Delicious and fragrant, sweet and healthy, healing and such a favorite berry - raspberry. It is hard to imagine that there is no this berry at the dacha, because it does not require increased attention, with proper care for raspberries in spring, it will please with a bountiful harvest.
Planting and transplanting bushes
Each plant loves a certain "its" composition of the soil, an abundance of light and its neighbors. Raspberries are no exception. To break a raspberry it is necessary to choose a flat sunny place, sheltered from the winds, with a highly nourishing top layer. 
The choice of location is one of the factors that affects the yield. If the raspberry plant is placed on the hillock - the plants will suffer from insufficient moisture, in a low place may freeze the kidneys.
Excessive soil moistening can lead to rotting of the root system, the lack of moisture will lead to a slight harvest, affect the number of shoots and the size of the berries. Placing raspberries on a wind-blown place in combination with low temperatures will cause the plant to freeze.
Important! To determine the time breakdown raspberry necessary to rely on the average daily air temperature - it must be at least +5 °WITH.
Bookmark raspberry begins with the preparation of the soil. He needs a land rich in organic matter. The most convenient method of planting raspberries is planting bushes in trenches.
With this method, organics are introduced into the prepared ditches (40 cm wide and 40 cm deep), which provides the plant with nutrition. If everything is done correctly, then you will not have to wonder in the coming years how to care for raspberries in the spring so that there will be a good harvest. When planting and replanting shrubs in prepared trenches or holes, place the seedling at a depth slightly below the bud and cover it with prepared organic soil.
Learn all the details of planting raspberries in the area in the spring and autumn.The distance between seedlings should be at least 60 cm. Planted bushes watered. After the moisture is absorbed, the trench (hole) is filled with sawdust or humus, and the newly planted plant is cut at around 30 cm above the ground. If precipitation does not fall out, then after a couple of days, the seedlings need to be watered again.
Spring dressing and soil care
If you planted a raspberry in a trench way, following all the rules (laying organic fertilizers), then for 2-3 years you can not think about caring for raspberries in the spring and applying supplementary feeding. 
It is only necessary to monitor the condition of the soil cover - do not allow the bush to be overgrown with weeds and grass.
Important! Experienced gardeners have noted that if raspberries grow among grass - that the harvest is weak, and young shoots are not growing.
To preserve moisture, the ground near the bushes with raspberries must be mulched. There is an opinion that it is not necessary to mechanically act on the ground under the raspberry (to dig and loosen) in order not to injure the root system. 
You just need to make and bring mulch throughout the season. So the moisture is better preserved, and the earth does not dry out.
Raspberry, planted in the hole, responds well to fertilizing with organic and complex fertilizers:
- "raspberry" fertilizer, used 1.5 kg of finished product per 1 square. m: 3 kg of rotted manure combined with 6 g of potassium, 4 g of phosphorus, 6 g of nitrogen;
- mineral complex fertilizer for 5 l of water: superphosphate - 30 g, ammonium nitrate - 15 g, potassium salts - 20 g
The most important stage: pruning
At the dacha care for raspberries involves spring work such as pruning.
Did you know? In stressful situations, raspberries are indispensable. Due to the high content of copper in the berries, it helps to get rid of the depression.
In spring, the plants are cut twice. In early spring, immediately after the snow has gone, they make sanitary pruning of raspberries.
Vymerzshie, dried, broken stalks are to be removed. Underdeveloped, weak, diseased and pest-damaged stems are also rejected. 
Along the way, at the same time, it is necessary to thin the bush - remove excess seedlings, leaving 4-6 stems (if the bush is planted in the holes) or 10-15 sprouts (if the raspberry is planted in a trench way) in 1 m row.
Check out the rules for growing some varieties of raspberries: "Polka", "Canadian", "Caramel", "Yellow Giant", "Cumberland", "Atlant", "Heracles".Such care for raspberries is mandatory in the spring, as after trimming the bush becomes ventilated, and, therefore, will not continue to suffer from pests.
Important! When cutting it is necessary to use sharp tools: a knife or pruner.
The second time the raspberry is cut off after bud break, the stem is shortened by 15-20 cm. This stimulates the plant to release side shoots.
Disease and pest treatment
Raspberry spring care involves treating the bushes for diseases, and pest control is carried out. 
After the sanitation of raspberry bushes, it is necessary to collect all the branches, all the foliage and burn, because insects that can cause harm to raspberries winter in these places. Thus, the majority of pests are destroyed before they wake up.
Important! Spraying the bush with a furgicide, before budding, will destroy all parasites without exception.
The beginning of May is considered to be the best time for work on the processing of raspberries. For such works it is better to choose a cloudy, non-sunny day and time before the bush blooms. 
If a plant is affected by kidney moth, it is treated with Bordeaux mixture or karbofos.
Did you know? Raspberry berries and leaves contain folic acid. It is very useful to take tea from these components to women planning pregnancy and pregnant women.
With the defeat of the bush raspberry gallitsa and its larvae - it is treated with "Fufanon", "Aktellik". To do this, dilute with 15 ml of product in 8 l of water.
Pay attention to the unusual raspberry: yellow, raspberry tree Tarusa, emaline.Stem fly will not be able to get out of hibernation if the raspberry trunks are covered with a good layer of mulch. Also, pine needle mulch protects the plant from infection by gray mold.
When considering how to care for raspberries in the spring after winter, we can see that this plant is not very demanding and with proper care (pruning, fertilizing and watering) will please with a bountiful harvest.
