The quince is low tree of bizzare shape. Therefore it is capable to decorate any garden. Besides, it very beautifully blossoms and yields the fragrant fruits which are applied to production of fruit jelly, confiture and as original additive in jam or pie. The quince can be grown up from seeds, but it is better to accelerate process and to plant sapling.
Instruction
1. First of all choose the right place for landing of tree. The quince well grows on flat sites and low slopes – mainly southwest. It has to be well protected from cold wind, get warm the sun and have fertile soil for development. If the earth in the chosen place poor, introduce in it fertilizers under plowing on depth of 20-25 cm. Well the quince reacts to compost or the rerotting manure.
2. It is better to plant tree in the fall or in the spring. If it is several saplings, then the scheme of landing 5 x 3 or 6 x 4 m. It is better to take several different grades that there was cross-pollination. Landing holes should be prepared in advance. Their width has to be 70 - 100 cm, and depth - about 70 cm that to roots it was free. At disembarkation of quince of hole fill with fertile soil. Then water each sapling at the rate of 2-3 buckets of water, zamulchiruyta pristvolny circles with peat or humus on layer of 3-5 cm.
3. Do not forget to cut off tree or trees constantly. Cut the sick and weak branches growing inside the escapes, branches rubbing the friend about the friend. Strong escapes also should be cut - to shorten. If they have reached length more than 50 cm, cut off them on 1/3. Form krone correctly, then the tree will better fructify.
4. You keep space of young trees under pure steam, that is free. It will be possible to occupy wide row-spacings under vegetables later. row-spacings 3-4 m wide borrow under vegetables. Regularly fertilize quince, especially when it begins to fructify. Under the first soil cultivation bring 30-60 kg/hectare of the operating nitrogen in the spring (10-20 g/sq.m of ammonium nitrate or urea), in July fertilize 15-30 g/sq.m to nitrophoska, in the fall of 1 times in 2-3 years bring under the soil 4-6 kg/sq.m of manure or compost.