How to grow black currant, its most popular varieties
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Currants are a storehouse of vitamins, and black currants are planted in almost every garden. Aromatic tea is brewed from its leaves, and its berries contain B vitamins, as well as C, D, E, K and P, pectins, acids and trace elements. This perennial plant can bear fruit in one place for up to 15 years.
The most popular varieties of black currant
Green haze
This variety is well resistant to both drought and frost. It is a versatile variety that produces a large yield with large berries. The berries ripen evenly, with an excess of moisture they burst.
Late variety resistant to frost and drought. This variety has small bushes covered with berries, which ripen at the same time and burst from an excess of moisture.
Mid-season variety, with medium resistance to both frost and drought. This variety has small bushes with a lot of large, sweet and sour berries.
Sensei
The variety is resistant to both frost and drought. The bush of this variety is medium in size with a medium sized berry that contains a lot of acid.
Pchelkinskaya
Early maturing variety, with medium resistance to both frost and drought. This variety has very tall bushes, medium-sized berries and does not ripen evenly.
Agatha
The variety is resistant to both frost and drought. Its berries are large and very fragrant.
Early maturing variety with good frost resistance and medium drought tolerance. This variety has very large bushes with very large berries. Moreover, the berry is sweet and very aromatic.
An early ripe variety, resistant to frost and drought, has a large berry, sweet and aromatic.
Sophia
Medium early variety, well resistant to frost, moderately resistant to drought. Its bushes are not large in size, giving smallish berries, in which there is a lot of acid. Moreover, the berries of this variety are well preserved during transportation.
Sevchanka
An early maturing variety, resistant to drought and frost. The berries of this variety are large, do not crumble when overripe.
Lazy person
A late-ripening variety, resistant to drought and frost. Its berries are sweet and large.
Mid-season, frost-resistant variety. This variety has medium-sized berries that are sweet in taste.
An early maturing variety, resistant to drought and frost. A large bush has a lot of medium-sized berries that ripen at the same time.
A very early variety, well resistant to both drought and frost. It has large berries and a sweet taste.
Sadko
Mid-season, frost-resistant variety. These large bushes have medium-sized berries that are very acidic.
How to propagate and plant black currants
It is very easy to grow black currants on your site, because it is not whimsical, and for its cultivation you need to adhere to a few simple rules.
Currants are planted both in spring and autumn: by cuttings, layering or dividing the bush. The land must be prepared in advance by introducing fertilizer into it.
Propagation by cuttings: this is a very popular way of planting currants, cuttings are cut in early spring and put in water for a day, after which they are planted in a mixture of earth, sand and humus. Water regularly and abundantly. Over the summer, the cuttings will take root and can be transplanted to a permanent place.
Processes: in the spring, they choose the strongest and healthiest young shoot on the bush, and drop it in or sprinkle it well with earth. They water it all summer, and in the fall, when it takes root, cut it off from the bush with pruning shears, and transplant it to a permanent place, in a previously prepared ground.
Division of the bush: dig a bush, preferably no older than five years.It is divided into several parts and planted in fertilized soil, watered well, next year, if it has taken root well, it will give a little of the first harvest.
Currant care
From the second year of the bush's life, pruning must be carried out, and this is done in early spring and late autumn, that is, twice a year. In the spring, while the plant is still sleeping, sick, broken or frozen branches are cut with a sharp pruner, leaving only healthy and strong-looking branches. In the fall, after the plant falls asleep, they do the same. Fertilizers are applied in late autumn after pruning.
To fight insects, black currants need to be sprayed with a urea solution, but this must be done in the spring before the buds bloom. And for various diseases, after the first leaf appears from the buds, treat it with copper sulfate.
It is best to plant currants on the sunny side, but along the fence, so that he shelters it from a draft, which does not affect the bush very well.
It is advisable to loosen the soil regularly, and water it rarely, but abundantly. And if autumn will be without rain, then watering is also necessary for the winter. And in early spring, to wake up the bush, it is poured with boiling water, but not hotter than 80 degrees.