Gooseberries Urals emerald: planting, care, variety description and reviews

Gooseberries The Ural emerald is a gift for gardeners from breeders of the Institute of Fruit and Vegetable from the city of Yuzhno-Uralsk. It has long been a success with summer residents, and since 2000 has been included in the State Register of fruit crops for cultivation in the West Siberian region.

Variety description

A hundred years ago, gooseberries loved by many gardeners were known not only for their useful properties, but also for prickly bushes, which are difficult to cut, and the harvest is not easier to collect.

Today breeders brought out varieties not only without thorns and frost-hardy, but also with berries from light green to black. One of the options for planting in the country is the gooseberry Ural emerald, the description of which breeds the desire to allocate as much space as possible.

Its features:

• These are shrubs of medium height, fairly compact and with a dense crown.
• Unlike other breeding species, gooseberry Ural emerald has not lost its "spiny", keeping on its thick green shoots small spikes along their entire length.
• The leaves of this variety are not the same size and on one stem you can find both small and large shiny examples of dark green color. The only thing that unites them is a carved pattern and a border of sharp denticles.
• Gooseberry blossoms Ural emerald large pink self-pollinating inflorescences.
• This shrub is characterized by the absence of spines in the upper nodes and internodes, so it is classified as an average spiny.
• That's what lovers of gooseberry varieties like Ural emerald like (for example, this is confirmed by the reviews), so it's for his berries. Large, round or slightly elongated oval, light green, with a thin skin, they have an excellent sweet or sour-sweet taste.
• The yield of the variety is also encouraging. Collect more than 6 kg of delicious berries from the bush - this is another incentive to plant a gooseberry Ural emerald in his dacha.
• Also the endurance of a grade as in relation to the Siberian climate, and to the majority of pests and illnesses peculiar to this bush plays the big role.

Here is a gooseberry Ural emerald description of the variety, causing a desire to taste its juicy large berries. And even its spikeness does not scare away lovers of jam, jams and compotes from the fruits of this shrub.

Advantages of the Ural emerald

The main advantages of this variety are:

• Taste qualities of berries, which are suitable for consumption both in raw form and in canned. Especially tasty and useful of them are jams and jams, but no less popular are medicinal tinctures. The fruits of the Ural emerald perfectly tolerate frost, while retaining all their useful properties.

• Not only is the variety high-yielding, its berries do not tend to crumble, but they are removed from the branches very easily.
• Good resistance to Siberian frost minimizes maintenance.
• Resistance to diseases also frees dacha owners from unnecessary costs for chemicals and time for spraying.

Such advantages the Ural emerald received from its "parents", because it was grown by crossing the famous Nugget with the Minusinsk Pervenets.

How to plant gooseberry correctly

One of the advantages of this variety in its compactness, which is especially attractive to owners of small plots, because in a small piece of land you can plant a few bushes, in the future to collect from each of 6 kg of harvest.

Practice shows that the bushes of the Ural emerald planted nearby give a greater harvest, since with the proper formation of the crown they not only self-pollinate, but also pollinate each other, which leads to additional kilograms of berries.

The best place to plant this variety is fertile soil on the sunny side of the plot.

Important: The Ural emerald is contraindicated in lowlands, as moisture accumulates there, which will lead to decay of its roots. The hillocks are also not suitable for it, since here the other extreme - the moisture quickly disappears from the soil.

The best month for planting is the end of September, but you need to navigate the region. The main thing is that the landing takes place weeks in advance of the first frost. But for breeding, the best period is spring. The easiest way is to drop the layers from the mother's bush with the subsequent separation when strong roots appear.

Planting seedlings produced in prepared and fertilized with organic fertilizer wells followed by watering.

Care of the Ural emerald

If you believe what they say about the gooseberry Ural emerald reviews gardeners, then care for it is minimal. As they say, he planted and forgot. In fact, it should be watered as the soil dries up, loosens the soil, weeds weed out, and in autumn we cut the bushes for the correct formation of the crown.

Organic fertilizers are introduced into the soil in the autumn, whereas the minerals in the bushes are not sufficient in the spring. That's all care for the Ural emerald.

Pests and diseases

Although this variety is resistant to powdery mildew, and to anthracnose, and it is flanked by the side of the butterfly fire, it is necessary to monitor the health of the bushes.

The cause of the problems may be aphids or caterpillars, which, for all their slowness, are so voracious that they can destroy not only the harvest, but also the bush as a whole in a short time. Therefore, with each watering, you need to carefully inspect the leaves of shrubs for damage.

At the first detection of "invaders", fungicides should be applied and sprayed both infected and healthy bushes.

Useful properties of the Ural emerald

Not only taste qualities attract summer residents to gooseberry, but also its useful properties. As you know, the berries of this shrub are rich in vitamin C, which has a beneficial effect on the immune system, and serotonin, which "does not like" cancer cells.

In berries of the Ural emerald, in addition to this "wealth", there is a high level of vitamin P and pectins, which are capable of removing salts of heavy metals from the liver, kidneys and other organs.

In folk medicine, these berries are used as a diuretic and choleretic agent, and also as an immunomodulator. That is why it is recommended to use the fruits of the Ural emerald first of all in raw form, but frozen too are useful, they contribute to the maintenance of the organism in the autumn-winter period.