Loganberry Etalina: variety description and care tips

As soon as spring warmth comes, gardeners go to their manor plots. Every owner wants to get a good harvest of berries, fruits and vegetables.Considerable interest is the hybrid varieties, among which are the Loganberry weekly spring. What is so interested in this berry, how long it appeared and what advantages it has, will be described in this article.

At present, there are several varieties of Egalinas, which are distinguished by the quality of the bushes, their size, and the taste of berries. Consider some of the most successful varieties:

• Tayberry variety was launched not long ago. The berries have a dark red color, the plant is quite prickly, which is inconvenient when harvesting.
• Sort Boysenberry may be with thorns and without them. Brown berries are oval. The taste of berries is more like the taste of blackberry than raspberry.
• Tehas variety interesting because it grows to five meters, but the bush does not grow in height, but spreads along the ground. This species tolerates cold. The taste of berries is more like raspberry, has a slight sourness.
• Darrow - A hybrid growing up, it reaches a height of 3 meters and has thorns. The plant tolerates frost well. Berries have a sweet-sour taste, the variety is very fruitful. At the age of 5 years up to 10 kg of berries can be removed from the bush.

• Tornell - A hybrid that usually happens without thorns, but you can find varieties with thorns. Thornless variety is different in that the leaves and stem have a soft pile.
• Emberwood Loganberry - the most famous hybrid that was bred in the United States.

Hybrid varieties are very popular with gardeners, they are distinguished by high yields, good taste of fruits, besides, they do not require much time to care for the bushes.

This variety was bred by chance back in 1881. His first harvest was small, and the berries did not differ special taste. Nowadays, Logan's berry can be called one of the most successful hybrid varieties, so the hybrid raspberry with blackberry will interest many gardeners.

Loganberry is a sprawling bush with stems that reach a height of 2 meters, so they require a garter on the trellis.

The plant begins to bloom from mid-June, continues flowering for 4-6 weeks. The bush looks very decorative during flowering, when on the background of dark green leaves appear pink flowers. Sometimes you can see flowering bushes with lilac or white flowers that look like a daisy.

Hybrid bushes are not widely branched, but in the process of ripening a lot of lateral shoots appear. Mature bush in the same time as raspberry. Ripe berries can weigh up to 8 grams. They taste more like sweet raspberries with a slight blackberry aftertaste. The size of a ripe berry is about 4 cm, diameter - 2 cm.

The fruits have a raspberry color, on the hands can be up to six berries. In the process of ripening, the color of the fruit may change and become darker. When harvesting, you can get about 6 kg from a bush. Fruits have many nutrients, vitamins and minerals. In the berries every spring a lot of iron, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium. They can be consumed fresh or frozen. Of them cooked jam, compote, make wine. Homemade preparations from the spring trees are very tasty, especially in combination with gooseberries, apples and currants.

Among the advantages of Loganberry every spring are:

• high yield;
• excellent taste and appearance;
• the absence of thorns on the bush;
• unpretentiousness;
• ease of care;
• good winter hardiness;
• resistance to many diseases;
• possibility of use as an ornamental plant.

Fruits ripen gradually.The first harvest can be harvested in early August, the berries at this time on the bush are the largest. At the beginning of fruiting the weight of berries can reach 10 grams. Later, the fruits begin to shrink, but the taste is maintained at the same level. Berries from Loganberry variety are very tasty, juicy and fragrant.

The plant fructifies up to the most frost, which can be considered another advantage, since there are no other fresh berries at this time. Sometimes a portion of the crop may be lost due to severe frosts.

According to gardeners, Ezemalina is a fairly unpretentious plant. Any soil is suitable for it, but the bushes will grow better on loose, fertile and moderately wet soils. It is necessary to plant bushes in areas protected from the wind.

Planting is done in spring or autumn. Usually the bushes are planted in rows, the distance between the bushes should be about 80 cm. Do not plant the plants too close to each other. With a very dense planting, the spring will not be enough sunlight, and this, in turn, can affect both the yield and the taste of berries. The distance between the rows should be at least 1.5 meters. The branches of the plant are placed on the trellis. After planting, the seedlings are cut to a height of about 25 cm, watered abundantly and placed on mulch circles. When planting vegetative seedlings in the ground should be as careful as possible not to damage com.

For the planting of the spring, it is necessary to prepare pits of 40 * 40 cm in size. The ground from the pit is mixed with humus. Chicken droppings should not be used as humus, since excess fertilizer can cause strong growth of the shrub and reduce winter hardiness.

Placing the seedling in the hole, you should straighten the roots and cover them with soil. After planting, the bushes must be watered with a sufficient amount of water.

With the help of root scions, this culture cannot be propagated, therefore, the reproduction of saplings occurs:

• by rooting tops;
• cuttings;
• seeds.

Seed propagation is a rather laborious process that requires special skill. It is much easier to propagate the Logan berry by rooting the tops of a one-year sprout or by rooting green cuttings.

After the onset of autumn, it is time to prepare the spring for wintering. The tops of shoots grown up to 2 meters should be pinched to improve the branching of the plants.

If plants are planted in regions with a cold climate, shoots should be warmed, the tip should not be cut off. After harvesting, the stems are untied from the trellis, folded down to the ground and covered with leaves, burlap, straw or peat.

To obtain a good harvest of berries requires proper care. Judging by the reviews of gardeners, the plant is unpretentious. Logan berry can be called the most successful hybrid, as the variety is not demanding. It fructifies more abundantly than blackberries, and endures cold more than raspberries. Many gardeners advise to pick berries together with the stem, to avoid reducing the yield.

Emealin Loganberry has good disease resistance. Some gardeners have noted the defeat of an insignificant part of the bushes with the raspberry beetle, rot and spotting of the stems may appear.

The taste of berries also depends on watering, they become more juicy. Watering the bushes, it should be borne in mind that the plant does not withstand an excess of moisture. If the season was rainy, the plant does not need additional watering. It is recommended to apply top dressing once in three years, after carrying out top dressing the soil is mulched.

By planting a hybrid variety in your plot, you can enjoy the whole season with tasty and healthy berries, thanks to which you can normalize digestion, strengthen the heart, nervous system, improve immunity. Eating sparks helps to eliminate excess fluid from the body, and the leaves can be used as tea leaves and added to tea.