If you want your site to be adorned with a regularly fruit bearing apple tree, planting and caring for this luxurious and useful tree should be thoroughly studied by you. First, you need to choose a variety carefully. Then decide how and where to place the seedling. And if all the conditions are met properly, then caring for apples after planting will not give you almost no trouble. This tree will become a worthy decoration of the garden and will properly bear fruit.
Apple tree: planting and care
First you need to choose a variety. This will help to correlate their capabilities with the peculiarities of caring for fruit trees. Varieties differ in terms of maturation. Early apple trees (White pouring, Papirovka) give fruits that reach ripeness in mid-August. They are usually stored for a very short time. Autumn varieties (Melba, Cinnamon striped, Korean) ripen in September, they have a shelf life of three weeks. Winter apples (Antonovka, Moscow winter, Welsey, Aport and others) can be stored in some cases until the spring of next year. It is not possible to list all varieties of apple trees . However, you need to study the features of a few that are particularly attractive to you and remember them well. This will help you not to fall for the tricks of unclean people who sell seedlings in spontaneous markets. But the best protection against substitution of a variety is the purchase of apple trees in nurseries and from trusted firms. A seeded seedling will meet your expectations, while a random tree, showing its features only after the beginning of fruiting, can be very disappointing. It may turn out that this is a wild thing, and not an apple-tree antonovka. Planting and caring for several trees is quite possible for the average summer resident. It will be appropriate if you plant a couple of seedlings of summer varieties and as many autumn and winter. A two-year-old tree should have a well-developed root system. The apple seedlings are treated with clay solution. This helps not to break fragile roots. Take a closer look at the vaccine site - it should be clearly visible on the seedling. To diagnose his condition, you can break the branch at the very end and examine the bark. If it is fresh and wet, then everything is in order. If the bark is dry, then the seedling is most likely unfit.
You have purchased an apple tree. What's next?
Buy a tree is best in autumn or early spring. At the same time, the seedling is rooted - in this case your apple tree (planting and care for which was carried out according to all rules) is highly likely to be taken. Pits make a size of a meter per meter for tall trees and fifty-fifty centimeters for a dwarf. Their depth should be about seventy centimeters. Pre-excavated pits warm up and are ventilated, so they are better suited for planting. They need to put fertilizer - ash, turf, humus. From above put a fertile fertile soil and already plant a seedling on it. Filling the pit to half the ground, you need to moisten the soil and only then finish the landing. Watering in the next few days should be intense. The first thing the young apple-tree requires is planting and caring for the near-barrel circle. The earth in this place needs to be constantly loosened and remove all the weeds from there. Also it needs to be fed with nitrogenous fertilizers.