Mulching blackcurrants

[david lawrence]

Hi

i have just pruned some neglected blackcurrants

 

in the past they must have been well weed killed as not much weeds

just a few nettles really and a little grass

 

Could i mulch them with fresh cow manure ?

 

give them a little boosts and suppress weeds

 

thanks

 

[Mark2]

Yep lay it on good an thick they’l love it and repay you in big black currents ! They fruit on 2 year old wood, with that muck you’l get longer growth for the following years bumper crop !

[DanBous]

Just a consideration...I've seen apple trees develop huge scab disease problems on the fruit as a cause of putting fresh cow manure underneath them. Not sure if this applies with blackcurrants though.

[Mark2]

No there fine, really really hungry feeders. Best to use not fresh muck though, but there not to particular. Some people use chicken muck and that’s as strong as paint stripper !

[Sheepy]

  On 19/02/2019 at 16:57, Mark2 said:

No there fine, really really hungry feeders. Best to use not fresh muck though, but there not to particular. Some people use chicken muck and that’s as strong as paint stripper !

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It’s worse than paint stripper, kills powder coat in weeks. 

[difflock]

Ah Ha!

He said, just now realizing why 50 year ago, his grandmother could grow phenomenal blackcurrants, just where the lagoon for the chicken litter leaked a little copiously!