Harvesting delicious berries fresh from your own garden is a pleasure for children and adults alike, which enormously increases the joy of your own garden during the summer months. If raspberries and blackberries are cultivated, a suitable climbing aid for the plants should definitely be considered.
Raspberries grow better with a trellis
A climbing aid prevents various problems
Without appropriate care, raspberries and blackberries tend to grow in a creeping manner as soon as individual shoots reach a certain length. If, on the other hand, the plants are clearly guided along the wires or rods of a trellis, this has the following advantages:
- all plant parts are relatively evenly reached by sunlight
- Passages between individual plants or rows of plants are preserved
- improved ventilation prevents mildew and other diseases
- easier harvesting
- easier to distinguish between old and new shoots
A climbing aid can be made of different materials
There are many different types of climbing aids, but climbing aids for raspberries and blackberries usually consist of a type of support pillar and wires, sticks or cords stretched or suspended between them. Sometimes, quite simply, three rows of wires are stretched between metal rods driven sufficiently deep into the ground. However, more stability is offered by square timber with impact sleeves, on the sides of which the three rows of wire attached one above the other are attached twice at a certain distance using a spacer. In this way, the raspberry or blackberry shoots can easily be trained in an upright growth direction in the middle between the two rows of wire. With a little creativity, climbing aids for berries can also be made from a variety of materials such as wooden slats, old iron bars from fence systems or particularly sturdy bamboo sticks.
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If the shoots of raspberries or blackberries are fixed to a trellis with binding wire or other materials at a certain point in time, they can later be distinguished from freshly grown shoots. This can be an important gain of information for the pruning of the varieties that bear fruit on the two-year-old shoots.