amateur humid air and one of the most compact and rare Pafinia orchids is a real star for most orchid growers. Its flowering rarely lasts longer than a week, but it can be an unforgettable sight. Unusual striped patterns on huge flowers I want to look at a modest orchid endlessly. IN indoor culture pafinia is rightly ranked among the difficult-to-grow species. It became fashionable only with the spread of interior terrariums.
In 2014, the Japanese company Takii seed introduced petunia with a striking petal color - salmon-orange. By association with bright colors southern sunset sky, the unique hybrid is called African Sunset. Needless to say, this petunia instantly won the hearts of gardeners and was in great demand. But in the last two years, the curiosity has suddenly disappeared from store windows. Where did the orange petunia go?
In our family Bell pepper they love it, that’s why we plant it every year. Most of the varieties that I grow have been tested by me for more than one season; I cultivate them constantly. I also try to try something new every year. Pepper is a heat-loving plant and quite whimsical. Varietal and hybrid varieties of tasty and productive sweet peppers, which grow well for me, will be discussed further. I live in middle lane Russia.
Meat cutlets with broccoli in béchamel sauce - great idea for a quick lunch or dinner. Start by preparing the mince and at the same time heat 2 liters of water to a boil to blanch the broccoli. By the time the cutlets are fried, the cabbage will be ready. All that remains is to collect the ingredients in a frying pan, season with sauce and bring to readiness. Broccoli needs to be cooked quickly to retain its vibrant color. green color, which, when cooked for a long time, either fades or the cabbage turns brown.
Home floriculture - not only exciting process, but also a very troublesome hobby. And, as a rule, the more experience a grower has, the healthier his plants look. What should those who have no experience but want to have a home do? houseplants- not elongated, stunted specimens, but beautiful and healthy ones, not causing a feeling of guilt with their fading? For beginners and flower growers who do not have much experience, I will tell you about the main mistakes that are easy to avoid.
Lush cheesecakes in a frying pan with banana-apple confiture - another recipe for everyone’s favorite dish. To prevent cheesecakes from falling off after cooking, remember a few simple rules. Firstly, only fresh and dry cottage cheese, secondly, no baking powder or soda, thirdly, the thickness of the dough - you can sculpt from it, it is not tight, but pliable. A good dough with a small amount of flour can only be obtained from good cottage cheese, and here again see the “firstly” point.
It is no secret that many drugs from pharmacies have migrated to summer cottages. Their use, at first glance, seems so exotic that some summer residents are perceived with hostility. At the same time, potassium permanganate is a long-known antiseptic that is used in both medicine and veterinary medicine. In plant growing, a solution of potassium permanganate is used both as an antiseptic and as a fertilizer. In this article we will tell you how to properly use potassium permanganate in the garden.
Meat salad pork with mushrooms - a rural dish that can often be found on festive table in the village. This recipe is with champignons, but if possible, use Forest mushrooms, then be sure to cook it this way, it will be even tastier. You don’t need to spend a lot of time preparing this salad - put the meat in a pan for 5 minutes and another 5 minutes for slicing. Everything else happens practically without the participation of the cook - the meat and mushrooms are boiled, cooled, and marinated.
Cucumbers grow well not only in a greenhouse or conservatory, but also in open ground. Typically, cucumbers are sown from mid-April to mid-May. Harvesting in this case is possible from mid-July to the end of summer. Cucumbers cannot tolerate frost. That's why we don't sow them too early. However, there is a way to bring their harvest closer and taste the juicy beauties from your garden at the beginning of summer or even in May. It is only necessary to take into account some of the features of this plant.
Poliscias is an excellent alternative to classic variegated shrubs and woody. The elegant round or feathery leaves of this plant create a strikingly festive curly crown, and its elegant silhouettes and rather modest character make it an excellent candidate for the role of large plant in the house. Larger leaves do not prevent it from successfully replacing Benjamin and Co. ficus. Moreover, polyscias offers much more variety.
Pumpkin cinnamon casserole is juicy and incredibly tasty, a little like pumpkin pie, but unlike pie, it is more tender and just melts in your mouth! This is the perfect sweet recipe for a family with children. As a rule, kids don’t really like pumpkin, but they never mind eating something sweet. Sweet pumpkin casserole is a delicious and healthy dessert, which, moreover, is very simple and quick to prepare. Try it! You'll like it!
A hedge is not only one of essential elements landscape design. It also performs various protective functions. If, for example, the garden borders a road, or there is a highway nearby, then hedge simply necessary. “Green walls” will protect the garden from dust, noise, wind and create a special comfort and microclimate. In this article, we will look at the optimal plants for creating a hedge that can reliably protect the area from dust.
Many crops require picking (and more than one) in the first weeks of development, while for others transplantation is “contraindicated.” To “please” both of them, you can use non-standard containers for seedlings. Another good reason to try them is saving money. In this article we will tell you how to do without the usual boxes, pots, cassettes and tablets. And let’s pay attention to non-traditional, but very effective and interesting containers for seedlings.
Useful vegetable soup red cabbage with celery, red onion and beets - a vegetarian soup recipe that can also be prepared in fast days. For those who decide to lose a few extra pounds, I would advise not to add potatoes, and slightly reduce the amount olive oil(1 tablespoon is enough). The soup turns out to be very aromatic and thick, and during Lent you can serve a portion of the soup with lean bread - then it will be satisfying and healthy.
Aphids attack many trees and shrubs. They often choose red and black as their habitat. To effectively combat this pest, you can use chemistry, biological agents and methods, as well as folk recipes.
How to recognize aphids on currants. Why is an insect dangerous?
This pest is preparing for something new summer season since autumn: it lays larvae that overwinter on plants. In spring, black, green, and brown insects multiply quickly, feeding on the sap of young trees and bushes. Signs of aphids on currants:
- Reddish tubercles appear on the leaves.
- On the branches you can discern white scraps - pieces of skin that the aphid has shed.
- The leaves dry out, curl, bend, the buds do not have time to open, and the fruits do not ripen.
- Many ants are running along the branches.
- The plant is covered with honeydew, a sticky liquid produced by aphids. Ants happily feed on these secretions.
Attention! When starting to fight aphids, destroy the anthill, which is probably located somewhere near the currants. For example, pour boiling water on it or use insecticides.
Peak aphid activity occurs in June. Over the summer, several generations of insects are born. When there is little food for all individuals on one bush or tree, winged forms of this pest appear. They fly to neighboring plants in search of a new place to live and food. Because of aphids, currants are lost nutrients and does not develop, and also begins to suffer viral infections. Therefore, it is necessary to remove aphids from the site already from early spring.
At the first symptoms of aphids, treat the currants
Folk wisdom to protect the currant harvest: recipes
- Ash solution. Pour 2 tbsp. powder hot water(3 l); add 1 tbsp. l. soap - laundry or liquid; leave for 24 hours; spray the bushes with a spray bottle.
- Onion or garlic tinctures. First method: chop 1 kg of green onions; fill with a bucket of water; let it brew for 6 hours; then strain and spray the bushes. The second method involves using onion peels. It is filled with water and left for 5 days. For 0.5 kg of husk you need a bucket of liquid. To prepare garlic tincture, 500 g of crushed heads need to be poured into 5 liters of water and left for about a day.
- Soap solution. It is very easy to prepare: in 1 tbsp. water add 2 tbsp. l. liquid soap or dishwashing detergent. Mix and spray the bushes.
Attention! A couple of days after treatment with soap, you need to wash off the remaining solution with water from a hose to prevent clogging of the pores of the plant itself.
- Remedy with ammonia. Dilute 2 tbsp. l. medical product in a bucket of water. Add some laundry detergent and spray the bushes. Repeat after 14 days.
- Tobacco-based drug. Pour 100 g of dust or shag into 1 liter of water and boil for about 1 hour. Cool and use for spraying, after diluting 300 ml of tincture with a bucket of water. Repeat the procedure after 2 days.
- Solution soda ash. Prepared at the rate of 1 tbsp. l. powder per 1 liter of water.
Aphid colony
- Tincture of marigolds. Fill half a bucket of crushed dried flowers warm water and leave for 3 days. Then strain, add 50 g of soap and spray the bushes.
- Red pepper remedy. 1 kg of fresh burning pods pour 10 liters cold water. Bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for about 1 hour. Set aside for a few days. warm place, then strain and keep in the refrigerator. For processing, take 1 tbsp. solution and mix it with a bucket of water.
- Tincture of celandine. Grind 4 kg freshly cut grass and fill it with a bucket of water. After a day, the natural insecticide is ready.
Attention! Celandine is poisonous, so protect your skin and eyes.
Chemicals for pest control. Prevention
If folk recipes do not help, and the degree of damage to the bushes has reached large proportions, you should think about using chemicals. Among the drugs there are different groups of insecticides. Contact ones act by contacting the insect itself directly. Intestinal parasites enter the pest's body with food treated with pesticides. Systemic ones make the plant poisonous for a long time, penetrating all its parts.
The first treatment with any of these products should be carried out before the buds open. The second is planned about a month before the harvest. Effective drugs considered against aphids:
- Aktara;
- Rovikurt;
- Karbofos;
- Wofatox;
- Fufan;
- Fury;
- Confidor;
If folk remedies do not help, use chemicals
- Bi-58 New;
- Inta-Vir;
- Kinimix;
- Aktellik et al.
For the poison to work as effectively as possible, follow the instructions that come with each product.
Advice. Do chemical treatment on a windless day. It is important that there is no rain or dampness. Before work, put on gloves and a respirator.
Many summer residents put off using chemicals until the last minute, relying on “grandmother’s” methods or organics. However, in some cases insecticides really cannot be avoided. If you don’t want to bring currants and other crops on your site to a neglected state, start with prevention:
- remove excess growth and weeds;
- clean the bark that peels off - aphids like to overwinter in it;
- destroy ants;
- plant useful crops next to the currant bushes: cosmos, yarrow, mallow, tansy - they attract ladybugs and insects that eat aphids;
- Take proper care of your plants: water, feed, mulch.
Aphids will feel uncomfortable on healthy currant leaves. But don't overdo it nitrogen fertilizing. They provoke lush growth of greenery, and this attracts pests. In the fight against them, you need to be patient and act systematically. Although it is difficult to remove aphids from the garden, it is quite possible if you start on time.
Aphids are quite voracious insects that a short time can destroy a lot of plants. In addition to flowers, it also harms berry bushes, for example, currants. However, not everyone knows how to fix this problem. If you have aphids on your currants, our advice will tell you how to fight them.
Before you fight aphids on currants, you should carefully inspect the bushes. If the situation allows, then it is better to cut off the damaged shoots on which the insects are located. In principle, they can also be washed off the leaves with a strong water jet, but in this case the pests may return to their place. Soapy water kills aphids very effectively. To prepare it, it is better to take liquid potash, which has good solubility. As a last resort, you can always use laundry soap. For the mixture you need to take about 30 g of product per 1 liter of water. After spraying, the insects stick together, cannot move and feed, and therefore die.
If you don’t know about currants, you can also make traps for these pests. For example, take a container small size and lightly pour soapy water into it. The color is attractive to aphids. Insects willingly climb into the container and drown. If you don’t have time to bother with preparing mixtures, you can spread pieces between the bushes aluminum foil. This way you can prevent the spread of insects.
Before fighting aphids on currants, determine the degree of damage to the bushes. Maybe, mechanical methods fixing the problem will not help. However, there is a large number of various decoctions that will help both destroy pests and protect the bushes from their further appearance. For example, you can prepare a decoction from potato tops. To do this, you will need about 1200 g of green mass to leave in water for several hours. Then the mixture should be filtered and the bushes can be sprayed. Alternatively, you can use dried raw materials.
If you don’t know how to treat currants against aphids, or you don’t have tops, then you can use onion skins. To do this, the scales should be infused in 10 liters of water. For this amount of liquid you should take about 200 g of raw material. A decoction from the plant helps well. To prepare it, you need the green mass of the plant in the amount of 1 kg (the raw materials must be dried). It should be boiled in a small amount of water for about 15 minutes. Then the mixture must be cooled and strained. In addition, the resulting liquid must be diluted with water (10 l) and soap (40 g). It is now ready to use. These are all the answers to the question of how to fight aphids on currants.
Since the beginning of spring, summer residents have a lot of troubles: planting, watering, weeding. In addition, you have to carefully monitor the condition of the plants in the garden, because not a year goes by without them being attacked by pests.
Very often they suffer from pests berry crops and, in particular, currants. Insects most often attack young shoots, causing them to deform and dry out, which has a bad effect on the berry harvest.
The greatest damage to currants is caused by aphids. Today we will talk about how to fight aphids on currants.
How to detect a pest on a plant?
Most often, currants are affected by gall aphids. This is a small insect that feeds on young leaves, shoots and plant juices. It is quite easy to detect a colony of this pest. You need to look under the currant leaves. If they are affected, then on the lower part sheet plate you will see bumps and swellings colored red or yellow. These formations are called galls. They are colonies of the pest.
Gall aphids usually appear on currants at the very beginning of the warm season. Such an early appearance is explained by the fact that this pest overwinters under the bark of annual plant branches. Or rather, its eggs overwinter, which are laid by female aphids near the buds closer to autumn.
With the arrival of the first warm days, larvae emerge from the eggs and immediately begin to feed on young leaves.
Young aphids begin to fly in mid-July. The currant leaves stop growing by this time. After the wings appear, the pest leaves the currant and moves to nearby weeds. So, it will remain and reproduce until autumn.
In the time remaining before the cold weather, more than one generation appears gall aphid. All of them will certainly return to the currant field in September, where they will be deposited under the bark annual shoots your eggs.
Gall aphids are a common cause of death of young plants. The fact is that young shoots affected by this pest are not able to develop normally and dry out over time. This pest is also dangerous for adult currant bushes, because it leads to crushing of berries and a significant drop in yield.
Experienced gardeners believe that the main means of combating this pest is timely prevention. She needs to practice from early spring until autumn. Preventive measures are quite simple:
- Mandatory removal of weeds near currant bushes.
- Regular sanitary pruning of bushes. All diseased and dried branches should be removed.
- Treating currant bushes with boiling water in the spring.
If there is a ladybug or lacewing on the currant bushes, then you should not get rid of these insects. They are natural enemies of aphids and will help you get rid of them quickly.
As one of preventive measures you can try to attract him to the garden beneficial insects. To do this, you need to plant the following medicinal plants under the currant bushes:
- Marigold.
- Yarrow.
- Tansy.
You can also plant dill next to currants. It is also loved by various beneficial insects.
Fumigation of the garden
The fight against aphids on currants can acquire various shapes. One of them is the fumigation of plants with smoke from burning rubber, tobacco and mushrooms.
It should be remembered that such treatment should be carried out before the first leaves appear.
Fumigation is carried out as follows:
- When using rubber raw material needs to be placed in old saucepan and set it on fire. One such pan should be installed under each currant bush.
- Tobacco and dry mushroom are kindled in a beekeeping smoker and all the plants are passed around with it.
The main disadvantage of this method of combating gall aphids is that it can only be carried out in calm weather. But with successful fumigation, all the aphids die, which eliminates the need to use heavy artillery - chemicals.
Currant bushes need to be fumigated for an average of 3 hours. It is best to choose evening time for this procedure. And be sure to protect your respiratory system. Acrid smoke can negatively affect your health.
Use of chemicals
Treatment of currants against aphids chemicals- radical, but very effective method pest control. It allows you to get rid of insects in as soon as possible and prevents their subsequent return within a year.
Spraying chemicals is carried out in several stages:
- Spring processing. It should be done at the moment the first leaves appear.
- Summer processing. Best time for her it is the period of currant flowering.
- After flowering is completed, you need to re-treat.
- Autumn processing. It is carried out exclusively after the entire harvest has been harvested.
The following water-soluble chemicals are best suited to control gall aphids:
- Actellik. An ampoule of this drug is diluted in 10 liters of water.
- Novaktion. No more than 5 ml of this product is diluted in 10 liters of water.
Traditional methods of combating gall aphids
Why are these products good? First of all, because they do not destroy beneficial insects. The following folk remedies are considered the most effective in the fight against aphids on currants:
What to pay attention to when fighting aphids?
The only way to get rid of the pest is taking into account the following important points:
Conclusion
The appearance of gall aphids on currants is not a death sentence for the plant. The pest can be successfully combated if it is detected in time. But it is better to prevent aphids from appearing on garden crops at all. Moreover, this is not difficult to achieve. You just need to spend time on prevention.
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Each currant berry is an incomparable storehouse of vitamins, a source for delicious homemade preparations, fruit drinks and pies filling. Without exaggeration, good bountiful harvest puffy, pot-bellied shiny berries are the desire of any gardener. It is quite possible, with the right variety of bushes chosen, taking into account the climate, and proper care for them.
The reasons why leaves and whole fresh shoots begin to dry are most often fungal infections and pests.
- spider mite;
- kidney mite;
- currant glass;
- currant leaf gall midge;
- currant shoot gall midge;
- leaf gall aphid;
- gooseberry shoot aphid.
Currants suffer from the following infections:
- spheroteka;
- anthracnose;
- septoria;
- columnar rust;
- glass rust.
Most often, currant bushes suffer from a variety of aphids and bud mites.
Kidney mite, methods of combating it
This pest lives on the currant bush its entire life. A very small insect, the body length of the female is only 1.5-3 mm, and the males are even smaller. Insects overwinter and lay eggs in the buds of the plant. When the larvae hatch, there is little space for them, so they move to neighboring buds, capturing new shoots. Thus, the entire currant bush is affected, and then neighboring currant bushes and other plants - raspberries, gooseberries and others - also become sick.
Of course, when affected by the pest, the shoot does not develop. If such branches grow, it is only in a mutated form. Accordingly, the yield decreases. In addition to reducing the number of berries, mites also cause other damage. They are carriers of many infections that can affect plants, including viral curl or marbling. With this disease, the leaves curl and become sticky, almost like an aphid infestation.
There are a lot of methods to combat mites that have settled on currants:
Pouring boiling water
A way to solve the problem in the most environmentally friendly and minimal costs. The method is quite effective - all larvae die when scalded, and the bush only becomes stronger and stronger.
Using boiling water has its own nuances:
- no need to use boiling water, a temperature of 60-80 degrees is enough;
- It will be more convenient to pour over the branches if tie them together;
- ticks begin activity with the first warm rays, If the bush has already begun to bloom, then you cannot water it with boiling water.. The treatment must be done before the “green haze” appears;
- dousing is also possible additionally carry out in late autumn.
Manual removal
This method requires concentration and patience. You need to sort the buds to remove the mite in early spring, before opening them.
This method has two significant drawbacks. Firstly, it is very difficult to distinguish a visually healthy kidney from one in which larvae are hiding. Secondly, there is a high probability of cutting off full-fledged healthy shoots, especially at the end of the inspection of the plant.
When choosing this method, all removed buds must be collected in one bucket and burned.
Sulfur chemicals
The most popular and effective sulfur-based preparations are:
- colloidal sulfur;
- lime-sulfur decoction.
Ticks cannot tolerate sulfur in any form. Preventive spraying with sulfur-containing solutions is a guarantee that pests will not spread to the bushes.
If the plant is severely affected, then you need to prepare a sulfur solution in proportions of 10 grams per 1 liter of water and treat the plant with it. Bushes are treated with sulfur twice:
- before flowering or at its beginning, use a 2% solution;
- after flowering - 1% or 1.5% mixture with sulfur.
There is a significant risk of being left without a harvest in the year of treatment in this way, however These chemicals completely destroy both the tick itself and fungal infections. It is important to follow the recommendations specified in the instructions for the chemical to maintain safety precautions when working with it.
Trimming
This is an extreme, drastic measure. If a mite suddenly turns out to be resistant to everything in the world, and this, although very rare, does happen, the plant is cut off at the root in late autumn, or it is completely dug up, that is, completely destroyed.
After destroying a diseased bush, as well as after pruning it, all the tools used to carry out the work must be disinfected and, if possible, additionally calcined.
Folk remedies and methods
Also, the affected shoots were doused with a strong garlic broth - 200-300 grams of peeled garlic per 10 liters of water.
If flowering has already begun, then the bushes are sprayed with decoctions from plants such as:
- tobacco is a plant, but the tobacco that is used in production is also suitable;
- dandelion;
- Walnut.
Taking advantage folk recipes, you need to remember that these measures are good if the spread of the tick is insignificant. If the area affected by the pest is large, then more effective measures should be taken.
There is nothing better to prevent tick activity than acaricides. This is a modern line chemicals wide range action, which means helping not only in the fight against ticks, but also against other pests and a number of diseases. The preparations are very widely available in any gardening store and are a complete alternative to sulfur, having its effect, but without harming the bush.
Aphids on white, black and red currants, how to fight?
Blistering on currant leaves is a sign of aphids Aphids usually settle on bushes of the white and red varieties:
- red gall;
- currant hairy.
The shoot gooseberry aphid loves the black one.
The following weather conditions can be dangerous for diseased plants and extremely favorable for aphids:
- arid;
- hot;
- solar.
All wonderful days for relaxing at the dacha, as if intended for barbecue and mowing lawns, are loved not only by humans, but also by aphids. We have to constantly fight this pest because life cycle of an individual is very short, and behind summer season can change from 10 to 15 generations in one colony of insects.
The aphid that has settled on currants is a very small insect, with an average body length of only 2.2 mm. When crowded together, the pests look like a spot of light grayish, yellow or green shades.
Aphids feed on the juice of currant leaves, digging into them from the back. Even a small settlement of these pests takes a lot of energy from the bush, significantly reducing not only the yield, but also the growth and development of currants.
The waste product of aphids is honeydew, or, as it is also called, honeydew - a favorite delicacy of ants. There is a common misconception that ants eat aphids, helping the summer resident fight them. It's not like that at all. on the contrary, ants carefully protect pest colonies and even spread aphids, transferring them to fresh shoots and neighboring bushes.
Aphids and ants are a natural symbiosis of species, so it is extremely important, when starting the fight against aphids, to destroy anthills as well.
You can get rid of pest colonies in the following popular ways:
- Having noticed leaves with swellings on the bushes, shoots with twisted clumps of leaves, you need to immediately, without delay, cut and burn;
- helps a lot spraying bushes and treating each leaf with an infusion of ash and shag, prepared in the following proportion - 400-500 grams per 10 liters of water;
- gives a good effect hand washing each sheet and then spraying the entire plant with a solution of soap and soda - a lot of soap and a tablespoon of soda per liter of water;
- Celandine is poisonous to aphids, therefore, having prepared an infusion in the proportion of 3.5-4 kg of freshly cut celandine per 10 liters of water, you can spray bushes, both already affected and apparently healthy ones, but you need to wear gloves and a respirator, since celandine can cause severe irritation;
- Just wash each leaf with soap and escape, economical is best.
In addition to these widely accepted and sufficiently simple ways, pesticides and insecticides can be used against aphids, such as:
- wofatox;
- karbofos;
- kinmix;
- Aktara;
- rockyvoort.
The list of drugs offered to gardeners by the industry is quite large and varied, but no matter which one you choose, you will have to spray the bushes three times:
- in spring, before buds open;
- after the leaves appear;
- in the summer, about a month before picking the berries (July - August, depending on the variety).
For preventive measures, in order to initially repel aphids, it is good to plant plants next to currants that they cannot tolerate:
- dill;
- tomatoes;
- garlic;
- mint;
- parsley;
- basil;
- coriander;
- tansy;
- marigold.
It will be most effective to apply comprehensive measures, including detection and baiting of ants. Getting rid of aphids completely is difficult, but quite possible.
What to do if currants dry out?
There are many reasons why bushes may begin to turn yellow and dry out, but They can all be divided into three categories:
- natural circumstances;
- action of pests;
- plant diseases.
TO natural reasons can be attributed weather, for example drought. The wrong place in which the bush grows is too sunny and dry, or, conversely, stagnant moisture that causes rotting of the roots.
Diseases that lead to plant drying out are usually carried by insects. The most common of them are:
- veined and striped mosaics;
- anthracnose, a fungal infection that requires immediate action;
- powdery mildew, both European and American;
- cercospora;
- rust, both goblet and columnar.
If the origins of currant drying are due to weather reasons, for example, during a hot and sunny summer, then it is easy to combat it. You just need to provide watering. Bushes drink a lot, from 1.5 to 2 buckets per day. During the period of berry ripening, the amount of water received by the plant should be increased to three buckets.
You can’t water currants cold water, from such care the plant can get sick. The water should warm up well in the sun. To do this, you can take it in the morning and leave it for the day.
If the bush dries out due to rotting of the roots, due to their flooding, which is typical for a very rainy summer, the actions should be as follows:
- add soil under the plant;
- around the bush, at a distance of 50-60 cm, dig drainage grooves.
After heavy rains, when the ground dries out, the drainage layer must be filled in, since currants are a moisture-loving plant and under normal conditions do not need water drainage.
If the bushes dry out due to insects or disease, then appropriate measures must be taken.
Not every modern summer resident understands the types of insect pests or the variety of plant diseases. That's why Chemicals with a wide complex action are very popular, such substances include:
- sulfur;
- phosphomide;
- karbofos;
- vitriol;
- Bordeaux mixture;
- phytosporin;
- foundationol.
Fungal infections, such as anthracnose, require prompt treatment of the bush with fungicides. The causative agent of the disease, a fungus, starts in fallen leaves. That is why It is extremely important to remove leaves from the area and burn them. The disease itself appears in mid-summer, in the form of red-brown spots on the leaves. If the disease is not cured, the “rash” will take over all the leaves, eventually exposing the bush, and infect neighboring plants.
Red-brown spots on currant leaves are a sign of anthracnose The following are very effective as preventive measures against insects and diseases:
- currant and soil treatment under it with 2% solutions of nitrophen or karbofos in the spring. Before the buds open;
- periodic spraying During the summer the bushes are treated with foundationazole.
Often currants dry out simply because the bush is already old. In this case, you either need to rejuvenate it by pruning it, or dig it up, and, having disinfected and fertilized the soil, plant a new one.
It is not so difficult to ensure that currants bear fruit well, do not get sick and do not dry out. You just need to meet some conditions:
- Right choose a place for bushes, not too dry and without stagnant water;
- provide irrigation in drought;
- remove fallen leaves;
- prophylactically treat plants;
- attentively monitor the condition bushes
If you follow these simple rules, From year to year, currants will certainly delight you with large, juicy, tasty and very healthy berries..