Tasty and fragrant, sweet and healthy, healing and such a favorite berry - raspberry. It is hard to imagine that there is no this berry at the dacha, because it does not require increased attention, with proper care for raspberries in spring, it will please with a bountiful harvest.
- Planting and transplanting bushes
- Spring dressing and soil care
- The most important stage: pruning
- Disease and pest treatment
Planting and transplanting bushes
Each plant loves a certain "its" composition of the soil, an abundance of light and its neighbors. Raspberries are no exception. To break a raspberry it is necessary to choose a flat sunny place, sheltered from the winds, with a highly nourishing top layer. The choice of location is one of the factors that affect the yield. If the raspberry is placed on the hillock - the plants will suffer from insufficient moisture, in a low place may freeze the kidneys.
Excessive soil moisture can lead to rotting of the root system, the lack of moisture will lead to a slight harvest, affect the number of shoots and the size of the berries. Placing raspberries on the place blown by the winds in combination with low temperatures will lead to the fact that the plant will freeze.
Bookmark raspberry begins with the preparation of the soil. He needs a land rich in organic matter. The most convenient method for planting raspberries is to plant bushes in trenches.
With this method, organics are introduced into the prepared ditches (40 cm wide and 40 cm deep), which provides the plant with nutrition. If everything is done correctly, then you will not have to wonder in the coming years how to care for raspberries in the spring so that there will be a good harvest. When planting and replanting bushes in prepared trenches or holes, place the seedling at a depth slightly below the bud and cover it with prepared, saturated organic soil.
Spring dressing and soil care
If you planted a raspberry in a trench way, in compliance with all the rules (laying organic fertilizers), then for 2-3 years you can not think about caring for raspberries in spring and applying top dressing. It is only necessary to monitor the condition of the soil cover - to prevent the bush from overgrowing with weeds and grass.
To preserve moisture, the ground near the bushes with raspberries must be mulched. There is an opinion that it is not necessary to mechanically act on the ground under the raspberry (to dig and loosen) in order not to injure the root system. You just need to make and bring mulch throughout the season. So the moisture is better preserved, and the earth does not dry out.
Raspberry, planted in the hole, perfectly responds to fertilizing with organic and complex fertilizers:
- "raspberry" fertilizer, used 1.5 kg of finished product per 1 square. m: 3 kg of rotted manure is combined with 6 g of potassium, 4 g of phosphorus, 6 g of nitrogen;
- mineral complex fertilizer for 5 liters of water: superphosphate - 30 g, ammonium nitrate - 15 g, potassium salts - 20 g
The most important stage: pruning
At the dacha care for raspberries involves spring work such as pruning.
In spring, the plants are pruned twice. In early spring, immediately after the snow has gone, they make sanitary pruning of raspberries.
Vymerzshie, dried, broken stalks are to be removed. Also underdeveloped, weak, sick and pest-damaged stems are rejected. Along the way, at the same time, it is necessary to thin the bush - remove excess seedlings, leaving 4-6 stems (if the bush is planted in the holes) or 10-15 sprouts (if the raspberry is planted in a trench way) in 1 m row.
The second time the raspberry is cut off after bud break, the stem is shortened by 15-20 cm. This stimulates the plant to release side shoots.
Disease and pest treatment
Raspberry spring care involves treating the bushes for diseases, and pest control is carried out. After the sanitization of raspberry bushes, it is necessary to collect all the branches, all the foliage and burn, because insects that can cause harm to raspberries winter in these places. Thus, the majority of pests are destroyed before they wake up.
The beginning of May is considered to be the best time for work on the processing of raspberries. For such works it is better to choose a cloudy, non-sunny day and time before the bush blooms. If a plant is damaged by kidney moth, it is treated with Bordeaux mixture or karbofos.
With the defeat of the bush raspberry gall midge and its larvae - it is treated with "Fufanon", "Aktellik". To do this, dilute with 15 ml of product in 8 l of water.
When considering how to care for raspberries in the spring after winter, we can see that this plant is not very demanding and with proper care (pruning, fertilizing and watering) will please with a bountiful harvest.