FEATURES OF PLANTING GOOSEBERRY IN YOUR OWN GARDEN AND CARE FOR HIM

In our country, gooseberry as a cultivated plant has long been known. From about the 14th century. And this is not surprising.

After all, it is an unpretentious plant, and if it is properly looked after, it gives great harvests of berries.

And gooseberry berries contain as much ascorbic acid as there is in no other product. It is a good diuretic and choleretic agent.

Popular varieties of gooseberry

Varieties of gooseberry are divided into 3 groups according to origin:

West European;
Russian;
american

Distinctive features of the West European group of gooseberries are medium-sized bushes, on which large fruits grow. The taste of the fruit of this gooseberry is exceptional.

This group includes popular varieties Warsaw, Green bottle and Industry. But the gooseberry of this group is weak to fungal diseases, and is often affected by them.

The gooseberry of the American group is distinguished by a strong-growing shrub with slightly-spined thin arcuate shoots. The berries are small in size and their taste is mediocre. But he is very resistant to diseases. This group includes varieties Curry, Houghton, Purmen.

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Russian varieties are formed by crossing American and West European gooseberry varieties. Such varieties have an increased sphero-resistance, and are distinguished by high yields. The taste of the berries is very high.

Planting gooseberry

Before you start planting gooseberries, you should know that this plant is very fond of light, which means that it is not planted in the shade. It tolerates drought easily, but the gooseberry is very bad for dampness. It does not suit low wet areas and heavy clay soils.

In such areas, the gooseberry very quickly infects the fungus, and it practically does not yield harvest. And if it does, the berry is very small and not tasty.

Gooseberries can be planted in autumn or spring. The ideal period is the time from late September to mid-October.

Then the young plants will have time to take to deep autumn. But in the case of landing in the spring survival rate of gooseberry shoots is much worse.

Before directly planting gooseberries in the ground, it is necessary to thoroughly clean the area from weeds. Because weed gooseberries very uncomfortable. Because it is prickly. In early autumn, it is necessary to dig a plot for planting, carefully choosing the roots of weeds.

Two weeks before disembarking, it is necessary to prepare pits for donkey soil. The pits are dug out square in shape and 50 x 50 in size. The depth is also 50 cm. When digging, the upper fertile layer is folded separately from the barren one. Then humus, 50 grams of double superphosphate, and also 40 grams of potassium sulfate are added to the fertile layer.

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For planting use two-year seedlings with a well-developed root system. The above-ground part of the seedling should have several shoots.

Damaged roots and branches are removed from the seedlings, and lowered into the hole to such a depth that the root collar drops 5 cm below the soil level. The seedling is filled with soil, gradually compacting. After the pit is filled, the plant is watered.

Proper care for gooseberries

For gooseberry care is exactly the same as for any other plant: watering, feeding, pruning, loosening, removing weeds, pest control and disease. In early spring.

Is pruning done? like landing? either in late autumn or in early spring. If the cut has a thickness of more than 1 cm, then it is treated with a pitch.

In early April, as part of the fight against diseases and pests, gooseberry bushes in the snow poured boiling water over the watering can. In May, under the bushes, soil is dug, and if necessary, fertilizing is carried out.

Gooseberry bush fructifies 10-15 years. This is a very long time. And he pulls out of the soil a lot of nutrients. Therefore, every year a mixture of organic and mineral fertilizers should be applied to the soil.

The composition of the fertilizer is as follows:

compost half bucket;
50 grams of superphosphate;
25 grams of potassium sulfate;
25 grams of ammonium sulfite.

If the bush is abundantly fruited, then the norm increases by 2 times.

In dry hot weather, it is necessary to ensure that the ground under the bushes was wet. Poured gooseberries just under the root! If you use a sprinkler method, the bush will begin to ache.

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Gooseberry Transplant

As you remember, gooseberry is a thorny plant. Therefore, it should be immediately planted so as not to replant. But if it happened, then, first of all, the bush must be trimmed.

Leaving the 7 strongest branches to be shortened. Then you need to prepare a pit under a bush and begin to dig it in the old place.

Retreat from the bush should be no less than 35 centimeters. Having cut the roots, the bush is taken out of the ground and transferred to a new place. Everything else - as during the first landing.