Planting, care, harvesting of elderberry black

Black elder saplings are planted in planting pits, depth and width of centimeters 50, they are introduced into them a little humus, superphosphate and 4-5 g of potassium sulfate. This mixture is enough to make the plant feel comfortable in a new place and quickly moved into growth.
Care for plants of elderberry black is simple, it is desirable to keep the soil of the prickly circles in loose state and clean from weeds, in arid weather, plants need to arrange artificial rain, well spilling the soil, especially this is useful in the phase of active growth of shoots and ovaries. In addition to watering, you can please the plants and fertilizing, which black elderly is very responsive. It is not necessary to hurry with top dressing, it is better to start "lure" from the 4th year of a tree's life, apply humus, ammonium nitrate or urea, in spring or in autumn. In spring and summer, plants can be fertilized with mineral fertilizers or quickly digested organic, such as slurry or chicken droppings.
Forming and pruning is also simple - they form a shrub with 10-20 different age-old shoots, and pruning, including sanitation, is carried out in the spring, before the beginning of the sap movement. The annual procedure includes cutting off the bovine biennial branches, pruning the frozen tops of branches, removing dry, broken, thickening and unsuccessfully located branches. Also it is necessary to remove in a timely manner obsolete their 5-6-year-old branches, and the height of the bushes to maintain at a level of 2-2.5 meters.
Harvest
Collect the fruits you need, when they reach full maturity, with whole hands that are conveniently cut with a soft pruner. They are stored relatively not long, at 0 degrees, for 8-10 days.