The roots of currant bushes, like most berry crops, are shallow. Therefore it is important that nutrients were in top layer– up to 50 cm. In this case, the yield will be maintained from year to year. Considering that it rains in the summer, and when the snow melts in the spring, the remains useful substances are washed out below 50 cm, fertilizing currants in the fall after fruiting will not be superfluous.
The bulk of nutrients are introduced when planting new plants. This amount is usually enough for 3 – 4 years. Further, there will be a nutritional deficiency, which will affect the condition of the foliage, root system, and yields.
Why do currants need autumn fertilizer?
During the collection of green mass, flowering and fruiting, the plant removes a huge amount of nutrients from the soil: nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, as well as microelements that are involved in metabolism.
Partially, these substances return to the soil after rotting of the root remains of weeds in winter, but this amount is not enough to restore fertility and maintain productivity at high level. We have to look for substances to feed currants in the fall so that there is good harvest next year.
Video: How and with what to fertilize berry bushes correctly
There are common to all cultural perennial plants rules for the use of mineral and organic fertilizers. Since those crops whose shoots have become woody over the summer winter well, you cannot apply nitrogen fertilizers for currants in August–September.
The active substances stimulate the growth of shoots, but they do not have time to become covered protective layer, so they are guaranteed to die in winter, and even provoke bacterial or fungal infections that multiply well on rotting branches. Regardless of the variety, you need to have a good understanding of what the fall currant fertilizer contains.
Winter fertilizers, which are used to feed currants after harvesting, are considered to be potassium-phosphorus mixtures of minerals or organic matter with a similar composition. Currant bushes need potassium three times during the growing season:
- in spring until flowering;
- during the pouring of berries and their ripening;
- after picking berries.
The fact is that vegetative buds are formed in the fall, not in the spring. Therefore, providing the bush with nutrition after fruiting is the main task of the gardener, otherwise the bush will produce an unstable harvest: the first year is good, the second is worse.
You can get by with mineral fertilizer for currants, but in this case there is a risk that the soil will become poor in a few years: it will not contain beneficial bacteria, which decompose organic matter (they simply won’t have anything to eat).
The moisture capacity of the soil will decrease, it will dry out faster, starting from the surface, where the root system of many plants is located. To prevent this from happening, use organic matter - manure, compost, wood residues in the form of ash, green plants - weeds or green manure.
Organic feeding of black and red currants
Organic matter is applied to soils that ensure plant productivity year after year. Any organic matter is suitable for black and red currant bushes, but you need to apply it depending on the time of year:
- in spring the mixture should contain nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus;
- in autumn, fertilizers for currants should contain phosphorus and potassium.
- in the middle of the period you need to navigate by appearance plants: if any elements are missing, they are added foliarly or by watering.
They begin to add food after all the berries have been collected and the bush is resting. It happens 2 - 3 weeks after the end of fruiting.
How to feed black currants after picking berries:
- humus in the amount of 6 kg for each plant;
- infusion of ash;
- compost;
- green manure.
Fresh manure cannot be used in the fall. This fertilizer is useful in the spring, and even then in a diluted concentration. Humus aged two years will not harm the plants and they will overwinter well. The amount of nitrogen is minimal, potassium and phosphorus – maximum.
The goal of organics is not so much to increase the amount of nutrients as to improve the biological parameters of the soil. Soil microorganisms will happily begin processing organic matter and restore the upper humus layer. Compost works the same way.
Feeding currants in the fall with fertilizers containing ash is even more preferable, since they contain trace elements - calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc, boron. Calcium is responsible for metabolism in plant tissues, boron and copper affect immunity, magnesium affects the production of chlorophyll.
Now many households are trying to save on organic matter and grow green manure. High price on cattle manure forces people to look for other ways than to feed currants in August, and at the same time other garden crops.
Until plant residues rot and nitrogen is converted into a form that is available to plants, time will pass. There is this time: throughout the winter, bacteria will eat organic matter and enrich the soil with the products of their vital activity. There are nitrogen-absorbing bacteria, phosphobacteria, which are responsible for certain type nutrients.
Another thing - mineral fertilizers with nitrogen.
Mineral fertilizers: how to apply
The difference between nitrogen-containing organic matter and mineral nitrogen is the rate at which it is absorbed by plants. Mineral nitrogen quickly dissolves and enters the tissues, stimulating their growth, which is extremely dangerous for feeding black and red currants in the fall.
From mineral mixtures, how to fertilize currants in the fall for better harvest, Potassium sulfate, potassium salt and superphosphates are used.
Superosphate for feeding currants in August is used in the form of an aqueous solution. This way it gets through the roots and into the shoots faster. On square meter you need 40 g of the substance. Phosphorus fertilizers are effective only together with potassium fertilizers, therefore, at the same time it is necessary to dissolve 30 g of potassium and water the bushes.
Long-term decomposition phosphorus substances, such as phosphate rock or horn shavings, are paid once every 3–4 years. Their advantage is that they reduce the acidity of the soil, leading it to neutral or slightly acidic.
These substances take a long time to process and serve as food for soil bacteria, which release beneficial nutrients into the soil throughout the entire period. Thanks to phosphate rock, it is possible to reduce the cost of production, since less fertilizer is required.
How to properly fertilize currants in the fall
Mineral mixtures are dissolved in water, a hole is made in the soil, watered and sprinkled with soil.
Organic matter is added in dry form (humus, ash) or in the form of a solution - it’s the owner’s choice. Green manure is used in any of the following ways:
- They sow around the bushes; when the time comes, they mow and dig up with soil.
- They leave only the root part in the ground - it will decompose over the winter anyway, and the greens are buried in another bed.
- Leave green manure unmowed. In winter, plants die and partially rot.
- Used as mulch, covering the layer of green manure with straw, leaves or sawdust. This way you can reduce the loss of nutrients and improve the chemical parameters of the soil.
One of the most important components of currant care is its fertilizing in the autumn, which has a real effect in laying the future harvest, improving its quality, and increasing weight. Tailored to your needs berry culture it is necessary to correctly determine the options and methods of feeding currants after fruiting and harvesting, as well as other necessary autumn activities: pruning and pest control. You will find about all this detailed information below.
In what cases is it necessary and why is it necessary to fertilize currants in the fall?
Autumn fertilizing of currants is carried out with the aim of preparing it for winter (so that it regains its strength and is able to withstand frosts well), namely, so that the bush lays flower buds well for the next year, which means that it will produce a bountiful harvest in the future.
Fertilizing currants in the fall (after harvesting) must be done in the following cases:
- If the fruiting of the berry bush was quite intense (that is, it has spent all its strength and it must be restored);
- If the bush has been growing for a long time, that is, more than 3-4 years have passed since planting, which means that the fertilizers that were applied when planting it have long been “sucked out” and the soil has been depleted.
Worth knowing! The end of fruiting and harvesting of currants, as a rule, occurs at the end of summer (sometimes even in the middle), but such fertilizing is usually called autumn, because fertilizers are still applied after some time, that is, closer to autumn - in August-September ( V middle lane and Moscow region).
How to feed currants in the fall
During the period after fruiting, currants require phosphorus-potassium fertilizing (a little more phosphorus, a little less potassium), since these fertilizers are responsible for the growth and strengthening of the root system of the bush, its stability in winter period(frost resistance) and immunity to various kinds diseases.
Note! You should always feed on damp soil, that is, you must first water the plant so that the bush does not get burned by the roots from the applied fertilizer. Water consumption is approximately 10-20 liters per bush, depending on its size and age.
Let's look at a few various options and methods (combinations of means - mineral and organic) with which you can feed currants in the fall after fruiting.
1 way
One of the options for preparing liquid phosphorus-potassium fertilizer for currants in the fall:
- Ammophos(52% phosphorus, 12% nitrogen). For a bucket of water you need to take 2 tbsp. spoons (30-40 grams) of the product. But first, it is better to dissolve any granular mineral fertilizer in a separate container in hot water(but not in boiling water), since granules, as a rule, dissolve quite poorly and reluctantly.
- That's where you dump it wood ash. Again, for a bucket of water you will need 1 glass of ash (100 grams).
- Mix everything well and stir.
- Depending on its age, you need to pour 1-2 liters under the bush. nutrient solution, if very old, then up to 5 liters.
- Loosen and add mulch to prevent a crust from forming on the surface.
By the way! In the ash that was obtained from hardwood trees(by burning them), contains more potassium, and from coniferous species— phosphorus.
Method 2
Another liquid option autumn feeding currants using mineral fertilizers:
- 1/2 tbsp. spoons urea or saltpeter (7-10 grams each), or 0.5 liters green fertilizer dissolve in a bucket of water.
- Then add 1 tbsp there. spoon potassium sulfate or potassium sulfate (15-20 grams).
- And finally, 2 tbsp. spoons superphosphate (30-40 grams).
- Pour 1-2 liters of fertilizer under the young bushes. If the bush is mature, then up to 5 liters can be used.
- Loosen and mulch so that a crust does not form on the ground.
Advice! If you want the fertilizer to get as close to the roots as possible, then along the perimeter of the crown you can dig (somewhere at a distance of 30-40 centimeters from the center) several holes 20-30 cm deep (or make grooves). Pour fertilizer in there and then dig it in.
3 way
If you are a supporter organic farming(but not ardently, because it is almost impossible to do without mineral fertilizers), then you can first mulch the tree trunk circle currants humus or high-quality compost(about 1 bucket for an adult bush, 0.5 buckets for a young bush), and then it is still recommended to spill the solution on the bush superphosphate(2 tablespoons per bucket of water).
Note! The illustrations show picture of double superphosphate, accordingly, it needs to be applied 2 times less than usual.
Method 4 (chicken droppings)
A good idea for lovers of organic fertilizers would be to feed the currant bush chicken droppings. Moreover, it can be applied either for digging, that is, in dry form (consumption 0.8-1 kg per bush), or a solution can be prepared (1 to 15).
Important! If you are applying dry fertilizer to the tree-trunk circle, then the digging depth should be about 1/2 of a shovel or 12-15 centimeters. Moreover, you just need to mix the dry fertilizer well with the soil so that the plant does not get burned due to direct contact of its root system with this fertilizer.
Of course, chicken droppings alone will not be enough, so a little later it is advisable to add, for example, 1 tbsp to the tree trunk circle (for digging), again in dry form. spoon (15-20 grams) of potassium sulfate (or potassium salt) and 2 tbsp. spoons of superphosphate (30-40 grams) per 1 bush. Or you can prepare a liquid fertilizer by dissolving the above-mentioned fertilizers in the same proportions in 10 liters of water.
Video: caring for currants after harvesting - feeding and protection from kidney mite
Method 5 (special fertilizers)
For lazier and more economical summer residents, there are special complex autumn fertilizers (which contain phosphorus and potassium, as well as a little nitrogen), some of which are no different high cost, so they were able to gain popularity.
By the way! In addition to root feeding, there are also foliar feedings (spraying on the leaf). It’s just better to do them at the same time, because with foliar feeding, the leaf absorbs and assimilates fertilizers many times faster, but the effect of such feeding is much shorter. In general, foliar feeding is more of an emergency measure when you need to either quickly treat or support the plant. And root feeding is a thorough or “long-lasting” feeding, more suitable for autumn period(preparing for winter).
Other autumn activities for caring for currants
In addition to feeding, you will also need to carry out the following important autumn activities to prepare currants for winter and the next season:
- Autumn pruning(sanitary - after fruiting, formative and rejuvenating - after all the leaves have fallen). Sanitary pruning involves removing all damaged and infected branches (including those lying on the ground) and leaves.
Advice! All information about pruning currants in the fall -
- Mulching and covering for the winter.
Note! More full information about autumn care and preparing currants for winter you will find.
- Autumn treatment against pests and diseases.
To process currants, you can use both biological products such as “Fitoverm” and any other means, for example, “Akarin”, “Fufanon-nova”, “Alanar”.
- You can also replant shrubs in the fall.
Important! All detailed information about transplanting currants to a new place you can get .
By properly fertilizing currants in the fall, we lay the foundation for the future harvest, since we provide everything necessary for growth and active strengthening of roots, increasing immunity and frost resistance. The main thing remains compliance with the timing and dosage of fertilizing.
Video: fertilizing currants after harvest (autumn)
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Summer is a busy time for gardeners and summer residents. Already from mid-July, currants begin to develop buds. next year. Therefore, before the end of August, you need to set aside time and tidy up the berry bushes. Mandatory procedures: pruning, watering, loosening, fertilizing and protection from pests.
Have you harvested your currants? Don't rush to finish things with the bushes. They don’t look very nice, of course: branches sticking out in different directions, yellowing leaves, shoots slightly or severely damaged by pests. All this needs to be removed.
Advice! Do not confuse summer processes with autumn ones. Processing the bush after harvesting is preparation for subsequent activities. However, it is necessary to carry out all procedures in order to get a good harvest next year. In addition, summer feeding will allow the bushes to gain strength before wintering.
The processing process is carried out on all currant bushes, regardless of the variety. Let's consider what and how to do correctly to improve the health of berry plants.
Pruning after harvest
Sanitary pruning is carried out after removing the berries. Sharpen the pruning shears and first trim diseased, dry, old thick shoots of brown color with plaque and damaged branches. Also remove excess root shoots located inside the bush. These shoots only thicken the plant. Powerful annuals should be shortened by 5-8 cm, but branches that lie on the ground or almost touch the ground will have to be removed completely.
Ballast prevents the bushes from developing normally and takes away juices. Once all unnecessary branches are removed, the plant will direct its sap to the main shoots. Remember that the thicker the bush, the fewer berries it bears, so regular pruning of currants should become a habit.
And now the leaves. Pluck damaged, old, diseased leaves by hand, but only on black currants. On red bushes, the leaves should fall off on their own so that the plant does not experience severe stress. 
Advice! If after pruning there are good healthy branches in the pile, they are cut into cuttings and used for propagation. The leaves can be added to marinades, dried and brewed into tea.
Proper watering of currants
In order for berry plants to lay strong buds, they need moisture. Watering is carried out after pruning and harvesting the leaves. Add warm fresh water under the bushes in volume: for red currants 1-2 buckets for each bush, for black currants - 3-4 buckets also for each bush. The next watering will be only in the fall before wintering the bushes.
Abundant watering for black currants is needed to nourish root system, which is located close to the ground surface. Red and white berries have a deeper root system.
Feeding bushes after harvesting
By mid-summer, the soil is already pretty depleted, so the bushes will have to be fed with a variety of compounds. A mineral mixture and organic matter will come in handy. And if the berry plants look tired, then anti-stress treatment is carried out.
Ingredients for processing currants:
- For 1 bucket of water take 1 tbsp. l. superphosphate and potassium sulfate, add 1 tbsp. wood ash. Pour the mixture under each bush.
- Dilute bird droppings (1:12) or mullein (1:6) with water, leave for a week and then feed the bushes. Ready mix once again diluted with water at the rate of 1 bucket of 0.5 liters of infusion with droppings or 1 liter of mullein infusion. Pour a bucket of water under each bush (the grooves will help apply the fertilizer more evenly).
- There is no time to infuse organic matter, add 1 bucket of compost under each currant bush.
- A pile of potato peelings - the best remedy for feeding the bush. Scatter around the perimeter or dig up cleaning. Fish meal and scales, 400 grams each, will also come in handy. for one bush.
Advice! Currants cannot tolerate chlorine additives. Therefore, it is better to leave potassium chloride and compounds with it until spring.
Anti-stress treatment consists of feeding with complex mineral compounds. It can be nitrophoska, and spray the leaves with Zircon. Both mixtures have a beneficial effect on berry plants and help to recover from exhaustion. If the currant is affected by chlorosis, this can be seen by the intense yellowing of the leaves, treat with nitrogen: 1 tbsp. l. urea per 10 liters of water and spray the bush.
Pest treatment
Both affected and apparently healthy bushes need to be treated:
- A 1% solution of Bordeaux mixture, fungicides Topaz, Fundazol help against fungus.
- From powdery mildew repeat the treatment after 7-10 days or according to the instructions for the drug used.
- For currant gall midge, use Lepidocid, Kinmiks, Bitobaxibacillin.
- From bud mite: Mite mite, Karbafos.
- From the glass: Fitoverm, Iskra, Aktara, Lepidotsid;
- From aphids: Kinmiks, Fufanon, Iskra.
Advice! Treat with insecticides no earlier than 5 days after applying fungicides.
After the mulch is scattered, the plants are protected, you can calmly wait for the first frost. Then once again remove the weeds, carrion and leaves under the bushes, add soil to protect the roots from frost. And on the first day of snow, wrap the bushes in matting, burlap, spunbond and wrap them with twine - this will protect the berry plants from the cold.
It is difficult to imagine a garden without currant bushes. Currant - healthy berry , which contains a large number of useful vitamins and microelements.
There are several types of currants, which differ in color and ripening time.
To summer time collect useful harvest currants, the bush requires care in the spring, and especially after harvesting.
What should be the proper care in August and September after harvesting berries?
Caring for currants should be constant. But the main period of care is considered to be the time after harvest.
After the harvest is harvested, the plant begins to actively give strength to the root system, foliage and new shoots. The period of active growth begins around the end of summer, in August, but this depends on the plant variety.
If you carry out all the activities correctly and in a timely manner, then next year in the summer you will be able to get a healthy and rich harvest.
Care consists of the following activities:
- Pruning old shoots will strengthen strong branches on which berries will appear next season.
- Loosening the soil.
- Autumn feeding.
- Control and preventive measures against pests.
- Watering.
- Preparing a currant bush for wintering.
Let's consider each method separately.
Pruning red, white and black currants: how and what to trim
The procedure is carried out in several stages:
- First stage- This sanitary pruning, all diseased, damaged shoots are removed, as well as branches that shade and thicken the bush.
- Second phase- this is the formation of the shape and the number of shoots of different ages, which will allow the plant to fully bear fruit.
Red, white and black currant seedlings younger than three years of age should only undergo sanitary pruning.
The main part of fruiting is the shoots. The harvest is formed along the entire length of annual and biennial branches. The fruiting part dies off a few years after harvest. That's why There is no point in leaving branches older than three years.
You need to cut out the following:
- Shoots older than 3 years that do not increase growth by at least 20 cm per season.
- Cut out old branches. This will help awaken the underground buds and zero shoots will begin to grow.
- Annual branches that interfere with the full development of strong shoots.
- Remove damaged branches from the bush.
It is better to burn the cut branches. Carrying out the procedure late autumn or in early spring. Old shoots can be cut off after harvesting so that the plant does not give up its strength to them.
should be held every year. The cuts should be treated with garden varnish. After the procedure, intensively fertilize the plant.
How to care for and cultivate the soil around a bush in the fall
Care in the fall, in September, should be not only for the plant, but also for the soil. Nursing activities include digging tree trunk circles around a bush.
The soil is dug up or loosened carefully, stepping back from the center of the bush by about 1 m. After digging, the soil is watered and mulched with dry soil in a layer of up to 10 cm.
Mulching will help preserve the root collar from early frosts and will help retain moisture.
Features of autumn and spring fertilizing: what fertilizers to apply and when?
Fertilize the currant bush at the same time as digging. For this purpose, only potassium-phosphorus fertilizers are used. Organic ones are used only in the spring.
It is worth noting that currants can also be fertilized with superphosphate. When mulching, you can use humus.
After fruiting is completed, the currant begins to lay buds for the next season. Therefore, this period is considered the most important in the care and nutrition of shrubs.
The land is depleted by the end of summer, so your task will be feed the bush with nutrients. If this is not done, then next year You can’t count on a rich harvest.
What can you feed? It is allowed to apply mineral and organic fertilizers. Remember that the fertilizer must include phosphorus and potassium components.
- Mix 1 tbsp in a bucket of water. l. superphosphate and potassium sulfate.
- Dissolve 1 tbsp in a bucket of water. l. urea and superphosphate, add 1 cup of wood ash.
- If the bush is severely depleted, it is better to use mineral fertilizer.
- As for organic fertilizers, you can use bird droppings and mullein. Chicken droppings dilute in a ratio of 1:12, leave for 2 weeks. For watering, use 0.5 liters of infusion per bucket of water. Mullein is diluted in a 1:1 ratio and left for 1 week.
- You can also use potato peelings as a top dressing, which are simply buried in the soil around the perimeter of the bush.
Top dressing of currants after harvesting, treatment against pests:
Pest and disease control: what treatment can be done in spring and autumn?
Pest control is a must, which should be carried out both in early spring and autumn. They mainly use Bordeaux mixture, karbofosi and other drugs.
To prevent diseases and pests, the bush must be sprayed with 1% Bordeaux mixture (Topaz, Fundazol). The procedure is carried out every month.
If you find a pest infestation, deal with it immediately.
After the fruits ripen and harvest, dried branches and leaves can be noticed. These are signs of glassworm infestation..
Ticks found- immediately treat the bush with special preparations. Neoron, Fitovern, Kinmiks, Kleschevit, Karbofos are suitable.
From gall midges use Neoron, Aliot, Kinmiks, Lepidocide.
Good watering - for fruiting in summer
Like all trees, after harvesting, they begin to stock up on moisture and nutrients for the winter in order to survive the winter. The currant bush is no exception.
Watering should be plentiful. It must be done before the onset of cold weather.
So that the bush has time, remove all foliage from the branches, which draws nutrition and moisture from the shoots.
How to feed and whether it is necessary to fertilize in the fall
Feed the bush in autumn time necessary. Currants draw large amounts of potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium from the soil, so a lack of these elements will lead to minimal fruiting next year.
- Before applying fertilizer, you need to clear the soil around the bush of leaves. Fallen leaves can be a breeding ground for various diseases that will begin to develop in the spring.
- The soil must be disinfected. Potassium permanganate is suitable for the procedure, copper sulfate, laundry soap solution.
- It is recommended to use phosphorus-potassium fertilizers. They provide the basis for the formation of buds for the future harvest, and stimulate active growth bush.
Preparing for winter
Winter is a special time for the garden. During this period, most shrubs simply freeze from the cold, which greatly upsets gardeners. To avoid this, trees and bushes need to be prepared for winter.
In order for the currant bush to overwinter and please with a rich harvest, the following activities must be carried out:
- In the fall, carry out preventive measures to combat fungal diseases and pests. The soil around the bush should be cleared of weeds and fallen leaves. Feed the bush with fertilizers.
- Preparation begins with pruning. Remove all diseased, dry and old branches. It is better to do this in the fall. Since in the spring, due to the fact that the plant quickly enters the growth stage, the buds can be damaged, which will lead to a decrease in yield.
- Feed the bush after pruning, the soil around the currants is dug up and mulched. For this you can use sawdust, newspapers, hay.
- At the first frost the bush can be wrapped. To do this, you will need twine, which is used to tie the branches at the top, in a spiral. Branches in this form will not rub against each other from the wind, and will preserve maximum amount fruit buds.
- When it snows, compact it around the base of the bush, and then fill it completely with currants.
- If you are afraid of damaging the branches with twine, then use another method of covering the plant. Carefully lay the branches as close to the ground as possible. Cover the top with slate. Thanks to this, the shoots will be protected from the effects of wind and frost.
- It is advisable to wrap young plants according to the principle of grapes and dig in with earth.
Preparing berry bushes for winter:
Remember that proper preparation By winter it will save the currant bush from freezing. It happens that after removing the winter shelter, frost returns; cover the plant with straw and old blankets to preserve the harvest.
If you use the method of bending the shoots to the ground, in early spring you will need to open the bush so that buds and new shoots can fully form.
Caring for currants after harvest involves a large number of activities which are recommended to be followed to obtain a harvest.
Keep an eye on the plant and treat it against pests on time. After all, the harvest depends on your timely care.
Currants constantly need nutrients, which they mainly consume from the soil. From year to year, the amount of nutrients in the soil decreases and in order to prolong the life of berry bushes, the quality of the soil must be increased by applying fertilizers. During the season, it is recommended to fertilize currants 4-5 times, using both mineral and organic fertilizers.
- The very first fertilizing is carried out at the moment the plant awakens and the active growth of green mass;
- The second feeding is carried out during flowering;
- The third feeding occurs during the period of fruit formation and ripening;
- Fourth, after harvest;
- The fifth can be done when preparing bushes for wintering.
Top dressing can be root or foliar. Foliar feeding carried out by spraying the bush with a weak fertilizer solution.
With this type of feeding, nutrients are absorbed through the leaves and reach the plant faster than with root feeding.
For root feeding Nutrients enter the soil and are absorbed by the plant through the absorption of beneficial elements by the roots. The process of delivering nutrients to the roots takes time, and the bush does not receive them immediately.
To get a healthy harvest with berry bushes, it is recommended to alternate these two types of fertilizing.
How can you feed currant bushes?
On the Internet there are a lot of tips and recipes for all kinds of solutions for fertilizing with the percentage and weight content of all substances necessary for application, depending on the stage of vegetative development of the bush. It is almost impossible to remember everything, and probably not necessary. The most important thing that novice gardeners need to know is:
- The first two fertilizers should include nitrogen.
- Subsequent feeding should be carried out by eliminating or reducing the level of nitrogen elements (since nitrogen promotes the active growth of green mass, and at the stage of formation and ripening of berries this is no longer necessary, because the bush should direct all its forces to the formation and ripening of fruits, and not active growth of green mass).
The simplest compositions for feeding currant bushes
Specialized mixtures fertilizers for fruit bushes. Store-bought granular or liquid fertilizers for feeding fruit bushes (spring-autumn) are easy to use. On the back of each package there is detailed instructions on application, composition, timing and rates of fertilizer application.
Folk recipes:
- Nitrogen-containing fertilizers (spring);
- Complex feeding (summer - autumn).
Nitrogen is found in manure, compost, and bird droppings.
1. Rotted manure is diluted in water 1:4 and the bushes are watered. Fresh, add water 1:1 and leave for 2-3 days. Bred ready-made composition 1:10 and water at the rate of 1 bucket of solution per bush.
2. Bird droppings are diluted 1:12, the application rate is the same - 1 bucket per bush.
3. It is good to mulch the ground under the bush with humus or compost throughout the spring and summer period.
Complex fertilizing of currants
Complex fertilizers should contain phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and other useful elements. For such fertilizing, you can use ash, starch, and yeast.
All of the listed compositions can be used both for root feeding and for foliar feeding. You just have to be careful with manure and bird droppings, their concentration should be halved.
At first glance, it may seem that preparing infusions is a long and labor-intensive process, but this is not so, we put the necessary ingredients in a bucket of water and put it in the greenhouse. The cooking process will proceed on its own while you go about your business.
Traditional feeding methods should be used in combination with mineral fertilizers, alternating them with each other.
Take care of the currant bushes and then they will definitely thank you with an abundant, juicy and very sweet harvest.