Good afternoon, my reader. Even unpretentious berry shrubs require systematic care. To ensure abundant currant crop related to any varieties (red, black, white), it is important to fulfill the entire range of basic events throughout the spring season.
Currant (Photo Used by Standard License © azbukaogorodnika.ru)
Be proceed to the procedure before the start of the deposit and sickness of the kidneys. Spring sanitary trimming strengthens the bushes, which contributes to active blossom and subsequent abundant fruiting.
With the help of an acute sektoman with disinfeced blades, they remove damaged diseases, thinned, dried, unnecessarily shoots. And it is also necessary to trim branches, too thickening bush, and old stems that can be distinguished on a dark brown color of the bark.
Currant trimming (Photo Used by Standard License © azbukaogorodnika.ru)
Then requires forming trimming. As a result, it is left at the side shoots at the age of 2-4 years to 5-7 healthy kidneys from lateral shoots. The annual powerful processes are shortened with a macushkin (10-15 cm).
White and red currants must be left as young shoots and stems under the age of 8. As a result, the spring trimming cleaned older shoots, the wolf, leaving 20-25 stems of different ages (from 1 to 8 years).
In parallel with trimming, currant bushes carefully examine. Noticing wake-up kidneys, which serves as a sign of defeat by the kidney tick, must be removed and burned.
Formation of currant (Photo used by standard license © azbukaogorodnika.ru)
If the core cuts are dark, then this may indicate the damage to the plant with larvae of currant glass. Holes in stems filled with a pipe, can be a sign of the presence of the larvae of a narrow-pot acid.
If there is an extensive damage to pests on the shrub, it is recommended to emerge. A small amount of damaged branches is cut and burned, and then all shrubs are treated with special means. After trimming, organic residues are removed from the rigorous circles and ground soil.
In the spring season, the soil usually contains enough moisture, so the first irrigation is practiced at the end of May at the stage of active growth of shoots and forming barriers.Currant from a biennium is necessarily required in the spring additional nutrition.
- In April, during the kidney crossing, ammonium sulfate (40-50 g) or ammonium nitrate (25-30 g) or ammonium nitrate (25-30 g) must be used. meter. You can feed the on-cuts that need to be dissolved with water in proportion 1: 4.
- In May, at the flowering stage, there is an extraordinate feeder using superphosphate and potassium sulfate in the form of a solution with a concentration of 1-2%. It is possible to use a solution (0.1-0.5%) of manganese and boric acid sulfate (observing a concentration of 0.01-0.05%).
Surveillance circles after feeding mulch with a rewinding compost, which will not only reduce the evaporation of moisture, will save the roots from the possible spring sharp cooling, but also additionally saturate the soil with elements important for the development of plants.
In the process of early trimming, it is already possible to carefully assess the state of currant bushes. Even in the absence of noticeable signs of the presence of pests or lesions of plants, diseases need to perform prophylactic spraying before the renal disclosure.
Currant Processing (Photo Used by Standard License © azbukaogorodnika.ru)
More often on currants there are diseases such as anthracnose, septoriasis, gray rot, rust.
In addition to the currant glass, the kidding tick, sawmakers on currant can develop sawers, fire, currant gallicle, as well as the wave, mole kidney and other malicious insects.
Some gardeners prefer to do without chemical preventive facilities.
For currant, the most common way designed to prevent the development of infections and the appearance of pests is considered to pour boiling water bushes. This procedure should be carried out until the kidney is swollen. Spacidious stems are advisable to associate that the liquid falls on all areas of the above-ground part.
As far as this method is, this method can check each, having conducted the procedure independently.
Spring care for currants is simple, but requires attention. Further development and fruiting bushes depends on the timely conduct of the main events.