How to tie raspberries

Raspberries a very tasty and healthy berry that can relieve many health problems and provide the necessary for the normal functioning of body systems vitamins. Therefore, it can often be found on the plots of many gardening enthusiasts. Novice gardeners and gardeners often have a question: how to properly tie raspberries. First, you need to understand why this is needed and only then choose one of the methods for this type of gardening work.

Content:

• Why tie up raspberries?
• Methods for gartering raspberries
• Related garden work

Why tie up raspberries?

Raspberries are an unpretentious plant and can grow even in abandoned areas. But if you don’t take care of raspberries, they can go wild and produce a lot of shoots. After winter, surviving bushes must be tied up. There are several advantages that timely tying provides, namely:

• properly tied bushes are less susceptible to fungal diseases and pests;
• young fruiting shoots growing in the middle of the row receive favorable conditions for growth (in a dense, untied thicket they usually die off);
• the branch has a better chance of not breaking under the weight of berries or as a result of heavy rains or winds;
• the berries on the bush set and ripen faster and more evenly, since they receive almost the same amount of light;
• It is much more convenient to harvest from a tied raspberry bush.

If take proper care plant, including tying it up in time, then you can collect from a kilogram to 4 kg from a bush.

Methods for gartering raspberries

Anyone who wants to get the maximum fruit should know how to tie raspberries. There are several ways you can use to tie up raspberries. These include:

• Trellis

To begin with, pillars 1.2 m high are installed along the row. A wire with a diameter of at least 3-4 mm is pulled onto these posts. This design for raspberries is called a trellis. It happens:

1. vertical (2 wires are pulled side by side no lower than 1.2 m from the ground, raspberry shoots are tied to them);
2. vertical flat (2 wires are pulled at different heights, one 60 or 90 cm from the ground, the second 1.2 m);
3. inclined flat (2 wires are pulled side by side or with a difference in height of no more than 1 m, shoots are tied to them with a slight slope).

Using any type of trellis, it is necessary to arrange the shoots so that 7 shoots fit per 70 cm. This is the most common and effective way to garter raspberries.

• Fan method

A stake 2 m high is driven between two adjacent bushes. The shoots are tied to it. Moreover, some are from the right bush, and some are from the left. The result should be a fan shape. This method allows young vertical shoots of the bush to grow better and improve access to light and air.

• Bun garter

Unlike the previous method, a stake is driven into the middle of the bush and shoots are tied to it, resulting in a bunch. This is the simplest and least effective method of gartering, which is practically not used by experienced gardeners. There are several reasons for this:

1. Almost no light gets inside the bunch, so the ripening of the berries slows down;
2. air access is also limited, which can lead to plant disease and damage by fungus or pests;
3. During the gartering process, shoots often break.

Twine, nylon or polyethylene tapes are used as garter material. They are the most resistant to weather conditions and do not damage shoots.

Garter is a very important part of raspberry care, but far from the only one.

Related garden work

Every year after winter you need to carefully inspect the bushes and remove the old and rotten ones, leaving the healthiest and strongest ones. Also, every year, many shoots can appear from the base of the bush; one bush can grow up to 10 of them. They are cut off right at the ground. It is necessary that the bush has only 7 shoots left.

Raspberry shoots must be removed as soon as they appear, otherwise it will be very difficult to deal with them. If young shoots are not removed in a timely manner, you can lose a significant part of the harvest.

Already formed raspberry bushes will feed these shoots, and accordingly they will not have enough strength to bear fruit. It is necessary to remove shoots not only in the spring, but also throughout the summer. Overwintered branches, broken or thin (less than a pencil in diameter) also need to be cut off. This will free the bush from excess unnecessary load.

Every year, raspberries are pruned to a height of 1.2-1.5 m. This promotes greater fertility.

By following all the rules for growing raspberries, you can get the maximum fruits of this plant. It is important not to miss any work related to its cultivation, since it requires constant attention. Every minute spent on caring for it will more than pay off in the resulting harvest.