{"id":21083,"date":"2021-03-08T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T09:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21083"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T09:14:20","slug":"feed-raspberries-to-feed-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/feed-raspberries-to-feed-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Feed Raspberries to Feed You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You do not need to give your raspberries five a day for them to supply you with at least one portion a day of your fruit and vegetables. However feed your canes and treat your hungry raspberries right with these tips.<\/p>\n<h3>Good Food Guide for Raspberries.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Feed with a general fertiliser containing nitrogen for leafy growth, phosphorus for roots and shoot and potassium for for flowers and fruit. Growmore suits me but Phostrogen, Chempak of Vitax Q4 will do a similar job.<\/li>\n<li>If your leaves show signs of yellowing between veins it may be due to magnesium deficiency or the over use of potassium feeds. As a cure foliar feed with epsom salts solution in summer. I also start with an epsom soil feed in early spring.<\/li>\n<li>On chalky soil it may be worth giving a feed of sequestered iron in the form of sequestrene.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Mulch around the canes with well-rotted manure <\/span><\/span>but don&#8217;t bury the canes. This feeds and helps retain moisture both essential for good fruit. I also mulch and water in summer.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare the soil for new plants by deep digging adding well rotted compost and a slow release fertiliser such as bone meal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good luck with your cropping this year. May you pick enough raspberries to feed your daily portion needs with some leftover\u00c2\u00a0 to freeze or turn into jam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do not need to give your raspberries five a day for them to supply you with at least one portion a day of your fruit and vegetables. However feed your canes and treat your hungry raspberries right with these tips. Good Food Guide for Raspberries. Feed with a general fertiliser containing nitrogen for leafy growth, phosphorus for roots and shoot and potassium for for flowers and fruit. Growmore suits me but Phostrogen, Chempak of Vitax Q4 will do a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/feed-raspberries-to-feed-you\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21085,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083\/revisions\/21085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}