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Very often in the garden you can find such a shrub as gooseberries. It has a number of useful and healing properties. For a successful yield, there are several rules for planting, caring for, pruning the Severny variety. With their observance, you can get tasty, high-quality fruits that will appeal to both adults and children.
Description
The gooseberry has a medium-late ripening period, a vigorous bush with spreading branches. The leaves, as a rule, are a bright green color with a red border, large in size. The fruits are round-oval in shape, dark in color, and do not fall off when ripe and hold well on the branches. Their weight is about 4 grams.
Regarding the taste characteristics, it should be noted here that the variety is slightly sour, but mostly sweet, refreshing. All varieties tolerate winter and cold very well. Shrubs are resistant to pests and various diseases.
Video “Description”
From the video you will learn a description of the gooseberry variety Northern Captain.
Useful Properties
In addition to the fact that the gooseberry is a delicious fruit, it has healing and beneficial qualities.
The variety is used for anemia, to normalize bowel function and excretion of bile. In addition, it has the ability to relieve puffiness.
It has about 14% sugar content, organic acids, tannins, pectins, trace elements and vitamins are also present.
To normalize metabolic processes, juice from ripe fruits is used, previously carefully rubbed and diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 2. In addition, such a drink perfectly refreshes and tones.
If there are prescriptions for problems and delayed bowel movements, this variety of berries will come in handy. People with bladder and kidney problems are also recommended to consume gooseberries.
Regular use of this variety helps to cleanse the body of excess salts of heavy metals, radionuclides.
The composition of the fruit contains serotonin, which has antitumor properties.
Fruits can be consumed fresh, as well as to make compotes, jams, marmalade, juice.
Site Selection
It is worth noting that the gooseberry is a self-fertile plant and is pollinated by the pollen of its own flowers. In good and favorable conditions, the shrub gives excellent yields and is able to bear fruit for about 20 years.
Gooseberries love a well-lit area, this is important for obtaining delicious sweet fruits. If the shrub has little light, its fruits become small and the yield itself is sharply reduced.
Too wet soil for planting is also not suitable. So, the neck of the bush can simply rot. Accordingly, this will lead to the death of the plant. It is best to avoid wetlands and soils with a close surface distribution of groundwater. In heavy clay soil, this variety may not take root.
Landing
A shrub can be planted in a permanent place in the autumn and in the spring. If the procedure is carried out in the spring, then it is necessary to have time to complete the process from the period of soil freezing to the swelling of the kidneys. If you are late with planting, then there is a chance that the plant will not take root.
Given this fact, gardeners prefer to plant gooseberries in the fall. The event is held a month or a half before the onset of frost. During this period, young roots will appear and the plant will take root.
When planting a captain variety, you should maintain a distance between adjacent bushes, from one to two meters, depending on the size. The size of the planting hole also depends on the size of the shrub. If the plant is 1-2 years old, then a trench half a meter deep can be used.
After planting, fertilizer is applied to the pit. Most often it is a mixture of rotted organics, ash, double superphosphate and potassium sulfide.
It is important to remove dried roots and cut off the tops of the branches before planting. Leave about 5 buds on each of the shoots of this northern variety. Gooseberries are planted at an angle in the pit itself. The earth is covered in a trench and carefully tamped. This process prevents the formation of voids, which in the future will save the plant from decay. At the end of all work, abundant watering is carried out.
Care
One of the steps for proper shrub care is tillage in order to get a well-developed bush and a rich harvest. The earth should be loosened and dug up. If the soil is dense, then such an event is carried out with a shovel, if it is loose, then it is enough to process it with a garden pitchfork.
Along the perimeter of the crown, the loosening depth should be no more than 7 cm, since the root system is located close enough to the surface. A little further, you can apply drastic measures for digging.
It is important to remove the weed in order to prevent an increase in moisture on the lower parts of the bush and not to ruin the captain variety. 
Gooseberries should be fed regularly, for this they use the following set: 10 kg of rotted manure or compost (green mass and fallen leaves); 80 g of superphosphate; 40 g of saltpeter; 20 g of potassium chloride.
Fertilizer is applied twice a year:
- the first time – after flowering, for better development of shoots and good yields;
- the second time – after harvesting, to prepare the ripening of the kidneys for the next year.
Trimming
An important stage in the normal development of gooseberries is the formation of bushes. Special pruning is carried out, and in the first years to create the base of the plant (perennial branches are shortened by half), and four years later to prevent and eliminate thickening.
Sick, weak, dried branches are also cut off. The main crop is formed on branches that are three to six years old.
Breeding gooseberries of this variety does not take a huge amount of time and, in essence, the plant is very unpretentious, the main thing is to adhere to the description for its cultivation. But in return, a lot of tasty and healthy fruits of the Northern Captain variety are obtained.
Video “Trimming”
From the video you will learn how to properly cut gooseberries.
