If you want to harvest red currants or gooseberries from June to August, plant these small-fruited shrubs in fall or spring. Once planted, they will flower in March-April and then will produce clusters of tart berries all summer long for many years. How to plant these garden essentials?
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Once the small spring flowers have developed, the red, white or dews can be picked all summer. Easy to grow, adopt currant bushes. But, when to plant a gooseberry and how to successfully plant it to guarantee beautiful gourmet harvests?
When to plant a gooseberry?
The red currant or gooseberry, like the raspberriesthe black currants and many others berry bushes are planted either in fall, or in spring knowing that autumn is really the ideal period. The rooting of the shrub has time to do all thewinter in order to produce its first berries the following year. You can plant them from October to March, avoiding periods of gel.
How to plant a gooseberry?
The gooseberry is a shrub that appreciates the Sun or partial shade in the South to develop well and produce small berries in quantity. It likes a soil enriched with decomposed compost, well drained because it hates having its roots in water and very cool, especially in periods of strong weather. heat summer. For the location, either you plant the gooseberry as an isolated subject in the garden, or you compose a hedge shrubs with small fruits in order to multiply the varieties (space the shrubs at least 1.5 meters apart), or you can trellis them along a wall to occupy the space.
Successful planting in a few key steps:
- prepare the ground with a spade so that it is clean and loose;
- place sand or gravel at the bottom to create a drainage layer if your soil is heavy;
- add a scoop or two of compost decomposed and mix well;
- soak the root ball to rehydrate it and facilitate its removal from the pot;
- cut the end of the roots and praline them (mixture of earth and water) if the gooseberry is at bare roots ;
- dig a hole, using a spade, bigger than the clod;
- cover it with a mixture of compost and garden soil;
- lightly untangle the roots;
- place the root ball in the center and keep it collar at ground level ;
- fill in the voids with a mixture of potting soil and garden soil, in equal parts;
- pack down then water copiously.
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