Feeding and mulching raspberries with sawdust - my reviews
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SAWDINGS AS A FERTILIZER FOR RASPBERRY
For almost forty years, raspberries have been living in our garden, which appeared here long before us - a little, 25 bushes. This piglet regularly bore fruit in due time, but I still fed the plants. Trimmings of brooms, herbs, kitchen waste went straight to the raspberries, and everyone was happy.
And once I had, I don’t remember exactly, eight or ten bags of chicken sawdust. Do not waste such good!
Moreover, sawdust is an excellent fertilizer, and mine also lay for about half a year under the snow.
In short, she generously scattered the contents of the bags on this patch and soon forgot. Spring came. Sawdust with snow formed such a crust that I was already thinking about how to break it, but with the sudden onset of heat, the need for this disappeared.
However, raspberries were in no hurry to enter the growing season: they gave leaves late and bloomed almost two weeks later than usual. All the neighbors are already blooming, mine has only leaves; everyone is already pouring berries, but mine is just blooming. ..
Well, there's no hurry. Raspberries looked healthy and happy, and that's the main thing! And you can wait for the harvest, the summer is long ...
The end of July has come, and what has begun here! The harvest has exceeded all possible and impossible limits. The berries are large - a feast for the eyes, and ripen very quickly, just have time to collect! In 2020, I became a grandmother for the first time, and the bushes seem to have decided to do their bit. Well, what is a grandmother without raspberry jam? It doesn't happen! Grandmother and jam are inseparable concepts, remember your childhood.
Raspberries, slowly, gave away the harvest, which was finally not eaten by pesky wasps. Previously, you could approach the berry picker only with a broom: first you drive out wasps with it, and then you start picking berries.
And so every year - there were too many wasps.
In 2020, quarantine was introduced, borders were closed, there were few imported fruits, and, surprisingly, there were almost no wasps! Literally a couple of individuals flew. We didn't even know they existed ten years ago. I believe that these insects come to us along with fruits from abroad. A trifle, of course, but the children are afraid to go into the raspberry forest, they say, there are so many wasps!
I picked berries, glad that I do without a broom. It was even unusual! The harvest was so plentiful that I had to buy a large five-tier freezer.
Slowly, I filled it with false jam: I crushed the berries with sugar and immediately placed them in the freezer.
Made 16 liter bottles! Then, at some point, I got tired of picking berries and started taking my friends to the patch. They also had enough.
Raspberries finished fruiting only at the end of August, providing us with an unprecedented amount of berries. The family is big, five people, and we froze so much and ate fresh.
CHEAP AND PRACTICAL
In 2021, the bushes rested: they sat green all season and did not even bloom. However, there were no flowers on apple trees, pears, plums, strawberries were not visible at all in the forest ... And then a hot, dry, suffocating summer came. Not a single rain, the air seemed to freeze, not the slightest breath of breeze. There has never been such an unbearable heat in my entire 45-year-old century!
Even the famous heat wave of 2010 could not be compared with the summer of 2021. We simply could not leave the house: we went to the forest at four in the morning and after six in the evening. The purchased freezer saved us: we froze the water and covered ourselves with bottles of ice. Somehow they survived.
Many plants did not bloom: why waste energy if later you still can’t grow berries? As if someone whispered to them: do not bloom - there will be a terrible heat ... Plants are smart. They know what and when to give a person.
The harvest of raspberries harvested in 2020 is still enough, there are still five kilograms of frozen ones. Recently opened the last jar of jam - the taste is the same.
Households used to often buy pomegranate juice, and many liter bottles accumulated at home. They are made of thick glass, so we leave them for household needs.
I adapted to roll jams and compotes into them, one liter is just enough for us for lunch.
That's what we call them: dining. They are convenient to store in the refrigerator - on the bottom shelf it easily fits
20 l. How many bottles are in the pantry, I don’t even count, probably more than a hundred. I only buy lids, they are cheap. In general, a cheap and practical way, take note, housewives!
It is easier to prevent a disease than to treat it later, fearing to lose the crop. Preventive measures to protect bushes from gray rot: observe crop rotation, do not thicken plantings, water moderately, remembering to loosen the soil after that, and remove and destroy the affected parts of the plant in a timely manner. Before the formation of fruits, it is permissible to treat raspberries with biofungicides according to the instructions.
Reference by topic: Mulching with sawdust and other uses in the garden
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