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  1. Anatoly

    I have three questions for all gardeners at once.
    10-12 years ago I planted several columnar apple trees, but they still barely bloom. He began to ask his acquaintances, and one of them explained this by the fact that at the time when I was buying seedlings, they did not know how to turn with apple-shaped trees, therefore they were made on tall rootstocks. That is why they do not bloom and do not bear fruit. Maybe there is another opinion on this? And is it possible to somehow bring trees stuck in childhood?
    Recently, they began to write more often about gooseberries, and all the letters are very interesting. That's just about how to deal with such a pest as a fire spit, so far no one has told. And I just have bushes from this misfortune, I don’t know how to rid them of it. I was advised to do this: before the onset of cold weather, dig up the ground under the gooseberry so that the pests would die, and then cover it with cardboard so that the survivors would not come out in the spring. But in fact, there’s no sense in all this - gooseberries disappear. Please advise gardeners, gardeners, how to deal with the firebox?
    I have long started to "slander" me and the quince: inside the fruit, when you cut it, everything is black, as if sootted out. What it is?

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  2. Olga Silakova, Vladimirskaya obl.

    In our region frosts are up to -36 degree in winter. Do you think I should grow columnar plums and pears (I'm concerned about the winter hardiness of these plants)? Or do not spend money and energy on this venture?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      The biological feature of apple trees is the absence of lateral branching. Existing varieties of other fruit plants, including plums and pears, do not possess such a biological structure. In other words, there are no columnar varieties of plum and pear!

      And catalogs that colorfully paint the merits of the "columns" of pears and plums? Alas, this is just an advertisement. In fact, instead of columnar varieties, the potential buyer is offered varieties that have a narrow pyramidal crown and are capable of forming flower buds on the growth of the current year.

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