How and when to transplant currants are very important questions for gardeners growing this healthy and tasty berry in the Russian Federation. The plant has a wide range of healing properties, it contains a huge amount of essential vitamin C and natural fructose. Most gardeners eat not only berries, but also fragrant leaves, in which many useful substances are also found.
You need to know when it is better to transplant currants in different regions. If the garden is located in an area with a temperate climate and fairly mild winter, the transplant can be carried out in spring or autumn. For areas with a cooler temperature, it is better to carry out this operation in the beginning - mid-autumn, after the last leaves fall from the bush.
For a quick and proper transplant, you need to prepare a pit and soil. The size of the hole completely depends on the dimensions of the rhizome of the currant, covered with a natural earthen lump. If the earth on the site is clayey, then it needs to be fertilized with traditional compost, fertile humus or a mixture of forest sod, but you should refrain from coniferous needles as top dressing. When deciding when it is better to transplant blackcurrant, you need to remember only one rule - demanding early varieties are transferred from place to place only in autumn, otherwise you can not get berries for the whole season.
Immediately after transferring the plant to a new hole, it must be abundantly watered - this is necessary in order to accelerate the growth of the root system. Having decided on when to transplant currants, you need to take care of reliable and safe top dressing. Experienced gardeners do not recommend using fresh manure, lime, ash or complex mineral fertilizers for this shrub. All of the above dressings can damage, namely burn a delicate network of currant roots and destroy the entire plant. If local gardening and soil composition oblige you to make such fertilizers, you need to do this only in the spring, after the last snow has melted. Of course, when it was planned to transplant currants at the beginning of the year, the soil should be protected from rare and unverified types of fertilizers. Spring work with shrubs is much easier, since in winter the soil is very compacted and does not give enough moisture to the plant and its root system.
When to transplant currants in the summer?
If suddenly a valuable variety of shrub varieties appeared in the hottest time of the year, you need to prepare a hole and soil, as described above, but carefully monitor the choice of place. Vegetation in the summer is accelerated, so you can get the first leaves and even flowers within 1-1.5 months. White and red varieties of currants are planted only in places with good lighting, but the demanding shrub that gives black berries will take root well only in shady areas.
There is a distance of one meter between the plants so that it is convenient to harvest and that the bush receives enough fresh air and light. If the currant is old, then it is not transplanted at all, but simply harvested cuttings for new rows. However, it is worth remembering that young shoots will be able to give berries only for next year or even after a few years, depending on how the engraftment and the formation of a new root system take place.