Who among us does not like currants? Surely, more than one bush of this useful berry has been planted in your garden. I have more than 20 bushes of black, white, pink and red currants growing. In order for berry bushes to please their owners with a good harvest, they should be properly fed.
But how and what, unfortunately, I did not immediately find out. But now I know, and I get harvests that I only dreamed of before.
One of the simple and effective types of currant fertilization is potato organic matter or starch. The beneficial effect of feeding is explained by the chemical composition of the potato.
The potassium salts included in the starch help the bushes bloom in time, provide abundant fruiting, and also increase the immunity of plants.
Magnesium helps the intensive development of the root system, while phosphorus makes it possible to feast on an early harvest of berries. Among other things, starch stimulates the growth of currant branches and fruits.
Even ordinary potato skins, which we are used to throwing away, contain many useful elements that feed the plant no worse than the usual organic and mineral complexes.
What recipes for feeding berry bushes do I use:
The most natural and simple feeding for currants is as follows:
- You need to take 250 g of regular starch and mix it in 3 liters of water.
- Bring the composition to a boil (the fire should be low), and then add 10 liters of cold water to the resulting jelly mass.
Then I water the bush abundantly with plain water, followed by starch feeding. Depending on the size of the bush, 2-3 liters of starch feeding should be added under it.
I do the first such watering even before the flowering of the bush, the second - when the berries have already set and begin to ripen.
Two years ago, instead of starch, I used potato peelings for feeding a couple of times.
It is necessary to take not whole potatoes, but peelings.
The concentration of essential substances, including starch, is located just near the potato peel. Moreover, potato peelings are still intended to be thrown away, and so you can prepare a useful top dressing from them.
- I collect cleaning in a 10L bucket.
- When half a bucket of them is collected, I fill them with water and leave for about 12-14 hours.
- Then I remove the cleaning, additionally dilute it with water (proportion 1: 3) and water the berry bushes abundantly, about 1 bucket under the bush.
An important nuance - starch fertilizing cannot serve as the only fertilizer for currants, especially if the soil on your site leaves much to be desired. Such dressings are most often used as an addition to organic and mineral fertilizers.
I also noticed an interesting moment - unlike organic fertilizers, starch feeding does not stimulate the growth of weeds. Bushes of raspberry, gooseberry and sea buckthorn also respond well to potato fertilization.
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