What Currants and Gooseberries Need After Harvesting: Mandatory Activities in August
It is imperative to pay attention to currants and their relative gooseberries at the end of summer.
Next year’s harvest and how successfully garden crops will survive the winter depend on this.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication BelNovosti, an agronomist and landscape designer, told what currants and gooseberries need at this time.
Mandatory events
In August, it is necessary to apply additional fertilizers so that both crops survive the winter without problems and produce a rich harvest in the new season.
Plants can be fertilized with mineral additives or organic matter.
1. In the first case, you need to add potassium sulfate and superphosphate - one tablespoon of each additive per 10 liters of water.
Fertilizer consumption: 10 liters per bush.
2. Those who love everything natural can add mullein (a water infusion is prepared in a ratio of 1:12 over the course of a week).
One liter of the finished additive should be dissolved in a bucket of water. Consumption is similar - a bucket per bush.
3. Gooseberries can be fed with a solution of biohumus - 300 grams per bucket of water. The consumption is the same.
Important! Fertilizers should be applied after preliminary watering.
