Currant - a valuable shrub, which is the source of a large number of beneficial vitamins and minerals. To get a good harvest blackcurrants, all the rules of care for plants from the very beginning of its introduction in the soil must be maintained as much as possible.
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Planted young bushes in autumn or spring. The best time for planting is considered to be September or October, as the spring, when the sap flow begins, the plant will grow actively. If currants are planted in the spring, this should be done prior to bud break in the trees. As for the soil, the plant is unpretentious to almost any composition, as long as the ground was swampy and not overly hydrated. However, to succeed blackcurrant, it is recommended to use a fertile bed consisting of sand, compost and peat thickness of 10-12 cm.
Tree trunks, it is desirable to lay mulch paper or dark film, poured into the center of the bush small mound height of 15-18 cm. Mulching the plant is necessary not only to preserve moisture, but also to combat the gooseberry moth, which is considered a dangerous pest of currants.
Equally well develop as bushes in the shade and in the sun. In early spring, once the snow melts, it is necessary to carry out preventive work, watering bushes hot water from a watering can with a fine strainer. This measure will save the plant from powdery mildew and other diseases, killing sleeping pests, pathogens defusing disputes and activating vitality currant. The water temperature should be approximately + 80 ° C. You may use even boiling water, ie. K. Fine droplets have time to cool down and the cool air will burn plant.
Conduct pouring boiling water is important before began to blossom buds, and if they are already swollen, the water temperature should be a little lower. Before blooming green leaves, remove diseased and damaged branches, as well as the affected kidney mite. At the sanitary trimming is performed and the total, giving a beautiful shape bush.
If the bushes in the fall were to hill, the tree trunks to be free, carefully dig the ground, removing weeds, and zamulchirovat using manure or humus. To lay the fertilizer around the bush need at a distance of 20 cm. Flowering of culture in the middle lane takes place from 8 to 17 May. At this time, the moth to not hurt the plant, next to it you can stick a blossoming branch of an elder.
The rapid flowering does not guarantee an abundant harvest. Morning frosts can provoke shedding of the ovaries. To avoid this, it is necessary to monitor the forecast. When the pending bushes cold weather shelter burlap or plastic film, previously well watering them at the roots. Will increase the number of ovaries processing currant weak solution of potassium permanganate or boric acid.
If cold weather occurs during flowering time, the evening is useful to process plant 1% urea solution. If no bushes were sprayed with hot spring water is used another way of protecting a plant from aphids, mites and the currants sawyers. Grind 600 g of foliage dandelions together with roots and for 10-12 hours poured water, then treated with currants.
The plant loves a good watering after which it is necessary to weed and proryhlit soil. If it does not zamulchirovat, exercise loosening is necessary 2-3 times a week.
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