Blackberry variety
Agavam was withdrawn more than 130 years ago in the USA.Refers to a straightforward blackberry. Bushes are powerful, tall, shoots are thick. Berries are large, short-conical, black, dense, much sweeter than raspberries, ripen in August. The abundant and Texas are deduced by IV Michurin. Refer to the crouched blackberry. The bush is strong, shoots are long, thin. Berries The abundant are large, elongated, black, sweet and sour, ripen in August;berries Texas - in full maturity dark crimson, almost black, with a weak waxy coating, fragrant, excellent taste with pleasant sourness.
Thornfree - bearing grade, bred in the USA.Berries are short-conical, black, shiny, sour taste, ripen in August. All these varieties, unfortunately, are not resistant to winter and require shelter for the winter.
Planting: preplant soil tillage is carried out in the autumn and 10-12 kg of repaired manure or compost, 40-50 g of superphosphate and 20-30 g of potassium fertilizers per 1 m2 are applied for digging.
Just as in the preparation of the soil for planting raspberries, it is possible to carry out not continuous preparation, but to excavate a trench with a width and depth of 40 cm, mix the removed layer of soil with organic and mineral fertilizers and fill the mixture in a trench. Plant blackberry plants best in the early spring. Straight standing varieties planted at a distance of 50-70 cm, creeping - at a distance of 100-125 cm from each other in a row with a width of between 2-2.5 m. In the planting pits with a size of 40 x 40 cm, pour the humus, distribute seedlings in them withshortened to 25-25 cm aboveground, covered with soil, abundantly watered and mulched with peat or humus.
Planting of blackberry plants
1. The upright varieties of blackberries need support, they are fastened with brackets or tied to a trellis representing several parallel rows of stretched wire or rope.
Care: the soil around the plants is kept in a loose and clean condition from weeds. Biennial breeding shoots are carved. Sweeping and semi-growing annual shoots are bent for winter to the ground and covered with potato or vegetable crops, film and other materials, and in the spring they raise and put on the trellis. For erect shoots of blackberry installation of trellis and bending of bushes for the winter does not hold, as hard shoots almost do not lie. Due attention should be paid to watering the plantations of blackberries. Next year after planting, in spring, the plants are watered abundantly( up to 5 buckets per bush).During the growing season, watering is required depending on the soil condition, especially during the period of filling and ripening of berries. In the section on pests and diseases of raspberries, a number of common pests and diseases of raspberries and blackberries are described. In addition, the blackberry is attacked by the blackberry gall mite, which damages the fruit. The pest is very small, 0.2 mm in size. He hibernates on a bush, in early spring moves to flowers, then to fruits. It is not difficult to fight with him: after picking berries, you must cut and destroy the shoots that have been fertilized. After trimming 3 times, sprinkle the bushes with infusions of garlic or pyrethrum with the addition of laundry soap. In the spring of next year, bushes are treated with the same solutions in order to prevent a new invasion of the tick.
Pruning: trimming techniques are the same as when caring for raspberries.
Harvesting: berries ripen non-simultaneously. They, as well as raspberries, are collected in several at
2. Rolling blackberry varieties are also tied to the support, while the fruiting and young stems are separated. Fruit-bearing branches are fixed and guided along the support, for example to the right, and the young stalks to the left. This separation of stems provides better illumination of the bush, ripening of berries and facilitates the harvesting of
volumes. Mature berries are easily separated from the calyx together with the fruit. Unlike raspberries, the blackberry fruit does not crumple during harvesting, they are distinguished by good transportability and are stored longer at zero temperature.
Usage: from berries it is possible to prepare juice, jam, jam, compotes, jellies, marmalade, pastille, jelly, various fillings and drinks.
The leaves produce excellent tea. In folk medicine, they believe that it has a multi-faceted action - wound-healing, anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic, diuretic, astringent and hemostatic. Prolonged use of it improves metabolism and blood composition. Fresh fruits and blackberry juice - a good multivitamin, fortifying agent, well quenching thirst at high temperature. They improve the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, increase digestion, appetite. Mature berries slightly relax the stomach, immature - have an astringent property. The fruits of blackberries are used for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder.