To get large and sweet raspberries, from one bush of which you can easily collect a can of ripe berries, it is necessary to properly organize the care of the plant.
General care recommendations certainly work, but there are some tricks to keep in mind if your raspberries are small, dry, and tasteless.
Distance between beds
Raspberry bushes should not be thickened, and therefore the optimal distance between rows when planting raspberries should be approximately 1.8 m, and the distance within a row should be 0.7 m.
Allow the raspberries to develop well and do not plant more than 2 seedlings in one hole.
Be sure to tie up the raspberries with poles or wire. Plants that have support grow much better.
What to do with raspberries in spring
After the snow melts, remove the lowest shoots and emerging shoots, and in May, trim the thinnest shoots so that they do not take nutrition from the bushes.
There should be approximately 7-8 shoots left on the bush.
Raspberry fertilizing
You can start feeding raspberries in the fall, and under each bush you need to add 3 buckets of humus or peat and 100 grams of urea.
If shoots are weak, you can add a shovel of mullein under each bush in May, but first dilute it in 10 liters of water, add 1 tablespoon of urea to the solution. And after the procedure, loosen the soil.
Watering raspberries
Raspberry bushes are watered in autumn, around October, if there is no rain. In summer, if there is no heat, raspberries do not need much moisture. This is not a plant that requires abundant watering.
Take proper care of raspberries, select large-fruited varieties of raspberries for growing, and you will undoubtedly get a more abundant harvest of large and sweet berries, the weight of which can reach 10 grams.
