Black currant: autumn care for a fruit bush

Black currant - one of the valuable fruit bushes, which is firmly established in the garden area of many gardeners. The fruits of this plant contain a large amount of vitamin C. From the leaves of the bush, fragrant tea is obtained. How nice to drink it, sitting in the evening on the veranda of the garden house! When the summer ends, new cares arise, which include the care for the black currant. In autumn, pruning plants and planting young seedlings.

The bushes can be purchased in nurseries. Selling material is sold with a closed (in pots) or with an open root system. The pit for a plant is required in depth from forty to forty five centimeters. It is prepared in advance, a week before planting the seedlings, so that the soil can settle. In the soil add one bucket of humus and one hundred grams of superphosphate, all mixed with the ground. In order for black currant to take root well , leaving in autumn behind it presupposes not only planting, which is carried out from the second half of September, but also the fertilizing of plants. In this period it is necessary to make potassium chloride (from thirty to forty grams) and superphosphate (from one hundred to one hundred and twenty grams) under each bush. Adult shrubs, three-year-olds, need additional phosphorus (eight to ten grams), superphosphate (forty-fifty grams), and potassium sulfate (10-15 g).

In order to receive more air, moisture and nutrients, black currant, autumn care includes loosening the land. Treat very carefully. Add fertilizers produce, focusing on the projection of the crown fruit bush, because it is at this distance are located in the upper soil layer of its roots. In the middle of autumn (in October), a digging of the earth is again required, but not deep (from five to eight centimeters), you can leave lumps. For this it is better to use forks. After that, the earth must be covered with fallen pine needles, leaves.

The moisture is very fond of black currants. Caring for autumn in the bush can not do without abundant watering. For each plant need to pour from twenty to thirty liters of water. Then the soil is mulched with peat and the manure. These measures are also necessary in order to keep moisture in the soil and prevent the appearance of weeds. Lack of water can cause growth retardation and shedding of berries. Sub-winter watering is necessary, especially if there is dry weather.

Since the black currant grows very much, the autumn care after it presupposes obligatory pruning. This operation is necessary at all stages of plant life. It is carried out in order to cause a strong growth of the root branches, to obtain a crop of large berries, and also to tear the bush and make it lighter. From its middle, about twenty percent of the shoots are removed. After that, approximately 15% of the branches are cut off already adult and fruit bearing, as well as affected by diseases or pests. The process is very important and difficult, nevertheless it must be approached boldly. Also requires currant black care in the fall, associated with the formation of its crown. For this, it is necessary to remove not only the weak, but also the skeletal branches, if the bush gives few basal shoots. After the fifth year of life, such a pruning is stopped.