Currant - a frequent bush in the garden. The berries of sweet and sour taste and delicate aroma like to eat fresh or used to make healthful fruit drinks. However, so that the plant can yield crops, it needs at least a little care. So, for example, in the autumn do not forget about preparing the currant for the winter.
Top dressing, pest treatment and preparation of currant for winter
In the early autumn, we recommend that you do prevent diseases and insect pests. Start by digging and loosening the soil of the stump circle and removing the weeds. After that, put ash on the ground. Simultaneously it will become an excellent fertilizer. Decontaminate the soil can be one of the solutions:
- copper sulphate;
- manganese;
- household soap.
The currant preparation for winter includes the introduction of phosphate-potassium fertilizers, which are the pledge of the future crop in the next year. In a bucket of water, you can dissolve a tablespoon of chlorine-free potassium and superphosphate. The bush is watered with a solution. Note that fertilizers contribute to the increase of sap flow, and it will take time to slow it down. Therefore, so that the plant has time to fall into a hibernation, carry out feeding should be no later than mid-October.
Currant preparation for winter - pruning
Obligatory point of preparation of a bush to colds is pruning of shoots. The first thing to do is remove the yellowed leaves that the branches do not need at all. Foliage should be removed from the site or burned.
Pruning includes the following steps:
- First, the currant is removed dry and damaged branches.
- After that, pruned old branches, which in the past season did not yield at all or it was weak.
- Then pruned young shoots, which in any case are not able to survive the winter, and therefore are only ballast for the bush.
Shelter of currant for the winter
As soon as the first frosts come to your region, and the soil is covered with a crusty layer, it's time to move on to the last stage of preparing the currant for the winter in autumn - shelter from the cold. The trunks and branches of the plant are first wound with string, trying to bring them neatly closer together. Do not connect parts of the bush as much as possible, so as not to break fragile branches. Then the plant is tilted towards the ground and spirally wrapped. They cover the currant with what they found on the farm: an old blanket, a wooden box or a box, spruce branches. If there is a lot of snow, use it as an excellent shelter for the currant.