Black currant is one of the favorite berries of many people. In addition to taste, blackcurrant has a lot of vitamin C, which is very useful for health. Black currant, due to its useful properties , is used very often in folk medicine. Of course, many people know about this, but not many know at what time and in what way it is possible to plant a black currant. This is what you will learn from this article.
Terms of planting black currant in autumn
More favorable conditions for planting black currant - autumn. Plant the currant in autumn before the onset of frosts, in a few weeks. Usually, such time falls on the end of September - the beginning of October. If you plant a currant in autumn, the soil to the spring around the roots of the plant is densified to the right degree, and your seedling very well begins to settle down, and with the onset of heat, it intensively grows. So if you had doubts whether you can plant a currant in the fall, I hope they have disappeared from you.
How to plant a currant in autumn
The rules of planting the currant in the autumn are not complicated. Cut off before planting the broken, diseased and dried roots to places that are healthy. In the area allocated for planting currants, all the depressions and pits are first covered. Then you need to dig the soil to the depth of the bayonet bayonet. The pit for seedlings needs to be prepared in advance, make it spacious, so that the roots can be placed freely: about 40 cm long and 60 cm wide.
The bottom is covered with humus or not a very large layer of organic (10 cm) and potassium fertilizers (100 g). There is one very important rule of autumn planting black currant. Shrubs should be planted at a slope of 45 ° to the surface of the earth, so that the shoots are located fan-shaped and that the lower buds on them must be covered with earth, and on the surface there should be two or three buds on each shoot. This is necessary to create a viable and powerful bush.
Next, you should make holes around the planted bush, pour a bucket of water and cover the soil around the bush with straw, peat or compost with a layer of 5-6 cm. Between the plants should be a distance of 1-1.5 m - it all depends on the variety of currants. Small, compact bushes can be planted at a distance of 1 meter, and lush, sprawling - better to 1.5 meters.
A good option - to plant the currant along the fence, but you need to plant, having retreated from the fence 1 meter. Also, black currants can be planted between fruit trees, but the distance from the bush to the tree should not be less than 2 meters.
EThere are several important tips for planting black currant in the fall. Planting currant bushes should be in a sufficiently lighted, preferably open place, since the black currant does not like shade, although partial shade of great harm will not cause it, but it will become worse.
The currant has a very high winter hardiness, however, it should be guarded against late frosts, since sharp temperature changes very often cause the feces to freeze, and as a result, the yield decreases.
Prefer blackcurrant neutral or non-acidic
There is another way to grow, it's new and called the fruit wall. If you decide to plant black currant in autumn in this way, then from each other plants will need to be planted at a distance of about 60-70 cm, and between rows should be a distance of 1.5 m. The method of the fruit wall for plant care is very convenient and will get good harvest from a small plot.