Belarusian sugar gooseberries, variety characteristics, reproduction, care

Many gardeners gooseberry grow with pleasure. And correctly done, as its peculiar to the taste of berries contain about twenty useful trace elements, nine vitamins, organic acids, tannins, flavonoids, carbohydrates, pectin, saccharides and many other very useful substances. Belarusian sugar gooseberries take a leading position among other varieties. He has many advantages and almost no shortcomings. Therefore, gardeners are trying to dissolve it in their personal plots.

Gooseberries Belarusian sugar: description

Gooseberries belong to the genus Smorodina, the family of gooseberry. Varieties of this plant are spiked and without. His flowers are plain, bisexual, pollinated by insects. The buds of gooseberry begin to blossom at the very beginning of spring, and by the end of April the bushes brighten the eye with emerald greenery. The flowers bloom too very early - by mid-May, but the fruits ripen in different ways. There are varieties early, middle, early, mid-ripening and late-ripening. Belarusian sugar gooseberry belongs to medium-early varieties. The berries ripen by the end of July.

Outwardly, it differs little from other varieties. The height of its bushes is about 1 meter or slightly lower, the branches are not thick, covered with spines, "upward looking", but can be slightly inclined to the ground, especially when there are a lot of berries on them. They are very large in Belarusian sugar, weighing up to 9 grams, light green, not fluffy, thin-skinned and very sweet. Sugars in their pulp contain up to 14%, and acids only up to 2%. In this case, vitamin C in them is up to 26 mg per 100 grams.

Reproduction by layers

If already growing on the site of the Belarusian sugar gooseberry, it can be multiplied by layers. This is the most convenient and easy way, which is used throughout the growing season. But if you make the cuttings in the early spring, it will be possible to get a new plant in autumn, which will yield the next year. Choosing a time when the sap flow has not yet begun, but the soil has already warmed up from the top, the lower one-two-year branches of gooseberries are tilted to the surface of the earth, pinned and buried in this place. The top of such branches is cut off, so that the plant will throw all its forces into root formation, and not to further growth. Layering, like all the mother plant, will necessarily go into growth. When the young tender shoots emerging from their buds reach a length of about 10 cm, the pinned place is again buried approximately 5-6 cm, and after 3 weeks it is done again, and again by about 5-7 cm. During the summer, the layers are periodically watered, And in the autumn they separate it with a secateur from the mother's bush, dig it out of the ground and transfer it to the chosen place.

Reproduction by cuttings

Belarusian sugar gooseberry can be propagated and cuttings, but their survival rate will not be very high. Cuttings are harvested in the first and second decades of July or in the fall. It is better to take green shoots, because they are more actively rooted. After cutting the twigs, leaves are removed from the lower end, one by one is made on the kidneys, and 3-5 incisions are made in the lower part and placed in water for 24 hours, then in the root (according to the instructions). In the greenhouse, a layer of sand is poured on top of the earth, into which they are placed on a small (up to 4 cm) distance from one another prepared cuttings, watered, covered with a film. Maintaining humidity will need the entire period of rooting. After 3 weeks, the film begins to open for an hour or two, and after a month they clean it. July cuttings in autumn can be planted in the garden, and autumn only next spring.

Seeds do not propagate this gooseberry variety .

Care

It is quite easy to grow gooseberries Belarusian sugar. Comments gardeners note its high winter hardiness, a good ability to self-pollen, a very low susceptibility to diseases such as anthracnose and powdery mildew. The place for planting it needs sunny, without strong winds and bogging of the soil. Since this variety has powerful shrubs, it is desirable to have seedlings no closer than 1.5-2 meters to each other. Planting gooseberries is better in pre-prepared pits, where you must first make humus, superphosphate (no more than 200 grams), peat and potassium fertilizer (up to 30 grams). In spring, gooseberries must be pruned, consisting in the removal of diseased shoots and in thinning the bush, as well as loosening the soil. During the vegetation period, the berry should be regularly, but not abundantly watered, and near the bush to cover up the soil. Also gooseberries are very responsive to top dressing. How often they are done depends on the quality of the soil. On fertile it is time in 3 years, on the poor every year. Feeding can be organic (mullein, bird droppings) or mineral fertilizers (potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen). Especially important for gooseberries potassium, so it is very good to use ash, which fertilizes, and with many pests will help to fight.