To season brought a bountiful harvest, it is important to properly care for berry bushes. Discuss the needs of spring storehouse of vitamin C - black currant.
Care bushes black currant spring includes:
guidance purity
During the winter, some branches could break off under the bushes, could accumulate foreign debris, leaves and hay. All that is extracted from under the bush and between its branches is important to collect and burn. The ash can be used in the further portion of the soil fertilizer.
pruning
All the ends of the branches, not underwent winter, crop, remove broken sticks, cut into growing shrub branches, as well as those that lie on the ground. Bleed should produce in the penultimate live kidney, aspiring upward.
It is important to be sure to cut off old branches (7-8 years). They have already completed their active fruiting. Usually they are covered with a bluish bark and have few side shoots. They need to be cut at the root in the ground surface.
If in the end turned out slender bush, it is recommended to cut off all the branches of 5-10 cm. This will help to give the bush a head start to gain strength and get stronger for a little season.
Important! All pruning, twigs, buds must be burned. Do not throw the waste in the compost pit or horticultural grooves.
Nutrition
Feeding the bushes runs according to the rules:
- Fertilizer is applied to the area around the bush, equal pitched crown.
- All fertilizers are important to make evenly on all sides.
- Fertilizer solutions are made only on loose soil directly under a bush. After such supply must soil watered with clean water and put a layer of mulch.
During the spring it is necessary to spend 2 feeding the bush:
at the beginning of flowering;
during ovary berries.
Watering
Currants are not particularly need to plan irrigation. But first it is important to spend the time of flowering bushes, especially if the weather is dry. Repeat required during fruit formation.
Currant likes watering, the rain, it should be carried out early in the morning or in the evening.
Important! Soil at watering must be soaked for 30-50 cm.
Loosening and mulching
The main purpose of loosening and mulching - the extension of the conservation of soil moisture under shrubs.
Mulch for the currant bushes can be:
- compost;
- humus;
- peat;
- rotten sawdust, hay, shavings.
Loosening help enrich the roots of oxygen, and mulch will be an additional source of food.
Important! There is one more very important point - the pest. About one of the most dangerous pests of black currant robs you of large harvests and how to spoil their lives, I wrote previously Here, Here and Here.