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RE: Currants - Myths of gardeners
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 :)
Have a blessed day and thank you for your strong support!