A huge disappointment for any summer resident will be the sour taste of the harvested raspberries.
It's no secret that ideally the berry should be large and sweet.
And the “sourness” appears due to mistakes made during the cultivation of the crop.
Perhaps the gardener watered the plant incorrectly or applied fertilizer at the wrong time.
But it is possible that the problem is due to unfavorable weather conditions.
To ensure that the chances of a bountiful and high-quality raspberry harvest are high, the berry bush needs to be provided with the right “neighborhood”.
What to plant in a raspberry patch
It would be great if lupine grew next to raspberries.
This plant has an interesting property: it “translates” many nutritional components into a form that is ideal for the raspberry bush.
This makes it much easier for berry crops to absorb nitrogen.
In addition, lupine can be used as a mulching material, which improves the quality of the soil (primarily by providing the potassium component) and prevents excess plants from “breaking through”.
Thus, the presence of lupine next to raspberries increases the chances that the bush's fruits will become larger and sweeter.
