How to grow honeysuckle and increase productivity?

How to care for honeysuckle, that it may give good yields? It has its own characteristics in the culture during growth. Let us consider them in this article.

Buying seedlings

When purchasing seedlings must be taken immediately at least 2-3 different varieties of bush for cross-pollination. It is advisable to know all bought varieties (better to write for yourself), then to adjust the yield and implanting a number of new varieties to improve the crop. And to know the name of the variety is necessary in order not to buy again the same grade.

Seedlings in appearance is necessary to choose healthy, without shrunken leaves and twigs. Planting young shrubs with open root system is desirable to fall and closed (if bought in a container in the nursery, it is possible and during the spring).

How to plant

To choose a well-lit place for seedling dig a hole under the scheme: 60 to 60 cm - for loam, 80 to 80 cm - for the poor soils. Add organic matter (humus, compost), of humus and mineral fertilizers (superphosphate - 100 g), as well as a glass ash.

All you need to mix well and to plant a sapling. Root neck and can hardly bury, because then the soil settles, and it will be on the surface. Water the plant. Further fertilizing manure to spend time in three years.

Varieties and care

During flowering and thereafter it is necessary to water the honeysuckle. From the third year, honeysuckle should be cut.

Despite the fact that you water the plant, for some reason, the leaves fade (or they become too tiny), and then dry twigs. It is likely, on a bush appeared pest - borer. He lays her eggs, and then the resulting larvae, which live inside the stem, hurt shoots. Therefore, all shrunken shoots with leaves an urgent need to remove that larvae do not spoil the whole bush. Spray drugs useless, because the pests live within branches.

If you started up the aphid, the use of insecticide made only after collecting berries.

Good luck with your harvest!

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