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By Dorothy Pooh
The soil in which the cuttings are to be struck should be free from perennial weeds. The rows should be 18 inches apart, and the cuttings should be 5 inches apart in the rows.
Normally raspberries are raised from suckers which come either from the bottom of the original stems or from adventitious buds which are readily produced on the roots. Those who go in for raising raspberries for sale invariably have special nursery beds two miles or more away from any fruiting canes.
It is possible to encourage root formation by making a hole 5 inches deep and by putting in the bottom of this an inch layer of sedge peat and above this layer fine soil and sedge peat mixed in equal parts. The tip is then buried in the centre of the hole, and the soil is pressed down firmly. Some gardeners make up a John Innes Compost, put it into a 3- inch paper pot, bury this pot in the ground, inserting the shoot into the centre of the compost in the pot, and thus producing what may be called a pot plant.
Those who are anxious to extend their raspberry rows by means of suckers from their own canes should be quite certain that the parent canes are healthy. It might be allowable and advisable to propagate from canes received from a certified source, say for the first two or three years after planting.
Growing gooseberries is easy. Having selected your healthy bushes, cut off with a sharp knife pieces of one-year-old wood at least 12 inches long, preferably 15 inches. It is important to take these cuttings before the leaves fall in the autumn, say in October rather than in November, as in the case of blackcurrants and redcurrants. The wood chosen should be well-ripened and the cuttings should be prepared by using a sharp- bladed knife to make a cut just below a bud at the base and just above a bud at the top end. Using the same knife, remove carefully all the buds which are found in the axils of the prickles or spines, except the top three.
The shoot tip which is usually somewhat unripened should always be discarded. Set the cuttings in the ground within an hour or two of their having been severed from the bushes.
Normally raspberries are raised from suckers which come either from the bottom of the original stems or from adventitious buds which are readily produced on the roots. Those who go in for raising raspberries for sale invariably have special nursery beds two miles or more away from any fruiting canes.
It is possible to encourage root formation by making a hole 5 inches deep and by putting in the bottom of this an inch layer of sedge peat and above this layer fine soil and sedge peat mixed in equal parts. The tip is then buried in the centre of the hole, and the soil is pressed down firmly. Some gardeners make up a John Innes Compost, put it into a 3- inch paper pot, bury this pot in the ground, inserting the shoot into the centre of the compost in the pot, and thus producing what may be called a pot plant.
Those who are anxious to extend their raspberry rows by means of suckers from their own canes should be quite certain that the parent canes are healthy. It might be allowable and advisable to propagate from canes received from a certified source, say for the first two or three years after planting.
Growing gooseberries is easy. Having selected your healthy bushes, cut off with a sharp knife pieces of one-year-old wood at least 12 inches long, preferably 15 inches. It is important to take these cuttings before the leaves fall in the autumn, say in October rather than in November, as in the case of blackcurrants and redcurrants. The wood chosen should be well-ripened and the cuttings should be prepared by using a sharp- bladed knife to make a cut just below a bud at the base and just above a bud at the top end. Using the same knife, remove carefully all the buds which are found in the axils of the prickles or spines, except the top three.
The shoot tip which is usually somewhat unripened should always be discarded. Set the cuttings in the ground within an hour or two of their having been severed from the bushes.
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Incidentally, garden fruit trees like nectarberries, boysenberries, and other hybrid berries which grow in a similar manner to blackberries, are all propagated in the same way.
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