How to plant columnar apple tree in the garden

Yesterday I bought a one-year seedling varieties of columnar apple "President". They say that the survival rate of the same age better than yearlings. It can be planted in late April, because in the middle lane marked with such terms.

What it is

Columnar apple tree - a type of mutation ordinary apple. Advantages of this type - it is early appearance and compactness, minus - fragility.

After 5-7 years of growth and development of apple yield is somewhat reduced, so you need to periodically update the landing. In general, their lifespan - 10-15 years. And basically this autumn varieties. To taste the fruits do not differ from conventional apples. Trees are characterized by closely spaced interstices.

Keep the seedling before planting can be in a cool place away from zero to plus 5 degrees.

Landing

preparation of the pit

You need to prepare a hole of 60 cm diameter and 60 cm deep. Place necessary to choose a well-lit and protected from the wind.

Pit is better to cook in the fall. The ground excavated compost or humus is added (5.4 kg), phosphorous and potassium fertilizer (100 g.), Or complex fertilizer in an amount of 200 gr., 1 tbsp. ash. The stirred mixture is poured back into the hole, the top cover boards and cover film. If the pit is preparing to spring, then it is desirable to dig out a week before planting.

Use of stimulants rooting

Seedling before planting should be placed on the 8:00 into the root stimulator solution (eg, KorneStima) if you have purchased seedling bare-root. The roots can be slightly spread and crop.

Landing

Preferably in the excavated hole to make drainage to avoid water stagnation. At the bottom of the pit pour gravel and sand. The drive peg hole and fill the earth fertilized by two-thirds.

To take the seedling standing in rooting stimulator, put in a hole and cover half the earth. And pour a little to get a bucket of water.

Place of vaccination must look to the south. Leave between plants 50-80 cm, if more than one. Between the rows must be at least 80-100 cm.

Once water is absorbed, fill seedling through, leaving 10 cm from the level of grafting. This takes into account the time that the earth has settled, and the distance from the inoculation to the ground will be about 5 cm. Next, you need to drive a peg and attach to it a plastic bag "eight" apple barrel. Make bumpers out of the ground around the seedling, so that the water when watering not transfused. Pour the water bucket 2 on the plant.

Care

In the first 2 years of life tree trunks need to mulch for the winter compost or peat. Plants should be watered 2-3 times a week if the soil is sandy. To moisture lasted longer summer tree trunks mulch the cut grass, straw, sawdust.

Feeding contribute to poor soils (or if you have a little fertilizer) a month after planting trees in a NPK (20 gram diluted in 10 liters water), or 2-buckets humus, which scatter around the plant and mulch.

If organics applied at planting, it grabs the apple for 2 years.

Threads are shortened to 2 to kidney swelling period.

In the first year it is better to break off the ovaries to develop a better root system.

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