Cranberry is a beautiful plant with a mass of valuable qualities. Cranberry juice has tonic properties and quench thirst well. It helps with a cold and fever, the row of it can cope with deprive and gold. Cranberry has several varieties: marsh, fine-forming, large-scale and gigantic. For cultivation in the middle lane, Russia is best suited for varieties: "Franklin", "Washington", "Wilcox".
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Cranberry is growing almost on all soils, except for heavy. The acidity level may be weakly acid or sour. The landing site should be sunny and smooth.
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Cranberry can be multiplied by seeds. Before planting cranberry seeds need to be dried. The soil for planting requires a marsh, if it is not possible to get this, the substrate is suitable for MCH. The depth of planting should be 0.5 cm. Seeds pour out the ground, pour. Capacity for planting to cover with cellophane to keep the raw medium. Seeds will go around after 1 month. Sprouts need to be filtered and continue to keep in the crude environment. When the plants are fixed slightly, they can be placed in an open ground.
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Another method of breeding cranberries is vegetative. To do this, in April you need to cut the cuttings from horizontal shoots and put them in the refrigerator until May. Storage temperature 0 ° C. Before boarding the cutlets for a day to soak in water. It is better to plant them in the ground in early May or early August.
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On the surface of the soil, pour 20-30 cm of the peat layer, abundantly moisturize and mulch 3-5 cm layer of sand. On the perimeter of the landing site to make a border from the boards to prevent the soil erosion and the growth of weeds. On the prepared area to make the holes 10x15, well moisturize the earth.
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For the landing of the cuttings, T-shaped pegs are needed, which need to be treated in the ground. In the wells should be planted for 2-3 cuttings, the tops of which should be not less than 2-3 cm above the ground. The lower end of the cutting should be in the soil, the growth point is at the top. The stalk, planted on the contrary, takes on, but it will need more effort to grow. After landing, the soil should be sealing and pouring again. During the rooting of plants (3-4 weeks), the soil must be constantly moistened, but not allowing water stagnation.
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To feed the cranberry follows with a complex fertilizer a month after landing. The feeder can be carried out in small volumes every 15 days.
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Weeding weeds are very careful not to damage the roots of young plants. To avoid freezing in winter, the cranberry must be covered with fir branches, film, light boards.
Fruit the young cranberry begins for the 2nd year after landing, but a full yield can only be collected for the 4th year.