A huge variety of planting material, which offer modern agricultural firm, can not but rejoice. If desired, at its garden plot can grow everything from exotic fruit to northern forests, e.g. cranberries or cranberry.
These plants continue to grow in popularity, they often buy, but the joy was soon replaced by disappointment - despite the seemingly good care and regular feeding, whimsical northern guest does not want to grow and fruit. The result is often ruined seedlings, wasted money, time and labor, and spoiled the mood. What is the secret?
It turns out, ericaceous plants, which include such popular culture such as cranberries, cranberries, blueberries, blueberry, did not carry the usual organic and mineral for us fertilizers. The process of their power is based entirely on other principles and the major role it plays, oddly enough, mulching.
It mulching forest litter from under the conifers, and damp having perceptible smell of mushrooms, it is essential for the cultivation of wild berries. Mycorrhizae - soil fungi bushes helps to absorb nutrients. In its absence of heather or die or be bad to grow and bear fruit. At the same time the standard fertilizers, which many make all crops in a row, killing the soil-borne fungus, and therefore do not help, but only harm the plants.
Do they need fertilizing? Here it should be noted that the berries do not even need additional nutrients, and maintaining sufficient acidity of the soil. For the acidification of soil applied:
Finished fertilizer for azaleas and rhododendrons. Some firms are even special formulations for ericaceous fertilizer.
Chaff from acid plants. It can be a wild sorrel, rhubarb unfit for food waste. Plants finely chopped, filled with water and infuse from a few hours to several days. Then this infusion irrigated plantation forest berries. Technology of preparation is highly familiar to those who make the so-called "green" or "herbal" fertilizer.
Acidic substances dissolved in water - Many vacationers who perfectly fructify heather, water them from time to time with a weak solution of vinegar or 3% is added to water for irrigation of the lemon juice.
Infusion Kombucha. As it turned out, it is not only useful for people. Bacteria contained in the infusion of tea fungus, do an excellent job with the task of soil acidification under forest berries.
In addition to maintaining the acidity of the soil, plantation grown heather virtually no problems. They are not affected by diseases and pests, and if the conditions will be created for berry-grown (suitable land outside the landings), it does not require special measures for reproduction - creeping stems themselves would occupy a larger area.