Many beginning gardeners are wondering: when to replace raspberries, because the yields of bushes often depend on the terms of transplantation. Rejuvenating the raspberries by the method of transplantation can significantly increase its fruiting, get larger berries with improved taste qualities.
Raspberry Transplant Terms
If the raspberry bushes grow in the same place for more than 5-7 years, the harvest on them noticeably decreased, and the berries crushed - it's time to do their transplantation. The older the bush, the less it gives young growth, so it is very important not to miss the moment when you need to rejuvenate the raspberry. The best time, when you can replant the raspberries, many gardeners consider early autumn, shoots have matured by this time, the rhizomes of seedlings have time to get well in the soil and prepare for the winter period.
There is another category of gardeners who prefer spring transplanting seedlings, believing that they will not suffer from the winter colds, and the most important moments of the young growth will come in a favorable spring-summer period. In most cases, the berry collected from bushes planted in different periods of the year differs little in size and taste.
Transplanting raspberries in summer to a new place
You can change raspberries in summer, when this is necessary. For this procedure, choose not a hot time of day: early morning or evening, always a slightly shaded place (you should protect bushes from direct sunlight) with well-ground, pre-fertilized (with the help of grassy infusion) soil. The best site will be a flat or slightly elevated place, with light or medium loamy soil, well moistened. On sandy soil raspberry will grow only under the condition of constant watering.
Transplanting raspberries in autumn to a new place
Choosing the best period when you change the raspberries - autumn, you will have the least problems with the planting material, at this time it has a large number of root, well-grown sow. In the autumn raspberry transplant, there is an advantage of a more conscientious preparation of the site and better weather conditions. A site for new plants is better to choose the one on which grew pumpkin, tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, greens. There are special features and secrets, with a raspberry transplant in the fall:
- Prepare the site for raspberry should be in advance, 2-3 years before planting (to make fertilizers, plant legumes, zucchini or other vegetable crops);
- in the previously prepared trenches or pits (15-20 days before planting) add manure, compost and sawdust, superphosphate or biohumus, sprinkle everything with a mixture of earth and ash;
- Lower the seedling in the prepared soil, spreading the roots, sprinkle with soil, compact the soil, pour;
- Cut the cuttings at a distance of 25-40 cm from the base;
- between plants leave a distance of at least 50 cm, planted bushes tied to the support pegs;
- planting seedlings produce no later than late August - early September, later cuttings can suffer from frost.
Raspberry Transplantation
After determining the terms of the transplant, you should also familiarize yourself with the rules of this process. It is better to transplant raspberries in parts, do not try to transplant all raspberry at once, so you risk not being harvested. Transplanting raspberry bushes is as follows:
- robust, healthy shoots are selected, with a well-developed root system, at least one centimeter in diameter;
- they are pruned at a level of 60-80 cm from the root;
- in pre-loosened, freed from weeds, fertilized and moistened soil, with prepared pits or dug trenches, plants are planted and buried;
- The bushes tie and pour.
How often to replace raspberries?
From time to time, raspberries require a transplant, because, growing in one place, the bushes suck out useful substances from the soil, impoverishing it and, over time, the amount of harvest, the size of the berries decreases significantly. If the raspberry is followed by regular, regular care, then the transplant can be performed in the sixth to seventh year. Thinking about what time of the year to replace the raspberries, give preference to a period more convenient for you - this issue is not fundamental, and the timing of transplantation - critical.
Transplanting flowering raspberries
The raspberry begins to bloom in the middle of June, at this time it needs to be well fed and in no case transplanted. By this time, shoots do not have time to ripen, and besides their survival during the heat is very low. All transplantation must end before budding. Plants that planted in the optimal periods for them (in spring and autumn) are well established and develop.
Before transplanting the raspberries to another place, it is necessary to increase the amount of fertilizer applied to the soil from autumn to improve the condition of the shoots. If the shoots have reached a thickness of at least one centimeter during the summer, and their length is about two meters, the harvest from the bush is removed 1-1.5 kg, which means that the amount of fertilizer is sufficient and it is well balanced, it is possible to separate and transplant young growth.
Raspberry size for transplantation
To transplant the raspberry bush, choose healthy, well-fruitful bushes, with young growth growing around them. Offsprings are often excavated in late May - early June, when the stem height reaches 12-15 cm. Then they can be planted on a temporary bed, and in autumn, growing to a standard of 50-60 cm, rooted in a permanent place of growth. If the offspring are planted from the uterine bushes in the autumn, they are selected to reach a height of 60-70 cm immediately before disembarkation and placed immediately on a permanent place.
Experienced gardeners, choosing the time when it is better to replant the raspberries, proceed from their own preferences, but the main factor is the presence of a benign, well-ripened, annual planting material. If a young seedling near the mother's bush has grown too much, and it is not needed, it should be destroyed, otherwise it will thicken the raspberry too.