Hawthorn – quite beautiful plant with elegant bushes, generously overgrown bright red berries. Grow up hawthorn many decades, it enjoys the popularity for unpretentiousness in cultivation and beauty. Berries contain large amount of the vitamins necessary for human health. As to grow up hawthorn on the site?
Instruction
1. The hawthorn is not exacting to the soil at all therefore it can even be grown up successfully where other cultures cannot grow. As at this plant roots are well developed, it gives the chance not to care for quality of soil, it will be able to take root everywhere. The bush is photophilous, but can grow also in easy half-shade. The grown-up fruits on light will have more sweet taste.
2. If you have decided to grow up not one bush, and a little for live fencing, observe distances boundary them in one-three meters. Depth of landing hole - 60-70 centimeters, root neck at the same time has to be at the level of the soil. The fertile and well trained soil rich with lime is desirable for cultivation of hawthorn. It can be prepared from two parts of humus, two parts of the sheet earth, one part of sand and one part of peat compost. Add five kilograms of lime and 300 grams of phosphate rock to hole.
3. Hygrophilous grades of hawthorn are recommended to be watered once a month, spending 10-12 liters of water for one plant. During drought water bush two times a month exactly in the same volume. For drought-resistant species of plant, watering is not required at all (if rains drop out normal).
4. In the fall and dig over the soil on shovel bayonet in the spring, at the same time deleting weeds near plant. After landing mulch pristvolny circle peat or the earth layer in three centimeters. The hawthorn does not need additional fertilizing, though reacts to them very positively. Signal to their implementation – deterioration in fructification and delay of growth.
5. Hawthorn bushes well transfer cutting as have ability of rapid growth of escapes. Delete in the spring sick and dry branches by means of secateurs. If the hawthorn is green hedge in your case, then strong cutting to one third of length of escape is allowed. Densely growing bushes can give the form of sphere, square or pyramid.