Gooseberries - care after harvesting

In August, almost all the main troubles are over and the harvest is collected. However, do not relax, because gooseberries after harvesting needs care, as well as in the period of fruiting and vegetation.

Processing of gooseberry after harvesting

The stage of care for gooseberry after harvest is not much more difficult than work in the ovary period. Your task is to prepare a bush for wintering and do everything necessary to ensure a good harvest next season.

  1. Gooseberries after harvesting need pruning. You should remove broken or damaged branches. Dark branches older than five years also need pruning. You can leave only a few young and fairly strong shoots, located as close to the base. As a result, you should get a bush with 15 branches of different ages.
  2. Top dressing of gooseberries after harvest is mandatory. In this case, additives of phosphorus with potassium are used. Perfectly suitable as a top dressing for gooseberries after harvest and manure, it is brought directly under each bush immediately after picking berries. The next portion of fertilizers will be introduced in the spring.
  3. Do not forget about the age of your bush: over the years the yield will fall and even the biggest doses of fertilizers will not help. So if the bush has given very few berries and its age is just the reason, boldly plant in its place the young.
  4. Almost certainly in the summer the bush was attacked by various kinds of pests and sores. One of the points of care for gooseberry after harvesting is just the treatment of the bush. Even if you have not found any problems, prevention must be carried out necessarily.

Even after fruiting, your bush needs to be taken care of and there is no point in postponing all these activities for the fall. The earlier you start courting and preparing the bushes for the winter, the better and more abundant the harvest will get next summer.