How to grow cherry

How to grow cherry

Among the bone fruit crops, the cherry enjoys extremely popular. Her growing does not need a large investment, but will require knowledge from gardener about the features of breeding and care.

1
Riskly trying to grow the cherry from the bone. The fruit tree will most likely grow wild.

2
It is better to purchase 2-3-year-old seedlings from proven suppliers with a multi-year reputation. You can buy the root pig at full confidence that the plant is a cornesological, not graft. Otherwise, you will grow a wild form. More adult seedlings are getting worse than young.

3
Since the cherry does not tolerate very low temperatures, select a variety that is characterized by a high winter hardiness.

4
You need to plant the cherry before the blown of the kidneys - in April, or in September-First Decade of October. Bought in late autumn seedlings stuck and wait for the landing at a permanent place before the onset of spring.

5
SPRING CULTURE prefers lightweight soils with neutral acidity. Horsetail, sorrel and acids on the site signals the need to preliminary lime lime to the soil. In the future, the neutralization procedure should be carried out every 5 years.

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Since the cherry is a cross-peeled plant, a few trees should be planted on a sunny and windless plot. The recommended distance between the rows is about 4 m, in the row - 3 m.

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The level of groundwater should be lower than 1.7 m.

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Dock the pit for planting a depth of 0.45 m and a diameter of 0.6 m. Mix the soil extracted from the pit with ash, humid, potassium chloride and superphosphate. If necessary, add sand. For the convenience of the direction of the root system, it is recommended to drive the peg and sprinkle in the form of a mound. Nitrogen fertilizers and lime into the landing pit is prohibited.

9
Carefully consider the root system. Painful, damaged roots necessarily remove. The lack of moisture in the roots fill with pre-winding in water within 4 hours.

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Place the cherry so that the root neck is located at the soil level. It is allowed to exalt on 4 cm. Fill in the hole of the earth, paint the wood 20-30 liters of warm water.

11
Gently tie a young cherry to the peg. Push the soil under the cherry sawdust.

12
In the first year after landing, the tree particularly needs watering, loosening and mulching.

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Care in subsequent years is the same as for the remaining fruit trees: soil loosening, watering plants, timely protection against diseases and pests, feeding with organic and inorganic fertilizers, trimming.

Do not forget to water the cherry after flowering. Tree trim better spend in autumn. Otherwise, sooner or later, the tree will die of abundant gaming.

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