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Gardeners are known to love experimenting. That is why a lot of exotic plants grow on their plots, differing in size and color of fruits. Interest in berry crops is also high, since the assortment is quite extensive.
Raspberry Golden Domes is just such a series, since its berries are golden yellow in color. A description of the variety, characteristic features, reviews and photos of gardeners will be presented below, so that our readers have the opportunity to understand whether to take on raspberries or not.
Description
The raspberry variety Golden Domes was created by breeders. Today it is in the lists of the State Register. A remontant type plant is recommended to be grown in the Central region of Our Country, but self-fertile raspberries have long crossed the proposed boundaries.
Bushes
Variety Golden domes remontant, with medium branching, sprawling. The height of the bush ranges from 1,3-1,5 m. The growth of upright shoots is moderate, which has a positive effect on care. There are few offspring of the first year on the raspberry variety, they are easy to distinguish by their light green color and light pubescence and wax coating. In addition, they are much thinner than two-year-old shoots. On two-year-olds, the bark is pale brown.
Sheet plastics are medium in size, rich green in color. Slight pubescence and wrinkling are present. Raspberry leaves of the Golden Dome variety are slightly twisted.
Fruit
The berries of the variety are hemispherical, weighing up to 3,8 grams. They are located on a short stem, well separated. Particles will not separate during picking and processing, raspberry fruits retain their integrity. The berries have a slight pubescence, yellow at an early stage of ripening, a little overripe, they acquire the color of an apricot.
Important! Raspberries with a yellow color do not cause allergic reactions, so they can be safely included in the diet of children and pregnant women.
The fruits are tender, juicy with subtle notes, somewhat different from the usual raspberry taste: the berries of the Golden Domes variety are sweetish-sour. If we consider the composition, then in raspberries 13,8% of dry matter, sugar 6,4%, ascorbic acid C 17,8 mg /%.
Productivity
According to the description of the variety, reviews of gardeners and sent photos, the fruiting of the remontant raspberry Golden Domes is plentiful. You can see for yourself.
As a rule, with the organization of proper care and observance of agricultural technology, more than two kilograms of amber berries are harvested from a remontant raspberry bush. Farmers set the bar for yield within 100 centners of raspberry varieties per hectare.
Characteristic of the variety
To obtain information about the features of the variety, descriptions and photos are not always enough. It is important for gardeners to know the positive and negative sides of the Golden Dome raspberry in order to decide on its cultivation.
Advantages
- Ripening dates. Raspberry varieties are medium early, fruiting is extended from June to the first frost.
- Productivity. As already noted in the description, the Golden Domes variety gives stable yields.
- Usage. Raspberries have a universal purpose: they can be consumed fresh, prepare juices, compotes, preserves, jams. During heat treatment, useful qualities are not lost.
- Keeping quality. Fresh fruits keep well in the refrigerator.
- Transportation. Berries of the remontant variety Golden Domes do not lose their marketable appearance during long-term transportation, which is highly welcomed by farmers and gardeners who grow raspberries for sale.
- Survival. Remontant raspberries of the variety withstand not only short-term drought, but also frosts up to 22 degrees. Only in regions with a sharply continental climate, the beds will have to be covered.
- Diseases and pests. The originators of the variety took care of the immunity of the Golden Dome raspberry variety, so it rarely gets sick. As for pests, they need to be dealt with.
Gardeners do not note any special shortcomings.
Repair raspberries in autumn:
Choose a place
Ridges for raspberries, in order to get a stable harvest, must be selected wisely:
- First, it should be a well-lit place.
- Secondly, the ridges are oriented from north to south to ensure that the raspberry bushes are warmed by the sun and air circulates.
- Thirdly, groundwater should not lie low.
- Fourthly, remontant raspberries of the Golden Domes variety prefer soil with a pH of 5,5-6,5.
How to determine acidity
There are many ways to determine the acidity of the soil, and it is not necessary to have a litmus test. Each gardener grows currants or bird cherry in the garden, so they will become the main assistants:
- you need to boil water (1 cup) and brew 3-5 leaves;
- cool the infusion to room temperature;
- add soil to the glass.
Now it remains to observe the reaction of the infusion. A red color of the solution indicates acidic soil. Green color – about slight acidity. If the water turns blue, then the soil at the planting site of the raspberries is neutral.
Fixing the soil
If the test indicated an increased or medium acidity of the soil, the following measures can be taken:
- Slaked lime. Fast-acting fertilizer containing magnesium and calcium. It is applied 14 days before planting raspberries. On clay and loamy soils, 500 grams of slaked substance is needed, on sandy soils – 300 grams. With a slight acidity, 300 and 200 grams, respectively, are enough.
- Furnace ash (ash). Wood ash not only reduces the acidity of the soil, but also saturates it with nutrients. Indeed, the composition of organic fertilizer includes many trace elements, including phosphorus and potassium.
- Chalk. This substance can be applied even on soils with neutral acidity.
Planting bushes
Before planting remontant raspberries of the Golden Dome variety, the ridges are dug up for two weeks. A large amount of organic matter is necessarily introduced: manure, compost, humus. When landing in a trench or pit, a ten-liter bucket is added per square meter. The depth of the seats is about 50 cm, since 20 of them are filled with drainage.
Raspberry is a plant that requires not only nutrient soil, but also drainage. Many gardeners advise filling the bottom of a trench or pit not only with stones and broken bricks, but also with so-called firewood. It can be sawn knots and tree branches. In their opinion, during decay, this drainage feeds the roots of raspberries. Soil is poured on top of the drainage and well spilled with water so that there are no air voids.
If raspberry seedlings were purchased from a nursery or received by mail, they must be soaked in water. You can add potassium permanganate or wood ash. The water procedure will saturate the shoots with moisture and breathe life into the seedlings. Before planting, the seedlings are pruned, leaving 4-5 buds.
When planting raspberry seedlings, you need to be careful. The upper kidneys should be at surface level. After planting raspberries, the soil must be trampled down to squeeze out the air. Then water generously. The soil will settle a little, thereby cling tightly to the raspberry roots. The ridges must be mulched to retain moisture.
Features of care
According to the description and reviews, remontant raspberries of the Golden Domes variety are a big lover of water, although they can also survive a short-term drought. Watering should be plentiful, from 30 to 40 liters of water per square meter.
Emerging weeds must be removed immediately so as not to produce pests. Watering is desirable to accompany the surface loosening of the soil.
When the remontant raspberry grows to 80 cm, the first garter is carried out to the trellis. This procedure not only saves plants from breakage, but also provides each shoot with uniform lighting and free air circulation.
With regards to top dressing, then 2-3 years after planting raspberries of the Golden Dome variety, it is not necessary to fertilize the ridges if the soil has been well seasoned. Although watering with an extract of wood ash or an infusion of green grass will not harm the plants.
When growing raspberries of the Golden Dome variety in the southern regions, plantings are not covered. But in regions with a more severe climate, the ridges must be sprinkled with a layer of soil to ensure a comfortable wintering.
Trimming
Trimming repair raspberries is a must. This allows you to increase productivity, relieves planting from pests. The fact is that insects and spores of diseases most often accumulate in two-year-old shoots.
Pruning is carried out in the fall. At the same time, two-year-old shoots that have already fructified are necessarily cut out. The replacement shoots of the first year, which also produce in the summer, can be cut at the level of 3 cm or left to winter.
In the spring, sanitary pruning of raspberries is carried out. Weakened and diseased shoots are cut at the root. Overwintered shoots are cut to 20-30 cm. Shoots of the first year are cut when they reach a height of 80-90 cm to stimulate the appearance of side branches on raspberries.
During the summer it is necessary to thin out the plantings. Despite the fact that the remontant raspberry Golden Domes, according to gardeners, does not give a large amount of overgrowth, part of it still needs to be cut out.