Want a good harvest of Honeysuckle this year? The best recipe for feeding healthy berries without financial costs

Honeysuckle is the most unpretentious and flexible shrub on my site, it seems to me that it would bear fruit if I even planted it in a pile of sand or gravel. The honeysuckle responds gratefully to feeding, the yield doubles at once.

I do not use all complex fertilization schemes, I do not use ready-made mineral fertilizers at all. Honeysuckle is quite enough completely inexpensive actions without extra effort on my part.

A good result is given by:

● herbal infusions, which contain a lot of nitrogen for active growth;

● ash is the best mineral fertilizer, it contains everything you need;

In addition, you need to feed not only honeysuckle: another important action, which will be discussed below, will ensure an explosive growth in the yield.

Preparing bushes for flowering

Autumn work is important: the plant is preparing for wintering, you need to give it the opportunity to lay as many flower buds as possible. Productivity increases if the plant is fed with fertilizers with a large supply of phosphorus, potassium and trace elements.

Nitrogen is not applied in autumn for two reasons:

● nitrogen compounds decompose quickly and do not persist in the soil for a long time;

● nitrogen stimulates the growth of shoots in the fall, the plant will spend energy and may freeze out;

Therefore, immediately after flowering and fruiting of honeysuckle, I feed it with herbal infusion with ash.

Cooking is simple: I fill a bucket with nettles, woodlice and other weeds, pour in a couple of liters of ash and fill it with water. After a week, the infusion is ready, you just need to stir it, dilute it and pour it under the bushes, I have four different varieties of them.

In the fall, I bring in more ash and compost, and I put it in the soil just before the frost: in the spring the bush will be provided with food.

What to do in spring

On spring days, the plant does not starve: there is a supply of nutrients in the soil. What kind of feeding did I mention at the beginning of the article?

The fact is that honeysuckle is an early bird, it moves into growth with the first warm rays, and already at three degrees above zero, the buds hatch. Flowers also open early, already at 10-12 degrees, honeysuckle is able to bloom.

At the same time, honeysuckle is cross-pollinated, it needs neighbors for good fruiting. But bees and butterflies have not yet woken up in such an early spring!

Honeysuckle blooms almost with primroses. Therefore, you will have to invite bumblebees and other pollinators yourself.

Spraying insects with a sugar or honey solution will attract insects; a couple of tablespoons of honey for half a bucket of water will be required.

Having processed the blooming honeysuckle from the sprayer and feeding the welcome guests, you can get a lot of future berries from the grateful bumblebees.