In your garden grow cherries? If not, you can find plenty of reasons to make cherry trees in his garden. In - First, cherry fruits are very tasty, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to challenge, cherry jam, for example, is the favorite in my family. In addition, fruits contain vitamin B, vitamin C, P, paintings, various sugars, coumarin, regaling delicious cherries we protect your blood vessels from clots and reduce the risk of harmful effects on our body carcinogens.
Cherry growing in a tree or bush, comes into bearing at 5 - 6 years of life, and if you put a two-year seedling, then three years later, the first fruits to try. Cherry varieties are divided into samoplodnye partially samoplodnye and samobesplodnye requiring pollination for the presence of other varieties. Fruitful are samoplodnye varieties, it must be considered when choosing plants for your garden
Landing
To put the cherry is best in early spring before bud swell, but if you buy seedlings in the autumn, they can prikopat at an angle of 45 degrees so that the bole tree was recessed by a third. Seedling need to water and warm peat.
When planting seedlings need to take into account that the plant cherry photophilous, does not tolerate waterlogged soil and stagnant groundwater.
Cherry fairly hardy, but its flower buds can freeze, especially in the spring when the return of frost, even at -4 degrees buds are killed and the ovaries and do at the slightest negative temperature.
Best for cherries are considered black earth or sod - podzolic fertile soil, light loam composition, ground water should not be located closer than 2, 5 meters from the surface of the soil.
When planting silnoroslyh grades between plants maintained a distance of 3 meters, but if the area little space, better plant sredneroslye several plants, the distance between which can be reduced to 2, 5 meters. The planting hole is made 10 - 15 kg of humus or compost and two cups of complete fertilizer. The root collar at planting should be located at ground level. If the site little space
Care
Care is in the formation of the crown of young trees and regular pruning of fruit trees. The crown of young trees usually give a rounded shape, often sparsely - tiered. In this case, for the first tier leave 4 - 5 strongest branch remaining is cut to the second tier for the next year leave 2 - 3 branches and a year later form the third tier of 1 - 3 branches. At the height of the cherry tree varieties of the crown is limited to 3, 5 - 4 meters.
In bushy varieties trimming easier, in the first year after planting yearlings it is cut to a height of 40 cm and allowed to free growth. Further, when the bush forms several trunk trimming reduces thinning and shortening perennial branches. The center conductor is cut when the plant reaches 2 5 - 3 meters.
Fruiting cherry necessary every three years to feed, making the fall of organic and mineral potassium - phosphate fertilizer in tree trunks. Nitrogen fertilizers are applied annually in the spring, about a tablespoon of urea per square meter to soil loosening.
When loosening keep in mind that the root system of cherries located quite close to the soil surface, thus loosening near the trees is permitted to a depth of no more than 7 cm, and between the rows of up to 15 centimeters.
If the trunks and branches of the cherry trees there GUMMOSIS, wounds need to clean up healthy tissue treated with 1% copper sulfate and gloss over the garden pitch.