Raspberry strawberry plant. Strawberry raspberries: planting, growing and care

Strawberry raspberry - a challenge for gourmet gardeners. Most growers, even distributors and sellers, mistakenly believe that they are hybrids derived from crossing strawberries or raspberries. Strawberry raspberry (Rubus illecebrosus) is a type of raspberry.

Attractive when blooming

Raspberries are not demanding on the soil. The raspberry bush grows up to 30-60 cm in height. They are thick, spherical in shape. Stems, branches of the petiole are covered with thorns. The flowers are large, beautiful white.
The first fruits appear in August. Then the harvest is the richest. Large, shiny, roundish, bright red berries ripen in first year stems. Ripe berries can be harvested until autumn, as these raspberries bear fruit until the very frost. Some varieties of berries are dark cherry, orange or even amber yellow. The fruit is complex. It consists of a thin layer of small fruits, each of which contains a seed. The berries "sit" on a large white receptacle.

Stop unlimited distribution

It is very easy to propagate strawberry raspberries. In early spring or fall, the bushes that have been dug should be divided and planted in a new location.
In order for the harvest of strawberry raspberries to be rich every year, they must be covered for the winter, because in severe frosts, part of it may simply freeze out.
Raspberry hedges look funny. They are not tall, dense, during flowering they are attractive with flowers, later with berries. Unfortunately, strawberry raspberries are not an evergreen plant, so they, like other herbal plants, are destroyed by frosts. Therefore, in late spring, not a trace remains of the hedge. New plants will have to wait until spring.

Due to its large white or yellowish flowers, these raspberries can be grown in the garden as very attractive and ornamental plant... They are very suitable for reinforcing steep slopes.
Strawberry raspberry expansive. If you do not stop them, it will spread with its nimble roots and spread throughout the garden. Many gardeners plant bushes in large pots, barrels or beds, and separate them with old linoleum on all sides, burying it to a depth of half a meter. Do not use a film, even a thick one, because the roots will easily pierce it and will grow further.
Some gardeners joke that strawberry raspberries bring joy twice: the first - by buying it, planting and picking the first berry, and the second, when it suddenly grew at the other end of the garden, was eradicated, because the work was not at all easy.

In China, this raspberry is considered a vegetable.

Still, our gardeners love strawberry raspberries, because they grow berries at the beginning of summer, when the spring ends and there is still no autumn raspberry. The berries are not transportable, so they are rarely seen on store shelves or in the market.

The nutritional value of Strawberry Raspberries is low because they are not as sweet as our regular garden raspberries. In addition, it has a specific taste. In China, they are highly valued, loved and considered vegetables. There, their berries are added to some vegetable salads.

The salad is very simple. About a bucket of raspberry mayonnaise, two tomatoes, finely chop a small onion and mix everything. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste, a little greens and a little olive oil. Salad ready. Sometimes the mistress's strawberry raspberries are added to lecho.

Strawberry raspberries: planting, growing and care

Photo by: peterissupe from 7dach.ru

The main thing you should know about this plant is that everyone can master the cultivation of strawberry raspberries! There are no fundamental differences between this and ordinary raspberries: they are frost-resistant, unpretentious to soil and multiply very quickly. What is also good - her fruits are very large, up to 4 cm in diameter, although not sugary.

General information

Planting, reproduction

Care

Harvesting

Strawberry raspberries bear fruit from mid-summer until frost. Every year the bushes grow stronger, and the harvest only increases in volume. In the first year, fruits appear in July or August, and the harvest ripens on the shoots of the first year. The berries can be dark cherry, bright red, or even amber.

It is best to collect the berries in a shallow plastic container so that they do not wrinkle. Strawberry raspberry jam is excellent. And also try this simple recipe: pour peach or vanilla yogurt over the berry and eat with a spoon. Yummy!

Additionally

Strawberry raspberries are used both in strengthening the slopes and in creating hedges - because of the powerful root system and thorns, respectively. As we already said, strawberry raspberries multiply rapidly, and soon the planting resembles a real impenetrable wall.

Raspberry Strawberry Duo (Tibetan)

The photo shows berries of perfect ripeness - it is at this moment that it is worth starting to harvest.

Mysterious zemmaline

Mysterious zemmaline Three years ago, in August, I found myself in Postavy and went to the market. Walking among the rows where agricultural products and seedlings are sold, I noticed plants that resemble raspberries.

Their height was 40-60 cm. Some specimens have attractive, bright red fruits. Noticing my curiosity, the seller treated me to a few berries. They tasted like raspberries, but with a pronounced strawberry aroma. While I was deciding whether to buy seedlings or not, the woman said that the plant is strawberry raspberry. Her son brought her saplings from St. Petersburg. Agricultural techniques for growing zemalina are simple and accessible to any gardener. It grows on any soils with a neutral reaction, but still prefers light and fertile soils. It responds well to feeding with rotted manure and wood ash.

On my site, I allocated a sunny place with well-fertilized soil for the zemmaline. I planted her in rows. The distance in the row is 10-20 cm, and between the rows is 30 cm. With this planting scheme, the zemmaline weeds easily and conveniently. In July, the first ovaries appeared on the plants, and at the end of July we already tasted the first ripe berries. Low, about 60 cm, spreading bushes, it seemed, burned red from bright, rather large, juicy and sweet berries, similar to strawberries and raspberries at the same time. They are very firmly attached to young shoots. You should not rush to harvest. The brightly colored berries, although beautiful, remain unripe for a long time, with a herbaceous flavor. Having tried these, many are disappointed in them. I noticed this feature and now I'm trying to let the berries ripen on the bush for about 10 days. Then they become ruby, tasty, crumble at the slightest touch.

Zemmalina shows remontance. It bears fruit from July to September. If the weather is warm and sunny in September, the berries have time to ripen well and gain sugar content.

Jams, juices, compotes can be prepared from fruits, they are added to jam with high acidity. Zemalina berries do not contain acid, so a little lemon, apples, citric acid, any juice from berries and fruits containing acid are added to juices, compotes and jam from them. Those who made wine from strawberry raspberries note its delicate pleasant taste and aroma.

There is confusion about the name of this culture. Some article authors mistakenly combine information on two plants: strawberry raspberry and strawberry spinach. They are two different plants. Zemmaline is a species of raspberry (Rubus illecebrosus). Its leaves and shoots are very thorny. When weeding plants and picking berries, I always wear tight pants so as not to prick. Zemmaline leaves are similar in shape to raspberry leaves. Strawberry spinach is a vegetable crop. Its leaves, which resemble quinoa leaves, and the fruits located in the internodes of the leaves are used for food. The fruits of zemmaline and strawberry spinach are similar to each other. Therefore, they are often mistaken for the same plant.

Zemmalina is easy to propagate by root shoots. In early spring and autumn, I split the bushes and plant in a new place. In order for the harvest of strawberry raspberries to be rich, it is advisable to cover it with straw and spruce legs for the winter.

Zemmaline hedges look spectacular. They are low, dense, very attractive during flowering, later delight with berries. Sometimes the aboveground part of the plants freezes, so in the spring it is necessary to remove all dried shoots. It should be noted that the root system of this plant is very aggressive, intertwined in the ground like a spider's web. And if the zemmaline is not stopped, it will spread throughout the garden. Therefore it can be used to reinforce steep slopes. Many gardeners plant shrubs in large pots or barrels. The beds are fenced with old slate, linoleum from all sides to a depth of 0.5 meters. There is a joke that strawberry raspberries bring joy twice: the first - when the berries are harvested, and the second - when the unexpectedly grown at the other end of the garden was finally eradicated, since this work is not easy.

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Vladimir Krylovich

(Ural gardener No. 28, July 2013)

If you want to surprise guests or delight your children with unusual berries, try growing a raspberry-strawberry hybrid with seductive bright fruits on the site, or a black yogurt with a delicious aroma. Compared to ordinary red raspberries, such a delicacy is sure to impress everyone and arouse genuine interest.

Photo of a hybrid of strawberry and raspberry

Hearing about such a curiosity, experienced gardeners mockingly shrug their shoulders: it is impossible to cross a herbaceous plant and a woody shrub, cunning traders simply cash in on naive beginners! However, seedlings and seeds of hybrids of garden strawberries with raspberries are still being successfully sold on the market at indecent prices. Moreover, unusual plants really grow from them ...

How did the breeders manage to breed a new species called clubmaline or raspberry from two dissimilar crops? After all, it is known that the raspberry fruit is an intergrown drupe, and the strawberry fruit is an overgrown receptacle with tiny nuts-fruits. What berries can be obtained by crossing?

Video about a hybrid of raspberries and strawberries

It turns out that the seedlings that we offer under the guise of raspberry-strawberries, and abroad are called Strawberry-Raspberry, are in fact a dwarf variety of Rubus illecebrosus Focke raspberries. You can find it under other names:

• seductive,
• illecebroid,
• tibetan,
• chinese,
• himalayan,
• strawberry or strawberry,
• dwarf.

Planting and cultivation of the hybrid takes place according to the usual rules. As a result, a half-shrub grows in height from half a meter and above, with reddish thorny shoots and odd-pinnate leaves. From the end of June, the plant is covered with large white flowers, and by August, fruiting begins (on annual shoots), which lasts until autumn frosts.

Photo of a hybrid of strawberry and raspberry

The berries of this plant really look unusual, resembling appearance large garden strawberries. The taste is sweet, pleasant, close to raspberry, but still somewhat inferior to the taste of ordinary raspberries. On fruit twigs, up to five berries, weighing about 3 g, ripen, the harvest is quite good.

Another hybrid - raspberry(strawberry-raspberry or strasberry), has nothing to do with raspberries: the berries are only outwardly slightly similar to it, thanks to their rounded shape and dark red color. In fact, this is an unusual variety of garden strawberries, which were grown abroad at the beginning of the 20th century.

Considering the cost of the planting material of these exclusive plants and the rather mediocre taste of their berries, it is more expedient to highlight on the site more space under with large tasty fruits, and leave raspberry-strawberry hybrids only as an exotic and for decorating desserts.

The situation is completely different with the hybrids obtained from the crossing of ordinary raspberries and blackberries. Breeders have long been diligently breeding all new varieties of Yezhemalin, trying to combine in one culture all the most valuable qualities of the two parent crops. And domestic gardeners are happy to grow on their plots, along with red-fruited raspberry varieties, dark purple yogurt.

In the photo ezhemalin

For what qualities is this amazing berry culture valued? From blackberries, she received unpretentiousness, high productivity and large-fruited, and from raspberries - a pleasant aroma and good winter hardiness.

Ezhemalina has an original sour-sweet taste, which in some varieties only vaguely resembles the taste of parent crops. At the same time, most gardeners confidently declare that the taste of raspberry berries is much better than that of ordinary raspberries or blackberries.

When breeding many modern varieties of raspberries with large fruits, raspberry-blackberry hybrids were used. This explains the formation of multi-berry branched brushes characteristic of blackberries and the insufficient frost resistance of large-fruited raspberry varieties.

Photo ezhemalina

The first hybrid from blackberries and raspberries was obtained in 1881 by an American breeder. A new amazing culture was named after him - Loganberry or logan berry... Until now, this old variety is popular among gardeners due to its delicious red berries of a rather large size (about 4 cm in length) and early dates ripening. And the modern clone of the Loganberry hybrid still does not have thorns.

Strawberry raspberries have received positive reviews not only from amateur gardeners, but also from landscape designers. This culture perfectly fulfills the role of a living fence, since its thickets are a solid impenetrable wall covered with thorns. Even small animals cannot get through it.

Tibetan raspberries look good among coniferous thickets, they are also suitable for framing areas in the garden or vegetable garden. This plant feels great on the slopes. In addition to decorating them, strawberry raspberries are used to strengthen creeping soil, as their root system is very strong and strong.

Planting Tibetan Raspberries

Tibetan raspberry: features of the variety (video)

It is recommended to plant Tibetan raspberries on the site using an ordinary method: in a row, the distance between bushes should be at least 15 cm, between rows - from 30 cm or more. In general, there are several ways of reproduction.

Cuttings

The process is best done in the fall, after picking up the fruits. Dig up the plant and cut the rhizome into several parts, making sure that each segment contains at least one bud. The planting material is placed in a hole, the size of which should be larger than the rhizome itself. The adult stems on the rhizome are cut off, leaving hemp no more than 3 cm high.

Rhizome processes

Adult (over 5 years old) bushes are suitable for this breeding method. Around them there is usually abundant young growth, which is dug up with a sharp shovel and planted in holes. The best time to collect planting material is autumn. However, if urgently needed, you can do this in the spring, before the raspberries start to grow. You need to plant seedlings in fairly spacious planting pits.

By dividing adult bushes

Adults, over 5 years old, dismember the bushes at the root collar with a sharp shovel. Each segment is planted in a prepared hole. Propagate raspberries by this method better in autumn, but a spring transplant is also acceptable.

Seeds

This method of gardeners' reviews is called not the most reliable and very inconvenient in terms of wasting time and effort.

1. Seeds are selected from overripe berries, gently crushing them and leaving the resulting gruel for 2-3 days. During this time, the seed coat softens.
2. After washing the gruel in a strainer under running water, select the seeds and dry them.
3. Then they are placed in bowls with moistened sand or soil light mixture to a depth of no more than 2-3 mm and placed in the refrigerator.
4. After about a month, the containers are taken out into the room.
5. With constant maintenance of humidity and temperature not lower than +15 degrees, seedlings appear in 2-4 weeks.

Landing place

Strawberry raspberries absolutely do not tolerate waterlogging or waterlogging of the soil. Small hills and slopes with a slope of 15 degrees are ideal for her. When planting on a personal plot, it is recommended to choose well-lit places with fertile loose soil. If there is a possibility of flooding or stagnant water, it is better to create a drainage layer or grooves for water drainage, and make the beds elevated (no more than 30 cm in height).

“Neighbors” do not play a specific role in the life of strawberry raspberries. The strength of its growth is so great that it easily displaces weeds and cultivated plants (including even such malicious invaders as horseradish and duck).

Plant care

In leaving, strawberry raspberries are not picky. Generally, its agricultural technology is not much different from the raspberries familiar to all gardeners. Watering, weeding, and fertilizing are all that Tibetan raspberries need.

Watering features

Strawberry raspberries need daily watering with a sufficient amount of liquid. The minimum amount of water for one bush is 10 liters. In rainy weather, you can not water it at all, but in drought, in addition to soil moisture, practice sprinkling.

Top dressing

Fertilizers for strawberry raspberries are applied in the spring, immediately after the snow melts on wet soil. The first feeding is carried out with granules of ammonium sulfate. Autumn top dressing - potassium sulfide. Diluting fertilizers with water is not required. It is enough to scatter them in the root zone of plants and cover them with mulch from crushed peat, well-rotted manure or compost.

Preparing for winter

Despite the high frost resistance, reviews of almost all gardeners contain instructions on the need for special preparation of strawberry raspberries for winter. She does not need to build complex shelters, however you need to cut out all shoots, including annuals, leaving hemp no more than 4-5 cm. Thereafter strawberry raspberries are covered with spruce branches or sprinkled with soil.

Diseases and pests of strawberry raspberries

Tibetan, or strawberry, raspberries have the same growing problems as regular garden raspberries. Numerous reviews of this culture mention the following pests and diseases:

• raspberry-strawberry weevil;
• raspberry beetle;
• anthracnose;
• rust;
• root cancer;
• spotting and chlorosis.

Measures to combat them are no different from those that are used to eliminate problems with ordinary garden raspberries. Most pests are exterminated by treatments with DDT, Karbofos or detoil solution. They fight diseases with a solution copper sulfate or Bordeaux mixture, or diseased plants are uprooted, and healthy ones are transplanted to a new place.

You can avoid the appearance of any problems with strawberry raspberries by observing the agricultural standards of this culture. Waterlogging, stagnant air or lack of weeding and feeding can lead to infection of the bushes with pests, fungal or viral diseases.

Tibetan raspberry berries: how to use

Fruiting of strawberry raspberries lasts from late July until the very frost. Large numerous fruits in fresh do not have a pronounced aroma, and taste just sour. However, when cooking jams and jellies from them, a very unusual aroma appears. Such raspberries are also tasty in fresh form - grated with sugar, seasoned with sweet yogurt or in the form of mashed potatoes with curd.

Attention, only TODAY!

Few people grow Tibetan raspberries in our country. Despite long-term fruiting, undemanding soil and even beautiful berries with a peculiar taste of raspberries and strawberries, this plant has not received worthy recognition among Russian gardeners. But in the countries of Europe, they love and appreciate this culture, which is grown not only because of the delicious fruits, but also because of the decorative foliage. Planting and caring for Tibetan raspberries is not much different from similar activities for growing traditional species of this plant. It multiplies easily, is not afraid of frost, loves moist, not too acidic soils and bears fruit from early July to late autumn.

Description of the plant

"Tibetan raspberry" is just one of the names of this interesting plant, in biology called "seductive raspberry". In various places it is known as strawberry, rose-leaved or rosaline, strawberry-raspberry.

Experts say that Siberia is the birthplace of this plant. It was from there, from the northern latitudes, that raspberry seedlings were brought to the Baltic states in the 19th century.

The raspberry bushes are about 60 cm high, consisting of thin prickly shoots and outwardly resembling blackberry thickets. The rough, corrugated leaves of a light green color have a jagged edge and are glued like a plaster. The tops of the shoots end in inflorescences similar in structure to strawberry flowers. On some shoots, flower stalks may appear from axillary buds.

Tibetan raspberries are large (up to 5 cm in diameter), red or coral in color, empty inside, sourish in taste. The rhizome is actively growing, and if you do not limit the growing area, the plant will quickly fill the entire garden plot.

There are several differences between rosaline and traditional raspberries, even though both plants belong to the same genus.

• In Tibetan raspberries, before the onset of frost, the green part completely dies off, that is, fruiting occurs only on one-year-old shoots.
• The berries are arranged singly, not collected in a brush.
• Outwardly, the fruit resembles a strawberry, but the attachment to the stem is like a raspberry.
• Long fruiting period. Raspberry-strawberries bloom and bear fruit from the beginning of July until the onset of cold weather.

One of biological features of this entertaining crop is the flowering and fruiting at the same time.

How to plant Tibetan raspberries

It is better to plant Tibetan raspberries in the fall, from September 15 to the end of October. When buying seedlings, you should carefully examine the trunk and root system. If there is any damage on the young shoot, the leaves are twisted and turn yellow, such a plant may not take root.

For planting raspberries, fertile soils with a normal level of acidity are chosen. To improve the composition of the soil, one bucket of peat and manure is introduced into the planting pit. It is better to take a place for a raspberry tree on the sunny side of the site, although the plant also tolerates partial shade well.

When choosing a planting site for Tibetan raspberries, one should avoid grooves and depressions in which melt snow lasts for a long time and rainwater accumulates.

The roots of Tibetan raspberries grow at an incredible rate. Therefore, around the raspberry tree, sheets of slate or iron should be dug in, deepening the fence into the ground at least half a meter.

Care

Tibetan raspberries, like other varieties of this culture, are very unpretentious and do not require much effort and time to care. However, to obtain good harvest it is necessary to know and take into account the peculiarities of growing inherent in this particular plant.

• Watering

Raspberries do not tolerate drying out of the soil, and therefore watering is not required only in a rainy summer. With normal precipitation and in dry summers, plants should be watered regularly at the rate of 10 liters of water per 1 sq. m landings. In dry hot weather, in addition to root watering, it is advisable to also use rain spraying.

• Top dressing

Plants are fed twice a year - in autumn and in spring. In the autumn, after the completion of fruiting, potassium sulfide is introduced into the soil. This fertilizer is sold in powder form, so you just have to sprinkle it under the bushes.

In the spring, as soon as the last snow melts, the soil in the raspberry tree is fertilized with ammonium sulfate. Fertilizer granules are laid out between the plants and sprinkled with humus, which will serve as a mulching material.

• Loosening

The roots of Tibetan raspberry bushes are located near the surface of the earth. Therefore, it is better to loosen the soil between the bushes and remove the weed by hand, and very carefully.

Tibetan raspberry shoots are studded with sharp thorns that can pierce or scratch the skin. All work in the raspberry plant should be carried out with thick gloves.

• Preparing for winter

Strawberry raspberries do not require special shelter for the winter. In late autumn, with the onset of the first cold weather, the green part of the plants dies off. It remains only to trim the bushes, leaving branches 5 cm long, and cover the raspberry with earth. In this form, the shrub will survive the most severe frosts.

Reproduction of Tibetan raspberries

Propagation of strawberry raspberries can be carried out in three ways: cuttings, root shoots and seeds.

• Cuttings

In the fall, after the harvest is fully harvested, a raspberry bush is dug up and divided into several cuttings so that one bud remains on each. The cuttings are planted in pre-prepared pits, the upper part of the stem is cut to 3 cm and left to grow the root system. In the spring, rooted cuttings are planted in a permanent place.

• Root processes

Mature plants produce many young growth. The process is dug out with a sharp shovel along with part of the rhizome and transplanted to another place. This method of reproduction is used in the spring, until the plant has entered the phase of active growth, or in the fall, after the end of fruiting.

• Seeds

The method of propagation of Tibetan raspberries by seeds is considered the most laborious and is used only when it is impossible to get seedlings or parts of the plant rhizome.

The seeds can be purchased or extracted from overripe berries. Before planting the seeds in the ground, they are kept for about a month in the refrigerator, buried in the sand by 2-3 mm. Stratification is necessary to improve seed germination.

Then the seeds are planted in a container and kept at a temperature of 20-25 ° C, constantly moistening the soil. The first shoots will appear no earlier than a month later.

Diseases and pests

Tibetan raspberry bushes can become prey for harmful insects or suffer from fungal or viral diseases.

Here are the most common pests and ailments to be wary of when growing this unpretentious berry.

• Raspberry beetle - eats fruits and green leaves.
• Weevil - eats flowers, destroys leaves.
• Anthracnose - fungal disease, as evidenced by the appearance of light brown patches on the stem and leaves of the plant.
• Root cancer is a bacterial disease in which the root system of young plants dies off.

For pest control use DDT, "Karbofos", Bordeaux liquid. The affected parts of the plant are cut off and burned or taken out of the site.

The cultivation of Tibetan raspberries does not require special skills and knowledge. Therefore, even a novice gardener will be able to grow this beautiful berry with an unusual double taste, from which compotes and jams are prepared for the winter. In addition, landscape designers love to use decorative bushes of strawberry raspberries in combination with conifers.

There is no fence between our site and the neighboring area, this situation suits everyone, but their cats regularly come running to us, digging and shitting. I would like to plant some plants so that they are irresistible for them, but they do not shade the site too much. It would be great if the plants do not require special care, they bloom beautifully and, if possible, bear fruit. What do you advise to plant?

Strawberry raspberry (Rubus illecebrosus), also known as Tibetan raspberry, fits your needs. This is probably not the only correct answer, but this plant should be given some attention. Unfortunately, on personal plots, the bushes of this miracle are rare. But in vain.

Strawberry raspberry bush

Strawberry raspberries are a type of raspberry, not a strawberry-raspberry hybrid as the name suggests. The height of plants rarely exceeds 65 cm. The root system is similar to the usual raspberries, i.e. spreading, located close to the soil surface. The bushes are spherical. Flexible stems are studded with thorns. The leaves are elongated, rough, toothed, with small curved thorns on the reverse side, due to which they cling to clothing.

Shoots and leaves of strawberry raspberries are dotted with thorns

The flowers of the species raspberry are similar to those of strawberry, but much larger, 4 cm or more in diameter. The fruits, from the point of view of biology, are drupes, densely grown together on the receptacle. Ripe berries are bright red, comparable in size to medium strawberries, and in shape associated with blackberries.

Flowers and fruits of strawberry raspberry

Development cycle

During the cold season in middle lane In Russia, the aboveground part is dying off. Only the root system overwinters, at the latitude of the Moscow region without additional shelter, in more northern regions - with shelter. In spring, shoots in the bush do not grow all at once, but gradually. On the first, berries are already ripening over time, while others are just beginning to bloom. Flowering begins in June, fruiting in August. Before freezing, strawberry raspberries can simultaneously have flowers, and green berries, and ripe fruits.

Strawberry raspberries in early summer

Berry flavor

Tibetan raspberries are rather rustic in taste; they are inferior to ordinary raspberries and strawberries in sweetness. When cooked, their aroma is significantly enhanced, pineapple, raspberry and strawberry notes are felt. Fresh berries quench thirst well. They do not cause an allergic reaction, so they can be consumed even by allergic children, for whom many berries are prohibited for health reasons. Surprisingly, in China, these berries are considered vegetables and are used in salads, sauces, and seasonings.

Strawberry raspberries

Growing and care

Tibetan raspberries can grow on any soil, but neutral is preferred. The site for planting is desirable sunny. To prevent it from spreading too much, you can dig in pieces of tin or sheets of slate to a depth of 50 cm, limiting the area. Bushes do not require special attention to themselves. In the spring, the plants need to be fed, you can pour compost or rotted manure in a 2-centimeter layer, this nutrition will be enough for the entire growing season. In dry summers, plants will be grateful for watering. You do not need to remove the reddened berries immediately, they should be left on the bush for 10 days. During this time, they will significantly increase in size, and their taste will improve. Ripe fruits are separated from the receptacle with a light touch.

Strawberry raspberries at different stages of development

Reproduction

Strawberry raspberries reproduce similarly to their closest relative, i.e. division of bushes and root suckers. In the spring, young shoots should be given the opportunity to grow up to 10 cm, and then dig them up and transplant them to a prepared place. It is better to divide the bushes in the fall, after planting, almost the entire aerial part must be cut off, leaving small hemp, about 2 cm.

Use in landscape design

Strawberry raspberry will be appropriate as a low-growing hedge, if it is immediately limited to the area of \u200b\u200bgrowth. Cats and dogs avoid it, because bushes are very thorny. It looks good against the background of conifers. Planted along a blind fence with a lack of sunlight, Tibetan raspberries can stretch out, losing their appeal.

Strawberry raspberries during fruiting

Low bushes, dotted with ruby \u200b\u200bfruits sticking upwards in combination with white flowers - a fascinating sight. We hope that you will be able to find the planting material for this wonderful plant.