Gooseberry cultivation in the Tambov region - planting and care
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Gooseberry Landing and Care - My Experience and Tips
I want to tell you why I was pushed by the article “The Gooseberry Knows My Cost”, in which Elena Alexandrovna Pisarenko from the Saratov Region shares her experience in picking gooseberry berries.
Near the house we have three bushes: one - Red Slavic, and the two others we took from the neighbors and the names of varieties do not know. On one of them ripen large green berries, and on the other pink sweet ones.
And this bush gave us the most trouble, as it constantly suffered from powdery mildew.
Of course, it is easier to dig up and throw away, as is most often suggested on the Internet, but the berries are so sweet! And my stubbornness did not allow me to surrender in the fight against powdery mildew.
Over the summer, I sprayed the bush several times with purchased fungicides and various folk remedies, but all the same, if not at the time of harvest, then by the fall the bush would get sick. I calmed down already, was glad that everything was fine, and stopped processing, and he suddenly fell ill again. In 2017, I sprayed it every two weeks, alternating the biofungicide prepared according to the instructions, but with the addition of green soap, with a remedy, the recipe of which I read on the net: 1 tbsp. l baking soda, 1 tablet of aspirin, 1 tsp. dishwashing detergent, 1 tbsp. l sunflower oil in 4,5 liters of water. And so on until late fall. But last year the bush was clean, and this year there are no problems. So in the war against powdery mildew, I still won!
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NOT KRYZHOVNIK AND CONTINUOUS PLEASURE
And now about what we have done to facilitate the collection of berries. In the fall of 2015, in the fall, we cut every single twig inside the bush, leaving only two two-year-old twigs along the edges on four sides. It turned out that only four branches remained in the bush. In the spring of 2016, the husband brought the stakes and hammered around each sprig on a stake, and I tied branches to them in two places so that they would not be broken by the wind, and they would not fall under the weight of the crop (fig. 1, photo 1-2).
But here we made one big mistake. When the gooseberry grew as a shrub, it was somewhere just a little taller than 1 m tall, so Serezha dug in stakes just the height of all 1,5 m above the ground. Since he first made not very deep holes (he was afraid to damage the roots), and then he hammered the stakes deep into the ground with a hammer so that they would hold more tightly, he did not make them very high so that it was easier to drive.
And the bushes, freed from excess branches, began to give all their strength to these four branches, and they waved under 2 m, and since there was nothing to tie them to, they bent - which side, which down. But even in this form, it became much more convenient to harvest, and there were much more berries on the branches (photo 3), these branches were simply strewn with berries, because they are all in plain sight, they are blowing them in the breeze, and the sun is warming. Perhaps this is why the bushes began to hurt less.
In the summer, young twigs grow from the ground inside the bush. As soon as in June they reach a height of 20-30 cm, I cut them out and fold them right there, and cover them with grass above, and that's it - they no longer grow anymore. And in the fall, I cut out all the young side branches that grew on the main branches to a height of 20-30 cm from the ground, as well as those that grew inside the bush, and those that interfere with other branches or hang down to the ground.
In general, I give the bush a more or less decent look and untie the branches from the stakes so that they can rest freely until spring. In the spring I see whether there are broken snow or dry branches, I cut them out, rake grass and dry branches from the middle of the bush, and tie the main branches to the stakes. Such bushes are even easier to handle, you can splash inside and outside, and shed the ground under the bushes.
Well, picking berries from such bushes is a real pleasure: you pick up the side branches one by one and pick them up, because they all go beyond the perimeter of the bush, and it’s convenient to collect them inside, there are no branches in the middle, and you don’t need any gloves or arm ruffles. By the way, these branches below became the thickness of a shovel stalk.
Over time, we decided to leave each year one young branch to replace the old branches.
For the test last year, one branch was left with one branch, and by the fall it had grown quite high, around 1 m. I have never read about this method of cutting gooseberries, so I decided to share with you, dear summer residents. Moreover, the gooseberry can be cut in this way not only in the autumn, but also in the spring. If you do not want to risk, you can cut one bush as an experiment and see what happens.
But with all kinds of currants we do the opposite (photo 4). We drive a stake into the middle of the bush, and we tie almost every branch to it, especially from the periphery, because under the weight of the crop they just lie on the ground and the berries become dirty. When harvesting the branches, we untie the twigs and pick berries, and after collecting all the strings we untie them so that the bushes can rest freely.
Diary cottage
When we moved them from Kazakhstan to the Tambov region in 1992, they gave us an apartment. On a plot of 12 acres there were sheds for cattle, hay, coal, and besides, we immediately planted garden trees and shrubs in the fall - in Dzhambul (now Taraz) we also had a summer house. Therefore, there was not too much space left for vegetables, and I tried to take into account where and what has been growing for the last 2-3 years, so that it is possible to observe crop rotation. Since 1997, I keep diaries of my landings.
I write down everything: when I planted seedlings, which of the varieties sprouted earlier, which ones later than I watered or sprinkled, when and where I planted or sowed, when and what faster ripened, what weather was, etc., etc. Thus, I have already accumulated a whole stack of notebooks. Although, frankly, in recent years I began to write less: I once, then I forget, I’m tired - years take their toll, I am already 65 years old.
Separately, in a notebook, I wrote down what work needed to be done over the summer for one or another garden or garden crop. But then I didn’t like it, because I had to look all the time for what, when and what to treat from a particular disease or pest. Therefore, I broke care for each culture for months, but also did not like it.
It was necessary to look through the entire notebook to find out which crops from which pests and diseases should be treated, for example, in the month of June.
And then I acted differently. In the common notebook, I wrote months for months and for months broke for decades, for example, February: 20-28 (I’m not planting before), which is lower, cut, then March 1-10, 10-20, 20-31, below, too cut off and so on. (see fig. 2). And for each decade it takes from two to six pages, depending on how much work this month.
For example, in February one page is enough for a garden and one page for a garden, in March already two pages, and in April, May, June, July - 3-4 pages, and so on until late fall, until the garden works .
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Now, if I need to do something, for example, from June 10 to 20, without turning over the entire notebook, I immediately open this page and see that in the garden this and that must be watered, or sprayed, or nipped , then in the garden the same thing - what to thin out, what to spud, etc. By old age, memory becomes worse and much is forgotten, and so in the morning I will open my work plan, look and decide with my husband what kind of work we need to do today. Maybe this my notion will help someone.
Unfortunately, while I was waiting for my daughter to take a picture of the bushes, half of the crop was already harvested. I decided to take a picture myself, but it turned out badly for me, if you do not disassemble anything, do not print.
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© Author: Tatyana Nikolaevna IVANOVA p. Avdiivka Tambov region
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