For more than a hundred years, gooseberries have been actively grown by the inhabitants of our country. And therefore, at present, there is a considerable variety of bred varieties. But how to understand them and choose the one that will differ in the best taste and unpretentious care? Today we’ll talk about the Black Sea gooseberry variety. We give the advantages of this variety and tell you the main aspects when growing this berry.
Description gooseberry variety Chernomor
This gooseberry variety belongs to rather late ripening berries. The bush grows well and quickly enough, reaching one and a half meter height. Dense crown with medium branching and vertical branches.
Gooseberry Chernomor is characterized by a small number of thorns, located mainly on the lower branches. They have a slightly curved shape and small size. The leaves are medium sized, rather dark green in color, without pubescence and quite dense. The shape of the leaf is three- or five-lobed, with deep incisions on each blade.
During flowering, the bush is covered with bright, elongated flowers of a small size. Ripe berries do not differ in large size and reach a weight of 3 grams each. When fully ripened, the color of the berries goes from dark red to almost black with a thin whitish coating. The berries have a pleasant sweet taste with a characteristic acidity gooseberry.
Grade Benefits
The main advantage of the gooseberry Chernomor is its high yield. From one bush you can collect at least four kilograms of delicious berries. An undoubted advantage over other varieties is excellent winter hardiness. Gooseberry Chernomor tolerates severe frosts, which very often happen in our country.
In addition to resistance to frost, this variety is famous for its persistent tolerance to prolonged drought. That is, in general, this variety is incredibly unpretentious and hardy. A nice plus of this variety is a fairly small number of seeds in the berries.
Reviews about gooseberry Chernomor
Judging by the numerous reviews of experienced gardeners, this gooseberry variety is excellent for making wine, thanks to the rather high sugar content in ripened berries - from eight to thirteen percent. Almost everyone who grows the gooseberry Chernomor, note its absolute resistance to a disease such as powdery mildew. There are also reviews of the easy propagation of gooseberries by cuttings and layering.
Features of growing gooseberries
Since the gooseberry Chernomor does not require any special requirements for growing, we give general points that must be considered when planting and caring for the bush.
Gooseberry is a photophilous plant, so when choosing a landing site, you should abandon the shaded areas. When planting bushes, it is necessary to maintain a distance between them of at least a meter. For the highest and most delicious crop, it is advisable to pour at least 10 kilograms of organic fertilizers, 100 grams of ash and 50 grams of phosphate fertilizers into the pit for planting a bush.
Be sure to remove the dried roots and cut the shoots so that each has no more than five buds. It is required to fill the bush with soil very tightly so that voids do not form. At the end of the planting, abundant watering is required.
The first three years of bush growth need to cut the length of the shoots, starting from the fourth year you can deal with a decrease in density. You can form a bush either at the end of autumn, or before the first buds appear.
To protect gooseberries from pests, treat the bush in the spring with the help of kalbofos and ash infusion. If required, repeat processing after flowering is complete.