Growing raspberries in the garden

Raspberry is a shrub that reaches a height of one to two meters, with annual vegetative shoots. On stubby two-year-old stems, flower stems are formed. The fruits of raspberries are small stems, fused in one fruit. Valuable fruits have a sweet and pleasant taste. In natural conditions raspberry grows in mixed and coniferous forests, forming whole thickets.

Raspberry is a very popular culture. It is successfully cultivated in many countries. Growing raspberries is a grateful occupation. Caring gardeners annually delight with its beauty and delicious, healthy fruits this amazing plant.

Experienced gardeners perfectly know all the secrets of planting and caring for a well-fruit-bearing shrub. The technology of growing raspberries - this amazing and useful plant - has its own characteristics. Experimenting on their sites, gardeners stop in one of several ways to grow raspberries, more convenient and acceptable for specific conditions.

Raspberry is thermophilic. It is placed in the most light and sheltered corner of the garden. In the darkened places the crimson bushes are strongly stretched. Placing bushes in the shade of trees, it will be difficult to get a good harvest.

Raspberry plantation is demanding for moisture and fertility of the soil. In dry periods, to conserve the crop, regular moistening of the soil will be required.

Growing raspberries begin early in the spring or fall. Autumn planting begins in late September.

The selected site is dug, removing the weeds. We also need to take care of the fertility of the soil. It is necessary to make mineral and organic fertilizers. The seedlings are placed in rows, maintaining a distance between the bushes not less than fifty centimeters. When landing several rows of raspberries, the distance between the rows is maintained up to one and a half meters. The first fruits will appear only after a year.

Collecting the harvest, last year's shoots completely remove, cutting off at the very ground. Annual shoots thin out. Stretched stems shorten to 1.5 meters long. Such shoots for next year will be pleased with an excellent harvest.

The main feature of raspberries is a perennial rhizome, which gives underground layers and stems that die for the second year after fruiting. Root offspings form new shoots replacing two-year-olds.

After harvesting, shoots-two-year-olds are removed. Root offspring are an excellent planting material for raspberry. Growing during the year young growth will give an opportunity to get excellent plants by autumn to form a new plantation.

A well-formed raspberry plantation in one place will delight juicy and tasty fruits for ten years. Growing raspberries will require constant fertilization, loosening of the soil and the removal of weeds.

There are several different ways to form a crimson plantation. More convenient of them is the trellis method of cultivation. Bushes of plants have rather long and thin stems. In a good harvest year, under the weight of the ripe harvest, the stems drop to the ground. Save the harvest in this case will help trellis.

For this simple device suitable metal or wooden pegs, installed along the crimson series. The wire stretched between the sticks perfectly holds the stems of the plants. Raspberry shoots are tied with twine, securely fixing on the trellis.

The device of double trellises excludes tying of plants. The wire stretched from two sides, well fixes shoots.

Many gardeners prefer to fix the bushes with the help of stakes. Raspberry stems tie with twine to pegs, driven in by a bush.

Growing raspberries without fixation leads to loss of crops. Shoots move freely, which leads to the shedding of ripe fruit.

Wishing to receive juicy and large berries of raspberries, it is necessary to observe the technology of cultivation of this valuable culture. Paying enough attention to the plant, you can annually collect an excellent harvest of useful berries.