Blackberry - ready for winter

Blackberry appears in suburban areas more often. It is delicious and beautiful berry, but it is not as hardy as we would like. How to prepare for winter blackberry bushes?

how to cut

Blackberries cut in autumn and spring. In autumn remove the old shoots, which faded to spring blackberry gave new side shoots. The main branch pinch out, leaving no more than 2 m. Lateral shoots also shortened (leave about 60 cm). Sanitary pruning in the spring is made, that is, not deleted overwintered part (fallen under frost or broken). Deleted as soon as the branches nevyzrevshie for the summer season.

In remontant varieties of all shoots are cut off at the root, leaving stumps.

Fertilizing

After the fall pruning is necessary to make: mold, rotted compost, ash. Before that, you need to loosen a little ground and throw the soil. After the procedure, making organic zamulchirovat tree trunks bush.

Shelter for the winter

When will the stable subzero temperature (more than minus 1 degree), it is necessary to hide the plant outdoors. Before that must be treated against pests and diseases (apply copper-containing drug). Then bush need to tie a rope and bend down to the substrate (litter). Followed by wind spunbond a cocoon and pressed to the ground. Top put spruce branches. If you use the leaves and straw, they can be got in the blackberry mouse.

I wish you a rich harvest!

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