It’s November, the garden seems to have fallen asleep, and it’s time for summer residents to take one important step that will decide the whole of next summer. While the neighbors are wrapping up the bushes, I go out into the garden with a bucket of a special “elixir”. Just one autumn procedure – and next year the branches will bend from heavy, sweet berries. The secret is not in magic, but in understanding what the currants want before the long winter.
An infusion of ash with the addition of bone meal comes to the rescue. Ash is a storehouse of potassium, which helps plants survive the winter and lays down future flower buds. Bone meal: a source of phosphorus, which strengthens roots and adds sugariness to berries. Together they work wonders!
How to cook:
- For a 10-liter bucket of warm water: 2 liter jars of sifted wood ash;
- Add 1 cup bone meal;
- Leave for 2 days, stirring occasionally.
How to use:
Make a shallow groove around the bush (according to the projection of the crown);
Pour a bucket of infusion under an adult bush, half a bucket under a young one;
Sprinkle with soil and lightly mulch.
Currant roots continue to grow even at low temperatures. They absorb nutrients and form next year's buds. In spring, such a bush wakes up powerful, with dense foliage and abundant flowering.
This method is especially good for bushes that have not fruited well or have been ill. Just one bucket of proper fertilizing in the fall costs more than a kilogram of berries in the supermarket in the summer, it has been tested for years.
