The apple tree is perhaps the most common tree in Russia. Its fruits are very rich in vitamins that are not only useful, but also necessary for the body. They are different not only in terms of ripeness, but also in aroma, color and shape.
Summer varieties of apple trees have two distinctive features. Firstly, they ripen early, and in the summer they can be eaten, and secondly, they cannot be stored for a long time.
Experienced growers are able to correctly select varieties of this fruit tree for their plot so as to be provided with apples all year round. Beginners should know that in botany there is such a thing as removable, or consumer, fruit maturity.
The most delicious summer varieties of apple trees are Elena and Dream. And although the fruits are almost impossible to store, their unique aroma justifies this drawback. Delicate, juicy, fine-grained, sweet and sour, fragrant apples have a red color and are completely unsuitable for lying. To scab, these trees are medium resistant. Usually, the summer varieties of apple trees, Dream and Elena bear fruit in the second year.
Summer sweet varieties of apple trees - Mironchik, Early Sweet, July Chernenko, etc. - have a flat-rounded crown shape, bear fruit annually, they are winter-hardy. Their fruits are distinguished by light color, white color of pulp and keeping quality no more than one month. The Mironchik variety has an average apple weight of one hundred grams, it is yellow in color and has a rough flesh.
In the northern regions of Russia, summer apple varieties such as Borovinka,
White filling are widespread
, the fruits of which are not very attractive in appearance, since they are devoid of integumentary color, but very tasty. White Skrout, which has such significant advantages as immunity to burns on tree bark and black cancer, is no less popular.
Other summer varieties of apple trees - Papirovka with an oval crown and an average trunk height, as well as Moscow Grushovka give fruits with removable maturity in late July or early August. They are completely unsuitable for transportation, but they have a sour-sweet taste and juicy flesh.
Breeders bred summer varieties of apple trees for the Moscow region. These are Borovinka, Quinti, Glory to the Victors, Yandykovskaya, etc. They all have early fruiting. With each tree, with proper care, you can collect up to two hundred kilograms of juicy apples. The only pity is that you can store the crop for no more than two weeks. Therefore, summer residents, in which these varieties grow in areas, immediately pick and sell apples. Otherwise, they may rot directly on the tree or fall.
Since many summer apple varieties are most often affected by scab, in the spring before planting the first leaves, the plant is treated with a special drug. For good fruiting, urea or wood ash is fed twice a year.
The choice of varieties of apples for planting on the site has always been of great importance not only for beauty, but also for productivity. However, agricultural regulations are no less relevant, the observance of which will surely please a large number of healthy and tasty fruits, in which there are so many vitamins.