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Planting honeysuckle in the fall: timing
Honeysuckle grows well in the same place for 50 years and does not require special care. With all this, the shrub also bears fruit, is an excellent medicinal plant and pleases households with delicious berries. Is this not a reason to start honeysuckle on your site? Planting a plant in the fall and caring for it does not cause absolutely any difficulties.
For planting honeysuckle, it is best to choose a sunny place. However, it will be better if the root system is in partial shade. It is better to choose neutral soil. Drafts should also be avoided in the selected area. Shrubs should not be planted on hills or sandy ground. Perhaps in such a place it will develop, but this will have a very negative effect on fruiting.
Planting honeysuckle in the fall gives the plant the opportunity to take root well and begin to fully develop in the spring.
It is advisable to prepare a pit for planting a plant a couple of days before direct planting. Its dimensions for a young bush should be 40 × 25 × 40 centimeters. Fertilizers should be applied to the bottom:
- humus;
- superphosphate;
- potassium salt.
Ash and turf soil can be added to the specified composition. A young plant is planted in a prepared hole and the root collar is added in a drop of no more than 5 cm.After that, the soil around the bush is abundantly watered and mulched.
Planting a honeysuckle bush in the fall: terms and rules
In order to get a harvest of honeysuckle, you should plant several bushes of different varieties nearby. The fact is that this plant is self-fertile. In order for it to start bearing fruit, you need to plant pollinator varieties nearby.
Honeysuckle should be planted in autumn in September. You need to finish the work before the leaves begin to fall. Only in this way will a young plant be able to take root and painlessly endure the winter.
In the first year, feeding is not worth it, because the soil is already fresh, with a sufficient supply of nutrients. Yes, and a plant that is not rooted properly will not need extra components.
It is imperative to mulch the soil. Even though honeysuckle winters well without shelter, in the first year of life, mulch will save it from excessive moisture loss. This, in turn, will protect the plant from freezing.
Planting honeysuckle in the fall will not only provide better plant survival, but also make rooting less painful. Indeed, after the spring planting, the heat quickly sets in and the bushes get very sick. And if you plant them in the fall, then they have a good opportunity to take root and begin to fully develop in the spring. Honeysuckle is not only a decoration of the site, but also tasty, healthy berries.