How to care for a Cherry to pick berries with Buckets

How to manage too much cherry harvest is a question worth long speculation. Cook jams, compotes, eat fresh - already tired of everything.

Dealing with this issue is much more difficult than getting such a luxurious harvest - in order to pick a lot of berries, it is enough to listen to a few tips from my personal experience. I tell you how I tended my cherries to achieve a large harvest.

Pruning

Every year in the spring, when the frosts recede, I make sure to prune cherries. If there are too many branches, the harvest will be much more modest, the plant will simply not have enough light.

In addition, pruning provides an incentive to form a large number of new ovaries.

How do I trim? First of all, I remove the branches on which the berries will definitely not ripen. Dried, diseased, broken, overly thin, branches that grow into the crown. Be sure to shorten the shoots if they have grown more than 40 cm long.

Top dressing

Cherry blossoms are a beautiful and romantic moment. But I, as a hostess, have other thoughts at this time. For example, that cherry blossoms must be fed with nitrogen. For 10 liters of water, I take 1-1.5 tablespoons of fertilizer and water it around the trunk.

When the cherry begins to bear fruit, I must add phosphate fertilizer. After that, I sprinkle ash around the trunk (it is most convenient to measure it with a full half-liter jar). After that, the soil should be mulched - I prefer to use neutralized peat for this. For the same purpose, you can use rotted compost - most importantly, not chicken.

Watering

Regular and frequent watering for cherries is not required at all. But if you want to get a good harvest, you can't do without it either.

I water my cherries 3 or 4 times throughout the season:

· When cherry blossoms;

· When the first ovaries are formed;

· After harvesting;

· Towards the end of September-beginning of October.

Of course, if the autumn is rainy, the last autumn watering will disappear by itself. Before each watering, I make sure to form furrows around the tree. It takes me 15 liters of water to water one cherry.

Cherry care is not that difficult, it requires regular but simple steps. Observing the rules of care, you have every chance to collect a bountiful harvest of ripe berries every year.