If you have decided to put the young apple orchard, at the end of March it is possible to go behind saplings to the nearest nursery. You should not buy apple-trees in the market or from roadside. They have to be high-quality and healthy.
Preparation of landing hole
It is the best of all to buy saplings of two grades – early and late. Then you will be all summer and fall are provided with fresh apples. Saplings are acquired and delivered to the site. It is possible to start landing. First of all, it is necessary to decide on the place. For this purpose it is necessary to have the plan of future garden. It is the best of all to plant apple-trees from North side of the seasonal dacha. To the south it is possible to place berry bushes, vegetable cultures and flowers.
Begin to dig landing hole, previously having determined its sizes. The landing board will help with it. It is necessary to take board which length will be equal to diameter of hole. In the center of board to make opening and to hammer into it peg. For peg bind rope on which mark circle of future hole. It is its outer edge. At excavation of hole the earth develops in two different heaps. In one the top fertile soil layer, in another – its base layer is located.
Further the stake about 1.5 m and not less than 5 cm long in the diameter, on depth of 20-25 cm is driven in into the center of the dug-out hole. Previously it should be cleaned from knots and bark. To it the tree after landing will become attached. The stake top after landing of tree has to be at the level of the first knot of krone of sapling. Depending on the size of radical lump of sapling, the hole digs from 60 to 80 cm in depth. Then in ready hole on bottom it is necessary to fill a little earth, taken out from the top fertile layer, 10 kg of humus, 1 kg of superphosphate and liter mug of wood ashes. If the soil on the site sour, is added by 1 more kg of lime. All this mixes up and formed in the form of small hillock at the bottom of landing hole.
Now boarding
On this hillock the sapling is put. Previously its roots should be dipped in water, and then in the liquid talker from clay. The sapling is located in hole from North side from stake, closely to it. Roots of sapling are accurately and evenly distributed on the surface of the soil. Then they are covered with earth from heap with fertile soil. When the layer of the earth is 15 cm, pours down water. It is important that between roots there were no emptiness, for this purpose the earth needs to be obtoptat slightly. After watering other earth which is taken out from base layer is filled up. And the sapling pours down water again – 2-3 buckets on one tree. The apple-tree tree has to stand in hole strongly and exactly. He should be tied to stake, having enclosed soft fabric between trunk and rope or wire. In the first months the sapling needs to be watered at least once a month. The first fertilizing is given in six months – nitrogen and complex of mineral fertilizers.