Large, fragrant berries on crimson bush – joy and pride of any summer resident. This rather unpretentious plant, winter-hardy, resistant to wreckers. However without the correct leaving the escapes can dry out, bushes immoderately to expand, to crush fruits... It is very important to know how to look after raspberry in the summer that there was good harvest.
Care for raspberry in the summer: main works
1. Raspberry very much loves solar places therefore provide it enough light. But watch that the earth under bush did not dry up at all! The plant needs to be watered it is rather abundant, about 1-2 times a week, without arranging at the same time "swamp". Pump water at the roots, do not pour on leaves.
2. Preservation of soil moisture and fight against weeds – important stages of care for raspberry in the summer. Around bushes it is possible to build earth mound, to zamulchirovat the soil under plant sawdust, peat, straw, humus. It will also make soil more fertile.
3. It is correct to look after raspberry – means in due time it to feed up. It is good when even before landing of plant the site has been fertilized by humus at the rate of bucket on square meter. If the soil poor, in June-July it is possible to feed up raspberry ashes, having brought 100 g on square meter. As option, in the middle of the summer to bring complex fertilizing: On 6 grams of nitrogen and potassium to mix 4 grams of phosphorus with 3 kilograms of the rerotting manure.
Do not overfeed plant! Make sure that fertilizers for raspberry are really necessary:
- crimson leaves get light-zelenny shade at deficiency of nitrogen;
- too quickly growing, greasy escapes and small harvest of raspberry happens at restern nitrogen;
- leaflets have grown brown – perhaps, there is not enough potassium;
- from the middle to edge leaves begin to turn yellow, then they fall – magnesium is necessary;
- at sickly escapes it is recommended to feed up raspberry phosphorus and nitrogen.
4. Though raspberry quite unpretentious plant, but it can not avoid infection with viruses, fungi, insects wreckers. For good harvest it is recommended to carry out in due time treatment and prevention of diseases of plant.
To process raspberry the Bordeaux liquid, various chemical and biological products it is necessary at least a month before harvesting, it is desirable before blooming of kidneys, blossoming and after fructification.
It is possible to treat plant natural means, So, for various wreckers, including plant louse, web tick, raspberry of fly and bug, caterpillars spraying of bushes ashes infusion (300 g on 10-liter bucket), mixed with 40 grams of the laundry soap dissolved in water well helps. Infuse mix of ashes and soap of 4-5 hours. Other option - four-day infusion of peel of onions (on 10-liter bucket – 200 g).
In the summer against many sores raspberry will be preserved by the correct watering, mulching, removal of the fallen-down leaflets and weed plants, loosening of the earth around landings. If in the spring bushes were not processed, especially watch closely raspberry. At the first emergence of signs of defeat of one bush the most radical and certain way to save other harvest - to dig out and burn sick escapes. When cutting pack them hermetically in film at once before taking out out of borders of the site.
5. If you have learned to look after correctly raspberry in the summer and have received good harvest, after gathering berries cut otplodonosivshy branches to the basis, without stubs, and choose from very young escapes and leave the strongest. In the spring you will make final cutting of the wintered raspberry.