Currant growing

I want and I share my experience of growing black currant.

Landing
Savy currants in autumn or early spring. Popping pitfalls with a diameter of 50-60 cm and a depth of 40 cm. In each or two, one or two buckets of the organics and add 200 g of superphosphate.
Bo Time Planting Sapel Blowing by 4-6 cm more than he delated in the railing. This creates the conditions for the emergence of new roots and shoots from the kidneys of the in-depth unit.
Then I make a hole around the bush and pour 8-10 liters of water there, after which the soil mulch. Savy currants in a row at a distance of one and a half meters from each other.
There is another important landing condition. Currant does not like shaded places. Therefore, I put it away from the trees, in the open space.
If this is not observed, the bush from the lack of light stretches up, may be affected by diseases, and berries, even in large-scale varieties, mature small.

Care and cropping
Currant - moistureful culture. In addition, for optimal nutrition of the root system, the soil should always be loose, moistened and clean from weeds,
It is very important in the first two years to grow and modify a full-fledged bush with strong shoots. Otherwise, fruiting on weak branches will lead to the growing growth and rapid aging of the bush.
If in the first year the branches grew weak, it is better to cut them, leaving 2-3 kidneys. And then the next year will grow a full-fledged bush.
Of all the ways to care for the currant, the most important and at the same time the most complex in the formation and trimming of bushes.
To raise powerful zero shoots, I recommend to cut all extra and weak in May-June. And then you will get 4-5 strong shoots in the fall. In this case, the size of the berries is also significantly increased.
I finish the molding trimming in the fall of the third year. Pruning bushes is beginning with young annual shoots. In the bush, leave 4 strongest, the rest, remove. Then I cut out four-year shoots, also leaving 4 branches. And finally, the queue comes to two or three years of shoots. After trimming in the bush, there are four branches of different ages, and only 12. But in conditions of insufficient soil moisturizing, the number of shoots can be reduced to 9.

Currant smorodine Returns
I since childhood I do not like black currants. Especially fluttered with sugar. I understand, of course, that it is valuable and useful, but I still taste the red currant. And let it have that special vitaminity. But you eat a few scarlet transparent berries - and bad mood as it did not happen. True, there are several black bushes we have. This is a fit fun. I remember when our cottage was only in the project, he endlessly told about black currants and built ambitious plans for her. He carried his dream, but I will say honestly, without my participation. He got seedlings himself, Salu himself, he cares himself, and consumes it predominantly himself.
I have my own passion of red currant. And what turned out, it seems to be black and red - relatives, and behave differently. Here, for example, as for trimming.
Fruit kidneys in red currants are formed at the base of annual shoots and on small (up to 3 cm) perennial branches (so-called rings). Therefore, even the old branches are perfectly fruit. This means that red currant does not require frequent trimming for rejuvenation. Pruning I spend during the period of rest in the late autumn or early spring. In each bush, leave 20 branches of different ages. Every year, completely old branches (more than 7 years), I remove, and leave strong zero shoots (no more than four).
Important moment. Annual growths are not shortening, because floral kidneys are laid on their tops.
Conducting process. First, I cut the branches growing high, very low or interfering with other branches. I do it carefully not to damage the rides. Then half cut the young shoots on the main branches. At the same time, I make a cut on the kidney, looking up and outside the bush. Like this. In secret, I will say, the yield of my currant bushes is much higher than the man.