Preparation of cherries for the next season of fruiting: autumn planting and care
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Cherry: yielding plans for next year
The cherry fruiting season is completed. But to get a guaranteed and good harvest next year, the trees need care in the end of the summer.
Appearance
Shrub or tree up to 10 m
family
Rosaceous
Leaves
Cilia, with pointed tips and serrate edges
Flowers
White or pink; collected in small inflorescences
Fruit
Juicy globose stems red or dark red with a pleasant sweet and sour taste
See also: Cultivation and care of cherries in the garden. Properties and varieties of cherries.
Cherry care plan
1. In August, continue to weed the weeds, loosen and mulch (peat, sawdust) a near-barrel circle.
2. In September, feed the cherry with phosphoric fertilizers, which will help the tree to prepare for the winter (70 g of potassium chloride or potassium salt and 150 g superphosphate per plant, close under the digging).
3. After the fall of the fall, remove all plant residues from the tree trunk and destroy them. After the first frost, sprinkle the tree and the spruce circle
5% solution of urea (or Azophos - 100 g per 10 liters of water) - this procedure will help to destroy a large number of pests, pathogens and prevent them from multiplying.
4. In a dry autumn, do a water recharge.
This is especially important for young cherry trees. The rate for each plant; for 3-5 year olds - about 5-8 buckets, 7-10 year olds - 12-15 buckets. Older trees are watered more abundantly. 5 ”In late November - early December, whiten the trunks or paint them with white garden paint (for the prevention of sunburn in winter).
Trees of modern varieties of cherries early bear fruit - already in the 4th-5th year, but they live only 15-20 years ...
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Cherry does not tolerate water stagnation, so seedlings should not be planted in flooded areas, and also in places where groundwater is very close to the surface.
6. To protect against rodents, seal the stem with a special mesh or juniper branches with the tips downwards, and so on. Spread the seeds from rodents (such as Storm).
Reference by topic: Harvest varieties of garden cherries and how to increase the yield of cherries on the site
Cherries in Prikope
In the middle belt, planting cherries is better in the spring. The plants can be left for winter in prikope.
On the prepared site, dig a groove width and depth 30-35 cm in the direction of the west-east and lay the seedlings with a slope to the south (this will protect the bark from sunburn). Carefully fall asleep roots and the base of the stem on 5-10 cm earth. The soil is evenly spilled. Around the prikol and along with the seedlings lay poisoned baits, branches of blackberry, dog rose and other prickly plants to protect against rodents. At the end of winter, to prevent the propping up with priko-ra rake excess snow, leaving the layer in 10-20, see.
After the snow melts, the seedlings are carefully dug out. To check how the plants were wintered, small sections of the bark and wood are made with a knife at the base of the roots. If the bark is light brown, and the wood is greenish white, there is no freezing, and if they are dark brown, then the seedlings either froze or froze.
Autumn cherry planting
If nevertheless you decide to plant cherries in the fall, the best time for this is the beginning of October (3-4 weeks before the first frost). The site must be protected from the north winds. A good option is gently sloping south or southwest slopes, as well as places located on the south side of the buildings.
In planting pits (with a diameter of about 80 cm and a depth of at least 50 cm), it is enough to add 1-2 buckets of humus, as well as about 1 kg of ash and 0,4 kg of superphosphate. All this is mixed with the upper fertile layer of earth. Cherry loves neutral soils, therefore it is advisable to carry out liming on the “acidic” area: on light sandy loamy soils, 300-400 g of lime per 1 sq. M are applied, on heavy loamy soils - 600-800 g.
When planting, the root neck should be at the level of the ground surface (taking into account the possibility of subsidence of the soil, especially in the case of loamy soil). Forming pruning planted in autumn seedlings are made in spring.
See also: How to propagate a cherry by growth
The benefits of cherries
Cherry juice and tea from cherry leaves in the summer quenches thirst well. When exhausted, it is recommended to drink a glass of freshly squeezed cherry juice a day.
In addition to fruits and leaves, folk medicine uses cherry stems as a healing remedy. 1 tbsp. dry material pour 1 art. boil, cook for 15 minutes, drain. Drink on 1 / 3 art. three times a day with an increase in blood pressure and edema of kidney origin (as a diuretic).
When insomnia, anxiety 2 st.l. dry cherry fruit pour 0,5 l hot water, insist an hour, strain and drink instead of tea during the day.
© Author: Ilya HALF, ml. scientific al. Institute of Fruit Growing, RUE, Naila NASYBULLINA, Doctor of Pharmacy. Sciences, Kazan
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Last year, most likely, after the icy rain, my two cherries were frozen. What if the branches of the trees are covered with ice cake? Can they somehow help?
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The ice crust on trees, or ice, is indeed a rather serious problem for gardeners. It arises not only from the more frequent recent icy rains, but also during the thaw, spring snowmelt. Cracks and frost bumps may appear on icy trees on fruit trees and bushes, in which pathogenic microorganisms subsequently settle, branches and trunks break, generative and freeze
vegetative buds, young shoots. Small trees and bushes can be saved from the formation of ice cover, covering them with lapnika. Large (adult) plants from ice to save is very difficult. You can only advise to strengthen the immunity of trees in the warm period with the help of necessary fertilizing, as well as shake off the branches from snow during thaws and spring snowmelt.
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It so happened that my summer residence for several years lived an independent life. Once fruitful fruit trees turned mostly into ornamental trees, and the seedlings with which it was planned to renovate the garden grew up in fluffy bushes and, naturally, did not bear fruit. It seemed that the situation could be rectified only by completely renovating the entire garden. And yet, mass rooting decided to postpone and update the garden gradually. Within a year it became clear that the decision was right.
In the autumn, I cut off all the extra cherry shoots, leaving only one trunk. Some trees still had to be disposed of. Soot-
whether their parents 7 years ago, most likely, guided by the principle of "plant more often, and suddenly do not get accustomed." Cherries took root all, so the distance between them was no more than 1,5 m. I dug up the trees around the trees, but not deep enough to damage the roots.
My soil is clay, cherries grow on a small, but still a slope. So that irrigation water does not go down, I made a small mound around the perimeter - it turned out to be a bowl. ” And so that the clay soil does not turn into solid shards under the sun, the excavated surface was mulched by mowed lawn grass and sawdust.
Next spring the cherries blossomed densely, but we did not wait for the fruits again. Experienced neighbors came to the rescue. We were advised to water and fertilize the cherries with manure or a bird droppings. In addition, I received a proven recipe for years to prepare a useful fertilizer: the litter should be diluted with water about 1: 15 and insist for several hours. The resulting fertilizer was poured around the perimeter of the dug-in-the-hole. " I got a couple of buckets of wood. Three weeks later repeated feeding.
The soil around the cherries before watering I sprinkled a thin layer of ash several times a season.
In August, the watering of the trees was stopped, so that they would calmly prepare for the winter. In the fall, I dug up the subtrees again, removed the extra growth. In this form, my cherry garden safely wintered.
This spring, the cherry blossomed again, as if sprinkled. And although there were some blossoms, there was a tangible harvest.
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Several cherries grow in my garden. And here on one of them, young, which only just started to bear fruit, grew a dense white mushroom. What to do with him?
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My dacha is next to the forest. Perhaps this is the reason that cherries do not bear fruit. They say that pine pollen neutralizes cherry blossoms. This is true? And another: a couple of years ago planted two cherry trees of the variety Nord Star. There are fruits, but, unfortunately, very small. What can be done to make them larger?
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1) About the cherry: it's a delusion. Pollen of pine can not neutralize the flowering of cherries, tk. the pine blossoms a month later.
2) The Nord-old variety is characterized by high self-fertility, i.e. the ability to tie fruits from pollination by the pollen of flowers of the same variety (tree), which ensures annual fruiting. Fruits in a variety with a mass of 4-4,5 g are an average for cherries. If they are smaller on your trees, improve the care of plants. In autumn, add organics (compost or rotted manure - 5-10 kg per 1 sq. M.), Or a complex mineral fertilizer - 100 g per tree. And always water more often, especially in the heat.
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Relative - laurelя
If you want to decorate your site with an unusual plant, to form a spectacular hedge and also to collect an excellent crop of delicious fruits, laurel cherry is the best choice for these purposes. This is an evergreen bush, less often a tree up to 8 m high. The laurel cherry has a lot of advantages: shade-tolerant, it can grow even under the crowns of trees. And also - gas-, smoke-resistant, so it feels great in urban environments. It is undemanding to soil fertility, but prefers light and medium loams with the addition of humus and sand. Regular irrigation is mandatory, however, laurel cherry does not tolerate stagnation of water - good drainage is required. In the middle lane, plants are quite winter-hardy (heat-loving forms are grown in tubs). Lavrovishnya tolerates haircut and shaping (it is better to do it at the end of summer), with which the crown can easily be given any shape.
Vladimir STAROSTIN, dendrologist, Cand. with-hnauk.