Currants in the garden: 6 tips on placement

1. Black currant — season and wet crop and makes some shade. Therefore, the plot for it is better to take lower moist places with good protection from the wind. It should be borne in mind that a very low, swampy areas, depressions, pits, where groundwater may come close to the soil surface (they should be no closer than 1 - 1.5 m) suitable for the planting of black currants.

2. The best soils for black currants are considered to be sufficiently moist and fertile light loam and heavy loam soil under condition of organic fertilizer application.



3. Black currants very badly to strong soil acidity. In such circumstances, as well as a wetland, the bushes are given a very weak growth, strongly affects fungal diseases of the ovary after flowering crumble. Therefore, in areas where a lot of horsetail or sorrel you will need to add lime or not to plant black currants.

4. Red currants, especially white, is better to plant in a more open place than the black, but these species also it is impossible to place both at very low and high and dry places.

5. Red and white currants are more suitable light and even sandy soils.



6. Currants of all kinds can be planted both spring and autumn, but the best planting time is autumn. For the autumn-winter period the soil is deposited and compacted around the bushes. In the spring the plants start to grow earlier and well acclimatized.

 

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The easiest method of propagation of the currant cuttings. For this spring before Bud break, one or more of last year's shoots pressed metal bracket to the soil.





The place of contact of the shoots with soil sprinkled fertilized organic soil. By fall sprinkled with escape will give the roots, it is cut off and transferred to a permanent place.





If you want a lot of seedlings they harvested from woody cuttings, which are cut in the fall and stored until spring under the snow. To do this, choose developed annual shoots. They are cut so that each had 5 — 6 buds. With the onset of spring shoots are planted vertically or with a slight tilt to above the ground was 2 buds.published

 



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