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  1. Svetlana Khmelnitskaya, Tver region

    How to prevent raspberries from growing beyond the space allotted to them, otherwise they will already fill half the area?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      — First you need to uproot the thickets. And then, to tame the raspberries, dig insulating barriers made of old slate, tin, or roofing felt around the perimeter of the bushes. Offshoots appear from a depth of no more than 25 cm, so it is enough if the lower edge of the barrier is at a depth of 30 cm, and the upper edge protrudes 5 cm. Make the barrier without cracks and holes, otherwise the raspberries will again come out through them into the garden. And remove unnecessary shoots manually or using Round-pa (but use this herbicide only if there are no other cultivated plants near the raspberries).

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  2. Alexey Korolev, Orel

    In the spring I'm going to uproot the old raspberry. What vegetables can be planted in the vacated space? How to properly fertilize the soil?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - If you have ordinary raspberries, and not remontant ones, then it would be better to uproot the old raspberries at the end of July and sow winter rapeseed in this place. But since you want to do it in the spring, then sow something from the summer green manure: spring rapeseed, phacelia, oats. These crops will cleanse the soil of harmful microorganisms, enrich it with organic matter, loosen it well after embedding them in the ground.
      If you have a desire to grow something from vegetables in this place, then, in my opinion, sweet corn is best suited. This culture suppresses the growth of raspberry shoots. But under it, before planting, it is necessary to carry out liming (a half-liter jar per 1 sq.m), apply organic fertilizers and dig the site deep.

      Also, after raspberries, tomatoes, potatoes and pumpkin crops grow well (again, after soil preparation).

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  3. Leonid Bogdanov

    Is it true that peas and curly beans can be grown along the perimeter of a raspberry bush? At the same time, raspberries will be a support for plants, and legumes will loosen and enrich the soil.

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - Ideally, it is better to keep the soil under raspberries under black fallow, periodically loosen gently, trying not to damage the roots, weed weeds, apply liquid fertilizers, and water.
      However, legumes near the raspberries are acceptable, since they will indeed enrich the land with nitrogen. But you must understand that caring for raspberries and beans will be much more difficult. Therefore, in my opinion, it is better to refrain from such a neighborhood. But if you want to plant raspberries in a new place, then a year before that it will be useful to plant peas and beans there, harvest, and plant all the green mass in the soil.

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  4. Nina Fedotova

    A vegetable garden in place of a raspberry?
    Last fall, the old raspberry bushes were uprooted. A large piece of land has been vacated. Half-rotten manure was brought in and dug up with a cutter. What vegetable seeds can be sown in this place?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - By and large, if you put the site in order, removed all the rhizomes of shrubs and are sure that raspberry shoots will not start growing in the summer, you can plant almost any vegetables. However, it is better to abandon root crops, since raspberries take the nutrients they need from the soil. The ideal option is to grow legumes here in the first year: beans, peas, beans. They are undemanding, give a good harvest and enrich the soil with available nitrogen. Next year, plant cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants. And a year later, you can start planting root crops.

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  5. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    Raspberries also need winter care. I untie the fruiting shoots from the wire (I have trellis cultivation) and cut them 1-2 cm below the soil. I remove weak and diseased annual shoots. The remaining healthy and strong annual shoots are shortened to a well-developed bud (depending on the variety) - this contributes to better ripening of the shoots and higher winter hardiness. I burn all cut shoots. After the next rain, I feed the raspberries with double superphosphate and potassium salt.

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  6. Anatoly Krot, Omsk region

    Do I need to cut off the raspberry leaves for the winter if they have not fallen off themselves?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - If raspberries leave for the winter with unopened foliage, it means that you are growing plants of more southern varieties that are not adapted to local conditions. Or, during the growing season, they overdid it with fertilizing and watering. You should not hope too much for a successful wintering of such plants (regardless of whether you cut off the foliage or leave it for the winter).

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