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- How to grow raspberries in your own garden!
- Grow summer raspberries or autumn raspberries?
- Benefits of summer raspberry
- Benefits of autumn raspberry
- Tips for cultivation
- The best planting time
- Note planting distance
- Tips & Tricks
How to grow raspberries in your own garden!
Sweet raspberries are one of the most popular fruits of summer in addition to strawberries. They are easy to grow by yourself. With the right variety, you can even harvest raspberries several times a year.
Grow summer raspberries or autumn raspberries?
Summer raspberries and autumn raspberries differ in their care and harvest time. While the summer varieties ripen earlier, the fall varieties need two months longer.
For the care of the autumn raspberries is much less complicated. While only the two-year shoots are cut in the summer raspberry, remove the rods of the autumn raspberries completely.
Autumn raspberries are largely free of maggots, as the raspberry beetle no longer lays eggs during flowering. In addition, the late varieties do not suffer from the Ruthen disease, which affects only perennial shoots.
Benefits of summer raspberry
Benefits of autumn raspberry
Tips for cultivation
The cultivation of the two main varieties does not decide significantly.
Raspberries need a sunny, airy place in nutritious, very loose soil. Although they thrive on nutrient-poor soils, but the crop is then lower.
Plant the raspberries in rows or arrange a raspberry hedge. Make a pases framework to which you can connect the rods.
The best planting time
Raspberries should be put in the fall. Over the winter, the roots have time to strengthen themselves.
Raspberry bushes can also be planted in the spring. However, it takes a year longer until the first summer raspberries are ripe. In autumn raspberries, the harvest is lower, if they are planted in the spring.
Note planting distance
Do not put raspberries too tight. The distance between the individual shrubs should be at least half a meter.
Between the rows, a planting distance of 1.20 to 1.50 meters is ideal. So you can harvest the shrubs well and avoid compressing the soil too much by entering.
Tips & Tricks
If you are a big raspberry lover, you should grow summer and autumn raspberries. Then you reap new fruits from July until the onset of frost. An alternative is two-timer raspberries, which produce two crops.