In order to enjoy tasty and useful raspberry jam in the winter, it is necessary to work hard in raspberries in the summer. Care and care for this amazing half-shrub does not take long, but it will have to be allocated every day, so that diseases and pests can not spoil your raspberries.
Pest Control of Raspberry
To answer the question of how to properly deal with raspberry pests, it is necessary to understand where they come from. There are several influencing factors: the correctness of care for raspberries , variety, soil, moisture and light.
Protection of raspberry from pests means daily prevention of various diseases that can be provoked by pests.
Great damage to raspberries is caused by pests (weevil, raspberry beetle, stalk gall midges) and diseases (chlorosis, anthracnose, gray rot). Perhaps the most common disease in raspberries is fungal. It quickly passes from sick to healthy plants. It is necessary to remove and burn sick and fertilized shoots in a timely manner.
Spring protection of raspberries from pests consists in processing 3% solution of Bordeaux liquid .
In compacted plantings fungi develop more quickly, which is why it is necessary to plant bushes at a distance of one meter from each other.
The method of separate breeding of fruit-bearing stems and young shoots of raspberries has a number of advantages. On two sites, alternating in a year, you can grow young shoots or harvest. In the case of a raspberry disease at some particular site of the site, it is possible to plant anew on this place only after 4 years. And if there were viral diseases, it is better never to land on that place.