Garden honeysuckle - 7 best varieties with abundant fruiting

Honeysuckle is a forest plant, and relatively recently it began to be grown in gardens and vegetable gardens. After all, honeysuckle berries are very useful, they contain rare substances necessary for the body.

To date, breeders have already bred many different varieties of garden honeysuckle, which are noticeably differ from each other in the shape of berries, shades, taste and resistance to unfavorable natural conditions.

When choosing honeysuckle for planting on your site, you must take into account the following properties: taste, yield, frost resistance, care, resistance to pests and diseases.

Consider the best varieties that have the best characteristics:

1. Bakchar giant. One of the few large-fruited varieties of cultivated honeysuckle - ripe berries can reach up to 4 cm in length, which is an impressive indicator. The fruits have a pleasant sour-sweet taste with a slight bitterness.

The bushes are frost-resistant, suitable for growing in the Central part of Russia and Siberia.

2. Long-fruited

. An early ripe variety with a yield of 2-3 kg. The berries have a juicy, dessert taste - sweet with sourness, but without bitterness. The fruits ripen at the same time, which makes it easier to pick them.

Long-fruited honeysuckle is quite resistant to various pests and pathogens, does not require special care. This variety will show good yields in the Moscow region, Central Russia, and the Urals.

3. Cinderella.This variety is distinguished by its early maturity - the first harvest can be obtained the next year after planting. The fruit has a mild flavor with a strawberry hue. During the season, you can completely collect up to 5-6 kg of the most useful fruits.

The bushes are frost-resistant, resistant to diseases and garden pests.

4. Blue spindle.Another early ripening variety - if you plant a tree in spring, then the harvest can be harvested the next season after planting the bush. The fruits are sweet and sour, with insufficient watering, a bitter taste may appear. The yield of this honeysuckle reaches 2-3 kg.

The variety is quite resistant to droughts, frosts, pests and diseases. This makes it popular with gardeners.

5. Blue bird. Honeysuckle with small but sweet and aromatic berries. The great advantage of this variety is that the berries hardly crumble. The yield is low - it is unlikely that it will be possible to get more than two kilos. But all of them will be tasty and juicy.

Honeysuckle is not demanding on care and soil. Well suited for cultivation in the Volga region and Central Russia.

6. Tomichka. The fruits are sweet and sour, without bitterness, with a thin and delicate skin, which makes transportation difficult. The berries grow in clusters, which makes harvesting easy and quick. Berries can be harvested up to 3 kg per season.

Frost resistance allows you to grow Tomichka in Siberia, as well as in any area of ​​the Central strip.

7. Yugan. The berries of this variety have a sweet taste with a characteristic sourness, do not taste bitter. Ripe fruits do not crumble, retain their appearance well during transportation. It should be noted that the berries of this variety do not change their taste after freezing.

Yugan's honeysuckle is recommended for the northern regions, but it takes root well in the Middle Belt.

In order to get a bountiful harvest of honeysuckle in your garden, you need to pay great attention to the choice of the variety. Be sure to take into account the climatic conditions of the area where the bush will grow.