Raspberry is necessarily grown on each garden site, but not all gardeners know the specifics of caring for it, because it requires attention and after you have harvested. This is necessary in order to make it easier for her to endure the winter, and next year she also had berries. From this article you will learn what works should be done on the site with raspberries after harvesting.
Caring for raspberries after harvesting is cutting it and feeding it, but in order not to harm the bushes, you should first familiarize yourself with the recommendations for doing these works.
Trimming
As soon as the entire harvest of raspberries from one shoot is already collected, it should be cut. The same should be done with weak, crooked and superfluous trunks. This is necessary in order that those shoots that remain on the bush, get more juices and ripen faster, and also fasten quality buds for the next crop.
The trunks are cut at the ground level so that no stumps remain, at most 5-6 shoots should remain in one bush, the top of which should be pricked, so that they do not grow up. Cutted plants are divided into parts and left between rows as a mulching material.
It is also necessary to remove the shoots between the rows. The most optimal is a passage of 50 cm with a width of 1 meter.
Additional fertilizing
A very good and affordable fertilizer for raspberries is ash, which contains everything a bush needs to grow and lay new kidneys. Every two years, under each raspberry bush, you should make half a bucket of compost, it should be done only after watering (for 1 bush - 1 watering can). During this period nitrogen fertilizers can not be introduced.
Be sure to rinse the top layer of soil around it after raspberry fertilization, approximately to a depth of 5-10 cm. Following all these recommendations, you can get a good harvest every year.