Raspberry varieties "Runaway": tips for novice gardeners

Raspberries varieties "Runaway" - the best choice of novice gardeners. On the features of care and planting principles, read the article.

Among the whole variety of raspberry varieties, an inexperienced gardener is faced with the difficult task of choosing a raspberry variety for his garden plot, determining the best of them, as well as choosing the necessary characteristics that should be considered when choosing seedlings.

In general, we note that raspberries are divided into traditional and remontant. In traditional varieties, the two-year development cycle, i.e., fruits appear on the shoots of the second year. The crop is taken once a year, and the period of fruiting is very short, usually in July.

With the repair bushes, the harvest can be obtained already in the first year of planting seedlings. The berries are tied on both annual branches and biennials. Fruit harvesting twice a season: in the middle of summer and in the deep autumn. Sometimes nevzdrevshie ovary go under the snow.

In addition, there are several color options for raspberries: red and yellow.

• There is a classic red raspberry on almost every garden plot. The berries have a sweet taste, fragrant and delicate. May cause allergies. In folk medicine, fruits and leaves are used.
• Yellow raspberries usually have a weaker flavor. More often its berries are larger than red, the taste is sweet with a little sourness. Its fruits are recommended to use for pregnant and lactating women, small children. Yellow berries are hypoallergenic.

To choose a raspberry for your plot, you must determine what qualities a variety should possess. Popular selection criteria are:

• easy to grow, unpretentious;
• good yield every year;
• prolonged fruiting;
• frost-resistant;
• drought resistant;
• little damaged by diseases and pests;
• delicious beautiful berries;
• easy to recycle;
• does not cause allergies;
• bears fruit long

In this regard, you should pay attention to the variety "Runaway." Raspberries of this variety satisfies all the requirements described. The cultivator cultivated by the Russian breeder from Bryansk - Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor Kazakov Ivan Vasilyevich. “The Runaway” is rightfully included in the “Golden Series of the Cossack Raspberry”.

“Runaway” refers to remontant yellow-fruit varieties and is a compact shrub with vertical shoots. Shrub height - up to two meters. Annual shoots are light green, biennial twigs are greyish brown. Short thorns at the base of the shoots do not interfere with picking berries.

Delicate fragrant berries of golden-yellow color delight their fans from July to mid-October. The small fruits of sweet-sour taste (weighing about 2.5 g) have a conical shape of berries.

Pest damage is weak, good resistance to most diseases. Productivity - average (about two kilograms of berries from one bush). The disadvantages include the inability to transport over long distances in fresh form.

To get good yields over the years, you need to follow the proper cultivation technique. It is possible to propagate "Runaway" by cuttings, saplings, layering.

Place for planting should choose a sunny and warm. To protect the wind from the raspberry is better to land along the southern fence. The soil should be fertile and light, neutral or slightly acidic, heated to 15 degrees.

Planting can be made in spring and autumn. Seedlings take root in spring better. By the fall, the bushes will grow well and get stronger, a powerful root system will develop. The harvest will be next summer. Both one-year and two-year shoots bear fruit.

Planted "Runaway" in two ways: in the hole and trench.

• The hole under the bush is dug two weeks before planting (70 cm in diameter and 60 cm deep). The distance between the holes is about one meter. Between the rows maintain an indent of two meters.
• When planting in a trench, the distance between the rows is reduced to one meter, between seedlings - to half a meter. The width and depth of the trench - 50 cm.

The landing technique for the two methods is the same. At the bottom of the stack drainage, rotted organic matter and superphosphate. The height of this layer is 20-25 cm. The bush should be carefully lowered into the hole and covered with earth. Particular attention should be paid to the roots: try not to damage them, and the root collar is not buried.

After planting raspberries abundantly watered. During the season, we must regularly weed, shallowly loosen the ground. In case of drought, water once a fortnight. When ripe berries watering is produced only in dry weather. If the summer with regular rain, raspberries can not be watered. To retain moisture in the soil using mulch and special grooves.

In the spring fertilizing is carried out with organic matter, in the fall - with potash and phosphate fertilizers. In the summer of raspberries can be fed complex mineral fertilizers, which contain macro - and micronutrients. To protect against insects spray raspberries karbofosnymi drugs. This must be done before flowering. There is a natural way to protect against pests - calendula and dill, planted next to raspberries.

In the autumn, after the foliage has subsided, pruning is done: it is necessary to remove old and diseased shoots, and also to cut out all weak growth. It is better to burn such branches so that pests and viral diseases are not left to spend the winter in them. The variety is frost-resistant; it is not required to cover it for the winter in central Russia. In Siberia, to protect against frost penetration, a layer of mulch is laid, and on top, it is covered with fir spruce, sawdust, or agrofibre.

At observance of all technologies "Runaway" annually gives a good harvest. She is valued for her unpretentious care, fast ripening, and excellent taste. Yellow-fruit raspberry does not cause allergies.

"Runaway" - a real find for novice gardeners, as evidenced by numerous reviews.