Spring for gardeners begins with a thorough inspection of their property. The primary task is to identify frozen parts of trees and shrubs, diseases and pests. Immediately after this follows an active fight against possible problems. Today on the website you will learn how it is carried out processing currants in spring from diseases and pests.
Gardener's work plan in spring:
1. Treatment with boiling water.
2. Spraying currants against diseases and pests.
3. Caring for currants in spring: soil treatment, pruning, fertilizing.
Pouring boiling water over a bush in early spring
Not all gardeners consider this method to be truly effective. However, it has proven effective in many cases, especially in the fight against aphids. If last year you had to fight the mentioned pest, do not ignore this common way to protect currants from the enemy.
When to treat? It needs to be done in early spring without waiting for the snow to melt. There is no need to be afraid - boiling water will not do any harm to the bush. But only on condition that the kidneys are still in a dormant state.
Currants should be treated against pests with boiling water in early spring. Stages of work:
Tie up the bushes so that the shoots are more closely spaced.
Boil a large volume of water.
Pour the currant bush through a watering can.
First treatment of the garden against pests and diseases
Pathogens and the larvae of many insects can easily tolerate even the most severe frosts. If you do not protect the plant in time, you can completely lose the entire harvest. To protect fruit crops, including valuable currants, experts advise treating the entire garden in early spring, before signs of disease or pest infestation appear.
For the first treatment of currants in the spring, the preparations “Skor” and “Karbofos” are suitable. Of the many ways to protect currants, there is one particularly effective one. Gardeners using it are waiting for the first spring warmth and go to the garden, taking with them a medicine for garden diseases "Skor" and a popular pest repellent fruit crops "Karbofos"
How many approaches does primary processing of currants require? Option two:
One, if last year the crop was not sick or was moderately affected.
Two (with a break of two weeks), if the currants last year were severely affected by diseases or pest attacks.
Primary treatment is designed to protect currants from common problems: mites, aphids, powdery mildew. Then they begin other activities to care for the garden.
Caring for currants after the first spraying
Before you start treating currant bushes with chemical or folk remedies, you need to do the following:
1. Trim all frostbitten, dry and obviously diseased branches or parts thereof.
2. Loosen the ground near each currant bush, sprinkling it with ash.
3. Dig deeply between the bushes.
4. Place humus at the base of the bushes to ensure culture nutrients for the whole season.
5. Treat currants against diseases and pests.
To fight with various kinds all of the above steps are directed by microorganisms, fungi and insects spring care. Getting rid of diseased branches, loosening, digging and fertilizing the soil, as well as directly spraying the bushes - all this helps the currants to strengthen themselves in the fight against enemies.
Proper care for currants in early spring will contribute to good resistance to pests and diseases Inspection of currant bushes and re-treatment with preparations
When the first leaves of the currant appear and the flower buds begin to swell, it is the right time to carry out an inspection. Unusual shape buds, swelling and spots on the leaves - all this is an alarming signal for the gardener. It is necessary to immediately determine whether this is a sign of a disease or the introduction of insatiable pests into the plant’s vital system.
It is very important to carefully examine the currant bushes in the spring. Important! Inspection and processing of currants must be done before the buds open. From the moment of flowering until late autumn, you cannot spray the bushes.
Treatment when a major pest is detected - kidney mite
If at spring inspection currants you found swollen buds, most likely the main enemy of the crop - the bud mite - has settled in them. If measures are not taken in time, the affected buds will not bloom, and as a result, currant yields will suffer greatly not only this year, but also in subsequent years.
Mites in currant buds are easy to detect in early spring What to do against this currant pest? The best method treatment in the spring with a solution is considered colloidal sulfur(10 g/10 l) or a preparation developed on its basis "Tiovit Jet". Some gardeners use "Chlorophos", "Karbofos" or "Furanon". Of course, spraying will not help greatly increase this year's harvest, but next spring the problem will be completely or partially solved.
Treatment of bushes against powdery mildew disease in spring
A sign of powdery mildew on currants in spring is a light gray coating on the leaves. In addition, the shoots are deformed, the leaves become smaller and change color and shape. Spores of an insidious fungus that causes crop loss overwinter on the plant or fallen leaves.
Powdery mildew disease on currants How to save currants from this disease? Experienced gardeners trust in this case a proven copper sulfate and the drug "Fundazol". Take 100 g of the first per bucket, and 15 ml of the second. Be sure to water the soil around the bushes with the prepared solution at the same time as treating the plant in the spring.
Aphids on currants - ways to combat the pest
The presence of aphids on currants can be determined by twisted shoots and leaves. If you look closely, with reverse side leaves you can detect these small but very vicious pests. Experienced gardeners know that the main carriers of aphid larvae are ants. They breed these pests because they feed on their secretions. If there are aphids on the currant, you will see a lot of ants on it.
Pests on currants - aphids How to deal with these pests? There are many medications available for this case. Can be processed "Karbofos", if spraying in early spring did not help. This is one of the most popular drugs. Many gardeners are faithful to the old proven remedy - copper sulfate(100 g/10 l) or prepared on its basis Bordeaux mixture. There are other drugs: "Intavir", "Tanrek". Before the leaves appear, treatment is applied "Furanon" or scald the bush with boiling water.
Treatment of currant bushes in spring with anthracnose
Many gardeners, unfortunately, are well acquainted with this disease. It is characterized by the formation of brown swellings on the leaves. In early spring, the disease is not so easily detected, which can lead to a delayed response. In view of this, it is especially important to carefully examine every twig and leaf on the bush.
Anthracnose disease on currants requires urgent treatment What will help cope with anthracnose in the spring? Works great against fungal diseases "Intavir". At the height of spring, gardeners apply the treatment ash. It will also help inkstone or Bordeaux mixture. The treatment is carried out in the evening - twice with a break of half an hour.
Many of us have heard about simple technique pest control: treatment of currants with boiling water in the spring. When is the best time to water bushes with boiling water? Why is this being done? Is it possible to water other berry bushes? Let's try to figure it out!
Watering currants with boiling water - why, when, and how to do it correctly?
Shoots of berry bushes become a refuge for pests in winter period. Larvae and fungal spores overwinter. A simple remedy - boiling water - will help in the fight against misfortunes.
Treatment should be carried out either in late autumn or at the end of February, before sap flow and buds begin to bloom.
Water +80...90°C is poured into the watering can.
You can add excipients to enhance the effect:
- Potassium permangantsovka
Each bush is thoroughly doused hot water, consumption 3-4 liters per bush. Water the tree trunk circles generously.
Not a single branch is missed. This treatment will help avoid the use chemicals and increase the harvest.
What crops can be treated with boiling water?
- Currant
- Yoshta
- Gooseberry
- Raspberries
- Blackberry
We have repeatedly treated currants with boiling water, the effect is wonderful, but we cannot go ahead with this, the buds must be in the resting phase, and nothing else!
Processing currants with boiling water - video
To spare your berry bush from unnecessary problems, it is very important to use modern insecticidal and fungicidal preparations. However, one should not forget traditional methods currant processing. One of these well-known methods of controlling pests and diseases is treating currant bushes with boiling water in early spring.
Why treat currants with boiling water in spring:What pests and diseases does it help fight?
Spraying currants with boiling water in the spring serves the following purposes:
Of course, the most important advantage of irrigating currants with boiling water is the indisputable fact that it is a relatively safe and, one might say, “ecological” method of treatment against pests and diseases (as opposed to chemicals).
However! It is worth understanding that the real effectiveness of this procedure is much lower than the use of chemical insecticides and fungicides.
On the Internet you can find very positive reviews, besides, some summer residents do just this kind of treatment and their bushes are clean and the harvest is excellent. But, whatever one may say, boiling water alone cannot rid your bushes of pests and diseases even by 90%!
So be sure to check it out.
Video: treatment of currants with boiling water for powdery mildew
When to treat currants with boiling water in spring: timing
Advice! But still preferably Carry out this treatment when there is still snow on the street. And all so as not to knead the dirt after it begins to converge (melt).
At this moment, the plant is still guaranteed to be in hibernation, and it does not yet show signs of the beginning of life activity (sap flow has not begun, the buds are also sleeping; at most, they have just begun to swell).
Note! If you are late and the buds have already begun to bloom, then in this case there will be a high probability of damage to the buds themselves and causing serious damage (burn) to your shrub.
Thus, when choosing a date for treating currants with boiling water, first of all you need to focus on the condition of the bush: its buds should not awaken or even bloom.
Concerning approximate dates processing, then, for example, for Middle zone- this is the end of March - the first half of April, for Leningrad region- second half of April. In the south of Russia even earlier - in March, and in Siberia and the Urals - at the end of April.
However! It doesn’t happen once at a time - spring comes unexpectedly every year, so first of all you focus on appearance bush.
Video: treating currant bushes with boiling water in early spring
Interesting! It is believed that treating currant bushes with boiling water in the fall (in October, when the bushes are already completely bare) can cause serious damage to aphids and powdery mildew spores. However, you will no longer be able to get the currant mite in the fall, because... he hid in a tightly closed kidney.
Technology for treating currants in spring with boiling water from pests and diseases
Spring pouring boiling water over currant bushes should not be done spontaneously, but ahead of time, having carefully prepared and planned the event.
How to properly process currants with boiling water in the spring? Let's find out!
How to prepare for processing currants with boiling water:
- Conduct, if, of course, you have not spent.
- Attentively inspect the bushes for the presence of abnormally swollen buds (tick buds) and remove them mechanically, i.e. manually pinch off all infected buds.
Of course, boiling water will also affect them, but manual collection is guaranteed to get rid of the tick. Naturally, all collected buds should be taken away and burned.
- Prepare an iron or plastic watering can with a sprayer.
Typically modern plastic watering cans designed for 100-degree liquids, but better check (usually the permissible temperatures are indicated on the bottom).
- So that boiling water gets on everything problem areas and destroyed all pests, preferably tie all the branches into a single sheaf(tie the bushes with rope in a circle and pull them into a pile).
This will both reduce the consumption of boiling water itself and make the procedure more effective.
- Some gardeners believe that they should be further protected root system and lay boards, plastic oilcloth under the bush, and mulch. However, this is completely pointless. Watering with boiling water will not damage the roots in any way., because It will no longer be boiling water that will reach them, but simply warm water.
- And the most important thing is to prepare boiling water!
- While you boil the water, pour it into a watering can, bring it to the place and begin the process of watering the bushes, the water will cool down somewhat. This is normal (70-80 degrees).
How to directly process currants with boiling water:
- With confident movements of the watering can up and down, go around the bush from all sides, evenly irrigating the branches, while the time of exposure to one area should not exceed more than 3-5 seconds.
Important! During processing, you should ensure that all branches are evenly irrigated with hot water.
- As for the consumption of boiling water per bush, it is important to pour over all the branches.
Video: treating currant bushes with boiling water in early spring
Video: the result of pouring hot water over currants
Alternative methods of heat treatment of currants
Inventive gardeners also use other methods of exposing currant bushes to elevated temperatures:
- For example, it is considered that the use steam generator and it will be even more economical.
- Some even treat bushes blowtorch(burn slightly).
Video: what needs to be done with currant bushes in the spring - treating the bushes with a blowtorch
Thus, watering and spraying currants with boiling water in early spring is a relatively effective and free ancient method of controlling pests and fungal diseases of shrubs. In addition, such an impact can increase protective properties culture (its immunity is resistance to various diseases).
And still! Scalding currants with boiling water is just one of the components of a set of measures for processing currants in the spring, in other words, this not a panacea from all pests and diseases.
Video: treating currants from bud mites and other pests by dousing the bushes with hot water in early spring
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Treating currants with boiling water is an effective and time-tested way to protect bushes from pests. Many gardeners remember how their grandmother scalded the bushes with slightly cooled boiling water, after which the branches literally broke under the weight of the berries, and this was at a time when industrial insecticides no one heard. How effective is this technique now, why, how and when to pour boiling water over currants? You will receive comprehensive answers to these questions from this article.
Also, treating black currants with boiling water in the spring allows you to deal with fungal diseases. Previously, gardeners treated only the soil with hot water, believing that fungal spores from fallen leaves entered the soil. But some of the spores still linger on the shoots, and as soon as it gets a little warmer, they begin to show their activity. That is why it is recommended to water not only the soil, but also the bushes in early spring. And if you add a little salt, potassium permanganate or copper sulfate to the working fluid, the result can exceed all expectations - the bushes will be lush, and the yield will increase significantly.
The use of boiling water also provides a number of other advantages, such as warming the soil and increasing the resistance of plants to adverse external factors. Shrubs treated with boiling water experience a kind of stress, as a result of which their immunity, productivity, appearance, taste and commercial qualities of the berries improve. 
The main thing is to know exactly when to pour over the currants. Theoretically, spring and autumn are suitable for this, but processing in early spring is preferable, since the procedure to a certain extent contributes to the awakening of currants.
Video “Treatment with boiling water”
From the video you will learn how to properly process currants with boiling water.
Heat treatment technology
It is better to water currants with boiling water when the snow has not yet melted - in this case there is a guarantee that the buds have not begun to develop. Before scalding it is necessary to carry out preparatory activities so as not to be distracted by trifles:
You should know that you cannot scald currant bushes with 100% boiling water, as the plants can get burned. The water temperature should be no more than 80 °C, but, as a rule, when poured and in contact with branches, it cools to 70-60 °C. This temperature is ideal in order not to harm the bushes and destroy pest larvae and fungal spores.
The thermometer is used to measure the temperature of the working fluid. The normal range is 80-60 °C - a higher degree will cause harm to the bushes, and a low degree will not give the desired effect. To spray boiling water on the bushes, it is better to use a watering can, since pouring boiling water from a bucket is not rational. 
Thermal treatment of currant bushes is carried out as follows: water brought to a boil is poured into a watering can and, hurrying until the water cools down, they go to where the currants grow. You need to pour the branches evenly and thoroughly, without missing a single one. The distance from the watering can to the branches should be approximately 10 cm. Each bush is doused for 5 seconds.
In early spring, when the trees and shrubs have not yet woken up and the movement of juices has not begun, it is necessary to take care of protecting plants from pests and diseases. It is at this time that work can be done to preserve the harvest and increase it. How to treat trees and shrubs in early spring? Every gardener asks himself this question. Everyone wants their work not to be in vain, but to be rewarded good harvest fruits and berries. Therefore, a number of measures should be taken to protect garden plantings. To increase productivity, you need not only to use modern fertilizers rich in mineral components, but also not to forget the ancient methods of influencing currant bushes. One of these forgotten methods To increase productivity and control pests, treat shrubs with boiling water in early spring.
When to treat shrubs in spring against pests with boiling water
Heat treatment of bushes will bring the desired result only if contact with the pest is guaranteed.
Thus, the scalding time depends on the disease that affects the plant:
Eliminate powdery mildew and aphids can be done through autumn processing carried out until sub-zero temperatures were established.
Before you water the bush, pay attention to its appearance. If the buds have already bloomed in the spring, heat treatment it is better to postpone them, since there is a high probability of their damage. In addition, such watering can negatively affect the root system, which will lead to the death of the plant. Treatment is carried out only on dormant buds! Carrying out the procedure in the fall will not give any effect - mites hide in tightly closed buds
Which shrubs are treated with boiling water
First of all, identify the objects that need to be treated with boiling water. Include all plants that suffered last year from powdery mildew, various blights and pests such as aphids, mites, etc. Map out the route how you will move from bush to bush. You can’t rush around the site with boiling water, looking for something else to process. It will be necessary to act quickly, clearly, decisively. Boiling water is mainly poured on blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes.
What pests does boiling water help fight?
An excellent way is to douse it when necessary to eliminate powdery mildew - its spores die immediately when exposed to hot liquid. Watering with boiling liquid stimulates an increase in the plant's immunity and its susceptibility to pathogenic bacteria. After irrigation with hot water, the number of flower stalks produced increases significantly, which leads to a large harvest volume. In addition, the taste of the berries of the drenched shrub is significantly improved. A contrast shower of boiling water stimulates the plant to wake up from winter holiday. Early release of young foliage occurs due to rapid warming of the soil at the base of the rhizomes. This method is effective for eliminating aphids from the surface of a shrub trunk.
Pouring boiling water over bushes can eliminate various types of fungal diseases. In the past, farmers treated only the soil substrate at the roots of currants with boiling water and a solution of potassium permanganate, after all the fallen leaves were removed. Now, in addition to watering the soil, spraying is also applied to the shoots. After all, the disease remains on them, just like on the foliage, and at the first rays of spring, the spores wake up again and begin to actively attack the young foliage.
What is needed to treat shrubs in spring
For watering with boiling water, it is best to use a metal watering can. Plastic watering cans are undesirable because they can become deformed hot water. And when using a bucket, you will need too much hot water, which is irrational. Experienced gardeners recommend adding salt to boiling water, as well as manganese or copper sulfate in small quantities. The processing efficiency will only increase from adding these ingredients. As auxiliary equipment, prepare pruners, buckets and scissors.
To save gas, it is best to boil water over a fire, using available means. Can be adapted iron barrel, drilling two holes in the middle on the sides, and then inserting iron rods into them. Light a fire underneath them and place a container on top of them.
Technology for treating shrubs in the spring against pests with boiling water
It is better to water currants with boiling water when the snow has not yet melted - in this case there is a guarantee that the buds have not begun to develop. Before scalding, it is necessary to carry out preparatory measures so as not to be distracted by trifles:
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- initially identify bushes that need treatment, diseased bushes and those exposed to harmful insects (aphids, mites, ants);
- immediately think about the sequence of watering the bushes with boiling water, this will save time in the future and prevent the water from cooling;
- To make it easier to pour boiling water over the bushes, it is recommended to tie the shoots at the tops;
- prepare working tools in advance.
You should know that you cannot scald currant bushes with 100% boiling water, as the plants can get burned. The water temperature should be no more than 80 °C, but, as a rule, when poured and in contact with branches, it cools to 70-60 °C. This temperature is optimal in order not to damage the bushes and destroy pest larvae and fungal spores.
The thermometer is used to measure the temperature of the working fluid. The normal range is 80-60 °C - a higher degree will cause harm to the bushes, and a low degree will not give the desired effect. To spray boiling water on the bushes, it is better to use a watering can, since pouring boiling water from a bucket is not rational.
So, now you know how to treat bushes in the garden against pests in the spring? But it must be remembered that the treatment must be carried out only with newly prepared water. By using boiling water to kill pests, gardeners also receive a number of other benefits. Bushes treated at the end of winter or at the very beginning of spring practically do not get sick in the summer.
They are juicy and fresh. Immunity increases: increased resistance to disease helps currants more easily tolerate temperature changes and other unfavorable conditions weather. The yield of currant bushes becomes higher, and the taste of the berries improves.