Black currant meet almost every garden plot on the southern edges of grace to harsh Siberia. Does not require special attention and care, it bears fruit annually. And how grateful responds to the care and feeding.
Bayberry shrub invested in off the most valuable and useful to humans: minerals and vitamins, tannins and essential oils, sugars and pectins. A total of 30 g of berries close daily requirement of ascorbic acid.
British scientists, on the basis of these studies concluded that there is no fruit more useful than black currants. The Swedish company Oriflame, cosmetics manufacturer, has released a whole line of products for skin and hair care products on the basis of this wonderful culture. It has healing properties and have stems and leaves, and fruit.
The best varieties of black currant
Breeders many countries constantly breed new varieties and hybrids in their currently more than two hundred and thirty. Today we look at two types of home selection:
- currant Gross
The variety of the Russian breeding, launched twenty years ago, and over the years gained a lot of good feedback from growers and producers. One of the large-varieties, characterized by high productivity and resistance to fungal and viral diseases, frost, cold shifts to -35 degrees.
The berries are dark purple, shiny, sour-sweet taste, with a strong characteristic aroma, with excellent portability. Gross does not need pollinators, it samoplodnye. Therefore, even a single plant in the country will enjoy a delicious vitamin harvest. Location prefers partial shade, so can be planted close to trees, which will allow more efficient use of space.
If the landing is good to prepare and fill planting hole humus, ash, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, and then provide care, annual rich crops provided.
currant raisin
Early maturing cultivar dessert unpretentious. He loves sun-ventilated place, loose soil with organic matter, neutral or slightly alkaline. Berries are large and medium-sized, with a light sweet flavor, well suited for drying, resembling raisins.
Yields of up to 3.5 kg per bush. It tolerates drought, staunchly spring frosts. The most productive years, from 3 to 8 after planting, the crop is then reduced. Resistant to bud mite and mildew.
How to dry black currants
For drying is best grade raisin, but can be dried, and other varieties, the dry separation of berries. You need to pick berries in the second half of a sunny day. Iterate, remove pressure, rinsed under running water, spread thinly on a cloth, wet paper towels.
For drying in air to decompose berries in a single layer onto trays, laid by baking paper, cover layer and place gauze underneath blown canopy. Stir from time to time "drying". In hot dry weather dosushit 5-6 days in a preheated oven to 50 degrees. Ready "currant raisin" should be dark red, wrinkled, touch plastic.
If there Electric driers prepared berries dry according to instructions. When drying the most all useful properties of currants. Dried berries are recommended for fillings in pies, cakes, but most dried currants eaten long before baking. I will be very pleased if you share this note in their social networks, and subscribe to my channel! :)