Honeysuckle is not only a beautiful garden shrub, especially during its flowering period, but also a very useful plant. Its fruits contain a whole set of useful components: vitamins B and C, iron, pectins, rubidium and antioxidants. Of these miraculous and delicious berries, you can cook compote or jam, but the beneficial properties of the fruits are best preserved when they are frozen. That's why this plant is so popular among gardeners. However, many do not know how to propagate honeysuckle in their area. And there are several ways to do this.
Basic landing conditions
The height of the honeysuckle bushes reaches two meters, and the diameter of their crown - up to one and a half meters. Honeysuckle loves light, rich in organic soil. This plant does not tolerate waterlogging and does not bear fruit in the shade. Before planting, the site must be deeply dug up and thoroughly removed rhizome weeds. Fertilizers must be added to the soil: 4 kg of manure and 3 kg of peat per 1 square meter.
Honeysuckle is planted in the second half of September or in the spring. Bushes should be located at a distance of one and a half meters from each other. Planting pit should have a size of 60x60x50 cm. Planted bushes must be watered and mulched with humus, sawdust or peat. In the future, the process of mulching must be repeated periodically, because garden honeysuckle has a superficial root system. Young bushes are sanitized, and old bushes are rejuvenated, cutting them to a strong growth. Plant vegetation begins in early April, flowering in early May, and by the end of May the first berries appear. Autumn warming often causes blooming again. Honeysuckle is winter hardy, and its flowers withstand temperatures up to -3 ° C.
How to propagate honeysuckle with horizontal layering?
In early spring, before the buds wake up, old branches are removed on the uterine bushes. Then, the soil is loosened under the plants. Some of the young branches are gently tilted to the ground and fixed with hooks. After germination of 6-8-centimeter shoots from the buds they are spudded by 4 cm with moist, loose soil. After about a couple of weeks, the hilling process is repeated, bringing the height of the soil layer to an average of 10 cm. When re-hilling, layering must be fed with mineral fertilizers or slurry. Excavation of layering is carried out next spring.
How to propagate honeysuckle with green cuttings?
Cuttings are rooted in containers with a sand-peat substrate (1: 2 ratio). The best time for planting cuttings is June. Cuttings are made from fouling shoots. They are cut into 2-3 internodes with a length of up to 10 cm. A lower section is made under the kidneys, and the upper one is retreating 1.5 cm upwards from the node. The lower leaves are removed, and the upper pair is left. Boxes with cuttings are placed in a well-insulated greenhouse. Cuttings must be systematically sprayed, preventing their overmoistening. In late autumn, boxes are moved to the basement or insulated.
How to propagate honeysuckle seeds?
Sow the seeds in a dive container, preferably in the spring, in a substrate of equal parts of peat, sand and turf land. Seeds are covered with sifted humus or washed sand, the layer of which should not exceed 0.5 cm. The container is covered with glass, and then the plants are propagated by seeds in a greenhouse or room. Dive seedlings after leaves. Young plants are planted in the open ground in spring.