Raspberry is one of the most favourite garden cultures. Its berries not only are tasty and fragrant, they have the whole set of useful properties thanks to what they are used in traditional medicine. Selectors have removed huge number of grades among which specific place is held by novelty — remontant raspberry with the "tasty" name "Caramel".
The grade "Caramel" is included in the State registry of the selection achievements of the Russian Federation allowed to use quite recently, it has been registered in 2016. However gardeners already have managed to appreciate advantages of sweet berry with aroma of forest raspberry, saplings of "Caramel" have appeared in the market much earlier.
Grade bushes upright, have small amount of the thorns bent down located on all escape. Sheet plates slabomorshchinisty, slaboopushchenny and a little twisted. Their green coloring. Characteristic feature of grade is the size of fruits. Large Caramels berries. As authors of grade say, their average weight is 3.8 g, and some copies reach 8 g. Sweet and fragrant pulp. The fruit stem from berries separates easily thanks to what harvesting considerably becomes simpler.
High productivity, it averages 5 kg from one bush, at the same time fructification occurs in the first year of landing that distinguishes this raspberry from other grades.
"Caramel" is remontant raspberry. It means that the harvest can be reaped both from two years' escapes, and from one-year, at the same time the plant fructifies several times during the season.
Features of landing of remontant raspberry
"Caramel", as well as other remontant grades, is very exacting to composition of substrate, lighting and temperature. For raspberry it is necessary to pick up open, solar area as the productivity considerably decreases even at small shadow. The place located from South side of buildings will be the optimum place of landing: houses, shed or fence. Walls will help to protect landings from strong winds.
Raspberry prefers soft fertile soil. Before landing of saplings of Caramel the gardeners need to pave the way. For this purpose on the site intended under raspberry brake at the rate on 1 sq.m bring:
- 2–3 buckets of compost or humus;
- 200 ml of nitroammofoska.It is important to have landings on the site where before grew potatoes, tomatoes, pepper or eggplants. And here where raspberry grew, it is better not to plant saplings.
Master class in landing of raspberry
- Saplings of "Caramel" can be planted both in the spring (in March), and in the fall (in October). Pave the way in advance, dig over it and introduce organic and mineral fertilizers.
- Make holes at distance of 0.7-0.9 m from each other. Depth of openings has to be about 40 cm, and width of 0.5 m.
- If you want to arrange landings rows, then between lines leave space in 1.5-2 m. It will help to facilitate care for raspberry and to provide to bushes necessary airing.
- Add 2 tablespoons of superphosphate to each hole and water them.
- Truncate escapes to 30 cm.
- Place saplings in holes, straighten backs and fill up with the soil.
- Again water landings.
Secrets of competent care for remontant raspberry
Agrotechnical receptions simple. Care for raspberry consists of periodic loosening of soil, earthing up of escapes, waterings and fertilizing. If to adhere to rekmendation, berries will grow large and sweet, and bushes will fructify to frosts.
Earthing up and loosening for excellent development of raspberry
Regular loosening of soil on the site with raspberry is the main stage of leaving. The procedure it is necessary to carry out 2 times a month throughout all season. It is necessary to loosen after watering on depth about 6 cm, at the same time about bushes it is necessary to do it carefully as the root system at raspberry is located close to surface. During loosening it is necessary to hill escapes a few.
Abundant watering and "tasty" fertilizing
Water raspberry as required. If summer rainy, then it is possible not to carry out the procedure, and during the droughty periods it is necessary to humidify landings of times in 2–3 weeks. Watering is necessary to raspberry abundant, about 10 l of moisture have to fall on one bush.
Consider that culture also does not transfer overwetting. Stagnation of moisture can lead to rotting of root system.It is necessary to introduce fertilizers for remontant raspberry three times for vegetative season. The first subcortex has to be carried out in March. At this time scatter on raspberry brake humus (2 buckets on 1 sq.m) and also ammonium nitrate (15 g) and urea (10 g).
The second fertilizing should be brought in blossoming time. In 10 l of water it is necessary to part 3 tablespoons of double superphosphate and 2 tablespoons of sulfate of potassium. There will be enough this amount of fertilizers for 1 sq.m.
In the fall after the end of the period of fructification (it is normal in the second half of September) carry out the third subcortex. Nutritious solution is prepared from:
- 10 l of water;
- 1 tablespoons of sulfate of potassium;
- 2 tablespoons of superphosphate.
Liquid is brought in the damp earth, and then mulch it straw or sawdust.
Garter
Escapes of Caramel raspberry quite high, they can reach 2 m in height. Though they strong, but under weight of abundant harvest they can tend, possesses strong stalks, but under the weight of fruits can bend to the earth therefore experienced gardeners gardeners recommend to tie up it to lane.
Establishing design, act this way:
- At the edges of rows establish support 2 m high at distance of 3-4 m from each other.
- Columns bury in soil at 45–50 cm.
- From one support to another pull 3 rows of wire: at the level of 0.7 m, 1 m and 1.5 m.
- Escapes tie up to wire.
Cutting
This procedure is sufficient is simple. In October or November secateurs cut off all escapes to ground level. For the winter in soil there are only roots therefore frost resistance at grade excellent. However at such cutting the fructification on one-year escapes will occur much later. To receive early harvest, it is possible to leave part of one-year escapes, to connect them and to bend down to the earth, and in the spring before blooming of kidneys they will need to be truncated on 25 cm.
As "Caramel" gives large number of root young growth, the procedure of cutting is carried out also in the summer. In June it is necessary to remove all weak escapes and young growth. Stalks cut off near the basis of roots. At this procedure leave 5–6 most powerful escapes in bush.