Harvest currants and gooseberries secret - in autumn pruning
AUTUMN CUTTING OF CURRANT AND Gooseberry
For proper growth, full development, and increasing the yield of gooseberries and currants (black, red, white), these shrubs must be properly cut. And the most optimal time for this work is October, after the leaves fall.
First, I remove all the old branches (whose age you cannot determine, covered with moss), as well as thin (thinner than a pencil) twisted shoots growing along the ground.
In a branch of the first year that has grown over the summer (most often of a light gray color), I count 8 buds from the soil, cut off the rest, and so that the upper bud, above which the cut goes, looks outward, and not inward.
Moving on to the branches of the second year. Branches of the first order extend from the central branch, which I shorten, leaving only 4 buds from the base (the upper bud under the cut should always look outward). As a result, after pruning, only branches of the first and second years remain in the black currant bush (all the rest must be completely cut out).
For red and white currants, as well as for gooseberries, you can also leave three-year branches. The principle of pruning is exactly the same: branches of the first order branch off from the central branch, branches of the second order branch off from the branches of the first order, which I cut off above the fourth bud from the base.
Perhaps many will think that this is too much pruning. This is true. But after it, many branches of replacement grow (and not a couple, as in a thickened bush). And it is thanks to this formation that the black currant of the Belorusskaya early variety, planted back in 1985, still bears fruit on our site. This bush (as well as all the others) is healthy and fruitful.
After pruning, I process the bushes with a biological product Gardener's First Aid Kit (or I breed 5 tablespoons Fitoverma, 1 tablespoon Farmayoda, 2 tablespoons Phytolavin, a pack of Liposam bioadhesive in 10 liters of water).
It is important to feed the plants and feed them correctly: after digging up the potatoes, I grind the substandard tubers. I add 2-3 tbsp to a bucket of this raw material. sifted ash, 2 handfuls of horse or chicken manure granules, 0 tbsp. biological product Shine-5. I cover the bushes with this mixture, sprinkle it with compost and cover it on top with straw, hay or leaf litter.
See also: Autumn pruning of shrubs from A to Z
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CUTING CURRANT IN AUTUMN - VIDEO
© Author: Tatiana VASKO, Head of the Bobruisk Center for Natural Agriculture "Shining"
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Last year we were left without a gooseberry crop. First, a white coating appeared, I washed it off with water, and after a while all the berries began to rot right on the bush and fell off. What is it - a disease or an invisible pest? How to save gooseberries this year?
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After picking berries of late varieties of currants and gooseberries, I cut out broken, dry and diseased branches. I thin out too thick bushes, although in the spring I also control.
When pruning these crops, in no case should hemp be left - these are convenient places for the wintering of many pests.
I spray all the berries from aphids and gooseberry moths with infusion of tobacco, and from kidney currant mites - infusion of garlic, using small cloves.