Raspberries at their summer cottage are gardening classics. Large, sweet, loved by both children and adults, raspberries delight with their useful properties.
Yellow raspberries are increasingly appearing in summer cottages today., because it is not inferior to red either in the characteristics of cultivation, or in taste, or in varietal variety.
The yellow giant is one of the most successful varieties yellow raspberries.
Description of the remontant variety
The yellow giant is a variety bred as a result of many years of work Professor V.V. Kichina. It was bred as a result of crossing the Maroseyka variety with the Ivanovskaya variety (since 1979) and has been bred in nurseries since 1991.
Description: the bushes are powerfully developed - the height in good soils reaches 2 m. The bushes are sprawling, with a developed root system, actively form shoots (up to 8-10 per season) and root suckers.
Stems are thick, resilient and strong, dark green corrugated leaves, fruit branches are elastic, of medium length, up to 20 berries are formed on each fruit branch.
Medium and large berries (up to 8 g) - conical or slightly rounded, yellow in color, which, when fully ripe, acquires an amber hue, drupes are medium and subtle.
The taste qualities of the Yellow Giant conquer everyone without exception - the berries are sweet, fragrant, with a delicate and rich aftertaste.
The yellow giant, like other varieties bred to increase the yield of raspberries, has high productivity - with proper care, more than 4 kg of berries can be harvested from one bush.
The first berries appear in early July, active fruiting lasts until early to mid-August. Gardeners who have experience planting yellow raspberries in central and southern Russia point to a longer fruiting period - until September.
Thus, in favorable climatic conditions, the Yellow Giant approaches remontant varieties.
Thanks to the developed root system the variety is frost-resistant and rather unpretentious... It can withstand frosts, but it is recommended to prepare raspberry bushes for wintering - bending the shoots under the snow.
The pros and cons of the Yellow Giant
The undoubted advantage of the variety is its taste. and the extraordinary color of the berries, which look especially aesthetically pleasing on the bush.
Fruiting bushes of yellow raspberries will become a real decoration of the summer cottage, and the taste of the berries refers to rich honey tastes, saturated with various shades.
Unlike many varieties of raspberries, 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 site from time to time.
The yellow giant is recommended to be consumed fresh - delicate berries crumple easily and give juice, quickly lose their shape during processing.
Freezing of yellow raspberries is possible with the loss of the shape of the berry, but preserving the taste and useful properties.
The disadvantages of the variety include rapid reproduction using shoots., but this quality allows one to judge the Yellow Giant as a rather unpretentious variety of raspberries.
Rules for planting and growing raspberries
The yellow giant is recommended to be planted in autumn or spring.like other raspberry varieties. Autumn planting allows the bush to root well, saturate with the nutrients contained in the soil and give the first harvest in July-August.
When purchasing seedlings in the autumn season, you should pay attention to the presence of ovaries or ripe raspberries. The presence of yellow berries guarantees a youthful shoot.
After the purchase, the top of the bush along with the berries is recommended to be cut off so that the shoot takes root well.
The yellow giant requires special location - it is recommended to plant it in open, well-lit areas.
Before planting the Yellow Giant, the soil should be well prepared - carefully dig up the ground, remove the weeds, fertilize the soil.
Ash and manure are universal fertilizers for raspberries., which increase immunity, decontaminate the soil, nourish the shoots, increasing the subsequent increase in yield.
Like other varieties of raspberries, The yellow giant requires being tied to a trellis or special stakes... Usually, for planting raspberries, a cord is pulled along which it is planted.
The cord serves not only as a guideline for the row when the bush grows, but also as a fastener with the obligatory garter of branches.
Like other varieties of raspberries, seedlings of the Yellow Giant are planted at a distance of 70 cm, the row spacing should correspond to the height of the bush, i.e. 1.5 to 2 meters.
The depth of planting in the ground is 40 cm; when planting, humus or peat is added to the furrow.
Care
The yellow giant is an unpretentious varietyLike most raspberry varieties, it requires rich soil, watering, weeding, and fertilization.
The variety is sensitive to watering - it does not tolerate stagnant water, waterloggedness, as well as too dry soil, otherwise the yield of the variety will decrease, and the berry will become small.
The responsiveness of raspberries to fertilizers 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 harvest when fertilized with urea, ammophos or nitrophos (4-6 kg per hundred square meters).
Fertilizer is spread in the aisle, laying out under a bush can burn it and lead to death.
An important step in caring for the Yellow Giant is weeding and loosening the soil - small and especially large weeds should not interfere with the growth of raspberry bushes.
Regular loosening provides a good flow of oxygen, saturates raspberries with nutrients.
Preparing for wintering, the Yellow Giant should be freed from the trellis, bend to the ground so that the bushes covered with snow can easily endure 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 bear fruit well for up to 10 years., after this period the berries become smaller, lose their original varietal appearance.
Reproduction
The yellow giant, like her red relatives, reproduces by shoots from the root, which allows it to grow easily and transform from a humble 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
The yellow giant is a rare raspberry variety with no sour tasteand the sweetness of the berry does not have a cloying and complex aftertaste.
This is due to the presence of folic acid and vitamin B9 in the berries of the Yellow Giant - sources of support and protection of the immune system.
Yellow raspberries can be eaten by people with allergic reactions, for small children even at the stage of the first feeding, for pregnant women, it does not contain dyes and has a low acidity.
Diseases and pests
The Yellow Giant variety is less susceptible to pests and diseasesthan his red relatives. In summer cottages, a situation is common when neighboring red raspberry bushes are infected with a weevil or raspberry mite, and the nearby bushes of the Yellow Giant are completely clean.
Preventively or when pests appear, it is necessary process the bushes with Karbofos, Fufanon or Iskra... Processing is carried out only after fruiting or before the first flowering of raspberries.
Proper planting and watering will eliminate the appearance of diseases. So, The yellow giant can get sick from excessively cold water and its excess, as well as the presence in the soil of pest larvae left over from previously planted crops - strawberries, potatoes, peppers, etc.
Gardeners reviews
The spread of the yellow raspberry gave birth to its supporters and admirers. Most gardeners speak positively about 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: “The yellow remontant raspberry is a delight. The berry, however, is no longer so tasty ... The less daylight, the less sweet the berry. "
Irina: “The height of the Yellow Giant bushes in our country reaches more than two meters. Have to be cut in the fall. And even in good soil, without weeds, the berry is not large. But very fragrant and tasty. In our region (Sverdlovsk region), the September harvest is not obtained. "
The yellow giant is the decoration of the garden... High productivity, aesthetic appeal, taste qualities of yellow raspberries will satisfy the most demanding tastes.