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Should currants be doused with boiling water: summer residents were shown an unforgivable mistake
29.01.2025 11:19
Beginning gardeners try to immediately test many tips on caring for fruit crops in practice.
For example, pouring hot water over currants in early spring. But who knows that this method has contraindications?
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", a scientist agronomist and landscape designer, told how to carry out this procedure correctly.
Why douse currants?
This is a well-known and simple way to prevent diseases and the spread of insect pests.
This way you can avoid the invasion of aphids, spider mites, and the appearance of powdery mildew.
The procedure awakens the plant from hibernation and has a positive effect on the harvest.
Until recently, pouring water over currants was considered almost obligatory, but the situation has changed.
Contraindications
Few people know that this method has contraindications.
The fact is that in warm winters it is not advisable to pour hot water on bushes.
In such conditions, it is easy to miscalculate and then the hot water will harm the swelling buds.
And instead of preventive treatment, a gardener can ruin the future harvest with his own hands.
It is recommended to practice this method only in conditions of frosty and long winters, when the plant is guaranteed to be in deep dormancy.
