How to Choose Neighbors for Raspberries: Be Careful, Otherwise You'll Be Left Without a Crop

You need to know how to take care of raspberries. They will not bear fruit normally without pruning, watering, and fertilizing.

But there is another important circumstance on which the harvest and its quality depend. These are suitable neighboring plants.

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told which plants can spoil the raspberry harvest.

Before planting raspberries or planting something next to a raspberry patch, you need to find out how the bush will react to it.

Here is a list of plants that should be kept away from raspberry plantings.

Nightshade

First of all, these are potatoes and tomatoes. They will compete with the berry bush for moisture and nutrients, which will cause the raspberries to wither and the harvest to be poor.

Weeds

Make sure that the berry patch is not overgrown with couch grass and bindweed. These weeds pose a threat to young raspberry shoots.

Fruit

Raspberries love sunlight and therefore grow poorly in the shade of trees.

You can plant it next to an apple or pear tree, but not closer than 4 meters. You need to retreat 3 meters from a cherry (sweet cherry), plum or sea buckthorn, otherwise the plants will compete for moisture and nutrition.

What to plant

Raspberries will grow well with legumes in the rows, and can be protected from pests with mint, thyme or sage.

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