In the spring, as soon as the snow cover comes down, all sorts of garden and garden work are actively beginning. Their main task - the treatment of plants from pests and fungal diseases, which with the onset of warm pores begin to intensify and cause irreparable harm.
Spring processing of gooseberries is reduced to two of its types - chemical and natural (folk methods). Which of the ways to choose is up to the gardener, but you should know that chemical treatments are enough for one for the whole season, but with folk methods it is much more difficult - you will have to repeat 3-5 times per summer. This is suitable for those who have a couple of bushes, but for mass planting the advantage should be given to the chemical method of combating unwanted guests.
How to treat gooseberries in early spring?
The main enemy of gooseberry is powdery mildew, which gradually affects the plant, leading to its death. This will not happen if you actively fight this fungal disease. Treatment of gooseberries from powdery mildew by folk methods includes autumn and spring pruning of affected branches and their complete destruction.
In the spring, after melting snow, the gooseberry is treated with boiling water. To do this, very hot water with a temperature of 90 - 95 ° C pours on all the branches down to the ground. Well if in this water to dilute a little manganese to light pink color. In addition to combating powdery mildew, this method is also good for killing pests sleeping under the bark of old shoots.
Of the chemical methods that are used to treat gooseberries in early spring, a good result is the sprinkling of branches with a solution of copper sulfate, which can be prepared according to this recipe: 100 g of the substance is dissolved in 10 liters of water.
Another option, which is considered harmless - treatment of bushes with Bordeaux liquid or its substitute, the chemical preparation, it will require 40 g per 10 liters of water. They are sprayed
Treatment of gooseberry against pests in spring
Spider mite, caterpillars, aphids - which insects are not attracted to the gooseberry bush for winter settlement. And the task of the gardener in time to destroy them, so that with the arrival of heat not allow them to multiply and attack an increasing area.
For the spraying of gooseberries are suitable already familiar means - copper sulfate, Bordeaux mixture and urea. Plants are treated with garden sprayers of various configurations until the moment the buds are dissolved.