How to increase the yield of cherries?
We all love cherry jam, compote, pies and dumplings with cherries, but there is nothing to say about cherry liqueur! In the spring, cherries delight us with stunningly beautiful, exuberant flowering, and in the summer we expect great cherry yields. So what to do and how to help our trees so that the yield of cherries is really rich?
To plant cherries to increase yields, it is best in spring; during autumn planting, most of the seedlings die. When planting, choose a sunny place in which direct sunlight will hit the tree until the evening.
It is important that the place is not too wet - if the groundwater is close enough, your cherry harvest will not be good. We fertilize the soil with compost, since cherries absorb plant organic matter much faster.
Lime is suitable as a fertilizer, cherry respects it very much, and this is one of the ways to increase the yield of cherries. And also potassium salts - in the spring they will protect against fungal diseases, help to survive the dry summer and, when applied in the fall, will help the tree to adapt to winter conditions.
Cherry is favorably influenced and significantly strengthened by neighboring plants, which enrich the soil with natural nitrogen, help release phosphates from the soil and convert them into compounds available for cherries.
In the near-stem circle of the cherry tree, you can plant calendula, nasturtium, hostu, lupine, primrose, as well as turnips or peas.
And undesirable neighbors for cherries will be all conifers, honeysuckle, lilies, daffodils, tulips, irises, as well as carrots, parsley and celery.
All types of cherries are cross-pollinated, so on the site it is necessary to plant not one, but two or three different varieties that will pollinate each other.
Take your time to prune a cherry tree to increase the yield of cherries unless absolutely necessary, as the cuts do not overgrow well and through them an infection can enter the tree.
If such a need nevertheless arises, work with clean and as sharp tools as possible, the health of your tree depends on them.
And be sure to immediately process all the cuts and cuts with a special garden pitch. Every spring, inspect the trunk carefully for damage. If you find them, you need to treat the damaged area with ash and then be sure to cover the trunk with lime.
Another rule for increasing the yield of cherries is the prevention of fungal diseases and pests. We fight them by spraying. This procedure should be carried out when the kidneys are still asleep with the help of special preparations such as Kinmix, Karbofos, IskraBio.
Pests that threaten cherry trees are cherry aphid, cherry shoot moth, cherry slimy sawfly. Any of the drugs listed above will help you cope with them and get more cherry yields from the tree.
