Raspberries are grown on a constant place not more than ten years. Fifteen to eighteen years - it limits, especially if soil fertility is not supported.
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After so many years of site productivity will decrease due to the fact that the soil is "tired" and the roots have grown old. Various diseases are beginning to overcome the culture, in the winter the plants do not tolerate the cold. As a result, the root system will no longer be laid buds from which shoots substitute form.
It happens that you want to rejuvenate the raspberry bushes, but want to keep it varieties grown for fifteen to twenty years. What is the solution to find, not to cut down the old raspberry bushes?
Using specific techniques actually extend the "life" of raspberries. Held in September or in spring rejuvenation raspberry removing frail bushes with roots.
About the worst bush deepen shovel on all depth. When cut the main roots, old shrub with roots pull out of the ground. That next year not be left without a crop of berries, less healthy bushes save. Carry out such work carefully so as not to disturb the root suckers.
Appeared necessary to fill the hole humus or compost, and watered. And in the spring portion to fill with raspberry and seal the mineral fertilizer into the ground rake. The next year will bear fruit culture in the suckers of last year, there will be fresh shoots with young rhizomes and their roots. On the rhizomes grow replacement shoots.
This autumn again select and delete some of the old bushes. For three or four years, a series of moves from the original place of planting crops for forty to fifty centimeters. If you need to return it to its former place, then the raspberries start moving in the opposite direction. Thus raspberry plot completely rejuvenate a few years and will be improved, while picking berries, you can always.
Spend a similar four-year cycle of rejuvenation raspberry site regularly, and "wandering" raspberry bushes will consistently delight you with a good harvest for many years.
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