How to avoid overgrowth of raspberries in your area?

In recent years, raspberries have become a very popular berry, especially thanks to the development of new varieties that are capable of bearing fruit until the first frost.

No matter how much gardeners and gardeners love raspberries, many refuse to grow it after a few years. What is the reason for this negative attitude?

Everything is trite. Raspberries grow like a common weed, taking up more and more space and displacing other crops.

Fighting raspberry thickets is not so easy. Firstly, it has thorns that make it difficult to destroy the bushes. Secondly, raspberry roots go deep down and grip the soil very tightly.

You have to apply tremendous physical strength to remove raspberry shoots. And even when you uprooted raspberries, young plants emerge very soon from the roots remaining in the ground.

On the one hand, such vitality and the ability to reproduce raspberries are in the hands of many: there is no need to purchase a lot of seedlings, but it is enough only for the next year to use young shoots, which in most cases easily take root after planting.

But, when your raspberry plant has reached its optimal size, and you do not want it to grow to the entire garden or vegetable garden, you should limit its distribution. How can this be done in the most efficient way?

Experienced gardeners share one very simple and inexpensive piece of advice:

It is very important to carry out rejuvenation and thinning of the bushes every year. With the help of a pruner, shoots should be removed at the root, which greatly thicken the raspberry tree. Removal of diseased plants is also required to avoid the spread of infections.

The next step is to create an obstacle course for the raspberry, which wants to conquer new territory. This is very easy to do. You only need to dig in a raspberry tree in a circle and make rows on the loose earth for planting garlic.

Raspberries hate such a neighborhood and will not overcome the garlic barrier.

Thus, you simultaneously solve two problems: raspberries occupy only the area that is allotted for him, and garlic is useful for food.

An important point is the fact that this way you can save space for planting vegetables in the garden if you have a small plot.
Try this simple method and the result will please you.

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