Raspberries occupy a special place among berry crops, because it is not only a delicious treat, but also an excellent remedy for many diseases. But how correctly to plant and care for raspberries, so that it brings a good harvest?
You can plant raspberries in autumn, spring and summer. It is very important to plant the crop and trim the planted plants.
Trenchless raspberry planting method
You can plant raspberries in trenches and pits. It is best to choose a trench, although this is more difficult, but so all the soil is supplied with nutrients, and the yield is better.
It is advisable to prepare trenches for 20-25 days before the landing of the seniors.
Before planting raspberry seedlings, it is worth removing perennial weeds from the soil. The rows will be cultivated and digested. To reduce the number of weeds, we can cover them with something, for example, linoleum.
The site that you have allocated for raspberries, you need to distribute the picnic. Then, on the cord, it is necessary to excavate a trench 50 cm wide with a 40 cm clearance. And thus dig up a few tranches throughout the planned section.
At the bottom of the trench, it is necessary to add rotted manure or compost, the layer should be 10 cm, and mineral fertilizers from the double superphosphate should be poured on top. The third layer should be biohumus, as much as you have.
If the land you have and so fertile, then you can do nothing at all to fertilize it.
When planting seedlings, you can do without ashes. But too much of it is not worth adding, because the mamma grows well on weakly acidic and neutral ground. Ash simply makes the berries more delicious, you can apply the ash and after harvesting over the soil.
In no case can not apply nitrogen fertilizers, they are harmful to the plant.
Raspberry requirements for location and soil
Raspberries can grow and not in a sunny place, but the fruits will be bad. Shoots will reach for the sun. In winter, the buds on the shoots will die from the height, so in the spring you will remove them all the same.
Malina needs to be given a bright place, where there will not be cold, northerly winds. Raspberry loves the soil in which moisture is retained and simultaneously fertile, drained and light loamy soil. You can plant raspberries on sandy loam and sandy ground, but then every year you need to fertilize and constantly water.
Often, the plant is interposed at least 1.8 m apart and at a distance of 0.7 m from each other, provided that there are 2 seedlings in the hole.
It is best to place them at a distance of 30 cm from each other, because all the seedlings still do not get accustomed.
When it is better to plant a malignant
To plant the raspberry green offspring, you need to wait until they become a height of 15-20cm. Usually this happens when the dry and hot weather, in May-June. While offspring do not get accustomed, you need to water them all the time. If your offspring are higher than they are, then you need to cut them to the length of the body. Because only the root is important for planting. Dig them out only when under the ground there are already white roots, which are actively growing.
The seedlings that you grew in containers are best planted in the summer. So they will get well and take root until the winter.
If you plant seedlings in the spring, then they will take a long time, because they will already have large leaves. Therefore, it is best to cut them below.
Do not be afraid to do pruning, raspberries are shrubs, one race which only has one season. Therefore, trimming has a great effect on how raspberries will get accustomed.
In autumn it is necessary to plant the plant when it is already ripe. This you will understand by the root neck - there you can see the kidneys.
Winter storage of raspberry
In late autumn raspberries are best not to be planted, it will not have time to take root. It is best to preserve the seedlings and plant them in the spring. To save them, you need to put the culture in a polyethylene bag with wet sawdust and leave it open.
The main thing is that the plant should have live roots of light brown color, so it will successfully overwinter.
Keep a bag of raspberries in the basement or cellar - in a cold place. The temperature should not be higher than + 4 degrees and in no case should water bags, so raspberry does not take root.
Selection of seedlings and raspberry plantation
For raspberry planting, select seedlings with shoots of medium thickness, even the thinnest stalk is much better than thick stalk. Therefore, give preference to small stems with good roots and 1-3 superficial stems, which have already matured. It is not necessary to spend a lot of money planting planters with a lot of shoots.
While you are bringing the seedlings home, it is necessary to cover the open root system with a wet straw or rag, and at home in urgent order to dig them. You can not have the roots long in the open air.
If you keep the moist planting material in polyethylene bags for a long time, it will worsen the quality of the plants, because the roots of the planters rot and become brown from moisture.
Before planting the plant, it is better to dip the roots of the mullein with clay and biologically active substances (rootstones, phosphorobacterins, heteroauxin, humates and others).
Saplings must be without leaves, they need to be cut. Raspberry shoots should be no more than 35 cm.
Roots need to be lowered into the furrow and covered with fertile soil. The seedlings need to be shaken a little, so that the earth will fall between the roots and press against them.
When planting, be sure to watch the depth. It is not necessary to plant the stalks deeply, the growth will slowly develop or even die. Also, one should not allow small planting, so the roots can dry, which saturate the whole plant with moisture, and in winter the raspberry can freeze.
After you plant the seedlings and the soil sits down, make sure that the root raspberry neck is at the level of the soil surface.
If before you started to plant raspberries, strong rains passed and the soil became very wet, then the plant should not be watered. Simply compact the earth around the seedlings.
Immediately around the raspberries you need to sprinkle fine overgrazed manure, wood shavings or peat. It will perfectly retain moisture in the soil, it will not evaporate, more than that, the soil will always be friable and moisturized.
Autumn raspberry plantation shelter
Now it is necessary to note the most important moment when planting a cemetery. The plant will overwinter well only if the soil is not very wet, and the roots that appeared in the fall will not freeze. How to make sure that they do not die? To avoid this, it is necessary, with the first colds, to cover the roots of the raspberry with fallen leaves from the trees. You can build such a structure so that you can cover the raspberries with polyethylene, so that it is in the greenhouse. So you will create an air-dry shelter for raspberries. Those people who grow small plants in the garden, can afford it. It will be possible at the end of winter or already in the spring to remove a protective oilcloth.
If you want to plant many seedlings at once, then it is worthwhile to agree with the seller to buy them in the summer in containers, so you do not have to invent anything to cover the plant for the winter.
Raspberry tab
In the first year as you lay a plantation of raspberries, very frequent attacks. Leave raspberry in this state is not worth it, even if a few seedlings fell out. That is why it is worthwhile at the end of the first year in the summer to conduct an audit of your plantation, so you can remove those plants that have not taken root, and in the fall you can plant new seedlings on that place.
If you have a small raspberry and lunge was small, then you can not wait until autumn and plant raspberries with green offspring in the summer.
In the spring, when raspberries overwintered and new races appeared, it is necessary to cut off the old stump and prevent new fruiting. If you refuse the berries in the first year, the seedlings will take root well and new shoots will develop for the remaining years.
If raspberry you planted in a good fertile land, then in the first year raspberries can not be fertilized and not fed.
In addition to this traditional way of planting raspberries, there is also a "natural" way - raspberries are grown on wood. This is very beneficial for the gardener and is beneficial for the plant.