This procedure must be done before the buds open: here's how to save berry bushes from parasites
If this problem is not solved in early spring, you may not get a berry harvest.
At the beginning of a new season, gardeners dream of getting an excellent harvest, so they fuss around their plantings every day.
Watering, fertilizing, loosening the soil, pruning – there are many things to do for summer residents with their own garden. But all efforts will go down the drain if you do not protect the plantings from parasites.
The bud mite and scale insect are among the main enemies of gardeners. In early spring, summer residents inspect the bushes before the buds open.
Only during this period is it easiest to notice the presence of parasites. Particular attention is paid to the lower parts of the branches.
The summer resident should be alerted by white "spitting" - this is a scale insect. Before the buds open, the bushes should be treated with any remedy against scale insects.
The key method of combating parasites is cutting off shoots. Removed branches should be burned or taken away from the site, otherwise the work is in vain.
Some gardeners pour hot water on currants in early spring specifically to harm parasites. But experienced gardeners are skeptical about this method.
This is explained by the fact that in early spring the temperature is within 0 … +10 °C, so boiling water very quickly turns into hot water, and then into cold. According to experienced summer residents, the procedure does not make sense.
