In a note the amateur gardener from Jankoi N. Maksimov tells about how to it in the conditions of a summer drought and winter colds grow up an aktinidiya and a kiwi.
AKTINIDIYA – THE RELATIVE OF THE KIWI
One of melkoplodny grades of an aktinidiya – Kiev krupnoplodny grows in my garden. And nearby already her world renowned relative – a kiwi, with her incomparably large shaggy fruits. In severe winter 2005-2006gg. all young gain on a kiwi froze, remained live only shtamby yes a long-term gain. Shaggy fruits, naturally, that year we didn’t receive.
And here arguta so that transferred severe winter well, any branch didn’t freeze slightly. Fruits, however, collected, a little, but on that there was other reason – droughty summer.
These sisters many years ago lodged in my garden and now I can draw a conclusion: a kiwi though "mollycoddle" to grow up this grade in conditions Dzhankoysky steppes it is troublesome, but it is possible, especially one of the most cold-resistant grades – Hayvord. As to Kiev krupnoplodny if there is a water for watering, big problems won’t be.
And here than still I especially like an aktinidiya. In ours, at least, Dzhankoysky it has no steppes neither wreckers, nor diseases. To suit to bushes with a sprayer to me never it was necessary.
And still. This culture at me grows in a garden where any another it be no point to sit down. For small gardens this culture – a find. After all it can be placed with walls of structures, at fences, in other unsuitable places for other plants.
The steppe is always open for the winds lifting and bearing in gardens a dust. And an aktinidiya – the reliable defender from a wind and a dust. Under a tent of its lianas it is possible to take cover in the summer from scorching sunshine.
It is possible to lift an aktinidiya and on a lane of type of the grape.
Landed in due time saplings two-year, fruits waited in three-four years. I will notice only that if bushes to land in the autumn, it is not necessary to do them to a scrap, it is necessary to warm only leaves prishtambovy circles and to protect plants from a wind.
In young landings on bushes it is necessary to create strong escapes. I achieve it regulation of nephritic loading: I delete superfluous kidneys.
Very much the twisting of escapes annoys me. You look, there, here lianas in a spiral round a wire or a support twirled. It is necessary to cut out these spirals. And that the such didn’t happen, it is necessary to tie up lianas for the lower odrevesnevayushchy part.
I know that many gardeners young bushes of an aktinidiya pritenyayut plywood, a cardboard or a tin, arrange small a box in which fill up a mulch. I have no such need. Long ago was fond of organic agriculture: all garden at me is filled up with a thick layer of sawdust so it is enough a mulch.
I cut off fructifying bushes of an aktinidiya three times. The first scrap in the autumn. I cut off the broken-off and twirled escapes, I shorten or I clean completely old rods, weak, on which few new escapes.
In the early spring again I undertake secateurs, it is obligatory prior to the beginning of a sokodvizheniye. I clean the damages put to lianas with bad weather during the winter period. During the same time I do a garter of lianas. After scraps of new escapes remains at 10-15 times more, but they are shorter than the old.
In the summer, at the end of June, I carry out the third final to a scrap. Attentively I examine bushes if I find on them the confused and twisted escapes, I cut out them, I thin out zagushchenny foliage, I shorten necessary and completely I delete superfluous escapes.
At the same time I normalize a crop. If it not to make, not to remove superfluous clusters, them will be much, and berry will be very small.
If everything you do in time and correctly, always you will be with a crop of very tasty berries. At me, for example, Kiev krupnoplodny, gives to 50kg berries from a bush.
I make multiple copies an aktinidiya shanks. It is a reliable way to keep parental properties of grades.
N. MAKSIMOV,
amateur gardener. Jankoi
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