Every summer resident dreams of getting a bountiful harvest year after year, especially when it comes to healthy berry bushes.
After all, raspberries, currants and gooseberries are popular crops in country plots.
They are considered unpretentious in cultivation, they yield a harvest of healthy and tasty berries, which can easily be used not only for snacking or decorating desserts, but also for winter preparations.
Therefore, the question of how to increase the number of fruits will always be relevant.
As experienced gardeners note, this can be done with the help of certain manipulations during plant care.
How to increase the yield of currants or gooseberries
The reason for poor fruiting may be the ovary falling off due to lack of pollination of flowers. The problem can be avoided by attracting beneficial insects with one simple solution. Take a spoonful of honey per liter of water and mix. Then you can proceed to spraying the product on the bushes to attract bees.
This method is also suitable for other plants.
It is also very easy to significantly improve the water-air regime in the soil.
Under the berry bush, you need to make a hole that should be deeper than the root system. Then you need to insert a pipe or hose there. Up to 2 liters of water per day should drip there continuously. But it is also important to take into account the weather conditions.
However, that's not all. There are still some activities to be done in the garden.
At the end of the first summer month, you can pinch off the top growth bud of young shoots. It should be taken into account that they should rise to a height of at least 30 cm.
As for currants, the upper sprout soil is pinched off when it reaches 20 cm. The branches that grow from this bud the following spring should also be budded off when they reach a length of 10 cm. As a result, new shoots will appear, which will surprise you with an abundant harvest.
