In berries currant any species is always contained a large amount of acid. There are varieties with high sugar content, but even they are not characterized by high taste qualities. But with the help of regular feedings can artificially increase the sugar content in berries.
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The feed currants?
Currant shrubs respond well to fertilizer starchy substances. But the starch powder to pour from the pack under a bush is not recommended: the roots of the plants just do not inculcate such an option dressing. The use as a nutritional supplement specially prepared fertilizer:
- In winter you can leave and dry cleaning potatoes. In the spring when the branches appear first ovary of this husk prepare nutritious infusion. In 10 liters of boiling water taking 1 liter jar milled dry peel. Mix the ingredients, close the lid and wrap. Infuse to cool, and then water the plants at the rate of 3 liters per 1 medium bush.
- In summer, when the ovaries have already poured, you can use another type of fertilizer. In the mix tank with water residues white bread, potato peelings and grass weed (previously milled). The ratio of corn and vegetable components - 3: 1. The mixture insist about 3 weeks, so it is necessary to prepare in advance. Berries are watered 3 times: when the ovaries are already filled with, but still green when they are just beginning to ripen (become blush), a few days before harvest. The berries will not only sweeter, but also larger. Solution was added 3-4 liters per 1 bush.
Planting currants can pour the starch solution and shortly before the end of the season, when the leaves have not yet begun to turn yellow. At this time, the plant stores sweeteners to make it easier to move the winter.
From which still depends sweetness of berries?
First of all, the amount of sugar in the fruit depends on the variety of currant. Most sweet berries in white and pink varieties, rarely black very sweet and very sour - the red. To black currant was sweet, preferably in the garden tab select the appropriate grade. Now bred modern large-fruited and with high taste of culture species. For gardeners may be useful and Jost: hybrid black currants and gooseberries with larger and sweeter berries with characteristic aroma.
To bushes accumulate more sugar in the fruit, they need good lighting. Bushes not be planted closer than 1 m from each other. Plot blackcurrants selected moderately humid lowland but without stagnation of moisture. If rain falls a little, shrubs should be watered during the filling and ripening berries. With a lack of moisture fruits will be smaller, and with a sharp sour taste.
After watering the tree trunks to be careful proryhlit that the soil moisture evaporates less. In currant bushes superficial root system is well developed, so loosening should not be deep. Optimal replacement the process believe mulching:
- to prepare a friable material (straw, sawdust, plant residues);
- arrange them on tree trunks at a thickness of about 10 cm.
Spring mulch layer it is necessary to remove, to the ground under bushes warmed, or currant vegetation starts late and may freeze slightly next winter.
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