Currant can be met practically on each garden site. This unpretentious bush easily takes root even on unproductive soils and even fructifies. However for receiving big and juicy berries currant on any site needs to be watered correctly.
Bushes of currant are rather unpretentious, they do not demand the individual and specially developed leaving and also this berry contains the maximum quantity of useful elements: - vitamins C, E, D; - antioxidants useful to skin.
Even leaves of currant use as tea leaves for tea: such curative drink helps to enrich organism with vitamins, fights fatigue and nervous tension, calms and tones up.
On color gamma separate most often, black, red and yellow currant.
Radical watering
It is considered that in the early spring, somewhere in April when still there is a little frozen earth, it is necessary to water currant bush with hot water (but not boiled water). It becomes to wash away by means of hot stream dirt and hazardous substances from bush. It is better to water with such water once a week. During the summer period use the normal cold or warmish, warmed in the sun water. You can around currant bush, dig out small poles – directly near roots - and to fill in them with water, water will better act to roots this way and to evenly humidify the soil.
Dispersion
One of widespread methods of watering is dispersion. It is not the most productive way of irrigation, however in droughty years and, for example, during departure of owners saves gardeners. Sprays the systems of watering are installed at distance in 50 cm from each bush, the level of raising of the head of the spray has to exceed bush level on 15-20 cm. Moisture at such watering gets completely and on all bush, and on the earth. Having watered with such method it is necessary to carry out early in the morning or in the evening, after sunset. Spraying of water at bright and sun roast will entail burns of leaf and death of bush.
Currant badly transfers alkaline and salt connections which can contain in water for watering.
It should be noted that currant is berry which very much loves moisture, it grows in the wild nature most often near reservoirs and the rivers. The lack of moisture strongly influences harvest of berries, the bush of currant needs to be watered as often as possible up to the middle of August. Summer residents most often water currant bushes as follows: once during forming, two times during maturing of fruits, one or two times after gathering berries. Even after you have reaped crop of berries, surely it is necessary to water bushes so that water has impregnated the soil up to the depth of roots: approximately on 50-60 centimeters.