Growing peaches in a greenhouse
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Greenhouse peaches - planting and care
Every gardener and gardener has his own preferences, and they change with time. Apparently, therefore, I often see on the sites empty in the summer of a greenhouse to someone bothered to fiddle with tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.
Or maybe it's just no more time, because vegetables in the greenhouse require daily attention. My friend and colleague Roman proposes to grow peaches in a greenhouse. And he boldly proposes because he himself has been doing this successfully for quite some time.
When the last time he treated me to peaches from his greenhouse, I still tried out everything he could from him - both theory and practice. We even shot a video on this topic.
Growing a peach in a greenhouse - from idea to result
Why in the greenhouse, what is the advantage of this way of growing peaches in an unfavorable climate?
The greenhouse is an excellent protection against root neck warping. This insidious phenomenon often destroys the whole tree, and the gardener does not even know why it died.
But the point here is not even in severe frost - the fact is that due to the large, damp and dense snow cover of the lower part of the trunk and the root neck, there is not enough oxygen, as a result of which bark and cambium die in these places.
See also: Cultivation of a peach from a stone
Peach in the greenhouse - no sunburn or disease
The greenhouse solves the problem. Snow does not exist in it, which means that it does not threaten the peaches to get out.
Another reason for the death or damage of not only peaches, but also of other fruit trees, especially stone fruit, is sunburn and sudden changes in temperature.
In the early spring afternoon, the sun heats the bark on tree trunks, it revives, and at night it strikes frost. During the day, overheated, and at night the too cooled portion of the crust perishes, exfoliates from the wood.
And here the greenhouse will help, since polycarbonate or film perfectly disperses direct sunlight, and the glass can be whitewashed from the south side. Roman leaves the pane open.
If they are completely closed, then thanks to the greenhouse effect, overheating will be guaranteed to the entire tree. In a ventilated hothouse, the temperature varies day and night less than on the street. Thus, solar burns in a greenhouse peaches are not terrible.
But that's not all.
During the whole time that Roman grows peaches in a greenhouse, he never once sprayed anything and never noticed the defeat of the leaves with curly hair. But kurchavost is one of the main enemies of the peach.
Everyone who ever grew peaches faced this mushroom disease, which can completely deprive you of the harvest. After all, it affects not only the leaves, but also young shoots, namely on them and only on them the next year the peach will bear fruit.
Why does the curly hair do not develop in the greenhouse?
Apparently, because it is always dry, and mushrooms, as you know, do not like it. Although before the peaches Roman grew grapes in this hothouse, he was very much impressed with mildeu under the same conditions and required constant spraying with fungicides. Peaches are always clean and healthy without a single spray.
Peaches in a greenhouse - care
However, it must be taken into account that due to all these favorable factors on peaches, many, even too many ovaries are tied in the greenhouse, and if all of them are left, then peaches will be a huge amount, but, alas, shallow.
Therefore, the ovaries of peaches must necessarily be thinned, and cardinally. We do this work when the ovaries reach the size of 2-2,5, see. Leave on the twigs on 1-2 ovaries at a distance of 15-20. See the rest, no matter how sorry, we break off. As a result, we get the same mass by mass, but the fruits grow much larger.
Since our greenhouses are usually not high, we form small trees with a low arrangement of branches - we do not let them “run away” upwards and rest against the roof.
It is also important that every year trees give growth, because peaches bear fruit only on last year's gains.
Young trees grow and bear fruit intensively, and the fact that older trees require regular pruning. But this is a separate topic.
As for watering, Roman said that he only watered the seedlings planted in the spring, and after they started and grew, he never watered them again! The roots of the trees go deep enough, as well as outside the greenhouse - this is quite enough for peaches.
I do not know if you decide to build a greenhouse specifically for growing peaches, but if it is empty and you do not know what to do with it, safely plant this delicious culture in it!
Reference by topic: Growing peaches in the suburbs
Growing a peach in a greenhouse - video
© Author: E. FEDOTOV
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