Features care honeysuckle spring

Honeysuckle - durable plant that can grow in one place for 18-20 years and without the participation of the gardener. But, nevertheless, with the active participation of the person easier to get accustomed bush will be more abundant fruit.

There are some features of the spring maintenance, you need to know to enjoy delicious summer berries.

First of all, you need to loosen the soil in the spring, removing the crust that has formed in the winter. The plant root system is superficial, so hoeing should be carried out carefully.

Procedure to increase the access of air and moisture to the roots, which will contribute to a more rapid awakening honeysuckle after dormancy. Then bush mulch small (up to 5 cm) layer of humus or peat.

Components will protect the land from weeds and help preserve its moisture.

In the early spring spend the first feeding honeysuckle. She made the following substances:

· Urea from 15g / m² or calculation

· Ammonium nitrate dosage of 20g / 1 m².

Instead of dry dressings can use chicken manure. fertilizer solution is prepared as follows:

· Chicken manure mixed with water in equal parts;

· The mixture is allowed to infuse for 3 days;

· After the specified time the infusion is filtered, covered with a lid.

The water bucket is stirred 1 liter of the infusion, the emulsion pours bush honeysuckle. Nitrogen is essential for abundant spring increase of green mass.

The root circle of pre-sprayed with water: earth fertilizer application should not be dry.

Each spring the bushes inspect, conduct sanitary pruning when necessary. Thus excised old, sick, broken branches.

The procedure is performed as sharp disinfected instrument. Pruning shrub will give more decorative appearance, contribute to higher yields.

At 5-7 years of age in plantations thinned crown: remove the shoots that grow inside the honeysuckle. The plant as a result of the procedure is better illuminated by sunlight, abundant fruiting.

To rejuvenate the bush, all the old branches are cut almost at the very root. Optimal variant when 1 honeysuckle bush 15 skeletal uneven grow shoots.

The plant tender leaves that can attack harmful insects: aphids, leaf roller, scale insects. To protect them from the honeysuckle, before flowering it is necessary to spray insecticide.

In addition insects may be struck by the plant fungal diseases. To prevent the spring bush affliction sprayed 1% solution of Bordeaux mixture, which prepared as follows:

· 100 g of copper sulfate filled with 1 liter of hot water;

· Similarly filled with 100 g of lime;

· At each of the solutions was added to 4 liters of cold water;

· Lime slurry is filtered, it is added to a mixture of copper sulfate.

Use the prepared emulsion is necessary immediately. Are sprayed, wearing gloves, goggles, respirator.

In addition to the above, at the beginning of flowering honeysuckle bushes sprayed with a sugar solution. This will attract the bees that pollinate the flowers of which then grow delicious, fragrant berries.