How to increase the harvest honeysuckle. Top tips

Honeysuckle consumed fresh, added to various workpiece. In the first case is selected sweet varieties, often used in the second a small acidity.

He is rich in rutin, vitamin C and Group B. With proper care the plant for 5-8 year of life with a single bush can collect up to 1 kg of berries.

Basic rules bushes landing

When planting is necessary to choose a new high-yielding varieties. This is a guarantee of a good harvest. At one site should be planted bushes about 10. Harvest 2-3 is not great. It is desirable that they were of different kinds.

Much depends on the fruit set. This process, in turn, affected by weather conditions and insect pollinators. Therefore, to get their attention is not necessary to plant seedlings in a row. It is better that they were a group, close to other flowering plants.

Planted honeysuckle should be full sun. The penumbra their productivity is reduced. The distance between the bushes should be 1.5-2 meters, and between the rows of 2-2.5.

This will allow to properly care for the grown bushes. If the distance is less, they just closed.

The best time for planting honeysuckle will be the end of September - beginning of October. In spring the plant is not recommended to plant, since in this period it goes fast in growth.

If, however, it happened that a bush should be transplanted in the summer after the harvest. Then, it should be well watered and zamulchirovat ground.

With 4 years of plant life, it must be regularly trimmed. In honeysuckle produces a lot of shoots, which leads to thickening of the bush, because he needs a gapping cut. Thus helmets can get to the middle of the bush, rather than treating it only from the outside.

additional recommendations

The plant requires regular watering and mulching. Also during the blooming of his kidneys is recommended to feed. To this end, suitable:

· 20 grams of urea;

· 30 grams of ammonium nitrate;

· 40 grams of ammonium sulfate.

One of the listed substances should be diluted in a bucket of water and pour under a bush.

Fertilize honeysuckle every 2-3 weeks until mid-summer. After only watered and remove weeds.

To plant annually happy good harvest, it is cut before flowering every 2-3 years. In this case removed weak, diseased and damaged branches.

If the plant is older than 15 years, it is necessary to conduct renewal pruning. During her remove the old stems to make room for new ones.