One of interesting grades of fruit-trees is the Chinese (Slivolistnoye) apple, or kitayka. Fruits of this apple-tree have specific taste. At the same time they are ideal for conservation. Preparations with the Chinese apple not only tasty and fragrant, but also very beautiful. Kitayka whose magnificent blossoming and aroma attracts insects to pollination, thereby promoting increase in productivity of all garden, even the beginning gardener will be able to grow up on the site.
It is required to you
- - sapling;
- - shovel;
- - pitchfork;
- - watering can;
- - fertilizers.
Instruction
1. If you want to plant in the garden apple-tree kitayka, choose the highest place on the site with low level of underground water. At the same time it has to be the most solar. The perfect place is the front garden located under house windows from the South and southeast side. In this place the sunshine reflected from wall provide the best heating of the soil that promotes more rapid growth of tree.
2. After you decide on the place, prepare landing hole under apple-tree in which it is necessary to bring humus or manure. But be not overzealous with introduction of organic chemistry as the excessive amount of nitrogen promotes appearance of plant louse of whom further it will be very difficult to get rid.
3. Before planting sapling to the earth, attentively examine its roots. If they have a little dried up, before directly landing support them 48 hours in water.
4. The Chinese apple begins to fructify in two-three years, depending on that, your soil is how rich. At this time you need to delete weeds in pristvolny circle in radius not less than 1.5 m, from young escapes and the tree of times a week is abundant to water plant louse. It will allow your tree to increase krone.
5. In year or two take care of introduction of complex fertilizers. The first root fertilizing needs to be done in the early spring before blossoming. For this purpose part 200 g of urea (carbamide) in 10 liters of water, and process the root system of apple-tree.
6. At that time when the tree will begin to fructify, carry out the second fertilizing for what part in 10 l of water 1 glass to nitrophoska. This solution will be enough for processing of one tree. The third substern it is necessary carry out after harvesting from tree. For this purpose part glass of superphosphate and ½ glasses of sulfate of potassium in 10 l of water.
7. For the second year after landing make cutting of kitayka for normal development of crown, stable fructification and also maintaining decorative properties. During cutting do not forget to leave several skeletal branches which are directed in different directions on trunk. For the third year of life of tree cut off all escapes which grow below the first skeletal branch. Remove also sick, too thin and dry escapes.
8. Further care for the Chinese apple differs in nothing from care for the most normal apple-tree.