The season has ended, juicy and large currant berries are collected, but this does not mean that it's time to relax. On the contrary, if you want to get a rich harvest in the next year, you need to take care of currant bushes and properly feed them. Currant feeding after harvesting is very important, because just in this period the kidneys are laid for the next year.
Selection of fertilizers for currants after harvest
The question of how to feed the currant is relevant for any summer resident, since this fruit-bearing culture always responds noticeably to fertilizers. Make after harvesting should be both mineral and organic fertilizers. From mineral in this period it is important to pay attention to potassium and phosphorus, which favorably affects the ripening of the wood, preparing the bush for the winter period. In nitrogen fertilizers, currant does not need, because their task to promote the growth of berries and leaves at this time does not matter. The following "recipes" can be assigned to successful variants of mineral fertilizing:
- A spoonful of urea, a spoonful of superphosphate, a glass of wood ash - all mixed in a bucket of water. Pour the bush with a bucket of clean water, then a bucket of water with diluted fertilizers, then again with clean water.
- 3 tablespoons of potassium sulfate, 3 tablespoons of superphosphate, 30 liters of water - the resulting solution to feed the bush.
From organic fertilizers, you can choose many ways to feed the currant after harvest - manure, bird droppings, peat, mullein , compost :
- Bird droppings can be diluted in a ratio of 1:12 with water, let it brew for a week, then add a liter of a liter to a bucket of water and pour it into prepared grooves around the bush.
- Mullein is also cooked for a week - a barrel is half full of mullein, half water, and fermented. Then the resulting liquid is diluted with the same volume of water and watered with currants, and the soil is poured over with pure water.
- Frequently encountered option is the dressing of currants with potato peelings, from which the plant receives starch. Clean up the dig under the bush.
Other seasons of fertilizing the currant
Of course, expecting that the harvest will be good, counting only on one additional feeding after harvesting, would be wrong. In early spring currants must be fertilized with nitrogen. Then the second fertilizing of the currant is carried out - in the summer or early spring before flowering. At this time, it is especially important to saturate the plant with manure and potassium sulfate. Adding currant after flowering is also necessary, you can use for her bird droppings and ash. It should be remembered that it is important to apply all the fertilizers to the currant not so much under the bush as on the perimeter of the growth of its roots, and they often go further than the crown of the plant. Practiced and foliar top dressing of currants. In a bucket of water make a solution of 10 g of copper sulfate, 5 g of potassium permanganate and 2 g of boric acid and spray them with currant bushes in the evening.
Fertilizers for currants - precautions
Especially it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that the mineral fertilizers purchased for the currant bushes did not contain chlorine, this element has a bad effect on the plant. Also it is necessary to observe a measure in the use of nitrogen fertilizers. They have a good influence on the growth of the bush, but at the same time reduce the fruitfulness of the plant and make it more vulnerable to fungal diseases. Especially dangerous are excessive nitrogen fertilizers for the currant after harvest, as they inhibit the ripening of the branches, and this can lead to the freezing of the bush in winter. However, it is important to observe the dosage of any fertilizer, not just nitrogen, so that the roots of the currant are not affected.