Black currant - one of the most cultivated in the garden of plants. Its berries have a pleasant sour taste, and the berry is good in home-made in any form.
Therefore, she is a welcome guest on 6 acres. In order for the bushes to please their harvest, you need to know the features of its cultivation and care.
Planting black currant bushes
The first thing we choose varieties. A large number of varieties are on sale, but you prefer zoned, that is, suitable for your natural conditions. Also, some new varieties are resistant to diseases and pests.
Black currant can please with large quantities and quality of the crop, if you know one trick. It turns out the number and size of the berries increases if different varieties grow nearby.
This is due to better pollinating plants. And although all self-pollinated, but in the course of cross-pollination, the number of ovaries grows, and the size of the fruits increases.
If the open root system, it is preferable to plant seedlings only in the fall. The soil around the bushes during the winter period sags and thickens, and after the snow melts, the plants will touch the growth, and they will settle down better.
When planting, currant bushes are placed with a distance of 1-1.30 m. Black currant loves sunlight and moisture. And although with a slight shading it can bear fruit, but nevertheless it is better to choose a bright place, wetted, lowered, sufficiently protected from the wind section.
At the same time, it is not necessary to choose the places where low groundwater lies. The best option - light loam. On sour soils, black currant grows poorly and bears fruit.
In the selected area, the ground is leveled so that there are no deep pits, they are dug up, weeds are removed, including the rhizomes of various perennials, and pits are prepared. Each should be about 40 cm deep, and 55-60 cm in diameter. It is filled to about на of its depth with fertile soil, with added fertilizers.
The seedling must have lignified root system, at least 4-5 skeletal roots. The length of each root should be at least 20 cm long. The above-ground part of the plant should have at least two branches 35-45 cm apart. Damaged or dried roots are pruned, the seedling is buried 7-8 cm slightly above the root collar.
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Caring for black currant bushes
During the entire vegetative season, under the bush of black currant, it is necessary to weed and loosen the ground regularly, but not everywhere in the same way. If near the root neck, then to a depth of 6-8 cm, if at a distance from it, then to a depth of 10-12 cm. When mulching, moisture is better preserved.
In the fall, heavy soil under the bushes is shallowly dug up and left in such a form for the winter, so that the soil has enough moisture and the plant has survived well. If the soil is sufficiently light and fluffy, you can plow the earth less deeply to 6-8 centimeters near the bushes, but between plants you need to dig up at a distance of at least 9-11 centimeters.
Of all berry bushes, black currant is considered the most moisture-loving. Its root system is located in the upper layer of the earth, at a depth of 30 cm. Therefore, it is important during the formation of the ovary, and this is in early July, the time of pouring the berries between late June and early July in dry weather watered.
It is also important to keep the soil moist and after harvesting the fruit at the end of the summer.
It is important to shed the plants before the cold season, especially if the autumn is arid. On one bush need 25-30 liters of water.
After picking berries for the prevention of various diseases, the bushes should be sprayed with 1% Bordeaux liquid and repeat the treatment after two weeks. It is necessary to cut and it is advisable to burn the sick and old branches, restore order under the bushes, removing dry leaves and spoiled berries, feed the plants with mineral fertilizers containing phosphorus and potassium.
Subfood in an amount of 60-80 g of superphosphate to 1 bush. It will be glad plants and fertilizing organic matter - take a bucket of humus and grumble it the ground.
In the spring of plants inspect. In early spring, always before blooming buds, spray the bushes with boiling water. So many wintering pests perish. An important event for the protection of plants - the removal of buds with a tick, which are different round shape. Under the bush put rotted manure to provide the plant nutrition.
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Varieties of varieties of black currant on our website.Reproduction of bushes of black currant
If you like a fruiting shrub, then it can be propagated. In the spring, bend the currant branch and sprinkle it with earth to give the roots. In the fall, after the growing season, we transfer it to a new location.
Leaves that contain essential oils, biologically active substances, vitamins, including vitamin C, can be used for brewing. Due to this, black currant leaves are widely used in traditional medicine.
