How to care for currants

Almost every summer cottage is banging a couple of bushes delicious, useful and familiar currant. Many know that the berry is good taste, but not everyone guess that just nothing happens. And the rich harvest closely depends on how diligently the gardener gardener cared for a plant than it fed and how he was protected from insatiable pests. All subtleties and nuances of care can be found in this article.

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How to care for currant - trimming

In the spring, branches over 6 years old, they interfere with the increase in yield. Eliminate dead and patients carrying infection (for example, fungus). Partially cut in the spring, but most in the fall. In the spring period, after the blooming of the kidneys, shoots the shoots with the help of garden scissors. Some gardeners also pinch the branches in the summer to give an additional incentive for the height. Bushes should not be thick. Sucee is cut regardless of the season.

In the fall, if the currant is one year, the branches at the level of 15 cm above the ground are trimmed when landing. We are freed from empty shoots, leaving only the "backbone." Third, it is cleaned superfluous, leave for 1 branching of 4 kidneys.

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How to care for currants - watering

After a good snowy winter, the bush will not need abundant irrigation, and vice versa, an imperious winter will proper frequent artificial saturation of the earth moisture. Water only with warm water 1 time in 5 days, 1 m2 accounts for 30 liters. It is better not to irrigate from the top from the watering can or hose, but water a bucket abundantly straight under the shrub. At the end of the autumn, the bush is poured last time, providing currants by the lively moisture for the period of cold.

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How to care for currants - fertilizer

• Feed regularly, starting in early spring. The running option is potato cleaning. For the preparation of fertilizer, potato waste is needed, which contain a lot of trace elements. The skins are grinding on the meat grinder or crushed with a knife. Next is placed in a barrel (not metallic), poured with hot water and leave under the lid for 3 days. You can add to the soil when fruits ripening, before harvesting.
• Feeding with mineral fertilizers: nitrogen - 20 g.; potash - 20 g.; Phosphoric - 15 g. Mix to put into the ground to a depth of 10 cm, pour, climb peat or humus.
• Urea in the amount of 2 ppm It is added to the bucket of warm water, mixed with manure. Content to water with a calculation of 2 l per plant.
• Dung with water (1: 8) mix with bird litter (1: 10/12), insist 2 days. Calculate on 4 bushs 1 bucket.
• Some gardeners for making fertilizer to the ground make deep furrows (30 cm) along the ranks. The distance of the trench to the bush 50 cm.

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How to care for currants - reproduction

• The method of tanks is used to obtain strong seedlings, make 1 time per year. It will take 1 two-year currant branch, which is located closer to the soil. Carefully, pulling down, it is buried in a furrow to a depth of 12 cm. The upper part should be stitching from under the ground for 30 cm. Currants to fasten with brackets, without applying damage and fall asleep regularly. Thus, after a while it turns out a great seedling with roots and branches. If you start in the summer, then the autumn expect results, then transplanted to a permanent place.
• Another option is cuttings. You will need a cutting of 10 cm with several green leaves. They should be put in a glass jar with water for 2 weeks, so that the roots go for approximately 12 cm. After the roots appear, the earth is poured into a dense package with holes, diluted with water to the consistency of sour cream and left with a planted stalk. First watering every 3 days, after 10 days it decreases, and the soil is gradually thickened. Currant grows up to 50 cm. The garden is improving without a package to a depth of more than 15 cm.

Currant - Plant Perennial, is compact and spread. Every year the kidney produces new shoots. Rhizome powerful, fruit fragrant, and color depends on the variety. The bush is considered a long-liver, and fruits about 15 years, but with proper care can and much more. It is necessary to know that it is not always currant is cured completely from diseases, often happens, fungi is striking half of the bush and near the lying cultures. Follow their health is necessary, on time spray stalks and a plot around.