How to grow raspberries in the country?

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Growing raspberries for some is considered a simple matter. But many do not know to grow a rich and tasty crop of berries, you need to know some secrets planting and caring for this seemingly undemanding culture.

Growing raspberries in the country

Where to plant?

By choosing the right place for planting raspberry bushes, you will provide yourself with a stable crop of tasty and aromatic berries.

For the berry to be sweet, you need the sun.. Raspberry moisture-loving plant. Therefore, the place for her to choose:

1. Sunny
2. Windproof.
3. Wet, but not swampy (well, if in this place in winter we accumulate a lot of snow).
4. With a fertile layer of soil.

When is it better to plant - in the fall or spring?

Raspberry bushes may be planted in any warm season, but the best time to plant yet autumn.

In autumn, the best ratio of temperature and humidity. Bushes rooted in the fall, in the spring go faster in growth and less sick.

When spring planting plant takes root for a long time and the percentage of survival is less than during the autumn planting.

Preparing the soil for raspberry bushes need to do in advance. If the bushes are planted in the fall, then landing pits prepare a month before disembarking.

When spring planting pits prepare from autumn. For some reason, seedlings not sown should be prikopat in the fall.In the spring, it is important to have time to plant the dug-out plants before the buds awaken.

Basic methods

Raspberries planted on the site trench, pit or hole. And also interesting is the method according to the Sobolev method. What is the difference?

Trench

Raspberry planted trench saves time on caring for her. Less watering, convenient to cover for the winter, increases the yield of berries.

Trenching rules:

1. Choose a well-lit place.
2. For uniform illumination of the raspberry tin trench direct from north to south.
3. The length of the trenches is arbitrary, but the depth is 60-70 cm and 40-50 cm wide.
4. If there are more rows than one, then the distance between them is at least 1.5 m.
5. Heavy soil with loam needs to be lightened. Pour a layer of 10-15 cm gravel or sand on the bottom of the trench. Mix soil with humus. Spread mineral fertilizers on 1 square meter on top of it:
   • 200 grams of phosphoric;
   • 60-70 grams of potash;
   • 300-400 grams of wood ash.
   • You can use complex fertilizers: 200 grams of nitroammofosk or nitrophoska.
6. Mix everything thoroughly again. Top sleep 10 cm of fertile land. Leave up to the top of the ditch 30-40 cm of free space.
7. Strengthen the edges with sides.They should not crumble. For strengthening will approach: boards, roofing material or polycarbonate.
8. From the ends of the trench to install T-shaped posts. Height is 1 m.
9. Tension 2 rows of wire. From the ground in 30-40 cm and along the top of the posts.
10. Plant saplings in a single line with a distance of 1 m between the plants.
11. Dig holes. Put the plant. Cover with soil. To plant stood firmly around the stem to compact the soil.
12. Pour in two steps, in small portions until the soil is completely saturated with moisture. After watering the soil around the raspberry is recommended to mulch. This will prevent it from drying out and will relieve from the hassle of weeding and loosening. Peat, humus, needles or compost will be suitable as mulch.
13. Saplings as growth should be tied to the wire. Garter start with the lower tiers.

The trench raspberry growing method is effective but optional and suitable for a large raspberries.

Patching

If you have a small amount of raspberry, then it is better to plant it with patching or the bush method with the subsequent fan crown formation. Pits should be prepared two weeks before planting.

Landing rules:

1. Dig holes with a depth and a width of 35-40 cm. Between the holes there is a distance from 0.6 m to 1 m.
2. Fill with fertile soil:
   • 5-6 kg of humus;
   • 150 grams of double superphosphate;
   • 50 grams of potassium sulfate;
   • 200 grams of wood ash.
3. Pour the mixture into the bottom of the pit, and put 10 cm of simple soil on top.
4. On the perimeter raspberry to put a barrier. Fit boards, roofing felt, slate or polycarbonate.
5. Have Sanzhentsev trim the roots to healthy. Crop shoots. Leave 35-40 cm.
6. Lower the plant, straighten the roots and cover with soil. Condense around the stage.
7. During planting, the root neck should be 3-4 cm higher than the soil level. After shrinking the soil, it will be at the soil level.
8. After the raspberries are planted, water should be watered. Watering should be done in 2-3 doses in small portions. Until the soil is saturated with moisture.
9. The soil around the trunk zamulchirovat. To do this, suitable humus, peat, sawdust or chopped grass.

According to Sobolev

So, what is the method:

1. Preparing beds and landing sites.We choose a well-lit place and set the ridge from north to south or from east to west.
2. Churn boards from the boards or make of slate. It is important that the bed is 20 cm higher than the soil level.
3. The width of the beds is 1 m. Length as much as raspberry bushes. Between plants, a distance of at least 1 m. Sparsely planted bushes are better lit, blown. It is convenient to take care of them. The level of diseases decreases. This increases the yield of raspberries.
4. Raspberries are planted on the ridge in early autumn.
5. Holes are dug out with a width of 30 * 30 cm. Planted one seedling.
6. Make a trellis.

It is not recommended to plant in one hole more than one seedling. Raspberries grow in one place for more than 15 years, so several bushes in one place will interfere with each other.

The raspberry yield of this method is also depends on proper trimming. In the spring, after the raspberries will give young shoots, hold the first pruning.

In late May or early June, trim at a distance of 80-100 cm from the ground. At such a height behind the bushes is convenient to care for. They do not lean towards the ground under the weight of the crop.

In the second year to spend the second pruning bushes. Side shoots should be cut to 10 cm. With such a pruning bush becomes like a small tree.

Produces a lot of flower stalks on which berries are tied. As a result, the harvest on the bushes increases.

Scions grown under bushes are not recommended to leave more than 4-5 pieces. The remaining offsprings are cut, and with the rest, pruning is the same as with the main stem.

According to the method of Sobolev strong offspring is better to transplant to a new place, and the rest of the shoots cut out. Thus, the usual variety is transformed into a remontant one. The bush bears fruit until deep autumn.

Forming the bed according to the method of Sobolev, the gardener does not need to dig and loosen the soil. Raspberry is a moisture-loving plant, therefore should be timely watering and should not allow the drying of the earth.

To retain moisture in the soil pour mulch on the ridge. If possible, as mulch is better to use fresh manure. Manure comes as a fertilizer, and covers the soil from drying out and weeds.

If there is no manure available, then we mulch the bed with available means.The layer of mulch should be at least 10 cm.

Despite the manure of the garden, nutrient deficiency possible. It can be determined by the type of plant: the shoots become thin and weak, the leaf color changes - they curl, spots appear and the edges dry up.

In this case should be fertilized with organic: Pour the mullein infusion or chicken manure with wood ash.

How to make an infusion: in a third of the container, collect cow dung and fill it with water. Insist 2 days.

For watering it must be diluted in water 1:10. That is, take 1 l of infusion into a bucket of water, add a glass of wood ash. Stir and pour the raspberries.

Before hiding the raspberries for the winter, you need to cut the branches from under the root. The young stems of the current season should be carefully tied down to the ground and pinned with forks.

Now cover the stubby stems for the winter. Cover with knocked-down branches, and cover with a non-woven cloth, tarpaulin or any other material at hand. In winter, artificial shelter will carry snow, which will keep it from freezing.

How to grow raspberries from seeds

Many raspberry varieties possible to grow from seed. The process is time consuming, but interesting. What is needed for this?

1. Buy raspberry seeds in a store or collect overripe berries of your favorite variety.
2. Squeeze the berries through gauze. It turns out gruel. Dilute this gruel with water and wash the seeds. Empty seeds will float to the surface. They are not needed. The rest is collected and dried.

In the open ground

In early September, on a specially prepared garden bed, seed to plant at a depth of 2 cm. Cover with humus and sand on top.

We leave the seeds for the winter. In the spring the seeds will sprout. Further care as usual.

In flower pots

To grow raspberry seedlings in pots, seeds must be stratified. To do this, place the seeds in a wet napkin for two weeks in the refrigerator.

After planting in pots or a special box. Cook the loose earth, peat and soil mix in a ratio of 50 * 50.

Planting in pots should be done in March: seeds should be planted to a depth of 0.5 cm, watered every 3 days. It should also be fertilized every 10 days with urea.

After the seeds germinate, we grow seedlings before the onset of heat. Then transplant seedlings of raspberry in the open ground.

Now you know about how to grow raspberries in different wayshow to care for her, how to grow raspberries from seeds. This will help you grow a good and tasty crop of raspberry.

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