August-beginning of September - the time of active ripening of the harvest. If you want to update or plant a plum in your garden, it is right now you can choose a variety of taste, with maximum advantages and minimal disadvantages. You can see them from your neighbors in the country areas.
It is important to determine which plants you need: tall or short, large-scale or fine-forming, dessert taste or for blanks with pleasant acid. And seeing something new, unusual, not even always planned, maybe he wants to replenish his collection of new items. In any case, in the fall in the nursery you will come not with empty hands, but with a pre-prepared list of desired varieties.
Beginner gardeners who have a plot of 6 acres, we advise not to get involved in quantity, and planted 3-4 plants with simultaneous flowering, but in various maturity times. And a few years later you will get a conveyor of fresh drain. Successful cultivation of these trees largely depends on the proper selection of varieties: they must be recommended for your zone. In the central region of Russia, one of the main requirements for the variety is a reliable winter hardiness. And during zoning, preference is given to self-free, high-yielding varieties with large delicious fruits.
The Gospectra for the Central Strip includes varieties: early ripening - morning, opal, Volga Beauty, Surpulsion, Red, Red, Yahontovy; Middle - Blue Dar, Egg Blue, Sukha-Novskaya, Cantemirovka, Eurasia-21, Rencle Tambovsky, Smolinka; Late - Tula Black, the memory of Timiryazev, Hungarian Moscow, Bochovchanka, Alexy. Among them are self-album (do not require pollinator) -aecission, morning, opal, blue gift, egg blue, Tula black, Timiryazev's memory, Blue Dar.
Let us dwell on new plum grades - Yakhontov, Employed, Alexy, Morning, Blue Dar, Sukhanovskaya, - included in the State Register of Selection Achievements in the Central Region of Russia, and one, more than 50 years old, and since then confidently defending the right to exist in the gardens The middle strip is the memory of thymryazev.
• Yahontovy. With very high yield (up to 70 kg from wood), with large (30-35 g), bright yellow, rounded fruits dessert taste, maturing on August 15-18. The bone is well separated from meakty. Trees halfall (3-5 m height), with an oval, raised crown. Winter hardiness and disease resistance are average.
• Morning. High-yielding (20-30 kg from a tree), self-aged variety with large (30-35 g), greenish yellow with pink rumyantic, acid-sweet fruits, maturing 10-15 august. The bone of medium size, easily lags behind the pulp. Trees are stripped (4-4.5 m), with an oval slightly raised crown. Winter hardiness and disease resistance are high.
• Blue gift. It is highlighted by high yield and good winter hardiness. The trees are average (high up to 3 m), with an oval raised crown, giving up to 35 kg plums from the tree. Sort-free, self-duty. Maintenance (weighing 14-16 g), dark purple, sweet fruits ripen August 20-25. Winter hardiness and disease resistance are average.
• Sukhanovskaya. It gives a high, 25-30 kg per tree, harvest, alas, not every year. medium size fruit (about 20 g weight), round, red-violet, juicy sour-sweet, mature 20-25 August. Small bone hard behind the flesh. Trees sredneroslye (3 m) with a rounded crown. Grade samobesplodny best pollinators for it - sort of plum home. Winter hardiness and resistance to diseases medium.
• Alexy. Undersized (height of 1.5-2 m) trees of the class with the raised circular crown give a high yield (15-20 kg per tree) pear, red-violet with a wax coating, weighing about 20 g fruit ripening September 10-15. Winter hardiness and resistance to fungal diseases medium.
• Memory Timiryazev. stands very high yield (more than 30 kg of plums from the tree), samoplodnye, good replacement ability to case of freezing. Trees sredneroslye (up to 3 m high) with a rounded crown slightly bowed. medium size fruit (20-25 g), reddish yellow, sour-sweet, dense, juicy flesh ripen September 5-10. Stone is a small, easy to falls short of the pulp. Average hardiness, disease resistance higher than the average. With a good selection of varieties, planting the right (of which we will describe in the next issue of the newspaper) and care can regularly receive high yields of plums.
• curious. Characterized by high yields (25-30 kg per tree) and good quality of the fruit. Trees sredneroslye (2.5-3 m height) with rounded crown. average value fruits (weighing okolo20 g), oval, orange-brown to green subcutaneous points ripen 20-25 August. Small Bone well separated from the fruit pulp.
Author of the article: Anatoly Mikheev, the candidate with the. / X. science
Important:
How to plant an apple tree - valuable tips on how to properly plant apple trees.
ON A NOTE:
In central Russia are found mainly varieties of plum home. They are divided into two groups - Greengage and Hungarian. In the first fruits are rounded, almost spherical, and the second - oval.
OUR REFERENCE:
Plum attracts gardeners many qualities. First, the early appearance of fruit: the first crop to give the 3-4th year after planting. Secondly, high yield: with one adult plants were collected up to 30 kg of fruit. And, third, long (15-20 years) fruiting.