If you want your plot to be regularly decorated with a fruiting apple tree, the planting and care of this luxurious and useful tree should be thoroughly studied by you.
First you need to carefully choose a variety. Then decide exactly how and where to place the seedling. And if all the conditions are met properly, then caring for apples after planting will not cause you almost any trouble. This tree will become a worthy decoration of the garden and will regularly bear fruit.
Apple tree: planting and care
First you need to choose a variety. This will help to correlate their capabilities with the features of fruit tree care. Varieties vary in maturity. Early apple trees (White filling, Papirovka) produce 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, the shelf life of the fruits reaches 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 several especially attractive to you and remember them well.
This will help not to fall for the tricks of dishonest people selling seedlings in natural markets. But the best protection against changing the variety is to buy an apple tree in nurseries and from trusted companies. A zoned seedling will live up to your expectations, while a random tree, showing its characteristics only after the fruiting has begun, can greatly disappoint. It may turn out that this is a wild game, and not an
Antonovka apple tree at all
. Planting and caring for several trees is quite capable of the average summer resident. It will be appropriate if you plant a couple of seedlings of summer varieties and the same number of autumn and winter. A two-year-old tree should have a well-developed root system.
Apple tree seedlings are sold with a clay solution. This helps not break fragile roots. Take a closer look at the place of vaccination - it should be clearly visible on the seedling. To diagnose its condition, you can break the branch at the very end and consider the bark. If it is fresh and wet, then everything is in order. If the bark is dry, then the seedling is most likely unsuitable.
You have acquired an apple tree. What's next?
Buying a tree is best in autumn or early spring. Then the seedling is also rooted - in this case, your apple tree (planting and care of which was carried out according to all the rules) is likely to take.
Pits are made in the size of a meter per meter for tall trees and fifty to fifty centimeters for dwarf trees. Their depth should be about seventy centimeters. Pre-dug pits are heated and ventilated, so they are better suited for planting. They need to put fertilizer - ash, sod, humus. Put quality fertile soil on top and already place a seedling on it. Filling the pit to half the ground, it is necessary to moisten the soil and only then complete the landing. Watering in the next few days should be intense. The first thing that a young apple tree will require is planting and caring for the trunk circle. The earth in this place must be constantly loosened and all weeds removed from there. Also, it needs to be fed with nitrogenous fertilizers.