Peach in the Moscow region - planting and care. Warming and wintering.

My childhood and youth passed in Saratov, where some gardeners grew exotic - peach. This is despite the sharply continental climate, when there are frosts over 30 °, winter thaws and a lot of snow.

Then I had my own piece of land, and I bought a local peach seedling. A year later we tried the first fruits the size of an egg, with a delicious juicy pulp. In the severe winter of 2006, the peach was heavily frozen, but during the summer 7 of new shoots grew, of which we left 4 - a height of more than 2 m. Already the following year he again fruited. Now this peach is more than 10 years old, without fruits we were only 2 years old.

When they began to lay a new garden in the suburbs, they brought with them the bones of that Saratov peach. They buried them on a bed to a depth of 10 cm. Of the 30 seeds, part ascended in the spring, part - a year later. Little concern was given to them - sometimes weeding and watering. Sometimes, in the winter, the stems of some plants died, and in the spring, growth began from the lower buds.

We decided that it is better to place peaches on a site on the southern side of the house so that over the summer they accumulate more starch and other substances necessary for wintering.

Now we have 10 peaches growing: one donated early Kiev variety grafted on a local plum, the rest are seedlings of the Saratov peach.

Peaches are usually formed by a small bowl, but I just have trees with a central conductor or bushes with 2-3 trunks.

The first two years, the trees were not harboring, the wood is being carried by the Moscow winters, but the flower buds require protection from frost. Now for the winter we cover trees like roses and grapes, after frost minus 5-10 °. The first variant of the shelter was done similar to the grape: the young trunks were bent to the ground and fixed with pegs, covered with a film, lutrasil and slate.

In spring, they found that mice and field voles like to bite not only grapes, but also peaches. They concluded that it was necessary to put poison under cover in the fall. In the spring, peaches bloomed, there were several ovaries, but in June they showered - probably due to a lack of care and watering.

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See also: Cultivation of peaches in the garden. Diseases, yielding varieties, pruning and care.

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Peach warming for the winter

The following winter, they sheltered in the form of a volcano hut: the branches were pulled up by ropes to the trunk, a frame was made on the screws, sheets of mineral wool were put on it, covered with polyethylene and covered with ropes on the south side, and covered with slate from the south. At the top left hole 10-20 cm - for ventilation. In general, the shelter is made from available materials.

After the flower buds were saved from winter frostbite, in the spring it is necessary to save them from obstruction and early germination.

For this, the shelter was removed in April, when snow still lay in some places. Victory Day was celebrated among flowering peaches. Although the culture is self-pollinated, we “pollinated” manually - using a dust pan. There were many ovaries, then part was removed.

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Reference by topic: Technology of growing a peach in the form of a bush in the middle belt of Russia and the Moscow region

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Peach in the suburbs - care

They looked after the trees as follows: in May and June they fertilized with dry chicken litter, complex mineral fertilizer, watered them in time and 2-3 times treated the tree trunk. Pests and diseases last year there was not enough treatment from them in June.

In the same June, part of the strong branches were shortened by half, and the crowns growing inside were cut out. In August, peach fruits began to stain, a faint aroma appeared, at the end of the month they began to soften - they ripened.

In the Saratov peach flesh yellowish, pink at the bone, sweet and sour taste, the weight of the fruit is about 55. At Kiev early pulp is yellowish, the consistency is more dense, the taste is sour-sweet, weight about 85

© Author: Yu. PASTUKHOV Moscow Region.

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Who does not take risks, will be left without a peach

Long did not dare to plant a peach - I thought that this heat-loving plant was not for our latitudes. But I risked and bought a seeded seedling.

Planted in April at an angle of 45 grad, (directed to the side where in 12 hours of the day is the sun). Imagine my surprise when, at 2-th year after planting, the tree was covered with beautiful red-rose flowers, and later the fruits began. Ripened peaches to taste not inferior to southern varieties.

I care for the culture as well as for the other fruit trees. The most important thing is to properly prepare a young plant for winter. In autumn after the fall of the fall in dry weather, I process the crown with an 7% solution of urea (700 g per 10 L of water). After 7-10 days for shelter, you need to tilt the tree closer to the ground. For this, after a little stepping back from the bush, I punched in a 2 cola, attached to them a rope-crossbar (the design was in the form of the letter "P"), and to it, in turn, - a string and, alternately throwing it on skeletal branches, gently tilted them to the crossbeam (the string fixed securely). Then I put lapnik on the tree to protect it from mice, and with the onset of a steady cooling off I throw cover material over the top. In winter, the best insulation is snow. For his detention on spunbond I put raspberry, cut flower stalks, brushwood.

For the prevention of fungal diseases (peach especially suffers from leaf curl) in the spring after removing the shelter (when the threat of severe frost passes), I process the tree 3% solution of Bordeaux liquid (300 g per 10 L of water). After flowering, when the ovary reaches the size of the pea, I spray it with a fungicide (Horus, Skor, etc. - according to the instructions).

Tatyana FROLOVA

WORD TO THE SPECIALIST

Planting of the peach seedlings at an angle of 45 degrees, is appropriate in case of complete or partial shelter of the plant for the winter. Having adopted this method, amateur gardeners need to be on the alert - they often deepen the root neck (the place where the roots go to the trunk). Then the peach can enter fruiting much later. And in some cases, when moisture accumulates around the root collar, the tree even dies because of its obstruction. In the norm of this fast-growing culture, the first fruits, as the author writes, appear already at 2-3-th year after planting.

Nikolai CHROMOV, Cand. of sciences

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 PEACH VARIETIES FOR MOSCOW REGION

TALKING ABOUT PEACHES, HOW NOT TO REMEMBER THE GRAY "GIRL WITH PEARS" PICTURE! PRIORLY KNOWN THAT THESE TASTY FRUITS WERE LOCAL, GROWN IN THE ORGANIC FAMILIES OF THE MAMMOTTES IN THE VILLAGE OF ABRAMTSEVO SERGIE-POSADSKY AREA OF THE MOSCOW REGION. PICTURE WAS WRITTEN IN 1887 YEAR. WHAT BETWEEN PEOPLE'S PEACHES NOW?

© Author: KSENIYA KRUGLOVA, Candidate of Biological Sciences

Let's try to grow a heat-loving peach in our northern gardens ..

Peach varieties recommended for cultivation in the open air (except for the North Caucasus region) are still not available. But selection work is underway. There are varieties of folk breeding. The culture of the peach is not fast, but it is moving to the northern areas of our country. There are several varieties included in the State Register for the southern regions of Russia, but they can be considered as candidates for the Moscow suburban garden.

For Moscow region made several important recommendations for growing peaches. Pick up for this plant need a place protected from the winds, fertile, without close occurrence of groundwater. This is clear to everyone: after all, he is a southerner.

But not everyone knows that the harvest of peaches can really be obtained if the plant is formed not by a tree (as is customary in our ideas about the peach), but by spreading shrubs. To do this, cut the central conductor and do not cut the branches extending horizontally from the trunk, specifically provoking tillering.

Although, like 200 years ago, you can grow miniature peach trees in pots, removing them annually for the winter in cellars or unheated greenhouses.

In any case, feel like patrons Mamontov with peaches from their own greenhouse - maybe. There would be a desire!

GRADES PEACH FOR MUSCOW - TABLE

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