Raspberries - a useful and very popular berry among gardeners. It is indispensable in terms of taste and the content of useful substances in it. It is hard to imagine a long winter without a specially prepared jar of raspberry jam. But in order to provide yourself with supplies of berries, you need to know how to plant raspberries. and look after her.
For raspberries, you need to pick up a flat plot of land, which is located on the sunny, southern side and is protected from the wind. Most often, raspberries play the role of hedges or they plant it along the fence. The soil for the berry shrub must be prepared in advance. Phosphorus-potassium fertilizers and humus are introduced into it, and then digged to a depth of not less than thirty centimeters. Also recommended before planting raspberries, make compost in the soil. In this way, the land is prepared for planting in autumn and spring (before buds open), and the soil should be well dug, soft and loose. As the planting material, young offspring of raspberries (annuals, with a root system of about twenty centimeters) are suitable. Seedlings must be shortened to thirty centimeters. Dip their roots in a mixture of clay, humus or mullein. You can propagate raspberries by dividing the bush or root cuttings. Seedlings that were grown at home, in pots, should be planted after falling leaves and the end of the growing season.
Since raspberries need to be planted in rows, it is necessary to adhere to a distance of two meters between them. At the same time, between the bushes in the rows can be from 25 to 50 centimeters. With the bush method, raspberries are planted two seedlings per hole, and between the rows the distance is one and a half meters. Wells for seedlings should correspond to the size of their roots, from forty to sixty centimeters in diameter and thirty to forty centimeters deep. It is necessary that the roots are distributed along the bottom evenly. Then sprinkle them with earth so that the kidney located at the base of the stem is 2-3 centimeters below the soil level. Seedlings should be watered. Plow the soil after planting with a rake, and then mulch it. For young, just planted plants, if the weather is sunny, you need to create a shadow.
Like any other plant, raspberries require regular watering, however, the earth cannot be excessively wet. To protect the plant from frost, in winter raspberries need to be sprinkled with earth to a height of twenty centimeters. How to grow raspberries? This is not so troublesome, any gardener can handle it. It is enough to follow some rules.
For example, do not forget about the autumn pruning of seedlings. They should be about forty centimeters high. On strong, fruiting bushes, when pruning, you must leave ten to twelve shoots, if a weak plant - from five to eight. Young stems infected with fungal diseases must be cut at the soil level, cut parts of plants must be burned.
How to plant raspberries depends on the selected variety. For example, if you want to get berry bushes bearing fruit until late autumn, it is useful to get acquainted with the rules for breeding remont raspberries. For planting, prepare the soil. Moreover, both the method described above (fertilizing and digging), and the second option, a longer one, will do. It means for two years growing on a plot of legumes prepared for planting raspberries . They, in turn, will play the role of fertilizers. Plants are chopped and dug in late summer. Raspberries are planted so that between the holes there is a distance of 1-1.2 meters. The roots of seedlings must be well sprinkled with earth.
The future crop and plant health depends on how to plant raspberries. Raspberries love a good, fertile soil, warm. Creating the necessary conditions for her is quite simple, so any gardener can get a wonderful harvest of delicious, fragrant berries.