How to prepare Gooseberry autumn berries to become bigger and bigger
Good time of day, fellow gardeners!
Much has been written about other berries growing on our sites and cottages. But about the prickly handsome sometimes undeservedly overlooked. I'm sure gooseberries - valuable berries from the garden, followed by a need to be concerned.
From the autumn of care depends on the health of the bush, and, consequently, its productivity. Attentive gardener simple little "thank" the plant for this year's harvest and prepare it for the next hot summer season. Therefore, read to the end - keep in memory on a page in your social network (by clicking on the icon), try to practice and enjoy 2020!
Of course a complete list of possible actions is large. Optionally, do all in the list, in this material you will find simple tips, and then you decide.
and tillage - the key to the health of the roots
Some gardeners pay your precious attention only "tops", forgetting the roots. It is understandable that the closer-to and climb. But it depends on the root system and the health and yield potential of the bush.
So do not miss work with the land:
- Clean - the guarantee of health. Weeds rob gooseberry moisture and nutrients, and if unsuccessful scenario become a hotbed of pests and diseases. Better weed tree trunks!
- To the point about clean - remove fallen leaves gooseberry, unless you are 100% sure that they are not infected by pests / diseases culture.
- Later need to update the shadow of mulch: remove old and pour a new one, so as not to leave the area a cozy nest for pests. Or simply pour a new one) optimum thickness - 10 cm. The course will peat, compost, pine bark, hay, same weeds (without seeds and roots).
- Carefully proryhlit, selecting roots, suspicious bugs and larvae. This improves the air circulation in the earth, is the prevention of weeds and pests, and just makes the garden tidy.
I advise you to do well about shrub branches to make it easier watered and fed.
Best defense is attack
Surest way to destroy all potential pests and pathogens on a bush gooseberry - preventive spraying in the fall. The procedure is simple and short-lived, but the gardener will be sure that the plant went into winter without the painful baggage.
Grasp the banks-bottles and spray bottle does not need to now, when all the leaves fall off the bush. It's easier to work precisely. Ideal means for spraying - Bordeaux mixture. After the procedure, it is necessary to shed the remnants of the soil, because someone could have time to hide there.
pruning gooseberry
Fall pruning shrubs in the garden - perhaps the most simple procedure. Create perfect shape will be in the next year, in the spring. Now cut enough extra ballast that nowhere gooseberry, a part of the winter:
- all dried up;
- the sick;
- the lower branches, which are almost creep along the ground;
- all scores bush Center and matted;
- shoots growing close in one direction.
While this will be enough for the formation of healthy bush, willing and able to bring the owner a lot of big and sweet berries. Other work will begin in spring with pruning shears.
Without feeding you can not do
And, of course, not gooseberry give maximum yield, if the bush is not enough food.
Autumn - time to make potassium and phosphorus. If you have to choose one thing, it is, clearly, potassium. It can be superphosphate + Potassium-magnesium separately, complete granulated fertilizer labeled "Autumn" (It is desirable that there were also trace elements - potassium, manganese, boron), organic or means - with wood ash bone meal. Love and gooseberries article was helpful? Please, click in response to "Thumbs up!" Thanks.