Raspberries are a great example of a berry that is easier and cheaper to grow in your own garden than to buy. For a long time, it has been appreciated for its amazing taste, delicate aroma and medicinal qualities. If you do not already have this amazing plant in the garden, then it must be planted, because the hand-picked berry has a special taste and smell.
Raspberries require a minimum of maintenance compared to the value of the crop that they produce. How to plant raspberries? Autumn or spring? The answers to these questions will be given in this article.
Main steps
How to plant raspberries in the fall? In principle, this is a simple matter. One has only to follow certain rules.
This culture feels best in a cool climate. The landing site should be sunny. In the southern regions, partial shade should be chosen. Culture does not like heavy clay soil, preferably drained, light. It’s nice to add humus. Fertilizers in the earth is recommended to be applied in the fall.
How to choose a landing method?
For raspberries, there are different planting options: tape, bush, sparse. In the first case, the seedlings are placed at regular intervals in one line. For undersized varieties, this distance is 30-35 cm, for high varieties - 50-70 cm. Cuttings are planted in a common trench or in separate holes. The sparse method involves planting two seedlings per hole at a distance of 70-80 cm.
In the bush method, separate bushes are formed from seedlings, placing young shoots in pits of several pieces. The distance between such groups is 100-180 cm. The last method is convenient when raspberries are placed in several places on the site, the rest are suitable for the formation of hedges, planting along the fence.
Process technology
In selected areas, you should dig shallow pits or trenches, make compost - a bucket for each plant, as well as ash or lime. Seedlings must be kept in water for a couple of hours, you can add the product “Kornevin” to the water. Before planting, seedlings are trimmed to 25 cm. Then the leaves will not take moisture from the stem of the plant.
Then the shoots are carefully lowered into the recess, straighten the roots, sprinkled with dry earth. Next, the trench is covered with fertile soil. The earth around the stem is slightly squeezed, not densifying strongly. It is important to properly maintain the landing depth.
Some gardeners practice planting several varieties together, getting raspberries with different ripening times for berries.
Landing time
There is no consensus on when to plant raspberries. Some say it’s better in the spring, others in the fall. In principle, everyone is right. Raspberries can be planted at any time, except in winter.
The main thing is not to forget the existing rules of agricultural technology. Autumn time has its advantages. The timing of planting depends on the capricious spring weather , the plant survives worse, the root system is still weak, not provided with sufficient moisture. Therefore, we will consider in detail how to plant raspberries in the fall. As soon as the replacement buds mature on the root neck, indicating the end of the shoot vegetation, the planting period begins. To do this, we choose annual root offspring grown from adnexal buds on the roots of uterine plants.
Planting material is prepared and used in October-November, since it is still better to plant raspberries in the fall. The main thing is to do everything no later than 2 weeks before the cold and freezing of the soil. Planted shoots should be well watered. In order to avoid damage to the lower
kidneys in winter
, the plant is spudded.
The soil is mulched with sawdust, peat or straw. These actions will improve it, prevent weeds from germinating, and retain moisture. If you plant raspberries in the spring, there is a high probability of excessive drying of the root system, therefore, poor survival of plants. Because the autumn landing is the most optimal. The root buds of seedlings must be sprinkled with earth, and then mulched. We control the correct landing: carefully pull the shoot up. If he sits weakly in the ground, the planting is bad, wrong, the seedling needs to be transplanted.
How to plant raspberries - whether in the fall or in the spring, it is up to the gardener to decide. The recommendations given in the article and personal experience will help to make the right decision. It is quite possible to grow a healthy and tasty berry if you make a little effort.