Plum: planting and caring for her

Such unpretentious plant, as a plum, each gardener can grow without special work. Just a couple of trees on the site, and in late summer - early autumn you can get a delicious harvest, which is used fresh, as well as in compotes and jams. Before planting beginner gardeners will be interested to know how useful the plum, planting and care for which should be timely.

The tree reaches a height of 10-12 meters, fruiting lasts 10-20 years depending on the variety and comes on 2-3 years after planting. The main varieties: Renclod, "Volga beauty", "Hungarian", "home", "egg blue", "Smolinka", "Tula black".

The fruits of the plum are very useful. They contain sugars, minerals and pectins. Vitamin R, available in these small fruits, strengthens the walls of the vessels, is involved in the treatment of tuberculosis, hypertension, rheumatism. In addition, plums are rich in potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, sodium and other substances. Prunes are extremely useful - dried fruit. To get dried fruits, a plum "Hungarian" is grown. In addition, prunes It is stored for a long time, and it can be consumed both in raw form, and in compotes, pastries, meat dishes and salads. The plant is an excellent honey plant that will appeal to avid beekeepers. Therefore, in each garden area a plum should grow. Planting and caring for her are not particularly difficult.

To grow a plum it is possible both from a bone, and acquiring a seedling in a nursery. Also, the plant reproduces cuttings, horizontal layers. So, you are determined for what purposes you will use fruits, have chosen a variety, have acquired a seedling. Now your plot will have such a useful plant as a plum. Planting and care at the initial stage consist in choosing the place where the plum will grow. It must be a sunny and dry place on a hillock. The pit is digged about half a meter wide and 70 cm deep. At the bottom is laid drainage - gravel, broken brick. Add fertilizer and fill the soil.

Now you have in the yard there is a plum. Planting and caring are the two most important moments in her future growth. Plum is prone to freezing, so often in the spring, gardeners find the side shoots withered. They should be cut off. The soil near the trunk must be loosened, and in the autumn dug up. In hot weather, trees need watering.

Disease plums occur when they are damaged by pests. These are plum and apple mullets, aphids, ringed silkworms, plum spindle, moths, scabbards, weevils. Diseases such as gray rot, gum, spots on the leaves, milky gloss, coccomicosis are dangerous. Pest control consists in spraying plants with disinfecting compounds: chlorophos, nitrafen, sevine, Bordeaux fluid, lime and mullein solution, copper sulfate. To combat rodents - rabbits, mice - tree trunks are tied with thick paper, treated with whitewash and rosin solution. Affected fruits and dried leaves should be collected and destroyed.

Ripened fruits are harvested 4-5 days before the final ripeness, so they are better transported. For processing on compotes and jams, it is better to wait for the absolute maturity of the sinks.