Currant is golden - a useful berry

Currant is in every garden because of its amazing gustatory and healthy properties. Each new variety diversifies the family of shrubs, adding its own qualities. Among them, goldencurrant is one of the best varieties.
This shrub is not afraid of frost and heat and can be grown in almost all climatic zones of Russia. It later blooms and is therefore not damaged by recurrent frosts. It grows well and fructifies in the sun and in the shade. A powerful root system protects the plant during a drought. Currant is golden - unpretentious plant: it accepts both light sandy soils and heavy clayey, saline soils. It grows well on the slopes. Its leathery leaves do not burn in the sun even at a temperature of + 41 degrees Celsius.

The bush of this variety is very decorative: it reaches a height of two meters, the leaves are glossy, beautifully carved. According to the drawing, its leaves resemble gooseberry. Light green in summer, in autumn the leaves turn yellow and crimson.

Golden currant can have berries of different colors, depending on the variety: black, orange, red, yellow. Their shell is dense, the fruit is strong and long kept on the branches. The taste is unusual, rather sweet than sour.
When planting in the garden you need to take into account the peculiarities of pollination of the bush. Goldencurrant is a self-fertile plant and yields only if several other pollinating varieties are next. In addition, cross-pollination is helped by insects, who willingly fly on the nectar, allocated flowers. By the way, large yellow flowers, hanging by brushes, give even more decorative to the bushes.

Planting of golden currants can be carried out in spring and autumn with a distance of 1-1.5 meters and leaving a row spacing of 3-4 meters. On the seedlings should be 3-4 buds. Fruiting bushes begin from the second year.

This variety of currant is very resistant to pests and diseases. Rarely affected by spots, mahrovostami, ryabuha, fire, a mite.

When you bookmark any garden first in the list goes currant. The benefits of growing this berry are well known. According to the content of useful substances, the fruit of the goldencurrant is not inferior to other varieties, and by the amount of carotene even exceed them. The list of biologically active substances that these berries can supply to a person is very long. Vitamins (C, E, provitamin A), organic acids, pectins, tannins, and also minerals (phosphorus, magnesium, potassium) and trace elements (iron, copper) lead to it.

It is desirable to use berries in fresh form, but also during harvesting many useful properties of them are preserved. Of them, compotes, jam, jams and even wines are made, frozen for long-term storage.

Currant is widely used as a medicine. Fresh berries help with gastric diseases against a background of reduced acidity, for the prevention of atherosclerosis, for the treatment of hypertension and neuroses. Dried fruits have a diuretic, diaphoretic, astringent action. Decoction of leaves and berries is prescribed in folk medicine in the treatment of nephritis, cholecystitis, rheumatism and gout.