Growing a pear - gardener tips for caring for a tree

I've been doing the pear from 1990 a year and I can say that if you pick the right variety, you can annually get abundant crops despite the harshest winters.

As a result of the tests, I found out that the highest hardiness is possessed by trees grafted on the seedling wild game, which itself is resistant to any tests of nature and has a strong root system.

I plant new seedlings in the crown of an adult tree to quickly test the variety for winter hardiness, resistance to diseases, and also determine the taste qualities of the fruit. In addition, at the end of summer such a tree-garden, when it ripens different in appearance fruits, looks more than original. Harvest on such a pear is always excellent due to good pollination.

The vaccine itself is done either by the method of improved copulating, or in the cleavage of seedlings of the local pear-wild duck at an altitude of 10-30 cm from the ground.

The compatibility of the scion with the stock is excellent, the seedlings grow well and quickly enter into fruiting.

When planting pears on a permanent place, I make a pit 50x50x50 cm, put in it 3 buckets of humus, 1 bucket of dolomite flour, 1 bucket of sand, 1 l ashes, as well as 0,5 l superphosphate and potassium chloride.

Everything is well shoveled, I make a knoll, I plant seedlings on it, straighten roots and sprinkle with fertile soil, by cutting the root neck on 3-5 cm. Then, around the 8 30 trunk, I make a watering hole in which I pour out 5 buckets of water.

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See also: Planting and breeding pears - the choice of variety

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Why do we need such a flood? And that the wet earth well stuck roots. And within a month I support the ground in a wet condition.

The seedlings are well established during planting both in spring and in autumn.

In the first case, during the swelling of the kidneys, I spray trees from scab and fruit rot with Bordeaux liquid or copper chloroxide, and from lichen mosses with iron sulfate. For the same reason, in the early spring, I rake and burn leaves.

But against the pests I apply infusion of celandine and garlic with the addition of a few drops of liquid smoke for smoking. In the fight against all sorts of bug-cockroaches I help birds that live in the nesting boxes, installed by me around the perimeter of the site.

Early in the spring, I sanitize the branches, and also lower the crowns of trees by trimming the central trunk at a certain height onto a strong lateral branch.

All slices, cracks and hollows are covered with a solution of clay and mullein (2: 1) with the addition of copper sulfate.

I have long been convinced that wounds covered with such a "talker" heal much faster than they are smeared with garden var.

In the spring, in order to avoid breaking the tree under the weight of the crop, I connect the oppositely directed branches with a kapron rope (or wire), placing the pieces of tire under it, so as not to damage the bark.

Some skeletal branches I fasten with thin staples.

In May, I water the trees repeatedly, and in June I combine the irrigation with the manure feed on the tree crown in order to increase the supply of nutrients for fruit filling in the summer.

In a barrel of tincture, except rabbit manure and chicken manure, add 100 yeast or a loaf of black bread, celandine, garlic, dandelion, nettle, tansy, leaves and branches of elderberry and bird cherry, which give the liquid a deterrent effect for leaf-eating.

In the summer I do not forget about watering, loosening of the soil I combine with the removal of weeds using a flat-saw, and in July I spend abundant watering so that the soil becomes soaked to a depth of up to 50 cm.

In September, I shorten the annual branches: large growths - 1/2 length, short - 1/3.

Once every two years, under the fruiting pears in the radius of the crown, scatter on 1 a bucket of dolomite flour, 1 l ashes, a glass of superphosphate and potassium sulfate, then loosen the soil or mulch with humus.

This increases the winter hardiness of the tree, and the fruits become sweeter for taste and less prone to spoilage.

In October, the whitewash trunks with a solution of lime with the addition of clay and copper sulphate. I wrap the trees’s stakes in “blankets” from plastic bottles cut along without a neck and a bottom to protect against rodents, and cover the skeletal branches with a spruce to protect against frost.

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See also: Care of the pear tree (American experience)

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Briefly about pear varieties

From early varieties of pears I want to highlight Moscow, Bergamot, Tonkovetku and Skorospelku.

Also pleasing with good yields are medium-ripening varieties: Faithful, Lada, Chizhovskaya, Elegant, Efimova, Vidnaya. Winter hardiness is very good for them. But most of all I'm happy with autumn varieties. These are pear varieties In memory of Yakovlev, In Memory of Zhegalov, Srednerusskaya, Otradnenskaya, Marble, Moskvichka. The period of their consumption in fresh form until mid-November.

VF Okhotnikov. Vladimir region

Pear growing - planting and care: sharing experiences

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Growing a pear in Bashkiria - planting and care

I want to share the experience of my 40-year work in the garden gardens of a personal plot (15 acres) for growing pears in our northern regions. For the first time in our country a pear tree appeared in 1978. We bought it in a nursery and rejoiced like children — they were young. They planted and waited for sweet pears. Four years later, the tree bloomed, the children rejoiced. But when the fruits began to ripen in August, tears stood in their eyes - the pears turned out to be so acid! Here you are, grandmother, and St. George’s Day, waited ...

Then, for many years, we distributed crops to our friends who kept pigs in their buckets - they liked the fruit, champed it so appetizingly ... Looking at them, we ate one and two, but we really wanted real sweet pears!

Finally, we found the zoned and, as we were told in the kennel, sweet varieties and bought with great distrust. It was already in 2004 year. Planted, as before, dug a hole in advance, considering the entire method of planting, not burrowing the root neck, with all the necessary components in the soil. In a year our pear let two branches in opposite directions, and I knew from books that such branches can split the entire tree in half. Therefore, in the second year, one branch had to be cut and covered with garden fume. Kronu yearly decorated with a haircut.

Seven years of pear harvest waiting

At last they waited: our pear blossomed for the seventh year. But at that time the rains were pouring and, apparently, washed away the pollen: it is in the rain and in the cold, or very little, or not at all. Nevertheless, 18 ovaries appeared.

How glad we were of him! They gave top dressing and leaf and root, poured ash, watered in the absence of rain. In the first year, 16 pears ripened, two of which were glued by birds, but we were happy with such a “crop”, because we all, especially the granddaughter, were interested in the taste of the fruits. Waiting for August, we realized that they were ripe. The granddaughter was given to tear off the first pear and, by the expression on her face, they understood: this is what we have been dreaming about for so long - a juicy, sweet, fragrant, real pear!

Now we have three trees. Pears from the first planted earlier than others are not suitable for storage: if you keep them for more than a week, they darken and turn into a plain sugar lump. The assortment was expanded, other varieties were planted - Lada, Cosmic. All these years they have not used any chemistry - thank God, there have been no pests so far, and now they are not. The leaves of the early pear are lighter than that of Lada, which is darker, velvety.

Until autumn, we give feeding with ashes, then we lay out buckets of rotted manure according to 5, we spread limestone buckets under each tree according to the diameter of the roots. Annual growth cuts in early spring, when the snow still lies. I spend the whitewashing of trees necessarily, starting from the root neck and as high as possible. I noticed that organic fertilizers improve the taste of fruits.

A limestone lay out because the acidity of the soil in my garden 4,7. I want pears as sweet as possible.

So now we, at our cold latitude, also enjoy sweet juicy pears. Sometimes we are afraid for them when weeks of frost are below -35 ° ... -40 °, but they are so grown up and become so high that you can’t hide anything. We hope for exposure of the trees themselves.

© Author: Vera Toktaeva Bashkiria

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