Such an unpretentious plant, like a plum, every gardener can grow without much difficulty. 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, it will be interesting for novice gardeners to find out how useful the drain, planting and care of which should be timely.
The tree reaches a height of 10-12 meters, fruiting lasts 10-20 years, depending on the variety and occurs 2-3 years after planting. The main varieties: greengage, "Volga beauty", "Hungarian", "home", "egg blue", "resin", "Tula black".
Plum fruit is very healthy. They contain sugars, minerals and pectins. Vitamin P, available in these small fruits, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, is involved in the treatment of tuberculosis, hypertension, and rheumatism. In addition, plums are rich in potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, sodium and other substances. Prunes are extremely useful - dried fruits. To get dried fruits, plum "Hungarian" is grown. Prune
it is stored for a long time, and it can be consumed both raw and in stewed fruit, pastries, meat dishes and salads. The plant is a wonderful honey plant that will be liked by avid beekeepers. Therefore, in each household plum should grow drain. Landing and caring for it are not particularly difficult.
Plum can be grown both from seed and by purchasing a seedling in a nursery. Also, the plant propagates by cuttings, horizontal layering. So, you have decided for what purpose you will use the fruits, chose a variety, purchased a seedling. Now on your site will be 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 should be a sunny and dry place on the hill. A pit is dug approximately half a meter wide and 70 cm deep. Drainage is laid at the bottom - crushed stone, broken brick. Fertilizer is added and soil is filled up.
Now you have a drain in the yard. Planting and care are the two most important points in its future growth. The plum is subject to freezing, so gardeners often find lateral shoots dried up in the spring. They should be trimmed. The soil near the trunk must be loosened, and digged in the fall. In hot weather, trees need watering.
Diseases of plums occur when they are affected by pests. These are plum and
apple codling moths, aphids, ringed silkworms, plum sawflies, moths, scale insects, weevils. Diseases such as gray rot, gum disease, spots on the leaves, milky shine, coccomycosis are dangerous. Pest control consists in spraying plants with disinfectants: chlorophos, nitrafen, sevin, Bordeaux liquid, a solution of lime and mullein, and
copper sulfate. To combat rodents - hares, mice - tree trunks are tied with thick paper, treated with whitewash and a solution of rosin. Affected fruits and dried leaves should be collected and destroyed.
Ripe fruits are harvested 4-5 days before the final ripeness, so they are better transported. For processing into compotes and preserves, it is better to wait for the plums to be completely ripe.