RASPBERRIES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 20

RASPBERRIES

TREATMENT FOR CROPS

Easpberries are usually planted in rows and the canes tied to stakes. In this method of cultivation tho distance allowed between the rows may be five feet, and between the plants three feet. Care should bo taken that the soil is kept» well manured and sufficiently moist.-The raspberry sends up "shoots or canes in the spring which lose their leaves in the autumn, and from these canes branchlets push the following spring, on which the fruit' is produced during summer and autumn. The 7)ranchlets diverge.in. all direct ions, so

that the canes must not; bo .overcrowded while they are -bearing fruit. JNTow caves spring from the base and tuckers frequently spring from the roots at a distance from the, plant. These bear in the- following season and form a suecossioq to those already bearing and which die back to tho ground before the winter.

When the* plants "arc" intended to be fastened to'-stakes or wires in the usual way the pruning • and training is very

simple. Support is not needed tho first season, as the canos should be cut almost to tho ground at planting. The object in cutting back tho year-old canes is to invigorate the young ones. When those appear four or flvo of the strongest should be encouraged, all others being removed. ,

In the autumn or winter the ground should be surface-manured, leaving it there to be washed in by the rain. la autumn, as soon as the crop is gathered, all tho old canes that have borne fruit should bo removed to allow as much light and air as possible to tho young canes.* • . .