I really love black currant jam. On the site I have several varieties. I change them periodically. I buy new ones, plant and transplant, as they say. I do this not every year: the bushes need to sit for a year in order to give berries. And now, according to my schedule, it's time to update, and I started to spin something in the fall and didn't add anything new.
In winter, I thought that my bushes were old, they would not give birth to anything, I would be left without my favorite delicacy for the next year. But still, for the currants I decided to do everything that was supposed to be done. Was not, maybe that will grow.
The first is boiling water
Every year, as soon as the first thawed patches appear around the bushes, I pour boiling water over the bushes. So my grandmother did. She said that the boiling water savior would kill harmful insects that hibernate under the buds in the bark. And relieve powdery mildew. I pour the boiling water into a watering can and pour it straight over the branches.
Some people save water and distribute the watering can over several shrubs. I fiddle for a long time: I pour one container for each bush. I spare no time and effort.
And then the neighbor went out into the garden, started talking over the fence. I shared a problem with her: there will be no berries, they say, I'm afraid. She says: "So spend, Shura, pruning, rejuvenate the bush." And she pointed with her finger what to get rid of. I even brought red nail polish from home and marked the old shoots so that I wouldn't confuse anything later. Now it's too early to cut, we must wait for the snow to melt.
Drank Shura, drank
When the time comes, you need to cut ALL the branches of the third year. They are easy to recognize: they are dark gray, with a brownish tint, even stiff, the thickest of all, with numerous branches on the sides. And leave six pieces of shoots of the FIRST and SECOND years. You will easily understand what I mean. First-year branches are very light, whitish, straight, without branches. Second years are slightly darker, with a pair of processes on the sides, coarser in appearance, differing from the first.
I obeyed. When the time came to do this, I did so.
Then I poured a bucket of humus with two glasses of ash under each shrub. In order for the currants to wake up earlier and to bloom, to develop better, I poured the solution of "Baikal". I spread 10 grams of the product for 10 liters of liquid and poured it right from above over the remaining sprouts.
And what else did she do. I took a piece of roofing material equal in size to the crown of a bush. Made a slit to the middle. And where it ends, two more small ones on the sides, so that the cross looks like it. And put it under the bushes. So not a single muck will creep through to them, which sleeps in the ground. And what do you think? Happened! Thanked the currants with a bountiful harvest. I didn't know what to do with it!
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