Planting cherries

Cherry planting provides for the same work as with any other fruit tree. However, each berry crop has its own varietal characteristics. This nuance must be taken into account when planting trees in spring or summer, if you want to get a good harvest in the future.

General rules for planting and caring for cherries in the open field

The fruiting of cherries depends on two important factors: the correct planting of the seedling, as well as the subsequent care of the tree in spring, summer and autumn. The choice of the season for planting works affects the further development of culture. When planting crops in spring, summer or autumn, the climatic conditions of the region are taken into account.

To plant cherries correctly at any time of the year, adhere to the following basic rules:

• The place is chosen sunny, closed from cold winds. It is best to land on the south side of the building. The culture prefers light soil, does not tolerate dense clay, the constant presence of water.
• Preparation before planting a tree begins with removing the foliage. The rhizome is soaked for 8 hours in Kornevin's solution. Damaged branches and roots are cut with pruning shears.
• The soil is prepared at least 2 weeks before planting the tree. 1 m² when digging the soil, scatter a bucket of compost, 1 tbsp. superphosphate and 5 tbsp. ash. The last ingredient can be replaced with half a glass of potassium salt.
• When planting a seedling in spring or summer, a hole is dug up to a depth of at least 80 cm. The hole can be up to 1 m wide. The size of the hole depends on the size of the roots. If the tree is planted with a closed root system, the bottom of the hole is simply leveled. For open roots, a mound is formed at the bottom of the hole from the soil.
• When planting in heavy soil, two buckets of sand are poured onto the bottom of the hole. Too loose soil is compacted with a bucket of clay.

When planting trees in spring or summer, a nutritious soil is prepared. Do not overdo it with nitrogen fertilizers, as they burn young roots.

In the video, planting cherries in spring:

How to plant cherries

For a novice gardener, planting cherries in spring or summer is a whole science. Then the seedling still needs to be given proper care so that it takes root. Let's consider in detail all the nuances of a complex process.

Choosing the right variety

Planting a crop begins with the choice of a variety.Many gardeners primarily pay attention to the color and size of the fruit, which is a gross mistake. Planting and caring for any variety involves carrying out the same activities. The problem is whether the culture adapts to the climatic conditions of the region.

The choice for planting a suitable variety begins with considering the timing of ripening of the berries. Early cherries will provide the gardener with berries in the spring. Already at the end of May it will be possible to taste delicious berries. Early varieties tolerate return frosts well, which simplifies crop care. The berries are saturated with sweet juice, the pulp is tender and tasty. The disadvantage is poor crop transport tolerance. Worthy early representatives are self-fruitless varieties "Iput" and "Ovstuzhenka".

Mid-season varieties begin to present with harvests at the beginning of summer. Berries usually begin to ripen from the second decade of June. Medium varieties are poorly resistant to return frost, which complicates the care of the crop in cold regions. The quality of the berries, when compared with early cherries, is much better. The crop can be transported. Worthy representatives of medium varieties are "Annushka" and "Adeline".

Late-ripening varieties delight with the harvest in summer, but more often in the last month. Berries ripen at the end of July - August. There are even frost-resistant late varieties that are capable of harvesting in cold regions at the end of August. A worthy late-ripening representative is Vystavochnaya and Bryanskaya Rosovaya.

It is possible to simplify the care and cultivation of cherries if the variety was correctly selected during planting, taking into account the climatic conditions of the region. By its origin, the culture is thermophilic. Most varieties of cherries are capricious and require difficult care. The berry tree grows best in the south and in the Central Black Earth Region. Gardeners living in the middle lane should choose adapted varieties for planting. Good results are shown by "Gronkovaya" and "Large-fruited".

For the Urals and Siberia, special frost-resistant varieties have been developed. In addition to harsh winters, these regions often experience sharp temperature changes. The breeders took into account the peculiarities of the climate and developed resistant varieties such as: "Bryanochka", "Tyutchevka", "Odrinka" and others.

When can you plant cherries

Saplings are planted in spring, summer and autumn. The choice of the season depends on the climatic conditions of the region. In the south, gardeners recognize the autumn planting as the best. Time is determined intuitively. Usually, planting in the fall is done 2-3 weeks before the start of the first frost.

In cold regions, planting is carried out in spring or summer. The seedling will have time to take root before the arrival of winter.

Planting trees can be done with open and closed root systems. There is no particular difference in the procedure. However, a seedling with a closed root system takes root faster and does not need to form an earthen mound at the bottom of the hole.

Where can you plant cherries

The owner of a small plot needs to take into account that he will not do with planting one tree. The culture needs a pollinator. If the sweet cherry does not grow in the neighboring area, then at least two trees will have to be planted in the yard. If varieties with a spreading crown are selected, then a distance of up to 5 m is maintained between them. Columnar cherries can be planted at a distance from each other at a distance of up to 3 m. It is not recommended to place trees closer, as care becomes more difficult, branches begin to intertwine, thickening is created.

The place for planting a seedling is chosen sunny, optimally on the south side of a high fence or building. The tree is removed from the building by at least 3 m. It is optimal to choose a hill for planting on the terrain. In the lowlands, a lot of water accumulates from precipitation, which is destructive for the berry culture.It is impossible to plant on swampy soil and areas with a high location of layers of groundwater.

Is it possible to plant cherries in place of cherries

Fruit trees are divided into two genera: pome fruit and stone fruit. Sweet cherry belongs to the stone fruit species. All trees of the same genus consume the same nutrients from the ground. It is impossible to plant cherries in the place where, for example, cherries used to grow. In the neighborhood, these two trees get along. The stone tree can be planted in the place where the seed crop grew.

What can be planted next to cherries

Despite the capriciousness and demanding care, the berry culture has a powerful root system that can oppress other plants. Planting apple trees, pears, black currant bushes is not desirable in the neighborhood. Cherry and apricot do not get along very well. Cherries are a great neighbor and can even become a pollinator if the flowering time is the same.

Cherry crown does not create an aggressive climate. Foliage allows partial sun rays and raindrops to pass through. Under the crown, you can plant primroses, such as tulips or daffodils.

How to choose a cherry seedling

In order for the planting of cherries with seedlings in spring, summer or autumn to be successful, it is important to initially choose healthy planting material. For planting, it is best to buy one- or two-year-old trees. Large seedlings take root less well. When choosing a planting material, pay attention to the following nuances:

• For planting in spring or autumn, you can purchase seedlings with an open root system. It should be branched, not overdried, without rot and mechanical damage. Planting material is transported by wrapping the roots with a damp cloth or moss. Can be put into water. For summer planting, it is optimal to prefer trees sold in a container with soil.
• For planting, a seedling with one well-developed trunk and a large number of side branches is chosen.
• The trunk must be inoculated. It can be recognized by a ring-shaped growth.

It is better not to buy planting material with a height of more than 1 m. After planting, such a tree will take root for a long time.

Is it possible to plant one cherry on the site

Even if the variety is partially self-fertile, at least two seedlings must be planted on the site. One seedling can be planted provided that cherries or sweet cherries grow nearby with the same flowering time. It is optimal to use three cherry seedlings of different varieties for planting.

Preparing the soil for planting

Regardless of whether planting occurs in summer, spring or autumn, the soil and the planting pit are prepared in advance. The process of preparing the site involves digging the land and applying fertilizers.

1 m² required:

• 15 kg of compost or humus;
• 25 g of potassium;
• 20 g phosphorus;
• lime is added at high acidity from 0.5 to 1 kg;
• for nutritious chernozem, all doses are halved, except for phosphorus.

It is advisable that the chosen place for planting a berry crop in summer or spring walked a year under fallow.

How to plant cherries in spring: a step-by-step guide

Planting a seedling in spring is no different from the procedure performed in summer or autumn. The process consists of the following steps:

• If the planting is done in the spring, then the hole is prepared in the fall, but first they are engaged in the site. In an adult tree, the horizontal root system deepens to 80 cm. Vertical roots grow up to 2 m deep. In order for the horizontal root system to receive oxygen, moisture and nutrients well, the site is plowed. At this time, organic and mineral fertilizers are applied.
• A hole for planting trees in the spring is dug 0.8 m deep, about 1 m wide.
• 2 buckets of sand are added to the clay soil. When planting a seedling in spring on sandy soil, add 1-2 buckets of clay.
• The pit is filled with 2 buckets of black soil, 3 buckets of compost, 1 liter of ash is added. All ingredients are mixed.
• If a tree with an open root system is planted in spring, a mound is formed at the bottom of the hole from the soil. The roots are evenly distributed over the slopes, covered with loose earth, and a wooden peg is installed for support. A seedling with a closed root system is placed on a flat bottom without a mound, filling the gaps with soil. You do not need to install a peg.
• The tree is watered with a bucket of water. After the soil subsides, add earth. A groove for irrigation is formed around the trunk. The trunk circle is covered with mulch.

When planting cherries in spring, it is important to maintain the correct depth. The root collar should remain at ground level. With a deep planting, the roots will develop poorly, and with a shallow planting, they will freeze in winter.

How to feed cherries after planting

Tree care begins immediately after planting. If all minerals and organic matter were initially introduced, then additional feeding in spring and summer is not needed. It is brought in for 3-4 years of life. The next year, the young seedling is fed with nitrogen-containing fertilizer.

Watering cherry seedlings after planting

Watering after planting in spring is carried out as the soil dries out, until the seedling takes root. The culture does not like stagnant water and here you should not overdo it with care. A rooted seedling is watered three times throughout the season, but abundantly. It is allowed to increase the amount of watering in dry summer.

How to transplant cherries

The culture does not respond well to transplantation. This is due to root damage. You can replant trees up to three years old. This is done in early spring, when the juice has not yet begun to move. However, the tree is prepared for the process in the fall. The cherry is dug in from all sides, trying to extract it with a clod of earth. The tree is laid horizontally on an elevated area, covered with earth. The pit is also prepared in the fall. It is filled with a mixture of humus and peat in a 1: 1 ratio and 100 g of complex mineral fertilizer is added.

In the spring, a seedling stored in the ground is dug up. Damaged roots are removed with pruning shears. The cut points are covered with ash. Planting a tree in early spring is carried out so that the root collar protrudes 6 cm above the ground level. The transplanted sweet cherry is watered with 5 buckets of water with dissolved heteroauxin in an amount of 10 ml. The trunk circle is mulched with humus. For better engraftment, the branches are shortened by a fifth of their length.

When transplanting a more mature tree in spring, they try to preserve the earthen lump to the maximum. An appropriate well size is prepared for it. The transplanted berry culture is watered abundantly at least once every three days.

How to plant closed-root cherries

Planting seedlings with a closed root system has its great advantage - a high probability of survival. A tree with a clod of earth can be planted in spring, summer and autumn. The purchased seedling can not be planted immediately if there is no time. The planting material will live in a container with soil without requiring special care. You just need to water it periodically.

Planting closed-root cherries in spring

There are no clearly defined dates for planting trees with closed roots. This can be done starting in early spring after warming up the soil. The tree can even be up to 4 years old. The process is no different from planting cherries with open roots, only there is no need to form a mound from the soil at the bottom of the hole. A peg for support is also not needed. Planting material with a lump of earth is simply lowered into the prepared hole, covered with a fertile mixture, watered.

Planting closed-root cherries in summer

Planting in summer is carried out on a cloudy day.It is better to choose the evening time of the day. In summer, the manure contains many larvae of harmful insects. When preparing a hole, a fertile mixture of chernozem with organic matter is poured with 10 liters of water, dissolving 2 ml of the "Prestige" preparation. If the summer is hot, the crown is shaded immediately after planting until the tree takes root.

Cherry care in the first year of planting

The main care after planting in summer or spring is watering and removing weeds... The soil is periodically loosened. To preserve moisture, the near-stem section is mulched.

How to feed young cherries

Crop care involves regular feeding. The first year the seedling does not need them. Potassium and phosphorus were introduced at planting and will last for three years. Young tree care associated with feeding begins in the second year. In early spring, after the frosts leave, cherries are fertilized with urea. The solution is prepared from 1 bucket of water and 30 g of dry matter. From the fourth year of life, mineral complexes are used for feeding, alternating with organic matter.

How often to water cherry seedlings after planting

After planting in spring or summer, the main care of the seedling is watering. It is enough to do this once a week. Water is poured out so that a layer of earth 40 cm thick is soaked. In this place, the root system of a young tree is located.

Cherry care: general principles

Care for cherries throughout the growing season provides for watering, feeding, mulching the near-stem soil, pest control, and crown formation.

How to feed cherries in spring

The main care in the spring is to feed the cherries with urea. Additionally, for the full development of the crown, nitroammophos is introduced.

How to feed cherries in spring before flowering

Before flowering, top dressing is carried out with urea or ammonium nitrate. Caring for trees of different ages provides for different fertilization rates, which is reflected in the table.

Top dressing of cherries during flowering

Cherry blossoms in spring and summer require special care. Top dressing is performed twice with organic matter and mineral fertilizers. An interval of 2 weeks is maintained between each procedure. The rules of care and feeding rates are shown in the table.

How to feed cherries after flowering

When the cherry blossoms, the feeding does not stop. Care at this time needs careful, because the period of ovary and fruit pouring begins. The tree is fertilized with 300 g of urea. Compost is used from organic matter. For mineral dressings, 400 g of superphosphate and 300 g of potassium salt are taken. At the age of 5 years, limestone is introduced under the root.

Top dressing of cherries in summer

Caring for cherries in summer provides for feeding in June with nitroammophos. At the end of summer, superphosphate and ash are added along with watering. The proportions are shown in the table.

How to water cherries

Cherry care involves regular watering. The tree does not like waterlogging and stagnant water, but reacts well to moisture.

How often do you need to water the cherries

Despite their bad attitude to stagnant water, cherries love moisture. Crop care provides for three obligatory watering:

• in spring in May during the growth of the crown;
• in summer in June, when the fruits begin to pour;
• in the autumn before the onset of cold weather.

In dry summers, the frequency of irrigation is increased. Just as much water is poured under the tree as is needed to soak the soil to a depth of 40 cm.For convenient watering, an annular groove 30 cm deep is cut around the tree.

Watering cherries in spring

Cherry care should be in moderation. Experienced gardeners recommend watering in the spring at the end of flowering. When the cherry is covered with color, it is not advisable to water it. The ovary may crumble from excess water.

Watering cherries in summer

Summer care for cherries begins with watering after flowering. If the summer is dry, the tree is watered in June. The next watering in summer falls on July.

Watering cherries during fruit ripening

Most early and medium varieties ripen in June.In this month of summer, one watering is carried out.

Is it possible to spray cherries during flowering

Caring for berry crops is not complete without the use of pest control measures. The best preparations for spraying cherries are Skor and Horus. They can be used during bud formation and after flowering. When the tree is covered with color, no spraying is performed.

Gardeners who like to provide special care for cherries to obtain a large harvest are sprayed with a solution of honey during flowering. The sweetness attracts bees, improving the pollination process.

Cherry pruning and shaping

A feature of caring for cherries, like for any tree, is the formation of the crown. A young seedling, when planted in spring, summer or autumn, is pruned so as to balance the aboveground and underground parts. 3-4 strong branches are left on the tree, shortening them by 1/3 of the length. The central trunk is cut so that its tip is 25 cm above the skeletal branches.

The video tells about the rules cherry trimming:

When forming the crown, pruning is carried out without leaving hemp. On the lower tier, 3 branches are left, on the second - 2 and on the upper one skeletal branch.

When the height of the tree reaches 3 m, the top is cut off. This allows you to slow down growth. Caring for cherries up to the age of five does not require sanitary pruning. Further, damaged and incorrectly grown unnecessary branches are removed.

Mulching

If you fill up the near-stem section with mulch, it simplifies the care of cherries: moisture evaporation is prevented, weed growth is reduced. For these purposes, use straw or peat. Sawdust as mulch is poorly suited, as there is a threat of increasing soil acidity. The mulch is poured with a thickness of more than 5 cm, and it should tightly adjoin the cherry tree trunk.

Errors made by gardeners when planting and growing cherries

Mistakes in caring for cherries will, at best, result in a loss of harvest. In the worst case, crown growth will slow down, foliage, ovary and color will begin to fall off, the tree will die. A list of common mistakes when caring for a crop is shown in the table.

Conclusion

Planting cherries is not a complicated process. However, it is simply impossible to get a good harvest of berries without providing the culture with proper care. The tree will thank you for the labors with tasty and healthy fruits, which are even used in folk medicine.

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