It is worth planting an apple tree in your garden once so that it gives you excellent fruits for at least 20-30 years. The main problem is that novice gardeners often do not know the mass of basic things. By the way, when to plant apple trees? In autumn, it’s the right time.
Yes, some experts practice spring planting (especially in dry autumn). But the autumn type is much preferable, as it gives the seedling time for getting used to and preparing for the subsequent vegetation.
The soil should be light enough and well permeable for air and water, and the depth of the groundwater can not be higher than two meters.
If you want to plant several trees at once, a gap of three meters is made between each seedling, and six meters between the rows. So how to plant an apple tree in the fall?
You need to know that a hole for a seedling is prepared strictly in a month. A hole is dug in the soil with a diameter of one meter and a depth of 0.7 m. The upper layer of fertile soil is removed and folded separately.
Then a peg with a diameter of 5 cm is driven into the center of the hole. Its upper part should protrude 0.4 m beyond the hole. To prevent the stick from decaying, its lower part is properly burned on fire.
Before planting an apple tree in the fall, you need to prepare the soil mixture. For this, the removed fertile soil is mixed with peat and humus, sand is also added to clay soils. After this, the resulting mixture is poured into the hole, and a mound (reserve for shrinkage) should form above the surface of the rest of the soil.
Since you can plant an apple tree in the fall only taking into account the fact that the seedling will be completely healthy, properly examine it. Cut off some roots at the ends: if the cut is white, then they are live and not over-dried. Sick and dried places need to be cut out, covering the resulting wounds with garden var.
After that, a hole is dug in a pre-prepared place, and its diameter must exactly match the diameter of that for the root system of the tree. Put the required fertilizers (depending on your area), and pour humus on them so that the roots of the tree do not get burned.
Before you plant an apple tree in the fall, you need to decide on the cardinal points. You need to do this in order to position the landing peg (which was driven into a previously dug hole) on the south side of the apple tree. A seedling should be planted in a hole so that the root neck rises 5 cm above the soil surface.
In no case should it be buried in the ground, since in this case your tree is unlikely to bring at least one crop. It is also not worth it above, since in the hot summer the apple tree will simply dry out.
When planting, you need to carefully straighten the roots in the pit, cover them with earth and lightly compact them. In the process of filling the root system with earth, the seedling should be shaken occasionally so that the voids between the roots are uniformly filled with soil.
After this, the tree is tied to the landing peg. Water the sapling with two or three buckets of water, after which the soil surface is mulched with humus.
We hope you learned how to plant an apple tree in the fall. Read this manual carefully and you can proceed.