Raspberries on the dacha - a classic gardening. Large, sweet, loved by both children and adults, raspberry berries are pleased with their beneficial properties.
Yellow raspberry today increasingly appears in the suburban areasbecause it is not inferior to red either in the characteristics of cultivation, in taste or in varietal diversity.
Yellow giant - one of the most successful varieties yellow raspberries.
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Description of the repair variety
Yellow giant - a variety bred as a result of many years of work Professor V.V. Kichinoy. It was bred as a result of crossing the Maroseika variety with the Ivanovskaya variety (since 1979) and has been breeding in nurseries since 1991.
Description: the bushes are powerfully developed - the height with good soils reaches 2 m. The bushes are sprawling, with a developed root system, they actively form shoots (up to 8-10 per season) and root shoots.
Stems are thick, resilient and strong, dark green corrugated leaves, fruit branches elastic, of medium length, up to 20 berries form on each fruit branch.
Berries of medium and large size (up to 8 g) - conical or slightly rounded in shape, yellow in color, which, when fully matured, acquires an amber shade, and the drupes are medium and inconspicuous.
The yellow giant, like other varieties bred to increase the yield of raspberries, is highly productive - with the right care, more than 4 kg of berries can be harvested from one bush.
The first berries appear in early July.active fructification lasts until the beginning-mid-August.Gardeners with experience in planting yellow raspberries in the middle and southern strip of Russia indicate a longer period of fruiting - until September.
Thus, in favorable climatic conditions, the Yellow Giant is approaching remontant varieties.
Thanks to the advanced root system the variety is frost resistant and quite unpretentious. It withstands frosts, but recommended the preparation of raspberry bushes for wintering - bending down shoots under the snow.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Yellow giant
The undoubted advantage of the variety is the taste. and the unusual color of the berries that look on the bush is particularly aesthetic.
Fruiting yellow raspberry bushes will be a real decoration of the summer cottage, and the taste of the berries refers to honey rich tastes, rich in various shades.
Unlike many raspberry varieties, berries are able to stay on the stalk for a long time and not crumble. This is important for those summer residents who cannot harvest every day, but appear on their own plot from time to time.
It is recommended to use the yellow giant fresh - gentle berries easily crumple and give juice,quickly lose their shape during processing.
Freezing of yellow raspberries is possible with the loss of the shape of the berries, but preserving the taste and beneficial properties.
The disadvantages of the variety include rapid reproduction with shoots, but this quality makes it possible to judge the Yellow Giant as a rather unpretentious raspberry variety.
Rules for planting and growing raspberries
Yellow giant is recommended to land in autumn or springlike other raspberry varieties. Autumn planting allows the bush to take root well, get enough of the nutrients contained in the soil and give the first harvest in July-August.
After buying the top of the bush, together with the berries, it is recommended to cut it so that the shoot takes root well.
Yellow Giant requires special location - it is recommended to land in open, well-lit areas.
Before planting the Yellow Giant, it is necessary to prepare the soil well - carefully dig the ground, removing weeds, and fertilize the soil.
Universal fertilizer for raspberry Yellow giant are ash and manurewhich enhance immunity, deoise the soil, nourish shoots, increasing the subsequent increase in yield.
Like other raspberry varieties, Yellow giant requires tying to a trellis or special stakes.. Usually for planting raspberries pull the cord along which it lands.
The cord is not only a guideline of the series when the bush grows, but also a fastener with mandatory binding of branches.
Like other raspberry varieties, seedlings of the Yellow giant are planted at a distance of 70 cmThe aisle should correspond to the height of the bush, i.e. 1.5 to 2 meters.
Depth of planting in the soil - 40 cm, when planting in the furrow add humus or peat.
Care
Yellow giant - unpretentious varietyLike most raspberry varieties, it requires rich soil, watering, weeding and fertilizer.
Variety sensitive to watering - it does not tolerate stagnation of water, bogs, and too dry soil, otherwise the yield of the variety will decrease, and the berry will become shallow.
Responsiveness of raspberry to fertilizer is well known to gardeners. When planting, as well as in the spring and autumn periods, raspberries require feeding.
In addition to the popular ash, peat, manure, the Yellow Giant responds with a good yield when fertilized with urea, ammonium or nitrophoska (4-6 kg per hundred square meters).
Fertilizer spread in the aisle, laying out under a bush can burn it and lead to death.
An important step in the care of the Yellow Giant is weeding and loosening the soil - small and especially large weeds should not interfere with the growth of crimson bushes.
In preparation for the winter, the Yellow Giant should be freed from the trellis, bend down to the ground so that the bushes covered with snow easily endured the most severe frosts.
In some cases, pruning to ground level is recommended to avoid the development of diseases and pests.
With good care, raspberry bushes can fruit well for up to 10 yearsafter this period the berries become smaller, lose their original varietal appearance.
Breeding
The yellow giant, like its red relatives, propagated by shoots from the root, which allows it to easily grow and turn from a modest planting into dense thickets.
Abundant shoots can be an excellent planting material for new raspberries, they easily take root in a new place and do not require special care (except as described above).
Beneficial features
Yellow giant is a rare raspberry variety, in its taste there is no sournessand the sweetness of the berry has not a cloying and complex aftertaste.
This is due to the presence in the berries of a yellow giant of folic acid and vitamin B9. - sources of maintenance and protection of the immune system.
Yellow raspberries can be used by people with allergic reactions., for small children, even at the first feeding stage, for pregnant women, it does not contain any coloring matter and has low acidity.
Diseases and pests
The variety Yellow Giant is less susceptible to pests and diseases.than his red relatives. In suburban areas, the situation is widespread when neighboring red raspberry bushes are infected with a weevil or raspberry mite, and the nearby bushes of the Yellow Giant are completely clean.
Simple care for yellow raspberries will help to avoid the influence of pests, for this you need to regularly loosen, feed, cut and tie up raspberry.
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Prophylactically or when pests appear process bushes with Karbofos, Fufanon or Spark. Processing is carried out only after fruiting or before the first flowering of raspberries.
Proper planting and watering will eliminate the appearance of disease. So, Yellow giant can get sick from excessively cold water and its overabundance, as well as the presence in the soil of larvae of pests left over from previously planted crops - strawberries, potatoes, peppers, etc.
Gardeners reviews
The spread of yellow raspberries has given rise to its supporters and admirers. Most gardeners respond positively to the Yellow Giant., noting the pleasant taste and ease of care:
Marina: “The yellow giant is a gorgeous berry, sweet, large. It can be planted so that everyone can see such beauty! ”
Maria: “Yellow repair raspberry is an exquisite. The berry, however, is not so tasty anymore ... The less light day there is, the less sweet the berry is. ”
Irina: “The height of the bushes of the Yellow giant here reaches over two meters. It is necessary to cut in the fall. And even in good soil, without weeds, the berries are not large. But very fragrant and tasty.In our region (Sverdlovsk region) the September harvest is not working. ”
Yellow giant is the decoration of the garden plot. High yield, aesthetic appeal, taste of yellow raspberry will satisfy the most demanding tastes.
Is a yellow giant remontant variety? As far as I know, this Orange miracle is remontant, and the Yellow Giant is the usual two-year-old raspberry.