Red currant, also as white and pink kind of this bush, has several distinctive features and requirements to cultivation. To receive good harvests, it is necessary to follow certain rules of agrotechnology.
The site with low standing of underground waters will be suitable for landing of red currant – the powerful root system of plant allows to make it. This bush easily transfers drought, but long stagnation of spring tides or moisture after summer rains and also presence of cold winds is undesirable to it. Therefore it is possible to plant red currant on any gentle slopes and on flat sites, except for lowlands and also for it it is necessary to choose the open solar areas protected from norths. Landing of red currant in shadow will deprive of the gardener of the most part of harvest.
Red currant is tolerant to different types of the soil, but shows the greatest efficiency on subacidic or neutral soil, the fertilized loamy and sandy sites. If the acidity of the soil is increased (on it the horsetail, mosses, sedge, sorrel grows), the site before landing needs to be proizvestkovat. It is for this purpose admissible to use lime slaked lime, dolomite powder or ground limestone. These minerals are brought directly in landing hole.
Landing of currant can be carried out in the early spring prior to the beginning of sokodvizheniye or in the fall, since the second half of September prior to the beginning of October. If the sapling is acquired in shop, it is necessary to place previously it in cold water for 2-3 hours, it will allow roots to make additional reserve of moisture in fabrics and will help to take roots quicker to plant. It is possible to add Geteroauksina or Kornevina solution to water, according to the instruction specified on packing.
The sizes of landing hole have to be 50х50 cm, depth - 60 cm. The root system of red currant more powerful, than at other bushes therefore demands the big area of power supply. On each landing hole 2-3 buckets of humus, 200 g of superphosphate, 500 ml of wood ashes are required. This nutritious mix should be mixed with the earth, to pour 2/3 parts into landing hole and to issue in the form of hillock on which it is accurate to arrange sapling. Then roots need to be filled up with the remained soil and to condense emptiness. If the root neck has become bare, it is necessary to pour the earth to roots. From above the plant should be spilled properly water and to zamulchirovat dry peat. Sapling branches after landing should be cut on 1/3 part of their length to help to take roots to plant. Before the onset of cold weather the planted plants need to be hilled the earth or to zamulchirovat thick layer of humus or peat for protection from destruction by frost. With approach of spring the bushes should be razokuchit. In process of growth of plant it will be required to change gradually old branches for the new substituting escapes and to thin out bush, without allowing its shadowing. It is necessary to cut also the patients damaged and weak branches. For this purpose it is desirable to use sharp secateurs, to delete branches "on ring", i.e. without leaving stump, and to cover cuts with the garden thief to avoid penetration into wounds of causative agents of diseases and wreckers. Twice during the season: after blooming of kidneys and harvesting of plant it is necessary to feed up full mineral or organic fertilizer – it will have a positive impact on quality and quantity of harvest of berries.