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For promoting growth you don’t need any special fertilizers or miraculous recipes. Everything you need are really sharp garden shears and the right timing, which comes at this moment.
The time at the end of winter and the beginning of spring is ideal for cutting raspberries and blackberries. If you make this cut correctly, you will hardly notice the bushes during the year and you can be sure that you will achieve the maximum yield. An expert showed the simplest way to make the cut and what to watch out for!
How to properly prune raspberries?
We begin with cutting blackberries. The basic rule is to remove all damaged, malformed and insufficiently matured shoots in the spring. Only 6-8 shoots with buds that are fruitful should remain on a single plant. However, these shoots must also be shortened, because allowing a single shoot to overgrow leads to shriveling of the fruit. The length of the lateral shoots should be 15-20 cm. The rule is, the shorter the lateral shoots, the larger the fruits the bush will have.
Pruning is more important than you think
Spring pruning is the key to a healthy plant and good fruiting. A plant without pruning becomes very dense, which leads to the spread of mildew and minimal or very low yield. Pruning should be carried out every year.
Raspberry – it grows in one year, bears fruit in the second
New shoots are removed entirely down to the ground. Year-old canes are reduced to 6-8 pieces per meter of length and shortened. It is these canes that will bring the harvest this year. In the first year only residual raspberries are produced; the pruning consists of completely removing the entire plants close to the ground – the plants look mown down – it is a very simple cut.
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