Blueberry Spartan, landing and care

On the shelves of supermarkets, you can very often find a large and attractive blueberry - a useful and unusually tasty berry. If you have your own garden plot, you can easily think about growing blueberries. Correcting this culture correctly, creating a comfortable condition for her, you can get a rich harvest. Much more pleasant to serve the table of fresh berries that you have grown and collected yourself. In this article we will talk about one of the most popular varieties of tall blueberries - Sorrest Spartan. The berries of this variety appreciate the magnificent taste characteristics. How to plant and grow blueberries Spartan?

Blueberry Spartan - Description

• The birthplace of the blueberry variety is Spartan - North America, where the berry was found in 1956. Since 1978, the tall blueberry Spartan has become actively used in production.
• Blueberry Bush Spartan Depending on Growth Conditions can reach from 1.5 m to 2 m in height.
• Blueberry variety Spartan refers to the varieties of the middle time of ripening. Berries begin to ripen in the second half of July.
• Gardeners of blueberry Spartan is valued for excellent yield. Depending on the conditions of growth and departure from one bush, you can collect up to 6 kg of delicious and useful crop.
• Sortan Sortan is known for its magnificent flavors of berries. Blueberries has a gentle blue color. Each berry has a rather dense skin, which allows it to carry good transportation. The pulp has a pleasant taste with small sourness. Blueberry variety Spartan has a pronounced aroma. Berry are collected in the brushes and grow on small legs.
• Blueberry variety Spartan can reach 18 mm in diameter. Do not tighten with harvest, as mature berries do not hang on a bush for a long time. It is recommended to collect berries about 1 time per week.
• Leaves of blueberry variety Spartan have the form of an ellipse. Young leaflets have a reddish hue, and adult leaves are painted in an intense green color. The edge of the leaves can be both smooth and slightly toothed.
• Saving Blueberries Sortan Spartan Hard and Strong. They can reach up to 2 m in length. The highest growth rates shrub reaches for 4-5 years of life.
• Blueberry variety Spartan has good winter-hardy characteristics. It is able to withstand frosts up to minus 28 degrees. According to reviews, Sortan variety is also resistant to mummification of berries, escription of shoots.

Useful properties of blueberry Spartan

What is so useful to blueberries? Berries of variety Spartan contain:

• apple, lemon, oxal, ascorbic organic acids;
• phenolkisloty;
• flavonoids;
• phytoestrogens;
• folic acid;
• carotenoids;
• salts calcium, iron, magnesium, copper;
• pectins;
• tannins;
• fiber;
• anthocian.

As you can see, the composition of the blue berries is impressive. If you decide to grow a blueberry of a variety of Spartan in its plot, then you know that this berrod can also be used in some of therapeutic purposes. Blueberry Spartan may be useful to person in the following properties:

• cardiotonic effects. Blueberry Spartan has a beneficial effect on the work of the entire cardiovascular system, strengthens the walls of the vessels, acts as an excellent tool for the prevention of various diseases of the heart and blood vessels;
• health effect on the urinary human system. People suffering from the diseases of the urogenital system are very useful to use Spartan's blueberries. Special useful compounds inside the blue berries are positively affected by the treatment of hydronephrosis, kidney stones, cystitis, pyelonephritis, inflammatory infections of the bladder and ureters;
• positive influence on organs of vision. Blueberry Spartan can act as a good assistant in maintaining visual acuity, in the treatment and prevention of various illness of the eyes. It has long been proven that blueberries helps in the treatment of cataracts, glaucoma, myopia, hyperopia;
• positive impact on the host of the intestines. If you were looking for a natural laxative, the blueberry Spartan will be a good option. Regular use of this berry has a soft laxative effect, eliminates the problem of permanent constipation, settles the intestinal work as a whole;
• antitumor impact. Blueberry Spartan can become a good assistant in the treatment of oncological diseases. It is believed that the regular use of blue berries in food contributes to the cessation of the growth of malignant tumors;
• antipiretic impact. Blueberry ability Spartan reduce the increased body temperature naturally allows the use of a berry for colds;
• the ability to protect against radioactive impact. To eat blueberries Spartan will be very useful to people who work on the "harmful" work, in bad environmental conditions;
• the beneficial effect on the work of the gastrointestinal tract. With regular use of blueberries, Spartan is normalized by the normalization of the organism digestive system;
• positive effect on the composition of the blood. Blueberry Spartan is especially useful to eat to those people who suffer from anemia. This berry is known for its ability to "improve" the composition of the blood;
• immunostimulating effect. Blueberry Spartan can become an invaluable assistant in the intensification of the body's protective forces, which is especially relevant in the cold season. Blue berry is recommended to introduce children to the diet to strengthen their immunity;
• enrichment of the body with vitamins and useful trace elements. Blueberry Spartan can be a real source of valuable elements in which both healthy people and people with weakened immunity, people experiencing tremendous physical exertion. Blueberry is useful to eat pregnant women, children, elderly people.

Despite the fact that the blueberry Spartan has the goals of a number of useful properties, to apply it to food should be carefully some categories of people. For example, from a large amount of blueberries it is worth improving pregnant women, children. When using a large number of berries at a time, nausea may occur, heartburn. To refrain from the use of blueberries Spartan, as from other varieties of this blue berry, followed people who take drugs for blood dilution. People suffering from violations of motorities of biliary tract, should also limit the use of blueberries Spartan in food. Of course, if a person is inclined to the emergence of allergic reactions, then use blueberries in food should also be careful.

Blueberry variety Spartan - Photo

Golubik Tall Spartan - landing

Step number 1. Choose a place to land blueberry Spartan

In order to collect up to 6 kg of delicious blueberries from one bush in the future, you need to take care of choosing the right place to land. Consider the basic requirements of tall blueberries Spartan to the place of its growth:

• plot for landing Blueberries Variety Spartan should not be low, clay or wetlands. The constant stagnation of moisture in the roots of the plant will adversely affect its growth, the taste characteristics of the berries;
• choose a fairly sunny site for landing. It is in such a place of blueberries will be especially tasty. It is also possible to plant in a half, but be prepared for slowing the growth of the bush, a reduction in yield, a decrease in the concentration of sugars in berries;
• when choosing a place to fit the tall blueberries, Spartan variety, consider that blueberries prefers to grow in places where any other cultural plants previously grew. Blueberry bushes on alignment soils will be bad and can even die;
• the place for landing the blueberries of the tall variety is Spartan, as well as for other varieties of tall blueberries, should be well protected from the wind. Winds are especially dangerous in winter.

Step number 2. We prepare the soil for landing blueberries Spartan

Soil for growing blueberry tall grade Spartan should be light and sour. Shrub root system is weak and quite superficial, which makes it difficult, or makes completely impossible, growing blueberries on heavy clay soils. Sort of Spartan grows remarkably on peat soils, loam. Another important characteristic that the soil should have the soil for growing blueberries Spartan is air permeability. The soil should be loose and easy to ensure good air exchange root system. If you are a novice gardener and have difficulty in determining the exact characteristics of the soil on your site, it is better to put the soil sample into a special laboratory. If you select an optimal place for planting blueberries Spartan, then the blue berry will practically not require any care. How to properly prepare a plot for landing of blueberry variety Spartan? Consider the main recommendations:

• start preparing the site preferably 14 days before landing;
• if you want to plant several bushes at the same time, then you need to take care of their location. It is better to plant a blueberry row in the direction from the north to south. With such a planting scheme, the plant will receive the maximum possible amount of sunlight;
• the distance between the rows of tall blueberries variety Spartan can be from 1.5 m to 3 m. The distance between the plants in the row should be about 0.8-1 m;
• after the site markup, you can proceed to the preparation of landing holes. If the soil on the ground is light, and the groundwater flows at a depth of more than 2 m, then the approximate size of the landing pit is 60 cm in diameter and 40 cm in depth. If the soil is heavy and clay, then landing pits are made wider in diameter and smaller (15-20 cm in depth). If there was no other place to plant tall blueberries Spartan, except space with heavy and clay soil, then the landing is recommended to produce "on the ridge". To do this, dig a hole with a depth of 10 cm and fall asleep with it with a mixture of peat, sand, sawdust, building a hill. In the center of this hill and sits down the blueberry sapling spartan;

• if on the sandy area at a depth of about 0.5 m, the solid layer begins, then you need to make a drainage or a kind of channel for removing extra moisture from the root system;
• the pH of the soil for the successful cultivation of the tall blueberry variety Spartan should be from 3.5 to 5. If the soil is not sour enough, it is sulfur, sulfur, sulfuric acid, sour substrate (mixture peat, needles, sand);
• if the peat on the landing area is spartan too sour, then you can make 2-3 sand buckets per 1 sq.m;
• blueberry Spartan may well grow on a plot that did not fell at all. If the earth is characterized by special poor nutrients, then nitrogen, potash, phosphoric fertilizers in the ratio of 1: 1: 1 can be made. If in the soil a lot of humus, the potash, phosphoric, nitrogen fertilizers contribute in the 3: 2: 1 ratio.

Step number 3. We choose the landing material of blueberries Spartan

When choosing a planting material for growing tall blueberries, Spartan variety is better to give preference to 2-year or 3-year seedlings with a closed root system. The closed root system means that the seedling is placed in a plastic pot. Buy such seedlings are very convenient, since there is no need to rush to plant. If you have not yet proceeded to the preparation of the area for planting blueberries, then the saplings can calmly wait. Just do not forget to periodically water them. A seedling also requires little training before planting. For about 15 minutes you need to immerse the pot into the water. It is necessary so that the earthen comaled moisture. Guckly remove the blueberry from the pot and inspect the root system. It happens that the roots of the blueberries are very tightly neglected by the earthen com. In this case, you need to straighten them with your hands. If this is not done, then the roots after the landing will not be able to "break through" through a dense earth com, and the plant will perish.

Step number 4. Landing blueberries Spartan

1. Begin to landing blueberries tall grade Spartan better in spring so that the plant to have to root before the onset of frosts.
2. Remove the blueberry seedlings from the pot, pre-lowered it for 15 minutes into the water. Scatter his roots.
3. Place the seedling in the prepared landing pit and begin to fall asleep with its soil. In the process of landing, it is very important slightly shook the seedling so that the Earth filled all empties between the roots.
4. Next, you need to build a hole around the bush and watering into this hole.
5. Mulching is a prerequisite for boarding the blueberry tall. The well fall asleep with a layer of mulch at 5-6 cm.

Blueberry Tall Spartan - Care

Watering Blueberries Spartan

Tall blueberry Spartan requires regular irrigation. It is especially important to observe the watering regime in the summer, when the ripening of berries begins and flower kidneys are laid. If the plant will experience a lack of moisture in this responsible period, then the scarce will be a harvest not only in the current year, but also in the future. In the conditions of growth of blueberries in the country area to water the plant needed 2 times a week. One adult plant will need 1 water bucket in the morning and in the evening. To overflow the plant is also impossible. Stagnation of moisture at the roots of blueberries over the course of 2 days can completely destroy the plant. Some gardeners also practice and sprinkling the tall blueberry bushes is Spartan during the period of severe heat.

Mulching Blueberry Spartan

Mulching and periodic soil loosening is also very necessary to the bushes of tall blueberry Spartan. The mulching layer can range from 2 to 10 cm. It will suit the needle, straw, rewinding leaves or sawdust. Some gardeners note the fact that, after mulching, young bushes are growing slowdown. This can be explained by the fact that various microorganisms from the soil begin to intensively decompose the fresh layer of mulch and at the same time "pull out" from the Earth useful nitrogen elements. You can avoid this problem by making an additional amount of nitrogen fertilizer. You can do it both before mulching and after it. Ruff the soil around the blueberries should be very careful not to damage the root system. Too often do it is also not worth it, as you can cut a bush.

Undercaming Blueberry Spartan

Tall blueberries in natural growth conditions does not need rich and nutritious soils. She grows without problems on scanty sites, giving a big harvest. If you grow a blueberry Spartan on your summer cottage, you can influence the yield of blueberries by making mineral fertilizers. You can buy such feedstocks in specialized stores (complex fertilizers for drowning, coniferous, rhododendrons). Bringing to feeding blueberries is best in spring, the period before the swelling of the kidneys. You can follow the following scheme of comprehensive mineral fertilizer:

• 2-year-old Blueberry bush - 1 tbsp of complex mineral fertilizer;
• 3-year-old Blueberry bush - 2 tbsp. complex mineral fertilizer;
• 4-year-old Blueberry bush - 4 tbsp. complex mineral fertilizer;
• 5-year-old Blueberry bush - 8 tbsp. complex mineral fertilizer;
• 6-year-old bush of blueberries and bushes older - 16 tbsp. Complex mineral fertilizer.

It should also be noted that the tall blueberry Spartan in the country area does not need any organic fertilizer (manure, humid, chicken litter).

Blueberry trim Spartan

Young bushes of tall blueberry Spartan under 4 are needed by sanitary trimming. Bushes over 3-4 years old can begin to trim. Since the bushes have a rather empty shape, then the side-sized branches begin to cut, and then the central. The main goal of trimming blueberries tall is the formation of as much as possible axial branches. The force of trimming of tall blueberry Spartan affects the nature of the crop. The weaker the pruning, the greater the crop will be, but the berries will be smaller. If the pruning is stronger, then the berries will be large, but their number will be smaller. When trigging blueberries, Spartan can be guided by the following principles:

• weak sanitary trim is to remove dead and damaged branches, in removing old escapes that do not give a new increase. Also, such a trim provides for the removal of shoots that are located near the surface of the Earth. In this case, even the fruitless branches are removed;
• starting from the 4th year of life, the blueberries are spartan, empty shoots are removed annually at the surface of the soil, the shoots are left. It is also necessary to avoid the thickening of the bush by removing old and weakened shoots.

How to protect blueberry Spartan from unfavorable conditions

We protect the blueberry Spartan from the wind

Wind protection is very important for all varieties of tall blueberries. In the conditions of the country area, such protection can be a fence, a wall of the house, a live fence. Pine or alder are just an ideal option for protecting the area with a blueberry from the wind. It is important that any windproof facilities or plants prevent the penetration of sunlight to the landings of Blueberries Spartan. If the wind protection is insufficient, then the amount of crop will be smaller, and white raids may appear on the berries.

We protect blueberries Spartan from weed grass

If you planted only a few bushes of blueberry tall grade Spartan in its plot, then spend the usual weeding. Weeds, if not deleted, can harm blueberry bushes. Especially strongly suffer from such a neighborhood young bushes of blueberries. An additional way to combat weeds is mulching. Through the thick layer of mulching the mulphing grass is almost impossible to break through.

We protect blueberries Spartan from diseases and pests

Tall blueberry Spartan loved by many gardeners not only with its yield, but also resistant to various diseases and pests. For example, this variety is practically not subject to moniliosis, or monilial burn. This fungal disease often affects cultural plants in regions with temperate climates. The best way to protect the landing on your blueberry area is Spartan - this is the observance of all rules for choosing a place for planting plants, soil preparation, care. If the blueberry Spartan will grow in comfortable for her, then its resistance to diseases and pests will be at the highest possible level.

We collect the crop blueberries Spartan

The harvest of the blueberry variety Spartan is stretched for several weeks. Berries begin to ripen in the second half of summer. Blueberry from the very first collection is characterized by large sizes and high taste characteristics. Berries from the third collection become smaller. The crop of blueberries Spartan in the cultivation conditions on the summer site is collected manually. Berries can be used fresh, stored in the refrigerator for 2-2.5 weeks, can be frozen. Blueberry variety Spartan is actively used for growing industrial scales. Berries have a dense structure, perfectly stored and transferred long-term transportation.

Blueberry Spartan - reviews

• Irina R. "On the possibility of growing blueberries at the cottage, I learned quite recently. For my first experience, I chose a variety of Spartan. Saplings perfectly fit. My first harvest gathered 4 years after landing. I never regretted my decision to grow precisely a tall grade. Blueberry Spartan, in my opinion, is completely unpretentious. My departure is in watering and periodic pruning. "
• Valery P.. "A variety of tall blueberries Spartan settled on my site about 7 years ago. We grow up other varieties of blueberries, so I have to compare with what. The variety is not distinguished by strong frost resistance perfectly tolerates winter in our region. I collect about 5 kg of blueberries from one bush. Most berries use fresh, some part go for sale. Berries are well stored in the refrigerator. "

In order to relieve the harvest of delicious and useful blueberries, you need not so much. You need to choose the right place to land blueberries, prepare the soil, water and get rid of weed grass. Sortan Sortan will surprise you with its yield and excellent flavors of berries.