Cinderella honeysuckle: variety characteristics and cultivation

Honeysuckle is not only an ornamental, but also an edible plant. Its berries when used in food bring many benefits.When growing a crop, it is possible not only to decorate beautifully the local area, but also to heal from many diseases.

To date, there are many varieties of honeysuckle, which do not need special care and difficult growing conditions. This unpretentious shrub easily take root with other plants. "Cinderella" is a bright representative of this garden culture and always provides its owners with fragrant and tasty fruits.

Honeysuckle "Cinderella" was bred by breeders and included in the State Register. The Urals and Siberia are recommended as an area for growing berry bush. Feedback from people who are engaged in cultivation, are extremely positive. This edible variety belongs to a number of winter-hardy and unpretentious. In height, an adult can reach about one meter. This bush has a pleasant aesthetic characteristics and compact dense crown. Description of the branches indicates their subtlety and easy curvature. The leaf of a bush has the large size, the extended oval form and a light green shade. Ripening berries occurs in the first month of summer.

The shape of the ripe fruit is similar to the spindle. This is a berry with a dark blue color and a bluish bloom. Ripe fruit has a length of up to 17 mm and a weight of about 1.3 grams. The taste of honeysuckle of this variety is very pleasant, it is sweet and sour and has a strawberry flavor. Yields are very good - about five kilograms per plant. "Cinderella" can only be consumed torn, as well as an integral part in jam, jam and compote.

Honeysuckle variety "Cinderella" gives the fruit harvest in the second year after planting. Ripe berry contains a lot of useful elements:

• water soluble vitamins of groups P and B;
• trace elements;
• minerals.

The sweetness of the fruit is due to the presence of sucrose and fructose, and the acidity is due to citric, malic and acetic acids. Traditional medicine uses honeysuckle in the treatment of heart disease, vascular diseases, as well as problems of the digestive tract. A feature of the variety is the obligatory presence of a pollinator plant. For good fruiting in the vicinity of Cinderella, one of these varieties of honeysuckle should grow: “Blue spindle”, “Amfora”, “Azure”, “Leningrad giant”.

The decorative characteristics of the plant are another of its primary features. Many decorators and landscapers use this shrub in practice. "Cinderella" as an integral part of landscape design is used as a green fencing of territories. She often decorates the open green lawns, squares, walking paths. Honeysuckle shrub is a wonderful honey plant, during flowering, it attracts a lot of insects.

Cinderella has many advantageous features that distinguish this shrub among others:

• frost resistance;
• resistance to spring frost;
• tasty and fragrant fruits;
• resistance to diseases and pests;
• fruiting after the first year of life;
• decorative shrub.

Among the disadvantages of edible honeysuckle are the following:

• berries ripen unevenly;
• ripened berries can crumble;
• necessarily the presence of a pollinator plant.

This variety of honeysuckle is preferably a loose, nutritious and moisture-intensive soil that has a neutral reaction. Land for planting seedlings should be sunny, this area contributes to the laying of a large number of fruit buds. If the growing area is shaded, then the yield will be lower.

Choosing a sapling, you should give preference to a two-year or three-year-old plant, the root system of which is closed. Between the bushes of honeysuckle is to keep a distance of one and a half to two meters. Landing can be made both in the spring, and in the fall.The pit for planting should be prepared in advance. A well is being dug, which has a depth and width of 0.4 meters. The ground of the upper and lower layers should be deposited in different directions. The earth from the top layer is mixed with a compost bucket and a liter of wood ash. The mixture is poured into the hole. Substrate is moistened.

After preparing the site for the future planting of a young plant, you can start planting Cinderella. Removing the seedling from the tank should be carried out with the ground. Roots need to gently straighten and soak in water with "Appin" for half an hour. In the center of the pit it is necessary to make a hole equal to the volume of the roots. Then you can plant a plant in it. Upon completion, the ground water is poured and irrigation is carried out with warm water.

To obtain the desired yield, honeysuckle, like any other plant, needs care. Special attention "Cinderella" is necessary in the first year after planting. If the summer is dry, you need to water the bush once every seven days. Under each honeysuckle it is necessary to pour out two buckets of water once.

Those fertilizers that were added to the soil during planting, honeysuckle enough for two years. Starting from the third year of life, the plant should be fed. Before the flowering period and before harvesting the bush should be watered with a solution of nitrogen fertilizer and chicken manure. This dressing should be brewed for two days. Fertilizer should be applied in the evening when the soil is wet.

When the second half of the summer period comes, Cinderella should be fed with humic fertilizers or tincture of wood ash. This solution can not only be applied to the soil, but also used for spraying. Honeysuckle also needs sanitary and rejuvenating pruning, which removes weak and damaged shoots.

Honeysuckle is little exposed to fungal infections, but the disease still occurs. If spots have formed on the shrub, then this is the first sign of a fungal or viral infection. The most common diseases are as follows.

• Monilioz. This disease contributes to the decay of foliage and the spread of fungus throughout the plant. In the early stages of the disease, it is necessary to prune the affected shoots, and then treat them with a copper-containing preparation. For prophylactic purposes, the plant is processed "Fitolavinom."
• Mealy dew. It is worth fighting against this disease using a solution that includes tobacco dust, copper sulfate and soap.
• Cercospora It is a disease that manifests itself in the formation of dark green spots. After the time the stain may acquire a brown color with a dark border. To prevent such a situation, it is necessary to thin the shoots and destroy the affected foliage. It is also advisable to spray the Fitolavin shrub in early spring and autumn.

The main pests of honeysuckle are aphid, mite, moth, nematode and glass bowl.

Honeysuckle is the first of the berries that ripen. The ripening period is at the beginning of June. Due to the uneven ripening of the berries, the harvest is done in several passes. This bush is prone to shattering, so when you work, you can spread the fabric under the plant. "Cinderella" is considered a universal berry. She is loved both fresh and dried, canned. Jam, jam and fruit compote turns out very tasty. Not only does the berry of this plant have healing properties, but even branches and bark.

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