Gardens in summer cottages are gradually losing their relevance. All land is devoted to trees. A garden is being laid out on the site of the former garden. Why are fruit orchards good? The garden is a continuation of the house, the soul of home ownership. Apples, pears, cherries grown in it have a special taste and aroma. When laying a garden, you need to skillfully approach its layout. After all, trees and shrubs will not be planted for a year, which means that you should not make mistakes when planning an orchard. Everything must be taken into account: the relief of the summer cottage, the composition of the soil, the exposure of the site to winds. Before planting trees, you should consult with an experienced gardener. He will tell you which trees can grow next to each other, and which ones will interfere with each other. After all, each crop has its own optimal growing area, so you need to know and maintain the required distances between trees.
Orchard location on the plot
Garden planning should begin with the choice of a specific place for an orchard in a summer cottage. It must be sunny. Trees can not be allocated to a separate zonethe so-called orchard, and frame them with recreation areas or part of decorative plantings. It is also necessary to take into account that the crowns of trees planted near neighboring plots do not interfere with neighbors on their territory
ri in the future. It must be remembered that trees such as cherries and plums should be located three meters from the border of the site, and apple trees and pears even further. But if you plant pyramidal pears and apple trees, their crowns in scope do not exceed two meters. You can, of course, plant trees in a checkerboard pattern, as they plant industrial orchards. But with such an arrangement of trees, the estate will not look very beautiful. The orchard will then not serve as a decoration of the territory.
Planting trees
The planting site has been determined, now you should think about how many and what kind of trees you will plant, what varieties to pick up and how to arrange them relative to each other, taking into account mutual pollination and ripening dates. It is better to put the location of the trees on the site plan. It is better to choose plants with different ripening periods in order to have fresh berries and fruits throughout the season. You need to use seedlings with a good root system. Drying of the roots before planting is unacceptable: they must be dipped in a clay mash. Holes are dug of different sizes for different trees, so that by October they will be ready. Orchards are usually planted in September-October. Tree planting is more favorable in autumn than in spring. In the spring, they are planted in the soil immediately after the flood, before bud break.
Now it remains to wait for the first fruits of the orchard. A photo of these firstborn fruits will be your family heirloom. But more than one year will pass until young trees turn into beautiful powerful trees, and will bring their gifts-fruits to you and your children for 30 years, and maybe more. Fruit orchards are long-lived and, with proper pruning of tree crowns, are rejuvenated and can bear fruit for many more years.
