How to grow gooseberries

Gooseberries — a very undemanding plant. It is not necessary to care year-round, such as for blueberries. But it gives an excellent harvest every year.

The gooseberry fruit-bearing up to 40 years, although the optimum age of 15. It can grow on almost any soil. The only thing that it requires – a lot of sun.





Gooseberries ready to eat at any maturity:

  • from unripe can be cooked compote,
  • prozrenie suitable for jam,
  • and already quite Mature and represent a wonderful dessert.
 

Planting gooseberries on clay soil, it is often necessary to loosen. If you do decide to grow on sandy loam or sandy soil, it is better every year to make organic fertilizer.

Plant gooseberries better at the end of September, so that he is well entrenched. The distance between rows and individual bushes in a row should be not less than 1.5 metres. After planting, each shrub should be a good water – a bucket of water on each plant. After the moisture has been absorbed, the ground around the bushes need to be mulched with peat and humus.





Special care for the gooseberry is not necessary. It is necessary to remove weeds, feed, watering and pruning to do.

Pruning is necessary in order to form a full Bush with uneven branches and improve its fruitfulness. The most valuable are the branches 5 7letnego age. You need to trim small shoots, creating excessive thickening Bush.

The tops of the shoots of the gooseberry are not truncated. This is done only in case if they grow small poor quality fruit. Pruning is done annually. Otherwise, the Bush thickened, and formed within small berries.

 

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Require special supports to the branches did not fall to the ground and berries are not dirty.published

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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