us if they could talk.
Secret 1: a lot of sun Raspberry does not like shade. It can easily bear a little shade in the morning, but the rest of the day, it is desirable to be in the sun.

Secret 2: a good watering Through one only abundant watering, can be literally several times to increase the yield! However, to turn the raspberry bushes in the swamp is not worth it. All necessary measure. How often to water the raspberries — prompt weather and soil. Just remember: drying out the soil for raspberries should not be allowed — once harvest is lost!
Secret 3: proper feeding Though raspberry and unpretentious culture, but will always be grateful for the fertilizer and will respond to the marked increase in yield. If at the time of planting raspberries the soil at the selected site was already old fertilized with humus or compost (at recommended rate of 10 kg per 1 square meter), the nutrients the plant will last for several years. If the soil is poor under raspberries in the spring and summer period it is necessary to feed the bushes with organic matter or complex fertilizers. This:
  • chicken manure, rotted manure (fall)
  • peat (in any period)
  • ash (spring)
  • nitrogen fertilizer (spring)
  • complex fertilizer (spring and early summer)
Recipes of fertilizer on 10 l of water: ammonium nitrate — 30 g, potassium salt — 40 g superphosphate, 60 g
to 3 kg of manure, add 6 g of potassium + 6 g nitrogen + 4 g phosphorus; use at the rate of 1.5 kg of fertilizer per 1 square meter

Need to know that excess fertilizer or making them at the wrong time leads to reduction of yield and sometimes even the death of the Bush. The following video advice on mineral nutrition of raspberries from the Amateur gardener Michael Golenia


Secret 4: get rid of the young shoots are the Young shoots of raspberry, which appears during the vegetative period, must be removed. Extra shoots will take Bush half the nutrients that will weaken the main plant and, of course, will significantly reduce the harvest.

Superfluous plants do not pull from the soil and not dig! It is enough to gently trim the roots.

Secret 5: mulching to retain soil moisture, the ground should be mulched. By the way, the soil under the raspberry bushes many gardeners are advised not to loosen and, moreover, do not dig. Here is a case where it is useful throughout summer add and add mulch. This can be straw, peat, manure, sawdust, and weeds that are left after weeding. So you retain the moisture and the root system won't damage!
Secret 6: garter raspberry Bushes, behind which there savusauna. The lower part of the stem remains without electricity — of course, and no berries.Often the stems are falling, the top of the berries touch the ground, get dirty, damaged. As a result, the yield falls, and maid raspberry uncomfortable and bushes when cleaning break. In short, cons.

So it's best raspberries from the first year of planting to tie to the trellis. This will save time and allow raspberries to obtain maximum light. So — and harvest.

Secret 7: trim the Fact that raspberry growing rapidly, is known to every gardener. So it is not degenerated and gave a good harvest, it must be cut. The methods and techniques of cutting different. In the next video Olga Platonova shares a well-established method of double cropping raspberries
 

Secret 8: protection from pests Raspberry rarely affected by pests and diseases. But if this happens, try to avoid the use of chemicals, it is better to use traditional methods or biological agents.
From fungal diseases 300 grams of ash to dissolve in 10 l of water, to insist 4 hours. Strain, add 40 grams of household soap
Spray the bushes in calm weather
From aphids and other harmful insects 100 g of dry mustard powder to dissolve in 10 l of water
  • Recipe 2: "onion peel"
150-200 grams of onion peel pour 10 liters of warm water, to insist 4 hours.

Secret 9: processing after harvest, as soon As the raspberry bushes gave you the entire crop this year, otplodonosivshih branches need to be removed immediately, so they do not shade young shoots and did not prevent them to gain strength before the winter. In the following video a master class of the experienced summer resident in the pruning of raspberries after harvest headdress


 

Source: www.7dach.ru

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