Blackcurrant - well of vitamins and the most tasty berry. The fruitful plant, but requires thorough care. If to use cunnings at cultivation, efforts of the gardener will be rewarded for the third year by bucket of berries from bush.
It is simple to grow up blackcurrant. It well transfers frosts, not badly copes with heat, reaches quickly age of fructification, elementary gets divorced. But how to achieve big crops?
Step 1. We choose "place of residence"
Blackcurrant is generally preferred to be planted along fence – it is admissible, but surely recede from fence not less than 1.2 meters. The lowland is not suitable for landings. Choose the site moderately solar and windless. The small distance between bushes reduces duration of fructification and productivity. Distance stand one and a half – two meters.
Step 2. We choose grades
If you want to receive harvest of berries at any weather patterns, try to put several different grades of currant. Spring frosts are artful, but if bushes gain color at different times, then for certain part of bushes will not suffer from whims of the nature and the harvest will be. Growth of various grades leads to cross-pollination of plants and integration of berries nearby.
Step 3. Cunnings of watering and fertilizing
Backs at bush of currant rapolagatsya superficially, top lie all centimeters in ten from surface. Therefore currant should be watered and loosened the soil after watering, carefully, without touching backs. Better at distance of 25 centimeters from the ends of stalks to dig out groove and to pour water in it. Currant surely needs fertilizing, but especially loves drink from potato peel. We fill in one-liter jar of the dried-up peel with boiled water, approximately liters and we draw ten. Such drink during blossoming is especially useful, about three liters are spent for bush.
Step 4. Prevention or treatment
The main enemies of currant - plant louse, shchitovka, tick and mealy dew. The first prevention is carried out in the early spring when arrange to bushes hot shower. Pour from watering can with the spray boiled water. Before blooming of kidneys neodhodimo to process plant the medicines Topaz and Is fast. During the summer it is active to carry out fight against ants as they are distributors of plant louse.
Step 5. Hairstyle every year
Cutting needs to be carried out after the termination of sokodvizheniye, surely every year. On bush leave 10 – 15 uneven-age branches. Cutting off, do not leave hemp as exactly there will be nests wreckers. Blackcurrant branches pretty fast grow old, approximately through five – six years. If not to rejuvenate bush, the amount of berries decreases and they become shallow. Cutting is begun at two-year plants, shortening each branch, leaving up to four kidneys. Shortening strengthens branching, promotes growth of strong new escapes.
Step 6. We prepare replacement
Longer than ten years berries you should not hold bush of blackcurrant. Is larger, harvest is yielded more only by strong young bushes. Replacement should beginning to be gotovtit when your plant was seven or eight years old. Multiply favourite bushes layers. Make grooves about bush and having bent down strong branches pin them, powder with the earth. By fall the escapes form the mass of roots, layers cut off from bush, with lump of the earth replace to the constant place.