The latest raspberry cultivation technique tutorial, with a detailed explanation of planting methods

Raspberry is a woody plant in the Rosaceae family, also called raspberry, with recurved thorns on its branches and aggregate fruit. It has a long history of being cultivated as a fruit in Europe, but in China it is rarely sold directly as a fruit and is mainly used after drying as a traditional Chinese medicinal material, with high medicinal value. But now a small amount of artificial cultivation has also begun, and some cultivation experience has been summarized.

1. Building the orchard

Choose a sunny south-facing slope for planting. Do not plant in a notch, and plant in a place that has higher mountainous land in front of the planting site. Do not plant in mountain basins, where planting is prone to flooding and water accumulation. When building the orchard, plan the overall range, plant small trees as a perimeter, or build wire mesh and the like as a protective fence. Surrounding weeds and miscellaneous trees should be cut down.

2. Land preparation

Level the land, then deeply plow and coarsely till the land, then apply 2000 jin of farmyard manure, stable manure, and weed compost, bury them into the subsoil layer, then use machinery to rotary till and finely till the surface soil. It is better for the depth of the fine surface soil to reach about 40 cm.

3. Trellising

Raspberry is a thorny shrub with slender branches that tend to droop after fruiting, so artificial cultivation requires timely installation of supports to help keep the plants growing upward. The supports should be set up in the first year of planting, at the start of the plant growth peak. Generally, cement posts are installed, with several wires stretched horizontally for growth.

4. Water and fertilizer

Fertilization is carried out at the same time as intertillage and weeding. Apply topdressing once during the flowering period and once during the fruiting period. For each fertilization, use 30 jin of urea, 2 jin of borax, and 2 jin of zinc sulfate per mu of orchard. In addition, apply 2000 jin per mu as base fertilizer in autumn. Water less during the flowering period, keeping basic humidity sufficient. After flowering and during the fruiting period, water more, once every two weeks, but not too much, to avoid excessive water causing fruit drop.

After planting, in the summer of the first year, growth will show that the branches grow numerous and messy, so in summer prune the leggy branches and select robust branches as fruiting branches and to cultivate as fruit-bearing mother branches. Horizontal branches should be removed, and drooping branches should be adjusted to grow upward. In winter, basically thin out the winter shoots, and in the second spring keep more new shoots.

Raspberry cultivation is about first building the orchard, then there are some requirements for the land, and trellising is needed to keep growth upward. Water and fertilizer are the key to vegetative growth and fruiting, and topdressing is needed. Pruning is necessary for fruit trees with strong sprouting ability.