During fruiting, raspberry bushes gave all the beneficial properties to the berries, were depleted, so now they need to be revived and put in order. Let's figure out what should be the care for raspberries after harvesting in late summer.
Raspberry pruning
This is the first and most important stage. The shoots that bear fruit this year have already served their service and must be removed. Moreover, they need to be cut off at the very base, leaving a maximum of a couple of centimeters of the stump. It’s no longer possible, because all sorts of bugs, pests, are where they spend their winter there, so that in spring they rush to young leaves with renewed vigor. Leave no more than 6 shoots on one bush, this is enough. After the old shoots, those who are sick are also cut out, and burned. Thus, the bushes will receive a maximum of light and juice. By the way, good old branches cut in the fall can be burned separately, it will be just a great top dressing for growing young animals.
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Top dressing
They cleaned and rejuvenated the raspberry, now it’s time to feed the remaining plants, because right now they are starting to prepare a fruit bud for spring, and they need good nutrition. Chicken droppings diluted to 1 part with 20 parts of water and adding ash is a great option for spring, like mullein, but in autumn it is better to sprinkle potassium with phosphorus under the bushes, it will be much better, and in spring add fertilizer with nitrogen, and your bushes will be incredibly happy with such a wonderful diet. It is also good to make compost after a year. But all fertilizers - only after loosening and thoroughly watering - about a bucket under a bush of water.
Experienced gardeners are able to recognize in appearance what kind of top dressing the raspberries are currently required:
- The berries ripen for a long time, foliage is rampant - an excess of nitrogen, it is necessary to muffle other dressings;
- The leaves are small and turn yellow, the shoots grow slowly - a lack of nitrogen;
- Leaves of brown color, small and deformed - you need potassium;
- Thin twigs and crimson leaves - not enough phosphorus;
- The kidneys do not have time to appear die off - an urgent need to make boron.
Prevention
Trimmed, loosened, poured, fed, now it's time to do the prevention of any disease. To do this, you can simply spray all 1% with Bordeaux liquid and consider that your raspberry next year will be in perfect order. But - this is not the whole complex of care. Raspberries still need to be tied up so that it does not freeze and does not break under the layers of snow. You can support it, you can tie it on the trellis, and it wins so well.
Care for remont raspberries
The first year of care is no different from the care of an ordinary raspberry, the second year has its own characteristics. In the first 2 weeks of vegetation, you need to completely remove the root offspring. The bush is formed in 4-5 shoots, stripes per meter - 5-15 shoots, the largest, and then, the distance is not more than 15 cm between them. Every 5 years, in order to rejuvenate the remont raspberries with a shovel, chop off the old rhizomes, which contributes to the formation of young roots.
You also need to navigate - how many crops do you want to get. If one is big by the fall - cut all the shoots, if you count on 2 average shoots - cut like a regular raspberry.
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