How to tie a raspberry correctly

Raspberry is a shrub with a round stem, seated with straight spines and giving many shoots. In the first year the branches of the plant are green, and then they gradually become rusty. In their place from the same root, new shoots grow. The flowers of the plant are small, collected in panicles. Berry raspberry is usually red. Pulp of her with small bones. The flowering of this representative of the flora begins in June. To receive and maintain a good harvest, you need to make a garter plant. About how to tie raspberries correctly, it will go further. This plant is very popular with gardeners and truck farmers.

Kinds, grades and terms of raspberry ripening

Raspberry is divided into the following varieties: traditional, large-fruited and remontant. Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages.

Traditional varieties are very reliable. They easily adapt to different types of soil. The only negative is the low yield of raspberry of this species. Large-fruited varieties are distinguished by good berries. They are big, fragrant and sweet. In raspberry varieties, the harvest is removed twice a season. And the second can be more than the first. Fruits this variety until the frost.

All these varieties have common qualities. The berry can have three maturation periods: early ripening, mid-ripening and late ripening. Characteristics in fact very much. Fruits can be sour and sweet, red and black, yellow and orange. The plant itself can be winter hardy or afraid of frost, resistant to diseases or susceptible to various ailments, etc. Early varieties include such varieties as "fugitive", "scarlet sails", "Bryansk", "vega", "cascade", " "Cumberland" and others. Medium-ripening varieties: "arbat", "balm", "golden hussar", "spark", etc. Late-ripening varieties: "mirage", "ruby", "putnitsa", "metropolitan", "taganka" and others.

Raspberry care, planting, pruning

Raspberry prefers sunny places. With a lack of light, the shoots are strongly stretched, and the yield decreases. Raspberry grows well on moist soils, but does not tolerate waterlogging. On the plots, it is planted in rows in small trenches. Dig them out about half a meter wide and about 30 cm deep. Manure and other fertilizers are placed on the bottom, and then everything is mixed with the ground. Planting scheme: 1.5 mx 0.5 m. Raspberry should be watered, mulched with straw or sawdust and crop overgrown shoots. After harvesting, all the stems, which are more than two years old, and also dried up, are cut.

How to tie a raspberry

Gardeners use a variety of garter techniques. Usually, at the edges of the raspberry are placed columns (height up to 2.25 m). They are dug to a depth of about half a meter, the distance between the posts is 3.5 m. Wire is stretched at different heights from the ground level. This design takes up less space than is convenient for small areas. Before tie a raspberry, it is better to mark out where the posts will stand and the wire will be stretched, taking into account the height of the plants. You can also use a different method. Columns of about 3 m in height are dug into the ground to a depth of about half a meter. The distance between them should be about 4 m. Then on each column two transverse plates are fixed. After this, parallel to the supports at the right distance from each other, and at a suitable height, wire is drawn. Before you tie a raspberry, you need to plan where the bars will stand. Such a method makes it possible to obtain a larger quantity of a crop.