Orchards instead of gardens

Gardens in summer cottages are gradually losing their relevance. All land is reserved for trees. A garden is set up on the site of the former garden. What are good orchards? The garden is a continuation of the house, the soul of home ownership. The apples, pears, cherries grown in it have a special taste and aroma. When laying a garden, you need to skillfully approach its layout. After all, trees and shrubs will not be planted for a year, which means that you should not make mistakes when planning an orchard. Everything must be taken into account: the relief of a summer cottage plot, the composition of the soil, and the exposure of the plot to winds. Before planting trees, you should consult an experienced gardener. He will tell you which trees can grow nearby, and which will interfere with each other. After all, each culture has its own optimal growth area, so you need to know and maintain the required distances between the trees.

The location of the orchard on the site

The layout of the garden you need to start with the selection of a specific place of the orchard in the suburban area. It must be sunny. Trees can not be allocated in a separate zone of the so-called orchard, but frame them with recreation areas or part of the decorative plantings. It is also necessary to take into account that the crowns of trees planted near neighboring sites do not interfere with neighbors in their territories

rii in the future. It must be remembered that trees such as cherries and plums should be three meters from the border of the site, and apple trees and pears even further. But if you plant pyramidal pears and apple trees, their crowns in scope do not exceed two meters. You can, of course, plant trees in a checkerboard pattern, as planted orchards are planted. But with this arrangement of trees, the estate will not look very nice. Orchard then will not serve as a decoration of the territory.

Tree planting

The place of planting was determined, now you should consider how many and which trees you will plant, which varieties to pick up and how to arrange them relative to each other, taking into account mutual pollination and ripening time. It is better to put the location of the trees on the site plan. It is better to choose plants with different ripening periods in order to have fresh berries and fruits throughout the season. Use seedlings with a good root system. Drying of the roots before planting is unacceptable: they need to be dipped in a clay mash. Pits dig different sizes for different trees so that by October they are ready. Orchards are usually planted in September-October. In autumn, tree planting is more favorable than in spring. In the spring, they are planted in the soil immediately after the flood, before the buds open.

Now it remains to wait for the first fruit to yield the orchard. A photo of these first-born fruits will be your heirloom. But more than one year will pass before the young trees turn into beautiful powerful trees, and will bear their gifts, fruits to you and your children for 30 years, and maybe more. Orchards are durable and with the correct pruning of tree crowns rejuvenate and can bear fruit for many more years.