Why Honeysuckle drying, or fruit and grows just bad?
Honeysuckle - berries with a high yield, but many gardeners do not know the basic rules of growing and care for her.
This leads to drying of the bushes, poor growth and fruiting. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help improve the situation.
Good soil and fertilizing
Honeysuckle fruits abundantly only in loose fertile soil. When planting is necessary to add in a hole a couple of buckets of manure with compost and mix thoroughly.
Adult plants periodically fertilized with organic, but the mineral or chemical fertilizing used is not desirable, or berries are oversaturated with nitrates.
If the bush is not enough food and mineral trace elements, it spends all its resources on fruiting and practically lays the kidneys for the following season.
Reference! In the early years of strong growth there. In the bushes at this stage actively formed root system, then it begins to grow leafy part.
No less important is the landing place - a sunny plot, closed by a strong wind trees or outbuildings.
With the growth in the shade or partial shade honeysuckle withers, its yield is reduced.
proper pollination
For cross-pollinating thrown from 3 to 5 different varieties honeysuckle bushes - without this fruit is not fastened.
Bumblebees pollinate plants and bees. Insects are much more likely to arrive at a group planting. Place the brush is not in a row as raspberries or blackberries, and the group at a small distance from each other.
Important! Attract pollinators can be water and honey - just sprinkle sweet solution of all the bushes.
abundant watering
The plant blooms in May, when often is hot, dry weather. Shrub love moisture and often throws flowers at its deficit, especially in sandy soils.
Honeysuckle begins to dry, loses resistance to diseases and pest attacks. Watering must be abundant and regular - a few buckets of water under a bush.
Better use of drip irrigation systems.
timely pruning
Young does not require trimming honeysuckle except sanitary cleansing spring. After 7-8 years the growth of shrubs starting to obscure themselves.
All thick dry branches and shoots growing inside should be cleaned using secateurs. This will increase productivity and enable to collect from one bush from 4 to 7 kg.
But honeysuckle berries are like birds that can destroy the entire crop rather quickly.
To protect them put frightening if special grid.