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Moisture–, heat-loving plants. Cherries are not only delicious berry, it looks very decorative on the site. Foliage colour ranges from green to dark green, and berries – from yellow to dark red. But so beautiful you happy, you need to know about how to properly care for the cherries — beautiful and useful tree.

You first need to decide on a place, as the cherry is very warm and light. Trees soopysue well, so feel free to drop near two or three different varieties with the same flowering period or encourage different varieties on one trunk. It is good if to sit next to her cherry.





Planting cherries the Soil should be fertile, permeable to moisture, but not sandy and not clayey. You should exclude wetlands and lowlands, otherwise the tree will die. Since the wood is light, planting can be done the hill 50 cm Distance between seedlings should be at least 4-5 meters from each other, as subsequently overgrown Krona will have a negative impact on the harvest of a nearby tree.

The formation of the skeleton of the cherry tree, the Cherry tree has a strong trunk with pronounced skeletal branches. Usually leave 6 skeletal branches: the first tier-3 branches, the third branch should be at 15 — 20 cm above the first two. On the second floor leave 2 lines at a distance of 70 cm from the first tier. On the second tier of leave one branch, and the Central conductor is cut only after a year. Pay attention to the angle at which the pruned branches. The wood of black cherry is fragile and, if not cutting a tree can be very sick. The angle of pruning should be 40-45 degrees and you will have to grease a place of a garden putty (pitch).

Pruning cherries Young trees grow very fast and therefore it is necessary to annually trim the shoots that do not participate in the formation of the crown by 20-30 cm, to remove branches and shoots on the trunk up to 40 cm above the ground. This procedure is done in early spring until the buds swell. Poluskeletnye branches are formed on the branches of the first tier. All of them must be 2 for each skeletal branch of the first tier. When these branches grow up to 70 cm, they were cut by 20 see the Very crown pruned to 4-5 cm Cherry growing strongly in the first 5 years and a shortening of annual shoots of 40-50 cm easy pruning shoots during the summer to increase yields.

The formation of a crown of cherries Cupped shape of the crown is formed from 4 or 5 of the skeletal branches, while sparsely-tier of 5 or 6 branches.

Fertilizer for cherry Cherry the plant, so abundant flowering in autumn, it is important to fertilize. Young plants can be fed twice (April-June) and adults, 3 to 4 times. To make liquid fertilizer is necessary in the unloading circle and not by the root. Unloading the roots unable to absorb nutrients. It is good to feed the wood ash.





Watering black cherry water the tree 3 times, but before watering the ground around the tree mulched and fertilized. Watering should be very abundant. It is important to water the tree in front of inwinter cold, to saturate the earth with moisture.

After receiving a good harvest, don't forget to protect it from birds. They can literally in a matter of minutes to destroy the fruits of your labor. To do this, gardeners tie light blue boxes, shiny rims, toys, in short, all that glitters. It saves, but not for long. It is best to cover the trees with special nets and then the harvest will delight you!

Source: ayatskov1.ru