Summer Garden Update: Raspberries
This fruiting bush has not been doing so well for the last year, it is affected by a virus that Aphids carry. Its causing the leaves to curl, and the fruit to be malformed. There is no way that I know to treat this virus, and all research shows that cutting them back and removing the affected leaves and fruit is about all you can do. With other conditions like with fungus you can spray them but viruses work from the inside out and making it very hard to treat.
I was wondering why I have not seen any Raspberries growing in the wild, this must be the reason. The Aphids around where I live carry this virus which the Raspberry plants are susceptible to.
During recording of this video I pull up and cut away any affected plants, and show what I am looking for to show that they have the leaf curl virus. I would like to keep them but if they are all affected by this virus I think ill just need to pull them up and grow something different in the area. The bush lasted almost 10 years, which was an okay run for them. Every year for the last ten years I would split them up expanding how many I had in an area. Eventually I had about fifteen feet of Raspberries and almost as tall as me. They tend to live 15 to 20 years so I got many years of great berries before the virus really but some hurt on the plant.
I am now growing a Hardy Kiwi vine in the area, and trying some Blackberry plants as well. We shall see if the virus returns to affect the Blackberry plants. Its hard to say but its possible. So growing the Hardy Kiwi vine is my backup plant if the Blackberry plants do not work out. Never grown Kiwi before, should be interesting if they work out well on the supports I placed them by.
I do not think I will try to grow any more Raspberries here in Georgia. Maybe if I move somewhere else its worth a try again. But knowing Aphids did this I do not think I can stop them from causing harm again.
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That's a real shame. I hope you can find some alternative berries or other fruit that will do well.
Our raspberries have done really well this year. I think that could be down to when we got rain. I like that they are pretty low maintenance. I just cut them right back each year and up they pop. I've been picking a handful every couple of days. They go well with the blackberries that come over the fence from the wild patch next door.
Hope yours dont get sick. Mine were doing great up till about a year or two ago and then dropped off drasticly.
Yeah that's why I'm growing something different there now so it wont come back.
Mine have been there a few years now. It's down to luck if you get some disease I guess. Tomatoes are ripening now. Hope we will get a few more before it gets colder. The nights are cooler now, but still warms up in the day. I'm thinking of taking a swim now. The pool may get put away soon.
Yeah I'm afraid it is. Having a few hundred plants and just one of them gets sick sounds like mother nature is doing its thing.
Nice! We have been collecting our tomatoes as well. I think we harvested about half a dozen this year already.
It's seems the virus has been pretty nasty and the way to get it off the berry isn't really cool. So since growing the Kiwi plant is your option does this means it's somehow immune to the virus?
Yeah growing something very different from raspberries should stop the virus from spreading. So Kiwis are very different.. hope it works
I also tried to grow raspberries a little, but she got sick ..
Here is what the Deputy Executive Director of the Association of Gardeners of Russia (APPYAPM), a leading specialist of the Association of Gardeners-Nursery Breeders (ASP-RUS) for berry crops, writes about raspberry viruses:
"A serious problem in growing raspberries, including remontant raspberries, are various viral diseases. Infection with pathogens of viral diseases (viruses) occurs when the juice of a diseased plant gets on the damaged tissue of a healthy one. Viral diseases are transmitted by aphids, ticks, nematodes. a tool used in soil cultivation and pruning. In some cases, the source of a viral infection may be the pollen of an infected plant. During vegetative propagation of a plant infected with viral diseases, all its offspring are also infected. The virus-infected plant never recovers. "
Ah darn, well glad I'm not the only one that has had troubles with them.
Yup as your research says it's an Aphid problem. Thanks for that report.
Yes, and at my girlfriend raspberry also got sick and died ..
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