Raspberries in column form - trading gag with a short shelf life
One Pillar pear or one Column cherry grow in spite of their rather compact growth form due to breeding parameters to a certain extent and get even with regular Cut back over time an increasingly thick trunk and a strong rootstock. Raspberries follow a fundamentally different pattern with their growth, since they change with their growth new rods right next to the old rods at the latest every two years in their entire plant mass renew. So if so-called "columnar raspberries" are offered in specialist plant shops, you can by no means rely on a stable columnar shape without special care measures. Most of the time, maintaining a column shape is made easier by a suitable climbing trellis. Newly grown rods still have to be steered and fixed in a targeted manner in a column shape, while old rods die off and have to be removed.
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Train raspberries to form a column yourself
There are certainly differences between the growth parameters of different ones Raspberry varieties, but in principle almost all raspberries can be made into a column shape by cutting and tying them up. To do this, the newly grown rods are simply attached to one with binding wire, twine or special clips Climbing aid attached and laterally or upwards proliferating shoots with a sharp one Secateurs cut. This process must be repeated up to twice a year.
Advantages of columnar raspberry bushes
If raspberry bushes are raised to an upright columnar shape, this has advantages:
- better ventilation and drying of the individual rods
- improved tanning
- easier harvest
- a generally tidier look in the raspberry patch
- better overview of old and new rods
Tips
In order to allow a particularly impressive column of raspberries to grow up, different types of raspberry (e.g. B. with different colored fruits). In addition to the one-year and two-year wood-fruiting varieties, the trade now also stocks raspberry varieties that enable two harvests per year. The two-year-old rods can then be removed after the first harvest, so that the one-year-old rods get even more light until the second harvest in the year.
