Is it possible to revive the old currant bushes
If you have a site on the old, painful-looking currant bushes, take the time to uproot the plant. They can still be saved. How can I save and revive the currant bush?
Can I save the currant bush
First of all, you need to determine whether it makes sense to save the currant bush. To revive the plant is only if he gives new shoots. They are identified by a lighter crust than the old branches. If you see such shoots, the bush can still recover.
Sanitary pruning and weeding
The first steps of resuscitation - a sanitary pruning secateurs using all shrunken and fungal disease patients branches near the base of the shoots. The collected material must be burned. Next you need to remove all the weeds around the bush.
Rejuvenation pruning
thin, weak, old shoots should be removed. From these branches will be a bad harvest. Broken branches are cut off above the bud. The event also will avoid gelled.
Shoots should be located on a bush evenly on all sides. Also deleted branches that tend to the ground.
An exception is the case, if you want to further escape prikopat for vegetative propagation.
Thus, using the trimming living space is freed for future substitution shoots. In the spring they have already seen the bottom, inside the bush.
Processing currant aphid using biopreparations
Often in the bush currant aphid settles, and it deforms shoots. Curved branches - the result of aphid activity.
Often due to this pest dry out shoot tips. They also removed.
Therefore, prevent this from happening, you need to treat the plants before flowering currant biologics (Fitoverm, bitoksibatsillin). Or in the summer to use for this purpose extracts of herbs like tansy, tarragon.
Spring fertilizing
After the health and rejuvenation pruning, weeding around-trunk circle of weeds, you need to poryhlit ground around the bush. Followed by currants feed. First of all, plants need nitrogen fertilizer in the spring to actively collect green mass. Suitable as fertilizer as organic matter (humus in an amount of 1 a bucket) and urea (Article 1. spoon with a slide), ammonium nitrate (mineral).
Fertilizers are distributed evenly over the surface of the soil. Then you need to gently (roots currant located superficially) podryhlit ground in tree trunks. Preferably after feeding of the watering water the bush.
Mulching
When watering is better to zamulchirovat tree trunks to prevent moisture in the soil longer maintained. As the mulch you can use peat, compost and sawdust. A layer of mulch should be 8-10 cm. It will serve an additional food source for the bush, and a barrier to pests when they climb out. Many of them still remain in the soil, because they could not break through the thick layer of mulch.
These are the actions you need to spend the spring with old currant bushes, to revive them, to give them a second life.
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