Currant

What is the usefulness of black currant? Black currant is considered one of the most useful and tasty berries. Black currant is used in medicine, cooking. It is used for the prevention of certain diseases. Black currant provides the human body with various types of vitamins (A, vitamins of the E, B, C, H group), microelements (fluorine, iron, iodine, copper, cobalt, zinc, manganese), macrocells (calcium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium).

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It has become customary for us in the summer to gather black currant berries and red berries. It is these two varieties of currants have long taken root in our areas. But few people know about another variety of this berry - golden currant, the second name of which is “krandal”. North America is considered the birthplace of this type of currant, where in the area between the north-west and Mexico these bushes grow independently, without human help.

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Currant is a shrub that can reach 2.5 m in height. Currant leaves have large teeth along the edge, the berries reach up to 1 cm in diameter and have a strong characteristic odor. Currants can grow in the shade, but a more favorable area will be the soil in a sunny, well-lit area. Currant berries contain many vitamins, organic acids, micro-and macronutrients.

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We welcome lovers of the garden! This article will focus on currant pests. We will tell you about what each pest is, how much damage it can do to your currant bush and how to fight it. Did you know? Blackcurrant juice is used to prepare food dyes.

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Currants can be found in almost every garden, as it is a very popular berry. That black currant is the most popular among all the others (red and golden). Black currant is rich in vitamins and exceeds strawberries by 5 times in their concentration, citrus fruits by 8 times, apples and pears by 10 times, and grapes by almost 100 times.

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Today we will talk about white currants. We will tell you how to plant white currant in the spring, choose a place for planting and suitable soil. After reading this article, you will have enough knowledge to grow healthy and fruiting currants. Did you know? Currant refers to the order of Camouflaged.

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Almost all gardeners and landowners prefer currant cultivation. In the areas most often we meet black currant (Ribes nigrum), red (Ribes rubrum) and white currant (Ribes niveum), and yellow currant has recently become popular. Currant diseases and their treatment If you want your bush to delight you with berries from year to year, then you should know not only about the main intricacies of care, but also currants and pests of currants.

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Currant is one of the most common berry crops in our latitudes. Valued gardeners for unpretentiousness in the care, lush, fragrant greens and delicious berries, rich in vitamins and microelements. For successful cultivation of crops should clarify how to deal with aphids on currants - a fairly common pest.

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Currant is one of the most delicious and healthy berries, care for shrubs which every gardener can do and is required mainly in autumn. Its application can be found both in cooking and in medicine. In the first case, compote and jam are boiled from currant berries, used fresh, even currant leaves are used for preservation, and fragrant teas are brewed from them.

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Currant is an ideal unpretentious plant, abundantly producing useful fruits that bypassed other berries to taste and quantity of useful substances. Its special value is in unpretentiousness. But still for large and large fruits, it is necessary to give the plant additional activators for growth each year. Therefore, caring gardeners feed currants in the spring and throughout the season.

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The smell of a currant bush cannot be confused with anything else. Once you feel it in your life, you will remember it forever. Berries, leaves, twigs - everything is saturated with this scent. Therefore, in Russia, this berry has long been nicknamed "currant" (in Old Church Slavonic, "strong smell"). In addition to the smell, it is famous for its special unique qualities.

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The best wine - cooked with his own hands. One of the popular berries for making a drink is black currant. After reading the article, you will learn how to make homemade blackcurrant wine. Black Currant Wine: Ingredients List Making a homemade wine drink is a complex and demanding process.

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Rust is one of the most common and dangerous diseases for currants and gooseberries. Description, diagnosis, treatment - we will tell about it below. The risk of rust The diseased plant begins to lose leaves, the quality of berries deteriorates, and frost resistance decreases. In the shrub metabolic processes are disturbed, photosynthesis, the loss disappears, water evaporation increases.

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Without annual rejuvenation, currant bushes will not be able to use their full potential for abundant fruiting. And all because the berries are tied to last year's growth branches, which are not more than 5 years. That is why it is so important to remove all the old, dry, damaged, competing with each other and interfering with the growth of new shoots elements.

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Mealy dew (in other words, ash or ashes) is a fungal disease that is caused by microscopic fungi that live in the soil — the order of powdery erysipelas or erysiphoid. Currant suffers from this fungus. Mealy dew affects part of the plant that is above the ground - the leaves, petioles, buds, seedlings and shoots of this year, as well as the growing point.

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Currant is a branchy shrub of the gooseberry family. The process of planting and caring for berries requires certain knowledge and skills. In this article we will look at how to plant currants in the spring, as well as offer a step by step guide to action. When to plant Early autumn is the optimal time for planting currants, since in winter the ground around the bush sinks and thickens, which contributes to a better development of the berry.

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