What type of fertilizer can be used for each type of plant? When do I fertilize? Before crop or after. Raspberries are over 45 years old asparagus maybe 30. What is the best type of mulch to keep down weeds?
These articles will help you.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/raspberry/when-to-feed-raspberries.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/asparagus/growing-asparagus.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/asparagus/salt-on-asparagus-weeds.htm
I have some fast spreading raspberry plants. I don't know the name.... they are red I have had them 4 years now and they have never produce so much as a bloom. What's wrong?
The most common cause is one of many incurable plant diseases. This article will help: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/blackberries/blackberries-not-fruiting.htm
Hi, I live in zone 7A, in the Intermountain west. My property is at 4,000ft. I have approximately 60 Fallgold raspberry plants that are otherwise happy and healthy. Every year they multiply, their soil is rich, they get ample moisture. The only problem I can see is that they're in a somewhat shady area, and so they only get about 3 hours of direct, morning sunlight. My berries have never blossomed, so obviously they've never set fruit. Other than more sunlight, I can't think of what to give them to help them flower. Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted. NorCal Pat.
You can try applying potassium phosphate, but the lack of light will, ultimately, be the cause of this. You will have to let them multiply until they reach out to a brighter area, or move them to a brighter area. This will be the only fix to the problem.
This article will give you more information on growing raspberries: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/raspberry/care-of-raspberry-plants.htm
Last year my late harvest raspberries had hundreds of very tiny white larvae or worms on them. Many I could see, and rinse off, but putting berries in water brought out scores more. I was reticent to eat any of the late harvest. How can I prevent this infestation? I live in lower Michigan and the berries have produced very well. I have never fertilized them. Should I? I usually prune to about 3-4 feet in late fall. I am unclear as to whether or not that is correct. My early-bearing a nd late-bearing berries have pretty much merged in their 15x6 foot plot. Thank you.
These articles may help
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/raspberry/raspberry-fruitworm-control.htm
Why would my raspberries be beautiful but as hard as a rock? Thank you
This could be due to drought or uneven watering.
The images don't really identify any disease or pests. Have you had successful berry crops in the past? During fruit development, raspberries require one to 1-1-/2 inches of water (either from rain or irrigation) per week. Insufficient moisture during this time may result in small, seedy berries. During dry weather, thoroughly water raspberry plants once a week. Soak the ground to a depth of 10 to 12 inches.
This article may help you.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/raspberry/care-of-raspberry-plants.htm
Plants seem to be growing well, there seems to be a lot of extra growth. but no matter how many new canes come up there never seems to be any berries produced.
In general, it takes two years for a specific cane to produce fruit. It grows vegetatively the first year, fruits the second year, then dies. Meanwhile, new vegetative canes come up from the base of the plant during the second year. These will become the fruiting canes the year after the first batch of canes dies off. If the one-year-old canes are cut off or die back during winter, your raspberries will not produce fruit because you have no two-year-old canes left in the patch.
Everbearing raspberries grow vegetatively through the summer of their first year, and in late summer/early fall, the tips of the first year canes produce fruit. Those tips die off over the first winter, but the rest of the cane fruits the following summer, then dies completely.
This link takes you to all our articles on Raspberries.
I think I have summer bearing, can I cut them back after summer harvesting and then again in spring before blooming?
If you started noticing small fruit in spring, and they are ready to eat by early to mid summer, then they will be summer bearing. If they take until mid fall to ripen then they will be considered fall bearing.
This article will help: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/raspberry/prune-summer-raspberry-bushes.htm
If it turns out to be a fall bearing type, then this article will help: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/raspberry/fall-bearing-raspberry-pruning.htm