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Honeysuckle grown on a personal plot bears healthy, tasty fruits already in May. A properly rooted shrub will give a good harvest in the second year. Agronomists recommend planting honeysuckle in the spring. This way the adaptation process will take place before the onset of frost, the tree will quickly take root and will not get sick.
Is it possible to plant honeysuckle in spring and summer?
In spring, shrubs should be planted early, immediately after the snow melts. It is important to choose this particular period in order to prevent buds from blooming on the seedling. But this condition applies only to young specimens with an open root system.
Seedlings with a closed root system will be well accepted later in the summer.
Honeysuckle with ZKS can be grown throughout the entire growing season. The main thing is that the weather in spring is sunny and warm.
When to plant honeysuckle - autumn or spring
Both seasons are favorable for the rooting of fruit bushes. In the spring, honeysuckle should be planted early enough before the buds bloom on the shoots.But during this period it may still be cold, and the crop will simply freeze. It is also recommended to plant honeysuckle in the spring in the southern regions of the country.
Autumn rooting of honeysuckle is considered more gentle for it. When all biological processes of a plant are suspended, it is recommended to plant it before the onset of cold weather. They do this from early September to mid-October.
How to plant honeysuckle seedlings in spring and summer
In the spring, honeysuckle is planted with seedlings with a closed root system using the transshipment method. This means that all shoots on the rhizome and the soil around them must be preserved. This way the honeysuckle will be well received and restored. This method is considered the most gentle. In addition, spring and summer are a favorable period for high survival rate of seedlings.
Planting honeysuckle from a container in the spring may involve some risk due to early bud break. It is recommended to root such a seedling before the beginning of May.
It is important to choose the right planting material.
It is better to purchase seedlings in special nurseries where only varietal plants are found
Their berries are sweeter; as a result of selection, scientists have eliminated the characteristic bitter taste of the fruit.
In spring, honeysuckle is planted at least 30 cm high with a well-developed root system. There should be 2-3 flexible branches extending from the trunk, densely covered with leaves or buds. There should be no dry spots, damage, or pests on the tree.
Where is the best place to plant honeysuckle in spring and summer?
For planting, choose a well-lit, flat or slightly sloping area that is well-lit by the sun. Honeysuckle is planted on a hill, but not in a lowland.
The plant will tolerate some partial shade well.
You cannot plant honeysuckle near tall trees and buildings - in the shade the crop blooms poorly and practically does not bear fruit.
Plant honeysuckle in fertile soil; loamy or sandy loam soil is also suitable. There should not be an excess of soil components: the clay is heavy, the moisture stagnates, and the plant root will quickly rot. In sandy soil, water evaporates quickly and the plant constantly lacks it.
Honeysuckle is unpretentious, but the shrub should not be planted in swampy areas, in places where there is close groundwater.
Also, when transplanted, mature shrubs suffer less pain and take root faster.
Preparing the landing site
A week before honeysuckle is planted, the garden plot is prepared. First of all, get rid of weeds, especially carefully remove perennials. After this, the soil is dug up and crushed so that not a single root remains.
Weeds, especially wheatgrass, can weaken the seedling
If the soil is highly acidified, chalk or dolomite flour is added to it. A month before the intended planting, lime is added to the soil with a high acidity level - 200 g per 1 sq. m. m.
Organic fertilizers will help increase soil fertility.They are applied if the area has not been fertilized since the fall.
It is optimal to dig up the soil with manure or humus a week before planting when preparing holes
Then they mark the landing area. It is recommended to plant honeysuckle in several units at a time: it is a self-fertile plant and requires pollinators. When planting tall varieties, indentations are made at 3 m intervals, for medium-sized varieties - 2.5 m, low-growing varieties are planted every 1.5 m. The distance between rows should be at least 3 m.
It is important to follow this layout, since honeysuckle grows quickly, forming a lush crown, but at the same time its branches are quite fragile, easily deformed and broken
It is important to follow this layout, since honeysuckle grows quickly, forming a lush crown, but at the same time its branches are quite fragile, easily deformed and broken
How to properly plant a honeysuckle seedling in spring and summer
The size of the planting hole depends on the volume of the rhizome of the shrub. Honeysuckle should be planted in holes with a diameter of about half a meter and a depth of at least 40 cm.
Several bushes are rooted in trenches, keeping a distance and taking into account the depth
Sequencing:
- Preparing a hole for planting honeysuckle in the spring begins with lining a drainage layer.
For it, take one of the proposed materials: expanded clay, crushed stone or broken brick
- A mound consisting of a prepared soil mixture is poured over the drainage: 2 buckets of humus and topsoil, superphosphate (2 tbsp.), ash (1 kg).
The filler must occupy at least 2/3 of the volume of the planting hole
- Immediately before planting in the spring, seedlings with an open root system are carefully inspected.The branches are shortened a little; if there are dry shoots, it is better not to touch the root; it is important to keep all its shoots intact.
- The rhizome is soaked for half an hour in soil diluted with water until it reaches the consistency of liquid sour cream.
You can add a little clay, such a simple mash will prepare the root for planting
- After the specified time, the tree is planted strictly vertically in the hole.
The root shoots are straightened and laid out around the circumference of the earthen mound.
- The root is covered with soil mixture and lightly trampled down. The root collar should be at ground level or 0.5 cm above it.
- The shrub is quickly accepted; cutting off its branches after planting, like other fruit plants, is not recommended.
- Soil is poured around the seedling in a circle, forming a watering bead.
This is necessary so that the water goes to the root and does not spread over the area
- Honeysuckle in the spring after planting is watered with several buckets of water.
After the liquid is absorbed, the tree trunk circle is covered with mulch.
Sawdust, peat, wood chips, hay can be used as mulch.
This procedure will prevent premature evaporation of moisture and cracking of the earth's surface.
In this way, honeysuckle is planted with a closed and open root system. The shrub tolerates any agrotechnical procedures well.
When planting honeysuckle in April, the following nuances are taken into account:
- The rhizome of the plant is carefully freed from the film or container; it is important not to damage a single shoot.
- The root of such a seedling is not cut off or soaked in chemical solutions before planting.
- The plant is lowered into the hole along with a lump of earth.
The root of the target, the faster the shrub will take root.
This type of seedling is not pruned either before or after planting.At first, until complete rooting occurs, it must be shaded and protected from direct sunlight.
Honeysuckle care in spring and summer
Weeding begins in early spring. Remove all weeds around the bush. The soil near the tree trunk should be light and fluffy.
Before the buds bloom in the spring, sanitary pruning of the bush is carried out.
Remove shoots damaged over the winter
If the summer is dry, honeysuckle is watered regularly. For one plant, allocate 1-2 buckets of water.
If fertilizers were placed in the hole before planting, they will not be used for the next year or 2. In subsequent years, nutrient mixtures will need to be added.
Fertilizing begins in early April; the process should coincide in time with the period of bud break.
Take the ingredients for a bucket of water: 1 tbsp. l. urea and saltpeter, ammonium sulfate (2 tbsp.) They are dissolved in 15 liters of warm liquid and poured under a honeysuckle bush. This fertilizer is used immediately after harvesting.
If the soil is not fertile, this fertilizing is re-applied with the beginning of leaf fall on the fruit plant.
In the spring, during the process of intensive growth, plants use nitrogen fertilizers. They can be organic or mineral.
As soon as the harvest is harvested in May, it is better to use potash or phosphate fertilizers
They will strengthen the crop, but will not provoke fruiting or growth. This way the plant will safely go to winter at the end of autumn.
It is important not to forget about watering in spring and summer. The procedure is carried out 2 times a week. For each planted bush you will need at least 2 buckets of water.
Honeysuckle is especially intensively moisturized during the fruiting period.
Lack of moisture will negatively affect the number and size of berries.Their taste directly depends on the abundance of water.
If the season is dry, be sure to moisten the tree trunk once every 10 days. The liquid should penetrate into the soil to a depth of 30 or 40 cm.
In the summer, before and after watering, the soil in the area around the tree trunk is loosened.
Loosening is carried out carefully so as not to damage the shoots of the rhizome located close to the surface of the earth.
If the ground is mulched, the covering is regularly renewed to avoid root rotting.
If the tree trunk circle is covered with lawn, it is mowed.
Grass should not be allowed to grow near the trunk
This has a bad effect on the development of the bush; excess vegetation becomes a bait for harmful insects.
The shrub is treated against pests in early spring. It is important to complete all manipulations where chemicals are used before the ovaries appear.
After harvesting (mid or late May), you can begin to destroy harmful insects and diseases.
Most often, honeysuckle is attacked by aphids
New generation insecticides are used against the pest. They will not harm the tree and will save it from insect attacks.
In spring, it is important to treat the shrub with Bordeaux mixture.
The product effectively fights all fungal diseases of fruit crops
If spring treatment is skipped, it must be carried out after harvesting, using a 1% solution of Bordeaux mixture.
In this case, fungicide treatment is carried out in the spring without waiting for harvest.
At the end of August, honeysuckle leaves fall. At this time, begin pruning. Remove dry, damaged branches. If the crop is less than 5 years old, pruning is done to a minimum.
Old honeysuckle bushes need to thin out their branches. It is especially important to remove those that grow inside the crown. Lignified branches, on which there are no young shoots, and in the spring there were no ovaries, are cut off almost to the ground.
If the weather is warm after the leaves fall in August, honeysuckle may bloom again.
These buds are immediately torn off to stop all biological processes and prepare the plant for the coming cold and wintering.
Conclusion
Gardeners advise planting honeysuckle in the spring. It is important to choose a warm, sunny day in April to root the seedling. Later planting is not recommended, as the honeysuckle will release its buds, after which it will begin to hurt and may not be accepted. For planting, choose a shrub that is at least 2 years old. Such a tree will survive being moved to a new location well. Honeysuckle is unpretentious. Regular care for the growth and abundant fruiting of a crop is no less important than a carefully selected variety and well-prepared soil.
