Raspberry holds specific place in gardens. It has received the popularity for tasty fragrant berries and valuable curative properties. Raspberry is applied to treatment of number of diseases, its berries and leaves replace cosmetics. But to receive good harvest of raspberry, it is necessary to look after it correctly.
When and how to put
It is necessary to watch raspberry from the first days of its landing. For example, she needs to be put to the "correct" place. Remember that raspberry very much loves light therefore provide its position in advance, otherwise in the shaded sites it will begin to reach for the sun, and it, as a rule, can seriously affect quantity of harvest. Also the raspberry ordinary and remontant, very much loves the fertile, well humidified soil which before landing of saplings of raspberry needs to be cleared of weeds and to feed up the soil fertilizers. The most successful for landing of raspberry time – fall: the end of September – the beginning of October. Poles for saplings have to be 30х30 cm in size, distance between bushes – not less than 0.5 meters, between ranks – not less than 1.5 m. Plant raspberry bush, it is abundant water it with warm water and zamulchiruyta humus. For this purpose it is possible to use sawdust. At distance of 20-25 cm from the earth cut off each sapling.
Protection against wreckers
Cultivation of raspberry means not only landing of plant, but also care for it – landing, fertilizing, processing. To protect your landings from wreckers, in the first year it is useful to fill row-spacings with garlic, onions. Well, and then it will be necessary only to delete weeds in due time.
That raspberry did not hurt and was not attacked by wreckers it it is necessary twice a year – in the spring before blossoming and in the fall after gathering berries – to process carbophos. Part it in proportion of 75 g on one bucket of water. Escapes process the prepared solution by means of the sprayer or old grandfather's way – grass broom. Raspberry well transfers frosts, but all the same during the winter at it shanks can freeze slightly. It will be necessary to cut off surely to live wood with the developed kidneys in their spring. It is also necessary to get rid of old, apathetic, escapes. Also two years' escapes are subject to thinning. They need to be deleted under the root. Big escapes also cut off, leaving above the ground branches about one and a half meters long. And in June when raspberry gets stronger and will gain strength, it is necessary to prishchepnut its tops. Such simple method will allow to increase considerably harvest next year.
What to feed raspberry with
Do not forget about substern of plants fertilizers. Raspberry very much loves humus, phosphoric, potash fertilizers, compost. Also the dry bird's dung, the fermented grass infusion, mullein infusion will be suitable for this purpose. It is recommended to bring them annually. The most successful time for fertilizing - before weeding and raspushivaniye of the soil. You can arrive and differently. Before fertilizing it is abundant water each bush of raspberry, under each plant it is necessary to pour out not less bucket of water. And next day it will be necessary to introduce mineral fertilizer. As a rule, one package, weighing 100 g, gets divorced on one bucket of water. Then the liter - one and a half ready solutions is added to one bucket of water and already this structure makes watering.
Remote dry and old escapes can be burned and then to use as fertilizer.
The large role in receiving good harvest is played by timely and sufficient watering. The earth under bushes has to be moistened approximately on one bayonet of shovel.
Preparation for winter
In the fall after harvesting raspberry needs to be made ready for the winter. At first it is necessary "to powder" slightly ashes of branch and the basis at roots. It is necessary to provide to raspberry additional power supply and to protect plant from wreckers who quite often hide at roots. After processing of stalks it is necessary to connect them in small bunches and to bend down to the earth. Branches have to be quite low that in the winter they have been completely covered with snow. Therefore for reliability accurately press branches boards, poles.
Raspberry for beauty and health
Raspberry berries, the jam made from them – excellent prevention of respiratory diseases. Branches and leaves of raspberry are made as tea and used for treatment of cough, cold and completion of organism vitamins. Varenye-pyatiminutka allows raspberry to keep all vitamins and curative properties which are available in it as the berries made according to this recipe are practically not exposed to heat treatment. It is simple to cook such raspberry jam. Carefully touch berries, wash out them under flowing water, shift in plastic ware and properly, to fine grains, pound raspberry wooden spoon. Then prepare sugar syrup. It to be necessary for it for you sugar twice bigger, than raspberry. Add to sugar a little water (on one kilogram of half-glass of liquid) and dissolve it on weak fire. When syrup begins to boil, add to it the ground raspberry and carefully mix. And quickly remove jam from fire. Now it is necessary to put ware with raspberry to the dark place for three days, periodically mixing not to allow fermentation. In three days shift jam in banks and close. It is necessary to store it in the cool place – the fridge, cellar or the basement.
Infusion from leaves of raspberry can replace cosmetic tonic and face lotion. And masks from raspberry berries perfectly feed. moisturize and saturate the skin with vitamins.
The tea made from dry leaves of raspberry helps women to solve number of gynecologic diseases, promotes improvement of work of intestines and uterus, normalizes function of kidneys and even struggles with diarrhea. Besides, raspberry helps to reduce temperature and also it is recommended at diseases of digestive tract, prevention of atherosclerosis, anemia, hypertension.