Gardeners often complain about poor fruiting of raspberries.
Even if the raspberry patch takes up a significant area of your plot, the entire harvest can fit into a mug, and all because gross mistakes were made when growing this crop.
Let's start with what space you have allocated for raspberries.
If you decide to plant the bushes along the fence, behind the house or other buildings, or leave it to grow in the corner of the garden in the shade of a spreading apple tree, you are unlikely to get any berries.
Raspberries need light to produce good fruit, so let them grow in an open area.
You shouldn’t count on a large harvest if the soil under the raspberry patch is of low fertility.
Before planting raspberry bushes, add organic matter, and when planting, add a bucket of rotted manure and a liter jar of ash to each hole.
Mix everything thoroughly with the soil and only then can you begin planting the raspberries.
In addition, it is worth ensuring that the plantings are not too dense. To avoid a decrease in yield, regularly remove excess growth: both in autumn and summer.
Remember also that raspberries love moisture. When watering this crop, you need to pour a bucket under each bush.
Not only should you keep the soil moist, but you should also mulch the raspberry patch to help slow down the spread of weeds and keep the soil loose.
And finally: apply fertilizer at least three times during the entire season. In early spring, treat the raspberries with nitrogen, before flowering - with complex fertilizer or manure infusion with ash, and after you collect the harvest - with phosphorus-potassium fertilizer.
