The garden at the dacha or in the courtyard of a private house isthe dream of many people. It's nice to spend time on the bench among the trees with a book in hand. But people want to see not only nature, but also have a good harvest to collect fruit. The garden needs care. It is necessary to know exactly how and when to properly cut fruit trees, at what time of year it is better to carry out these actions, because the quality of the harvest will depend on the proper care.
Many amateur gardeners believe that it is easy todo without pruning fruit trees. In their opinion, the crown itself grows, fruits will appear earlier, there will be a high yield. No, this assumption is erroneous, the correct pruning of trees is the guarantee of a long fruit life. Also, with each season, the volume of harvest will increase.
Pruning fruit trees and shrubs is important.Every gardener should understand this and make the right actions. Pruning is needed for young, old and aging trees. Thus, the wood rejuvenates and fructifies better. And many valuable varieties, bred by breeders, especially need pruning. There are specialists who offer their professional services in the garden.
Gardeners often do not pay much attention to the terms of rejuvenation of the garden plot. Let's figure out when the spring pruning of fruit trees is to be made.
The best time is the end of February or the beginning of March,when there is a danger of a return of severe frosts. Beginning pruning with young pome fruits. First these are pears and apple trees, black and red currants (if the thickness of the snow allows).
In May-June pruning is carried out during flowering of trees and shrubs. Adult plants can be rejuvenated even after sap flow, so reduce the recovery processes of growth.
During the summer period, somecultures. This procedure allows you to delay the flowering of the tree for the next year, which helps to minimize crop losses during early frosts (for example, it is relevant for apricot). They also break and pinch unnecessary shoots. In the summer season, trimmed ornamental plants. To restore flowering, remove inflorescences and flowers.
If gardeners know how to cut fruit trees in spring, then the harvest of the garden will always please the owner with healthy and juicy fruits. The plant will live for many years.
For the rejuvenation of trees and shrubs apply different types of trimming, they are about five, it is also possible to combine.
The first type is the forming one.Initially, you want to give the desired shape and size of the crown. But you need to know how to properly trim the fruit trees. All unnecessary branches are truncated near the trunk, large ones by a third, thin ones by half.
The third type is rejuvenating. Such pruning is carried out for the maximum growth of all branches (old and young).
The fourth type is regenerative. If the tree or its branches are subjected to frost or mechanical damage, then partial pruning is carried out.
The fifth type is sanitary. This is pruning damaged, painful, dry or broken branches. In practice, gardeners often combine all types of rejuvenation.
In order to understand how and when correctlycut fruit trees, it is enough to study the literature and try to apply the knowledge gained. Often people turn to specialists for help. Pruning fruit trees is different from pruning decorative shrubs, because pears, apricots, apple trees, currants, cherries are grown to produce tasty fruits and berries. When inexperienced gardeners themselves are pruning, then often a little later shoots grow. They need to be deleted, perhaps several times. If you properly take care of trees that have large roots, they can live up to thirty years. Vegetation, whose roots are short, fructifies much earlier (three years after planting).
Each fruit tree needs a separatecare. Apple tree in our country is quite popular. It grows in almost every garden. Pruning apple trees depends on the general condition of the tree: age, structural features, crowns. In a separate period of time, different actions are taken. At the time when the apple tree is bearing fruit, cut it off by a regulating kind. During the aging period, rejuvenation is performed. During the growth and development of the tree, forming pruning is carried out.
Gardeners want the most effectiveuse your site. For this purpose, fruit trees and berry bushes are cut as much as possible. In pears, the crown itself is like a pyramid, so it does not require constant adjustment. One problem: the tree quickly starts up vertical branches, some need to be removed, the rest turn into fruit trees.
Stone fruit plants form withtwo-four-year-old. For a long time you can not tighten with pruning, as cherries, plums and cherries are very difficult to bring into the desired shape. Fruit-bearing stone fruit trees suffer a heavy removal of large branches.
There are two ways of pruning fruit trees.The first is called shortening - partial shoots and branches are removed. This approach stimulates the growth of the kidneys. You can shorten severely, half the branch, medium - one third, and weakly - a quarter of the shoot is removed. With this method, the trees are rejuvenated. If the branches are large and old, then a strong pruning is performed.
The second method is called thinning (cutting). In this case, branches and shoots are completely removed. The method is suitable for fruit trees, the crowns of which are too thick.
If you properly care for the garden, fresh and juicy fruit will always be present on your table!
