Raspberry Award: variety description and characteristics, planting and care rules

Variety Award - domestic selection, bred more than 4 decades ago from varieties Lloyd George and Collective Farm Girl. It has become widespread due to its ability to grow in different climatic conditions and because of its high yield. Consider the description of the raspberry variety Award, characteristics, how to plant plants and care for them. How to protect raspberries from diseases and pest attacks, how to harvest.

Description and characteristics of raspberries

Raspberry bushes of this variety grow up to 2 m, moderately sprawling. The stems are massive, thick, flexible, they can be bent to the ground for winter shelter.Young shoots with a waxy coating, without pubescence, are green, becoming reddish in autumn. Each bush has an average number of them. There are few thorns, located on the lower part of the shoots. The leaves are large and medium in size.

According to the timing of the harvest, the Naprada variety belongs to medium varieties. In the southern regions, the berries ripen at the end of June, in the Urals and Siberia - at least 2 weeks later. Productivity - 3 kg from a bush. The size of the berries is 2-6 g, the color is bright red, the surface is matte. The pulp is medium firm.

Pros and Cons of Variety Reward

The best properties of this raspberry:

• resistance to viruses and fungi;
• hardiness to climate;
• bright taste and aroma of fruits;
• yield.

Disadvantages: susceptibility to ticks and gall midges.

Landing

The place for planting raspberries Reward should be chosen sunny and open so that the plants can be illuminated by the sun throughout the day. Raspberries growing in the shade will not be able to give a big harvest. As for humidity, you should not plant raspberries where water stagnates, as they do not like high humidity. The reaction of the soil should be neutral. According to the mechanical composition, the culture prefers light soils, sandy or loamy, well-fertilized, loose.

Planting scheme for this variety: in a row, plants can be placed at a distance of 1-1.5 m from each other, as they are quite compact. Row spacing should be done at 2 m. Before planting, the soil is cleared of weeds and residues of the previous crop, planting holes are made at least 50 cm deep and each is fertilized with rotted humus and ash in the amount of half a bucket of humus and 1 kg of ash.

Planting sequence: straighten the roots of the seedlings, put the raspberries in the hole, sprinkle with earth and compact it. Water if the soil is dry. Sprinkle the root zone with mulch from straw, hay, sawdust. Or lay a black agro fiber on the rows.

Care

After planting, you need to make sure that the soil does not dry out, at this time the roots need moisture. After rooting, the bushes can be watered less often - once a week. Pour water under the root, after watering, when the earth dries, loosen. If mulch is laid, loosening can be done less frequently. You also need to weed near the bushes and between the rows of grass.

Raspberries are fed at least 3 times: in early spring, when the plants begin to grow, before flowering and before the first berries begin to turn red.Organic or mineral fertilizers are used for top dressing, raspberry Navara grows equally well after top dressing of any kind.

It is recommended to grow the Naprada variety on a trellis, this method has several advantages over the traditional one: the shoots do not break, as they are fixed on the trellis, they are evenly illuminated by the sun and better ventilated. Care of the bushes is also simplified: it is easier to walk between them, water, feed, prune.

In autumn or early spring, it is time for pruning: damaged, dry, old shoots are removed from the bushes. Young leave up to 6-8 pieces. on an adult bush. The tops are shortened, which is why the shoots begin to branch. Everything cut is taken out of the raspberries and burned, especially those shoots that have traces of diseases.

For the winter, raspberries Reward are covered with mulch: a layer of about 10 cm thick is poured over the entire root zone. If the winter is cold in the region, you should also cover the bush: gather the lashes together and tie them, bend them to the ground, cover them with agrofiber from above. In a snowy winter, you need to rake snow on the bushes, which also plays the role of thermal insulation.

How to protect a plant from diseases and pests

Plants of the variety can become ill with anthracnose and mycoplasmosis. To prevent diseases, it is necessary to carry out preventive spraying with fungicidal preparations before the period when the manifestations of diseases are most likely.

If the infection has already spread, you should use drugs at a medicinal dose, spraying several times until the symptoms of the disease disappear. When using chemicals, you should choose those that do not have a long waiting period, especially if there is little time left before harvest.

Peculiarities of harvesting and harvest storage rules

Pick berries after they are ripe. Ripe berries turn red, acquire a pronounced aroma. The ripest ones make excellent preparations, sweet homemade preservation. Dense, not overripe fruits can be stored in the refrigerator. Pick carefully so that the berries do not wrinkle, and put in clean, dry containers.

Raspberry Reward is stored in the refrigerator for 2 weeks, the berries remain as tasty, fragrant and attractive in appearance as they were at the time of picking. Berries withstand transportation, they can be transported for sale if the variety is grown for sale.

Variety Reward - not new, but able to successfully compete with recently bred.Gardeners will be interested in its good adaptation to the Russian climate, productivity, disease resistance, undemanding care. In terms of agricultural technology, cultivation is no different from many other varieties of crops.

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