7 important events gooseberry fall. Prepare shrubs for the winter

To be every year with a crop of gooseberries, it is necessary to competently care for him. Autumn, berry bushes need to take the following actions.

Events gooseberry before winter, autumn

1. The soil under the bushes must be clean, free of branches and leaves, so there was no predisposition to the development of various infections and the spread of insect pests.

2. You need to remove all the dried fruit and putrid with gooseberry bushes.

3. Be sure to weed under bushes, in the root portion, removing weeds from the roots. Especially strongly deplete the soil couch.

4. Every year should be carried out via the formation of the bushes with pruning. Properly trimmed bush should have from 20 to 30 branches of different ages. Remove old and damaged-looking branch. In addition, the cut basal weak shoots, branches that grow in the middle of the bush, and lying on the ground.

Strong basal shoots are left in the amount of 4-5 pieces. Branches are removed over 6-8 years. Pruning takes place at ground level, to leave no stubs. It is better to use putty with garden pitch sections. After cutting the bush should be well lit and purged.

5. In autumn you want to carry out loosening the soil in the tree trunks and the middle of the bush (done carefully, because the roots are close to the surface), so that the land is not covered with a crust and become the most breathable.

The root system of gooseberries, as a rule, does not cover wider crown projection of berry bushes. In between the rows and along the perimeter of the bush dig the soil to a depth of 12-15 cm.

6. In early autumn, there is escalating the roots, so you need to fertilize the plants in the form of organic matter (2-3 kg of humus or compost per 1 m2) and fertilizers (50 grams superphosphate, 40 grams of potassium chloride 1 m2).

You can use the complex mineral and organic fertilizers where the nitrogen content is minimal.

It is also possible to use ash from the rate of 200-250 grams per 1 m2. Fertilized at a distance of 1-1.5 m from the middle of the bush, depending on the age of the plant. Nitrogen at this time the bush is not required.

7. In the autumn necessary to make vlagozaryadny watering, as it happens in this period capacity kidney future crops and root growth.

The presence of moisture is especially important if autumn was dry. But constant rain can do without irrigation, as the lack of moisture in this case, and gooseberries not like waterlogged.

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