Rules for feeding currants with potato peelings

Red and black currants are the favorite berry of the inhabitants of the northern regions of Russia.Currant berries can be eaten fresh, you can cook fruit drinks and fruit drinks, make jam, use as a filling for pies and pancakes. Currants grow well in harsh conditions, however, such an unpretentious plant should be periodically provided with additional nutrition. Experienced gardeners consider potato cleansing one of the most effective fertilizers for this crop.

Potato skins are rich in starch, glucose, potassium, magnesium, iron, fluorine and other useful elements. Their number can even compete with some commercially available fertilizer mixtures. You can feed up with cleanings almost any crop, but currant fertilizer responds particularly well to this fertilizer. Consider the main advantages of dressing potato skins.

• Degraded in a single-piece form of cleaning provides the soil with substances that are required for the active growth of the shrub.
• Not only does the fertility of the earth increase, but its structure also improves. The decomposed peel makes the soil loose and light, therefore, such fertilizer is often used for silty, clay and peat soils.
• This is an absolutely safe top dressing. It is non-toxic, unlike purchased chemical mixtures, so the gardener may not worry about his health, as well as the development of currants.
• Impact on the plant potato skins begin quickly. This is an organic fertilizer, which is processed by bacteria in the soil, and then in the shortest possible time transfers all its beneficial properties to the root system.
• Unlike other natural remedies, potato peel does not affect the enhanced growth of a number of growing weeds.
• This dressing can be applied at all stages of plant development, as well as used not only for currants, but also for other crops.
• It is not only an effective fertilizer, but also an excellent means of protection against insect pests.
• This is more than an economical fertilizer option. It is known that most people after cleaning potatoes send their waste in the trash. However, the responsible summer resident will not discard such valuable fertilizer for currants, saving on the purchase of an expensive chemical mixture.

Thanks to such a simple and cheap (and in fact free!) Fertilizer, like potato husks, the gardener gets a good harvest. On well-fed shrubs appear large, healthy and very sweet berries. But it should follow simple rules for the preparation of fertilizers.

Special rules and requires harvesting potato peels, because it is important to preserve them until spring. The main stages of preparation are given below.

• Cut off waste thoroughly washed in running water.
• Next, put them in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. This tool will treat the skins from the fungus, which often attacks the potato peel.
• Put one layer of washed peel on paper and leave in a dry ventilated room.
• If quick drying is necessary, then the peel is recommended to be pre-cut into small pieces.
• When the husk is dry, it should be folded in paper bags. In such containers, it will continue until spring.

It is allowed to dry potato waste on the battery or even in the oven at a temperature not higher than 100 degrees, but in the latter case it is recommended not to completely close the oven so that there is access to oxygen and the skins themselves must be on parchment. Fully dry in the oven after 3-4 hours.

Another good way to harvest crusts is freezing. To do this, follow the following rules:

• well wash the skins in the above solution;
• by means of the meat grinder we grind a thin skin;
• The resulting slush is placed in a container and left in the freezer until spring.

Fertilizer preparation begins about 7-10 days before currant treatment. As a rule, this occurs in the springtime. Recipe:

• pour the crushed husk into a bucket;
• pour boiling water so that the water was 5 cm higher than the cleaning;
• In this form, insist the mixture during the week.

This is the main recipe, which is used for feeding currants. But there are other ways of making effective fertilizer, which is suitable for both currant and other crops. For example, infusion:

• dried or frozen potato skins filled with boiled water;
• insist within 24 hours.

The resulting infusion is used for watering. In addition, a kind of flour can be made from potato crusts - ground rind is considered a quality universal fertilizer. For this:

• we prepare well dried skins;
• grind in a meat grinder, blender or coffee grinder;
• we keep them in containers, but not for long, as the rind, crushed to a crumb, is prone to rotting, and is also a tasty prey for pests and pathogenic microorganisms.

The method of fertilizing is also important. As already noted, currant has a shallow root system, and therefore fertilizer should not be applied directly under the shrub. For this purpose, pull the groove. Apply fertilizer in a certain way.

• By means of a cord we make a projection of the crown of a bush. This should be done before flowering. The circle that we get is the limits of the root system.
• Along this line we dig a groove to a depth of 20 cm.
• At the bottom we place gruel from potato waste or milled peel and bury.
• We perform the procedure annually.

It is very useful to use this fertilizer when planting plants. To do this, make a dressing in the hole, prepared for planting. Feed the culture every two weeks. However, in the case of currants, this method is not suitable. The fact is that with the regular decomposition of such an abundant amount of cleaning a large amount of heat is released, and the soil may be overheated in the summer. Therefore, experienced gardeners warn that when feeding currants with potato peelings, care should be taken. Couples once a season is enough.

A particularly important period in the development of currants is the appearance of ovaries. At this time, she also needs nutritious and healthy fertilizer from potato peelings.

Experienced gardeners know that potato peeling is not only an effective fertilizer for currants, but also an excellent protection against pests, the appearance of which negatively affects the yield. To prevent the adverse effects of insects, it is recommended to install potato traps as soon as the shrub is planted in the ground. There are two ways to use cleansing as a means to control pests. The first way:

• put the skins in any containers - cans, pots, glasses, the main thing is that the container should be without holes;
• you can add sweet water, syrup or jam;
• bury the containers next to the currant so that their edge is flush with the edge of the earth;
• the next day it will be necessary only to pull out insects from the trap and destroy them.

The second method:

• find the wire and thread it to the potato peel;
• bury one end of the wire, and leave the other sticking out on the surface;
• after a couple of days, dig out the bait and destroy the insects stuck to it.

Both methods have been verified, but care should be taken.Banks and wires can damage currant roots. For this reason, some gardeners recommend simply sprinkling the cleaning around the bush, and after a day to collect them together with any pests and throw them away.

The recipe is pretty simple.

• Pour into a large container of water, usually used a barrel.
• We lay out the weedy juicy grass, nettles, snyt, crusts of stale bread, potato peelings. The mass of bread must exceed the amount of other products. You can not put ingredients at one time, but for some time.
• After three weeks, an effective fertilizer can be used.
• The resulting mixture of currant bushes are processed three times: the first time - when the ovaries are large, the second - during the ripening of fruits, the third time - closer to harvest.

Most of the dacha residents do not strongly recommend using just laid out fresh cleaning as a fertilizer. This may face the following problems:

• fresh peel will damage young tender currant roots;
• in the summer heat, the crusts will spread a stench;
• dry husks - a real treat for rodents;
• even thin skins can germinate.

Listen to a few more tips on how to use potato peels as fertilizer for agronomists.

• If the cleaning during harvesting were frozen and then thawed, then they can no longer be subjected to re-freezing.
• As a top dressing it makes no sense to use the skin of boiled potatoes. All beneficial trace elements are already lost during heat treatment.
• You can use fertilizer in winter. To do this, clean the ground around the currant bushes and cover with foil. With the accumulation of cleanings you can dig up the snow, put the fertilizer and bury it again. In the spring it is necessary to thoroughly dig up the soil.
• If potato skins are used as an auxiliary ingredient in the preparation of fertilizer, then they should not be mixed with ash. This is because the peel contains nitrogen, which, under the influence of alkali, is transformed into ammonia and evaporates. Such fertilizer will not bring special benefit.
• If there is a compost pit on the plot, then the potato peel can be stored for subsequent feeding in it.

Potato skins are an effective fertilizer for currants of any kind. Especially good this fertilizing fertilizes the black variety. Properly prepared and used mixture will be a great assistant in the cultivation of large, sweet, juicy berries.

For information on how to use potato peelings, see the following video.