How to properly prepare for the winter blueberries

I come October, and the need to take care of your garden blueberries. She has painted its leaves in red and orange colors, and some plants already take off the leaves, and are preparing for winter.

What actions need to spend

1. Vlagozaryadny spend watering. This will help her to spend the winter well, and it will not suffer from lack of moisture. This year, the rains were not enough, and berries like never needs watering. Due to lack of rain (the usual watering it lacks) the harvest was small. Take a shovel and be broken, and you will see how the dry land (this includes the middle band). It is necessary that the layer of soil saturated with water 15-20 cm. Therefore, if possible, pour straight from the hose.

2. Zamulchirovat on moist soil compost mixed with coniferous litter or peat with pine bark, sawdust or peat with lowland (mulch will be and for fertilizing plants). You can try different variations. The mulch will retain moisture. A frost is not afraid of blueberries. Shelter it does not need.

Exception - seedlings, which are planted in the fall, in the first decade of September. Just make shalashika of lapnika to the snow bush is not broken.

3. Carry out pruning old and withered branches.

That's all, perhaps the autumn preparations for planting blueberries for winter.

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