4 Secrets "berry" blackberry

Hello, fellow blackberry!

Blackberry - a berry very special. Perhaps, few people can remain indifferent to her liking. Some spit, others adore... And I love her deep color berries.

And that was more berries and taste them - and sweeter blackberry, it is necessary to observe some rules bushes growing. I'll tell you about the 4 main - read, save, apply and collect cool harvest!

Give the sun and heat

For a good harvest - namely, a large amount of saturated taste and large size berries, blackberries need a lot of sun. I advise you to choose a landing site open, maximum - penumbra. In a shady corner of the garden, where the sun's rays barely penetrate rich harvest hardly wait.

Heat Blackberry also to taste. Well, if the cold north wind will be protected by a bush fence, house or other plants. But we must avoid shelters as humid lowlands - a plant grows better and fruits on a hill, or at least where its roots are not in the "swamp".

put a trellis

Blackberry shoots, if not fragile, it is certainly too plastic. Given that they quietly grow up to 2-3 meters, bush without support looks very grim. But it's not only in the aesthetics: interweaving and blaming each other, shoots and obscure tangle neighbors. This means that BlackBerry does not get its main resource - the sun.

It solves the problem of installing trellis. Design options you can find the sea, for every taste and budget. The easiest option - to dig poles and pull a couple of ropes between them. By the way, so you can sort and shoots, for example, the background to send long, fruiting vtorogodki, tucking the rope, and growing up young leave on the ground.

Do not forget about feeding

Rules dressing blackberry are no different from the rules of feeding all the other berries. Is that in the spring need to add more nitrogen, because without growth of young shoots in the following year an abundant harvest can not wait.

The approximate scheme:

• Early May - urea or infusion of mullein / poultry manure. This embodiment with focus on the nitrogen. If the hand did not have anything else, make universal "NPK".

• Early June: superphosphate + Potassium-magnesium. Another Blackberry will be enjoyed by spraying with liquid fertilizer microelements (I take the "Agricola" or "fop" in bags of 10 grams, and fits and "Universal", and for indoor plants). Supporters of organic farming can adopt the good old ash and bone meal.
• In autumn replenish energy blackberry potash fertilizers, but never use the nitrogen. But humus / compost zamulchirovat blackberry plantation is even possible. At the same time protect the roots from frost!

The main thing in the cultivation of blackberries - a crop!

Here there are 3 key rules:

• All the sick, dry and thickening bush - cut without mercy at any time of the year.
• Shoots, which were berries in late summer or autumn cut. After all, not blackberry fruits on the same branches. Long and old shoots can be shortened by removing the 2/3 - from the kidneys can go new.
• When the young shoot is extended to 1.5 meters, its top pinch. He began to rose bushes and more new branches, located fruiting!

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