Top dressing of currants in spring with potato peelings

Experienced gardeners believe that potato peelings for currants are an indispensable fertilizer, so they are in no hurry to throw them away. Top dressing with this type of organic matter enriches the soil with nutrients, helps to destroy pests and protect currants from their attack.

One should learn not only to collect, but also to process, store and properly use potato peelings as a top dressing.

Thanks to their use, it is possible to reduce the use of chemicals, while preserving the environmental friendliness of the grown products as much as possible.

Why are potato peelings made under currants

Potato peelings contain trace elements necessary for plant development:

• phosphorus - promotes the growth of the root system, abundant flowering;
• potassium - thanks to him, the berries become sweeter and juicier;
• magnesium - provides plant photosynthesis;
• iron - necessary for the formation of chlorophyll.

For this reason, fertilizer from potato peelings is desirable for use under fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, any berry bushes, including currants.

Many summer residents advise the use of this fertilizer and share their positive experience in making potato peelings for currants.

Berry bushes like the abundant glucose and starch in potato skins. After instilling dry cleanings under the berry bushes in spring, they decompose and at this time they release all useful substances into the soil. It is possible to prepare an infusion from potato peel and use it as a liquid feeding of currants. It provides a rich harvest, large juicy berries. In autumn, it is worth bury dry cleanings under the bushes in a circle and cover them with mown grass on top, which will serve not only as fertilizer, but also as soil mulching, protecting the root system from the coming winter frosts.

It is not difficult to feed currants with potato peelings, not expensive, the process does not require additional time. At the same time, the fertility of the soil increases without the use of chemicals, which is an undoubted advantage.

Gardeners are advised to make them regularly, for which, during the season, they should be harvested in all possible ways. In a private home, it is easy to find a place for potato skins by putting them in the compost on the site. If this is not possible, they resort to freezing on the balcony, where the temperature has dropped below zero. Cleaning is more difficult to dry, but easier and more convenient to store. They can be dried in the oven or on a radiator, then grind with a meat grinder and dry again.

Useful properties of potato peelings for currants

It is worth making potato peelings for currants for several reasons. One of them is a rich chemical composition that includes several useful components:

• organic acids - contribute to the normalization of oxidative processes;
• mineral salts - enhance immunity, speed up metabolism;
• starch - the simplest sugar, capable of increasing the energy component;
• glucose - helps to maintain the vigor of the plant in winter.

Gardeners and gardeners consider potato peelings to be the best fertilizer for currants for other reasons:

• high nutritional value, saturation with micro- and macroelements guarantee the growth, development and abundant harvest of currants;
• the ability to use as bait for pests - slugs, Colorado beetles;
• fertilizer can increase the percentage of fertile humus;
• the soil becomes looser;
• oxygen access to the currant root system increases;
• the plant develops in an ecologically clean environment;
• the heat released during the decomposition of the waste warms the soil, creating more favorable conditions for the growing season.

The main ingredient in potato skins is starch. Currant responds very quickly to this component. Starch allows you to get larger and sweeter berries. It is enough to carry out three dressings: during the appearance of the ovaries, during the ripening period and a few days before harvesting. The starch in the potato peel has a beneficial effect on the rate of absorption of nutrients by the root system. However, it does not lead to rapid growth of weeds.

How to make potato peel currant feed

There are several methods to prepare fertilizer for blackcurrant from potato peelings. All methods take time to collect the peel. It is permissible to use small potatoes that are not edible, have lost moisture and become wrinkled.

Composting

The process is quite lengthy. Readiness does not occur earlier than in a year. Cleanings speed up the composting process. In order to avoid the development of a pathogenic fungus, experts advise adding potato waste already cooked.

But most often they are stored raw together with other household waste, grass, leaves. The mixture should be shoveled periodically to ensure an even supply of oxygen to all parts of the compost.

Potato infusion

For infusion, fresh potato peelings are washed with water, put into a container and poured with boiling water in a ratio of 1: 2. After the peel is soaked, the mixture is thoroughly mixed, kept for another day and the currant bushes are watered. The process should be completed by loosening and mulching the soil under the bushes.

Dry cleaning

Drying can be carried out in the oven, stove, on a radiator, in a microwave oven, in the open air. For this purpose, the cleaning is laid out in one layer and periodically stirred for uniform drying. It is necessary to monitor the process, since its duration depends on the humidity, the power of the device, and the season.

Freezing

If the volume of the freezer allows, then the peel, after washing and light drying, is folded into bags and placed in the freezer.

You can also freeze them on the balcony when the air temperature becomes negative - and store them there in layers. They freeze quickly.

Nutrient Blend

Frozen and dried peels can be mixed and filled with hot water. After three days, carefully mixed and crushed gruel is brought under the currants.

Potato flour

Well dried peel is ground in a blender, coffee grinder or meat grinder. Sprinkle the soil around the currant bushes with the prepared powder or gruel.

How to feed currants in spring with potato peels

Gardeners assure that the berries can grow to the size of raisins or cherries, if they are cleaned under the bushes as a fertilizer. They are loved by white, red, but most of all - black currant. It is on her that the effect is most noticeable. One way to use potato peelings as fertilizer for currants in the spring is as follows:

1. Before the gardening season, the potato peel is harvested by drying.
2. Immediately before applying to the soil, slightly moisten it with water.
3. Immediately after the snow melts, the prepared cleanings are buried near the roots of the currants to a depth of about 15 cm.

Top dressing of bushes can be carried out in winter and very early spring, when the snow is still lying. To do this, it is necessary to remove the leaves from the root zone of the currant in the fall and cover it with plastic wrap. As the cleaning accumulates, it is necessary to rake the snow and, spreading the raw materials on the ground, cover it again. In the spring, the soil must be carefully dug up.

Before the flowering of the currant, in the spring, dig a groove in a circle that coincides with the projection of the crown of the shrub to a depth of about 20 cm. A layer of dry cleanings is placed on its bottom and buried. In the process of decomposition, the fertilizer saturates the berry bush with all the necessary substances.

The infusion prepared from the cleanings must be cooled before use. Top dressing is effective due to starch and glucose, which are important for the full growth of currants. The soil structure is improved. Clay and heavy soils become lighter and looser after repeated application.

Experienced gardening tips

Experts believe that you can fertilize currants with potato peelings in spring, winter, autumn and summer. With the correct feeding, you can only get benefits from such a procedure.

Experienced gardeners recommend using potato peelings not only as fertilizer, but also to protect plants from pests. To this end, a number of actions should be performed:

1. Place the peel in different containers without holes - jars, glasses.
2. Add syrup or jam to them.
3. Bury next to currant bushes so that the edge of the tanks is at ground level.
4. The next day, get the traps and destroy the insects that got there.

Gardeners believe that, unlike such a bait, fresh cleanings spread around the garden bring several problems:

• delicate currant roots can be damaged by them;
• in the heat, they begin to rot and emit an unpleasant odor;
• can attract rodents to the site;
• thanks to the "eyes", potato peelings are able to germinate.

It is worth listening to the advice of agronomists on the use of the peel:

• it cannot be re-frozen;
• potatoes are not mixed with ash, since the nitrogen contained in the peel is converted by alkali to ammonia and evaporates;
• you should not use boiled cleanings for dressing, since after heat treatment they lose a lot of useful properties.

Gardeners consider an infusion containing, in addition to cleaning, other components to be a very effective fertilizer. For cooking you need:

1. Pour water into the barrel.
2. Put there, in addition to the potato peel, peel, nettles, rye bread crusts.
3. Use the product after three weeks of infusion.
4. Apply bread dressing three times per season.

Conclusion

For a long time, potato peelings for currants have been recognized as an effective fertilizer. Thanks to him, berry bushes receive all the necessary substances for the development and formation of a rich harvest.

Availability, environmental friendliness, efficiency, ease of use make this type of feeding popular among specialists and amateur gardeners for many years.

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