For shrubs growing in the garden or in the garden, it is very important to maintain the fertility of the soil. After all, no one transplants them from place to place, and for many years they are in the same place. Nutrition of garden shrubs, including fertilizing currants, is especially important in autumn.
After all, these nutrients should help the plant survive the cold period. Raspberries, gooseberries and currants are considered the most demanding on the quality of the soil. And this has its own explanation. Such a consumption of nutrients is due to the fact that the fruits are formed exclusively on young shoots. In this article, we will figure out how currants and gooseberries are fed in the fall. What fertilizers are used for this? And how important are clear deadlines for these activities?
Blackcurrant. Top dressing in autumn
As soon as the entire crop is harvested, experienced gardeners immediately begin to think about the next. After all, everyone is interested in the fact that the bush from year to year pleases with good yields. Any bush on yourthe plot must be properly prepared for the next harvest. Including blackcurrant. Top dressing in the fall will just help you in this matter.
During the season, the plant uses absolutely everything that can be pulled from the soil on which it grows. Therefore, it is quite obvious why he may no longer have enough strength to form berries.
And he needs to replenish these forces so that as soon as spring comes and all the plants begin to wake up, the currant is almost ready for fruit formation.
Feeding currants in autumn is very important so that the plant can survive the winter. After all, it is the substances accumulated in advance that will help maintain he alth during the period of severe frosts. If the bush has grown a thick enough stem, then it is able to endure frost at minus thirty degrees.
Fertilization timing
In order for a good currant to be born next year, top dressing in the fall should be carried out strictly at certain times. Do not hesitate with this matter and start mixing in a little nitrogen fertilizer as soon as you remove all the berries from the bush. Since you should get the maximum grown stems by the end of November. This means that this process needs to be accelerated as soon as possible.
But if you do not stop such fertilizer before September ends, then the currants will freeze out as soon as the first frost appears. But lay compost and humus at the very end of autumn. Because its decompositionhappens no earlier than in three months, then it will begin to feed the plant just in the spring.
What is humus and when to apply it?
Must is essentially manure that has already been overripe. Ready-to-use humus should look like a loose, homogeneous and free-flowing brown substance. Experienced gardeners advise making it even in December. Of course, if the weather allows it. Composting is also used in several stages, namely in three portions. The first portion is applied in October, the second application occurs at the end of November, and the last time the fertilizer is added in winter, as soon as the thaw comes in December.
How to fertilize correctly?
In order not to perform those actions, as a result of which your currant may die, top dressing in the fall should be carried out not only technically correctly, but also using the right components.
Nitrogen containing components are added first. Within a week, you will be able to see the result of such top dressing. This is due to the fact that such fertilizers act very quickly, and buds wake up on a growing bush before our eyes, and shoots of one year are well compacted.
Mid-October is the time to apply manure. The first part should be buried deep enough. Such top dressing of currants in the fall begins with the fact that manure is scattered around the bush, and then digging is carried out to a depth of about twenty centimeters.
After such manipulation, the ground surface should belevel with a rake. The next portion does not need to be buried, but simply placed around the bush.
Is it possible to fertilize currants in winter
So, in the previous sections, it was considered how and with what currants are fed in the fall. But what to do in winter? By the way, feeding these bushes during the frost period will not be superfluous at all. For this purpose, manure or chicken droppings are used. But in the latter case, you should be careful not to place the litter close to the trunk, as this can lead to plant burns. The time intervals between the introduction of manure or compost should be about a month. Thus, nutrients will be supplied in new portions during the entire growth, development and fruiting of blackcurrants.
Feeding gooseberries
In autumn, gooseberries are fed with organic fertilizers, as well as substances containing potassium and phosphorus.
Calculation of fertilizers is as follows. For one square meter of soil, half a bucket of organic fertilizers, forty-five grams of phosphorus substances and fifteen grams of potassium are used.
When digging in the fall, about seven kilograms of manure is introduced into the soil, which must be very well rotted, as well as twenty grams of phosphates and thirty grams of potassium.
Under the gooseberries, fertilizers are scattered carefully by hand and then, with the help of a hoe, they are buried at a distance of about ten centimeters from the soil surface. Remember to use rubber gloves when working to avoidthe skin of the hands suffered from contact with fertilizer.
In this article, it was considered how currant bushes are fed in the fall. We found out what fertilizers are applied and in what way, and also talked a little about feeding gooseberries. When fertilizing, it is important to remember the sequence in which nutrients are added to the soil, and also try to adhere to the timing of feeding as much as possible. And then the harvest of currants and gooseberries will delight you for more than one year. And the plant will be he althy, hardy and will well survive any, even the coldest winter.
