Apricot

Apricots are an excellent raw material for the processing, use them in food in fresh or dried . They contain a lot of vitamin A, which was the basis for the emergence of an opinion on a very beneficial effect on human health apricots . The highest percentage of people living to old age exceeding 100 years, there isnamely in areas of cultivation and consumption of apricots .

This culture is hardly cultivated in home gardens in the Non-Chernozem zone 'of the RSFSR . But enthusiasts can try to grow apricots, using the recommendations for the conditions of Poland .

Sorta . Proposed varieties are listed in order of their ripening .

Earley orange - the fruit ripens in mid-July, they are of medium size, have the form of slightly elongated bowl, orange carmine flush with a large, very tasty .

Tree vigorous, comes into bearing early fruiting abundantly, relatively hardy .

Zalischyky - fruits ripen in late July, they are quite large, okruglb-oval, orange-gold with a point red blush, quite tasty .

The tree is quite vigorous, comes into bearing early fruiting abundantly, relatively hardy .

Iengeosky earlier - the fruit ripens in late July - early August, they are medium size, their shape is round-ovate, light orange to bright red and dark speckles .

Tree vigorous, early entering a period of fruiting and fruiting abundantly, relatively hardy .

Moorpark - fruits ripen in the first half of August, they are quite large, as a slightly elongated ball, with a faint orange glow, delicious .

Tree vigorous, abundant fruits and frequency, average frost .

Luizeta - fruits ripen in the first half of August, they are quite large, as a slightly elongated bowl, light orange with a light blush, very tasty .

Tree vigorous, early entering a period of fruiting and fruiting abundantly, frost average .

Climate and soil requirements . Apricots come from warm countries, so the success of their cultivation is primarily determined by temperature. To cultivate this culture is not recommended, even in the northern regions of Poland . In winter can freeze solid trunk and stems, and flowers of spring frosts kill because apricots bloom before all cultivated with usfruit trees .

Apricot needs a powerful warm and permeable soil . It grows well in calcareous soils . Cultivation favors dry continental summer .

The distance between the trees and care for them . Trees planted on 5x5 or 5x4 distance m . It is possible to form their natural, free-tiered crown or boiler-shaped (vaso-shaped), very well illuminated by the sun .

After the formation of crown pruning produces a small, limited mainly by removing shrunken or damaged branches. After pruning wounds heal poorly, so this operation should be carried out in the most favorable time, that is, as late as possible, only in May .

System content of soil and fertilizer are the same as in the cultivation of plums and other stone fruits .