Red currant or currant ordinary, or currant garden- the berry culture widespread around the globe, the bushes of which are found on almost every summer cottage and not only.
It is easy to care for red currants, bushes give a rich harvest. You can make various desserts, compotes, jams, etc. from the berries.
Planting red currants
Plant currants should be at the end of the summer or early fall. Biennial and one-year seedlings are planted at a distance of one and a half to two meters, both along the fence, and in the suburban areas. On the last bushes are placed in several rows, between which leave a two-meter distance.
In order for currant bushes to grow and bear fruit, it is necessary to carefully prepare the soil (to loosen, fertilize, water).
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Prepare pits, with a diameter of at least one meter, then put eight to ten kilograms of manure into each of them, and also add a mixture of potassium sulphate, wood ash, and superphosphate. If you are planting currants in sour soil, then add to it a portion of ground limestone.
The root neck needs to be deepened slightly, by about five centimeters, not more, but when twitching the bush should not come out of the ground. After planting, it is necessary to water the soil near the shrubs and cut their tops about twenty centimeters from the ground.
In the suburban areas currants planted along the fence at a distance of one and a half meters. Can be planted in a separate area. The distance between seedlings is two meters.
Currants landed strictly vertically. The root neck should be flush with the soil. The plant tolerates the carbonate of the soil, so it can be planted in such areas.
Pour currants from the ratio of one bucket to 2-3 bush. After watering around the bushes pour fertilizer - peat or humus.
To create favorable conditions for the development of plants, each year the soil around them is dug up. So inside the water gets easier to feed the roots. In the spring, the soil is loosened and weeds are removed.
To get rid of weeds, you must regularly do mulching. Mulch is applied immediately after the first loosening. The soil at this time contains the necessary supply of water.
Under the bushes pour manure, sawdust, peat or straw. The layer of mulch should be between four and fifteen centimeters. After processing, the soil remains loose throughout the summer.
On a note:
If you plant a currant in the fall, then place a number of different varieties. This will provide cross-pollination, which will safely affect the yield.
Red Currant Varieties
Assor
Spreading bush. Its height is one and a half meters. The berries are medium in size, light red in color. The average number of seeds. Late variety.
Buzhanskaya
The height of the bush is one and a half meters. It grows straight, very fruitful. The berries are bright red in color, with a thin skin, differ in large size. Clusters of different lengths. The taste of berries is sweet and sour. They ripen at the same time and practically do not crumble to the ground.
Valentinovka
Pretty tall bush - from 1.4 to 1.9 meters, grows straight, the leaves are thick. Berry weight - 0.5 g., Small, one-dimensional, red. Seeds are large and quite a lot. The size of the brushes is more than ten centimeters. Hang down evenly. The taste is sour berries. Ripen in late July - early August. With one bush can collect up to three and a half kilograms of berries.
Natalie
Weakly spreading, dense bush of one and a half meter length. Large berries, weighing up to one gram. In shape, they are slightly extended to the base. Color - thick red. There are few seeds, all are of medium length. Brush length about eight centimeters. Maybe more or less. Taste, like many berries - sweet and sour.
The ripening period falls on the middle of July. Harvest from the bush - up to eight pounds. The berries are delicious.
Leader
The average term of ripening berries. Bush slightly sprawling, one and a half meters. The weight of the berries to one gram, they are rounded, with thin skin, red. Seeds are small in small quantities.
The brush is longer than the previous species - up to thirteen millimeters. The taste of berries is sweet. Ripen in the beginning - the middle of July. From one bush you can collect about three kilograms of the crop.
Viksne
Berries ripen early. Spreading bush reaches a height of 1.8 meters. His form is wrong. The berries have a cherry color, their size is medium. There are very few seeds, but they are quite large.
The taste is very pleasant, delicate, sweet-sour. Berry ripens in late June - early July. Currant bush can infect red-hawk aphid. From one bush can collect up to five kilograms of berries.
Vika
Berries ripen early. The height of the bush is up to one and a half meters, thick, straight-growing.
The berries are of medium size in a purple - red color. Seeds enough, the skin on the berries is thin. The brush is dense, it hangs beautifully, its length can be more than ten millimeters. The taste of berries is sweet and sour, with the proportion of sweet higher. Currants ripen in late July.
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Compact bush, one and a half meters high with large berries of pink color. Seeds average amount, thin skin of berries. With one bush can collect up to five kilograms of the crop.
The brush is rather long, the berries growing on it are very tasty. The beginning of ripening - the middle of July.
Darnitsa
Bush height - up to 1.8 meters. Berries of large size, dark red color. The average number of seeds. Many come to taste. Berries ripen in the midst of July. Currant bush is resistant to disease.
Generous
Powerful, dense, wide shrub up to two meters in height. The shape of the berries is slightly elongated, their color is translucent, bright red. Seeds are large, but very few. The brush is the shortest of the options presented - only six centimeters. The taste of berries is pleasant, moderately sour.
Ripening falls on the end of June - the beginning of July. Flowers fall due to frost damage. Unfortunately, the plant is not resistant to other diseases.
Konstantinovskaya
Weakly spreading one and a half meter thick bush. Berries of various sizes - from medium to large, slightly compressed from the sides and with a slight shine. The seeds are small, medium size.
The brush is dense, reaches a length of nine centimeters. The taste of berries is sweet and sour, ripen in mid-July. Four pounds of crop can be harvested from a bush. The shrub does not "take" fungal diseases and aphids.
Dream
Vigorous shrub, up to two meters in height, thick. Red berries of various sizes, both large and medium. Brush - hanging, up to seven millimeters in length. Berries are sweet and sour. Berries ripen in mid-summer, with one bush they can be collected up to seven kilograms. Shrub can partly hit powdery mildew.
Now you know some types of red currants, more than fifty, and how to care for them.
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