Delicious and healthy gooseberry: planting and care

Practically in every garden area you canto meet gooseberries. Planting and caring for him does not require special knowledge, it is enough to take into account several features. In addition, the berries of gooseberry are among the most useful. They remove salts of heavy metals from the body, normalize digestion and pressure.

Today, there are several dozens of varieties that are resistant to disease and differ in taste. Here are a few of them, which you can pay attention to:

- "Kolobok" is a rather old variety, but to this daythe day shows excellent results. Has a pleasant taste of red berries. Thorns are not very prickly and small - this is particularly pleasing in a culture such as gooseberry. Planting and caring for him are no different from other varieties. The only drawback is the tendency to thicken the bush, which is easily corrected with the help of a pruner.

- "People's" - is characterized by rapid growth, alreadyIn two years you will be able to harvest a full harvest of delicious red berries. In addition, its berries have an increased content of vitamin C. And on shoots a small number of thorns.

- "The Ural Emerald" is a beautiful green fruitvariety. Good in all - and yield, and excellent taste of berries, and resistant to disease, and pests do not particularly like it. But there is one problem - too prickly.

- "Beryl" - has the most delicious berries of yellow-green color, with proper care they reach 9 grams. This variety is also pleased with a small number of thorns.

Uncomplicated gooseberries: planting and care

Gooseberries - light-loving culture, which is betterplant in open solar areas. The shrub does not tolerate overmoistening (the root neck may be bent), it easily suffers temporary drought. When planting, the proximity of groundwater should be taken into account, they should not be closer than 1.5 m from the soil surface. If your site has high water, then you can use the high bed method or plant a shrub on a mound. You should know that you can not put this berry in a place where raspberries or currants used to grow earlier. After these crops, the soil is severely depleted, and common pests and diseases will inevitably spread over the gooseberry. Planting and nursing should be timely so that later there will be a good harvest with large berries.

It is best to plant gooseberry in the period from the middleSeptember to early October. In a one-year-old seedling, the ground part consists of one shoot, a two-year-old must have 2-3 shoots. A good seedling has 3-5 skeletal roots (10-15 cm), and the fibrous roots are well developed.

The pit for planting is prepared in advance. It is excavated in a circular shape 0.5 m deep and 0.5 m in diameter, while the fertile layer of the earth is discarded separately from the underlying.

Take 2/3 of the fertile land, mix withmanure bucket or compost. There you also add 50 g of potassium sulfate, 180 g of superphosphate or 220 g of complex mineral fertilizer. Mix everything well and fill half of the pit, pour the remaining fertile soil from above. After 1-2 weeks, this mixture in the pit settles, you can plant the plant. In this case, the root neck is buried 5-7 cm, the ground around the bush is well stitched, watered and mulched by humus. Shoots should be shortened, leaving 5-7 cm above the ground, this is necessary in order for the plant to later branch better. Here is planted gooseberries, care for which in the future implies pruning and thinning.

I would also like to note that this shrubis self-pollinating, but it is much better if there are several shrubs on the site, as the yields are higher in cross-pollination. Form the crown of this plant must be constantly. Pruning of gooseberries occurs annually, all patients are cut out, dry and weak shoots. Leave only the most powerful radical branches. The distance between them should be about 15 cm. If you consider trimming by years, then it looks like this:

- In the first year, all shoots are shortened right next to the ground, only 2-3 buds are left.

- In the second year, all shoots shorter than 20 cm, as well as those that are located close to the ground, are removed. Strongly inclined branches are cut to 10-12 cm.

- For the third year the bush becomes powerful and well-formed, so it only needs to be weeded out.

- In the fourth and fifth year only those twigs that grow too close to the earth are removed.

- In the following years, the pruning is strengthened, since branches older than 6 years will already appear.

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