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  1. Galina

    It’s good when the vegetation at your dacha not only produces harvests, but also pleases the eye, including shrubs. They must be healthy and neat looking. For example, my husband and I formed red currant bushes in the shape of a fan.
    With this formation, the branches are arranged in one row, so each leaf and berry receives enough sunlight. As a result, yields have increased dramatically, and picking berries has become much easier.

    We formed our “fan” bush for two years.
    The main thing is to plant an annual seedling on the south side of the fence. After this, we cut off the main stem with pruning shears, leaving it 15-20 cm high. We cut it down to two strong side shoots, which are directed in opposite directions. Then the husband stuck two bamboo sticks into the ground near the bush at an angle of 45 and tied a corresponding side shoot to each with wire.
    In the summer, three strong branches were selected from the main stem and tied in the same way, continuing to form a fan. The following spring, the skeletal branches were cut in half, and the lateral branches were shortened, leaving one bud.

    Now every spring we shorten the shoots a little to maintain the fan shape.

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  2. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    To make currants or gooseberries grow like a small tree, I found an easy way. When planting an annual plant, I put a tube made of polyethylene or other material that does not transmit light on it. I bury its lower end 10 cm into the ground, and leave the upper end on the surface at the desired height above the soil. With this method, the bushes can be planted much closer to each other than usual.

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  3. Felix Rodionovich PEREVERZEV, Kaliningrad region, Bagrationovsk

    Few people know that black currants love starch. To make the bush happy with the harvest, you can prepare a special top dressing from the potato peel.
    Pour boiling water over dried cuttings of tubers and let it brew. This top dressing is best applied during the flowering period. 1 liters of infusion should be poured under 3 bush.

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  4. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    I really respect the currant. The best variety, in my opinion, is Vigorous, because it is resistant to many diseases and is not capricious in its care. But once, however, Yadrenaya malfunctioned. And it happened when we had a strong flood in the spring. The bushes sat in the water for several days and then became covered with powdery mildew. This was the first time this happened to them. What to do?

    Since I try not to use chemistry until the last opportunity, I decided to treat it with a microbial solution of Bessarab for the sake of experiment. It is not for nothing that so many summer residents sing praises to him. And it turned out that he really deserved it! A couple of times I treated the bushes, and the disease disappeared. Now this drug is also in service with me.

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  5. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    Blackcurrant has unexpectedly taken a time out this season. The berries were only on 2 bushes of a large-fruited late variety Dochka. And in the early varieties - several berries per bush. The conclusion is obvious: to acquire varieties of different ripening periods, so as not to be left without a crop at all.

    And of course, it is imperative to carry out annual pruning and treatment for diseases, as well as fight kidney mites. After all, this pest carries a dangerous disease - the terry black currant, which leads to a complete lack of harvest.
    But the red currant of the Uralskaya beauty variety was strewn with ruby ​​berries so that three families were harvested from one bush. I just had to hide it from the birds under a thin covering material so that the crop would not "fly away".
    N. VORONTSOVA

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