Currants - Myths of gardeners
If you think that Ancient Greece is the only place where the most unimaginable myths were born, then you are mistaken, Homer would have understood his inferiority if he lived in our time and he would have seen various kinds of videos about how a garden can be hassle-free, and this is the slogan that vloggers often use to lure viewers to their video channels.
Yes this is a true myth of myths in those cases when the author tells us that if we do everything as he tells us, then our garden will become a holiday for us without any hassle.
Therefore any information should be carefully filtered and better yet never leave the garden unattended no matter what technology you use.
Everything is very individual and the ideal gardening recipe simply does not exist.
My wife and I started thinking about plants that would be the most resilient in not very fertile soil and that would require a minimum of our attention in case we don’t often end up in the garden.
Currants a low-growing bush that produces a bountiful harvest of berries came into our field of vision.
One day a distant relative told us that she and her husband had planted several hectares of currant bushes and like an elephant on a sunny day, come to tend them twice a year and to harvest the crop.
It's tempting but either this is a myth or the conditions for weevils to exist where her land is located are unbearable.
Apparently this is one of the poles of Venus where acid rains constantly fall but no one has proven to me that Venus exists.
But I doubt that weevils which are capable of destroying the entire currant harvest in a short time would miss such an opportunity if a person does not spray the bushes with a solution of mustard powder in time, which is probably one of the best means of fighting them.
And they appear out of nowhere, as if teleporting I found them even in a sealed pack of cereals in the store.
Personally for me the myth that currants are a plant that you plant and forget about is debunked.
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Love black currants, it is a shame that the plants and fruits did not come as they should.
Maybe we try to plant black currants this year :)
In fact, this is a win-win shrub, since you can use not only the fruits, but also the branches and leaves, brewing tea from them, or using them in canning vegetables, I will definitely plant it :)
Thank you!
I love them but struggle with the same poor soil. With me they grow the best in the shade but water they need and they barely grow. The one I forgot, thought died, showed up after 3 years 🤔
It remains small just like the fig. Most of them die due molls, ants (the worst) and the plague of birds finishes the fruits.
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@ wakeupkitty
I wish you a blessed harvest in your garden and vegetable plot.
I am well acquainted with poor soil, it is difficult to call it fertile in our dacha.
But there are always options, for example, you can add a little ash, and superphosphate if there is no humus. In many ways, the quality of the seedlings themselves and the conditions in which they were grown are important.
If the seedlings were grown in ideal conditions, then it is more difficult for them to take root.
However, some plants can be transferred from underwater to above-water form and vice versa over time, which means that you can accustom the plants to living in the soil you need.
As you said, the supposedly dead plant suddenly came back to life and this is evidence of this.
You should look for seedlings from neighbors who already have positive experience in growing them in the soil typical for your area.
As for figs, they are exotic in our area, but I have seen figs about five to six meters high, currants are low bushes, barely reaching my waist.
Although, if you do not trim and shade them, the branches can stretch out, but all the strength of the plant will go to the growth of branches and not to the ovary of fruits.
Something like that :)
Plenty of ashes here and I save it but it feels there's something in the soil (chemicals)/next to ants, lack of water, too much wind, sun or lack of light and k3 seeds so I let nature figure it out. The result is hardly any harvest.
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@ wakeupkitty
Human desires are powerful things, and you never know which of them will lead us to blessings, and which will become a yarm for us, which may give status to a wild mustang, but will look cheap on an Arabian horse lol.
The essence of my posts about plants is to weigh all the pros and cons in the matter of their cultivation and discard what is unnecessary, separating the wheat from the chaff.
In this matter, as in an equation, there can be too many unknowns and even a diploma of an agronomist, which I do not have, would not help me.
I think that a wise agronomist would advise me to switch my attention from those plants that do not want to bloom and smell in my garden to those plants that will happily accept the growing conditions that I can provide them without unnecessary labor and money.
Since plants occupy land that costs money today, it is probably worth treating this as a landlord who wants every square meter of living space to always and on time bring him significant financial and moral profit :)
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