Is the apple garden a business or a hobby?

The best pastime is the cultivation of any earthy crops. Whether it is a garden or a vegetable garden, in spring, summer and autumn only it occupies the heads of gardeners. As they say, with age, people are more drawn to the land, and this is true, because it is difficult to find someone older than forty without the desire to plant at least a house plant.

The apple garden will become a favorite place for recreation and a good idea for business without large investments of money. But still it must be properly planted and spend time on caring for trees and soil.

Methods of placing apple trees

When planting trees, you do not just needlessly plant seedlings in a chaotic order, but take into account weather conditions, apple variety, soil type and terrain. There are several types of tree planting:

• Rectangle;
• In checkerboard order;
• Stripe;
• Contour.

There are different types of apple trees in terms of maturation, for example, if it is an early apple tree, then it will bear fruit from 10.06 to 01.07, if it is a summer apple tree, then from 01.07 to 10.08, late or autumn varieties give fruits from 10.08 to 10.09, Winter apples can be collected from 10.09 to 20.10.

Before planting, it is necessary to mark out the places where the trees will be located. Each of them needs space. The distance between the trees should be no less than 4-5 m to buildings and outbuildings, and not less than 5-6 m between the rows. Well, if you place the apple garden to combine with a bush, for example, currants or gooseberries. Thanks to this solution, you can increase the density of planting, and leave enough space for each tree.

Features of disembarkation

You can plant an apple garden both in spring and in autumn. Pits for seedlings should be done 15 days before disembarkation. Dimensions of the pit: depth - 50 cm, width and length - 70-80 cm. During the survival of the seedlings every 20-25 days, it is necessary to water with a small loosening of the ground, 2-3 watering is enough.

Fruit garden: features

Under the orchard is understood the presence of fruit trees and berry bushes. Even in an ordinary plot of 6 hectare of land, such a garden will become a real decoration, and spring flowering and smells will drive mad. It can use any trees: pears, apples, cherries and cherries, apricots, peaches. And any berry bushes: raspberries, currants black and red, blueberries, gooseberries.

Choose trees and shrubs with different maturation periods, then the fruits will please the round summer. Especially it concerns those who plant a garden for business and are going to sell fruit and berries.

If you want to build a garden in the country and choose a site to buy, consider an option such as a collective garden. The land there will not be so expensive, and the plots are located, as a rule, in a favorable place for the planting of fruit trees. In addition, it is possible to get acquainted with people with similar interests and learn from them the necessary information on the location and care of trees.

Apple garden - is it a profitable business?

If you decided to do a horticultural business, you did it right. And it's best to start with apples, because they give a big harvest. Apple garden does not require long-term investments. Spending money for the first time, for example, in 2016, and buying different varieties of apples, in a year it will be possible to take 10 apples from each tree, by 2018 you will have 20 tons per hectare of apples, and in another year this figure will grow Almost twice.

Choosing a garden in which different fruit trees will grow, it is necessary to take into account that the harvest with apricots and pears is less, although the fruits are more expensive. But they are more capricious, they need to be kept in a special place and transported correctly.

The larger the garden, the more profit from it, because in this case you can not sell apples and other fruits yourself, but enter into contracts and bring them to the processing (the simplest way), and also to stock up and sell in the winter time before the New Year.