What is the water requirement of gooseberries?
Gooseberries don't want to have anything to do with drought stress. The berry bushes are best watered regularly in the morning when the natural rainfall is insufficient. The surface of the earth may dry out a little between watering.
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How should the berry bushes be fertilized?
A combination of organic fertilizer and Mulch(€ 13.95 at Amazon *) meets the requirements of heavily gnawing gooseberries perfectly. The following nutrient supply has proven itself:
- with compost in March Horn shavings(€ 32.93 at Amazon *) work in superficially
- repeat this process after flowering and after harvest
- Spread a layer of mulch from comfrey, nettle leaves or fern
- every 2 weeks from April to July fertilize with a vegetable manure
Where no organic fertilizer is available, serves more commercially Berry fertilizer(€ 11.35 at Amazon *) as an alternative in the dosage according to the instructions.
What to look for when cutting gooseberries
In the period after the harvest until the end of February, gooseberries are pruned specifically. In the first step, all dead wood is cleared. Cut You can see inward branches as well as meager and crossing specimens. Then it goes on like this:
- Cut the two oldest leading branches back to the ground
- select the two strongest of the new shoots
- consistently cut off all other shoots that sprout from the base
- Leave 2-3 long shoots on each guide branch, as these bear fruit
- removed fruit branches cut through except for 2 eyes
The ideal gooseberry bush has two annual, two-year, three-year and four-year leading shoots. It is similar with one Gooseberry standard stemHere, above all, drooping branches have to give way.
What diseases threaten gooseberries?
There are two in the first place Diseasesto watch out for during the summer. American gooseberry powdery mildew lurks in dry, warm weather. If the weather is warm and humid, the leaf fall disease spreads.
Tips & Tricks
In principle, the frost-hard gooseberry bushes do not require any extra winter protection. In contrast, the conditions in the bucket are different, as the root ball could freeze through here. Wrap planters with bubble wrap in good time before the first frost and place them on wood or styrofoam in front of the south wall of the house.
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