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By John Hawks
Blackberries are propagated by tips. Strong young, healthy canes arc selected during the third week of August and these are buried into 1 lb. chips containing the John Innes Compost 1, about 4 inches deep in the ground. Once the chip basket has been buried in the soil, the tip in its turn can be buried in the centre of the basket and the compost firmed.
It will not be long before the tip grows roots and pushes its way through the soil, so that by the beginning of the second week of September excellent young plants are produced which are well rooted. It is possible by about the end of the second week of September to cut back the tip plants to just below the point where the new growth is taking place. This can be done in November. The tip shoot, however, may be left in the ground where it is, when it will be ready for transplanting in the following August.
The raspberry beetles have a nasty habit of laying their eggs in the open blossom of the blackberries and thus, later on, you get maggoty fruits. Spraying with liquid derris, at blossom time to kill the beetles, when the beetles are about, laying their eggs, will kill them.
Various types of aphides, or greenfly, will attack blackberries and if they give trouble, by sucking the growing tips of the canes, spray immediately they are seen with liquid derris.
Sometimes the green capsid bugs suck the leaves, thus deforming them and splitting them and even stunting the growth. The safest way of killing this pest is to spray with liquid nicotine, dissolving a oz. in a 21 gallon can of water and adding a dessert spoonful of Stergene.
The moment the blackcurrants have been planted, the whole of the ground where they are growing should be covered with baled straw a foot deep. This should be clean and be free from docks or thistles. Each year a little more straw is added if necessary, so as to keep the depth at about a foot. Of course, during the time of picking, the straw may be trodden down well and at this stage, when flattened, it may be no deeper than 4 or 5 inches.
It will not be long before the tip grows roots and pushes its way through the soil, so that by the beginning of the second week of September excellent young plants are produced which are well rooted. It is possible by about the end of the second week of September to cut back the tip plants to just below the point where the new growth is taking place. This can be done in November. The tip shoot, however, may be left in the ground where it is, when it will be ready for transplanting in the following August.
The raspberry beetles have a nasty habit of laying their eggs in the open blossom of the blackberries and thus, later on, you get maggoty fruits. Spraying with liquid derris, at blossom time to kill the beetles, when the beetles are about, laying their eggs, will kill them.
Various types of aphides, or greenfly, will attack blackberries and if they give trouble, by sucking the growing tips of the canes, spray immediately they are seen with liquid derris.
Sometimes the green capsid bugs suck the leaves, thus deforming them and splitting them and even stunting the growth. The safest way of killing this pest is to spray with liquid nicotine, dissolving a oz. in a 21 gallon can of water and adding a dessert spoonful of Stergene.
The moment the blackcurrants have been planted, the whole of the ground where they are growing should be covered with baled straw a foot deep. This should be clean and be free from docks or thistles. Each year a little more straw is added if necessary, so as to keep the depth at about a foot. Of course, during the time of picking, the straw may be trodden down well and at this stage, when flattened, it may be no deeper than 4 or 5 inches.
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Raspberry is a luscious garden fruit tree produced on tall canes which are grown apart in rows and supported on a system of poles and wires.
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