Peach

Peaches considered to be one of the most delicious fruit in the world . In addition, they have high nutritional and biological properties . The content of vitamin A are second only apricots . Peaches are the adornment of any assortment of fresh fruit, bring to the table for dessert, and are an excellent raw material for delicious compote .

However, all of these deserve praise only fully grown fruit, plucked from the tree when it reaches full maturity consumer . These requirements do not match the imported peaches, so they can not compete with fruit grown on the site .

This culture is not cultivated in the Non-chernozem zone of the RSFSR, only the most intrepid amateur gardeners can grow a peach with the device special protection from adverse temperature .

Sorta . For cultivation in the garden we recommend the following varieties listed in the sequence of maturation :

May Flower - fruit ripens in mid-July, they are medium-sized, round, light green with carmine blush, bone tight to creamy-white flesh, quite tasty .

Tree of medium height, comes into bearing early fruiting is not very abundant, is sensitive to frost .

Sunhaven - fruits ripen in late July, they are large, round, yellow-orange to bright red, bone behind the yellow-orange pulp, very tasty .

Tree vigorous, fruiting is not very abundant, is sensitive to frost .

Amsden - fruits ripen in late July, they are medium-sized or small, round, green and cream with dark blush, bone fused with the green-white flesh, quite tasty .

Tree of medium height, into early fruiting, fruiting abundantly, relatively hardy .

Diksired - fruits ripen at the junction of July and August, they are medium-sized, round, orange with dark crimson, yellow-orange pulp, bone adjacent to the pulp, very tasty . The tree reaches a relatively small size, into early fruiting period and abundantly fruits, frost average .

Dzherseyland - fruits ripen in the first half of August, they are large, round, orange with bright red, orange pulp, about the red bone, bone separated from the pulp, very tasty .

The tree is quite vigorous, gives abundant harvests, relatively hardy .

Redhaven - fruit ripens in mid-August, they are of medium size, slightly elongated, with a bright orange glow, the flesh is yellow-orange, red around the bones, bone separated from the pulp, very tasty .

Tree of medium height, comes into bearing very early, good fruit, relatively hardy .

Veteran - fruits ripen in the second half of August, they are medium-sized, round, orange with dark blush, flesh is yellow-orange, red around the bones, bone separated from the pulp, fruit delicious .

Wood slightly tall, fruiting good, relatively hardy .

Meredith - fruits ripen in late August - early September, they are medium size or large, round, orange with dark blush, flesh is yellow-orange, red around the bones, bone separated from the pulp, delicious .

Wood slightly tall, early entering a period of fruiting and gives abundant harvests, relatively hardy .

Ezhikovsky seedling - the fruit ripens in early September, they are medium-sized, round, light green with a strong blush, white pulp, bone behind the flesh, delicious .

The tree is medium, comes into bearing early and abundant fruiting, relatively hardy .

Areas of cultivation . In the south-western regions of Poland can be cultivated early and non-frost resistant varieties, such Sunhaven . In other areas, especially in poor areas should be planted only frost-resistant varieties, such as Meredith, Veteran or Ezhikovsky seedling .

Climate and soil requirements . Do the same with apricot peach climatic and soil requirements . They love warm and permeable soil, dry and hot summer .

The distance between the trees and their formation . Peach should be planted thicker than apricot, taking the distance between the trees 4x4 or 4x3 m . Kroon is possible to form a natural, free-tiered and best of all boiler-shaped (vaso-shaped) . In the latter case, the crown is well illuminated by the sun, which promotes maturation of delicious fruits . skeletal branchesboiler-shaped crown should branch out around the ground, making it easier sprinkled them with earth to protect from freezing .

Care for the trees . After the entry into the period of fruiting trees greatly thinned . Flower buds have primarily tied to the annual shoots, so pruning should encourage the tree to give more of shoots . It is best to make it just before flowering, when clearly visible on the run with swollen flowerthe kidneys .

Thinning leaves a strong annual shoots with flower buds and remove all weak shoots without flower buds or shoots, thickening crown .

Fertilizers and soil content of the system are the same as in the cultivation of apricots and other stone fruits . In areas rather discouraging for growing peach trees need to be protected from the winter cold, sprinkling the ground the trunk and lower branches .