Keep flowering berry bushes moist

Once harvested currants and raspberries, the bushes should be thinned. This maintains the vitality and health of the plants and leads to good exposure of the ripening fruit next summer. It is also easier to harvest bushes that have been regularly thinned out.

After the Ice Saints, a mulch layer should be applied under all berry bushes and hedges, as well as fruit trees. The soil is now well warmed (a layer of mulch before would reflect sunlight and delay soil warming), and from now on it is important to keep the soil moist and suppress weed growth.

Many diseases in the orchard, if detected early, can be controlled without the use of pesticides and their spread in the garden can be prevented.