Plant apple tree: That's how it works

Plant apple tree: location and planting time

• Apple trees like it special sunny to partially shaded. 
• Make sure you have sufficient clearance to other trees, walls or hedges so that the roots have enough space.
• Both dryness and moisture do not get the substrate well? a good mediocrity is optimal. One easy calcareous, moist and loose clay soil like apple trees especially like.
• Generally we can plant the fruit tree all year round. However, the best planting time is the autumnbecause the trees can beat roots better over the winter.
• What also needs to be considered: apple trees need in the vicinityPollinators for pollination, since all apple varieties are self-sterile. In rural areas, there is usually no problem as other apple trees are nearby. In the city you should plant a second tree. So before we decide on an apple variety, we should find out which pollinator is needed.

Plant apple tree: step by step

The right preparation

1. Before we want to use our tree, we should prepare the soil. Take off the grass and pick up a wide hole that is twice the size of the root ball (about 50 centimeters deep).
2. Loosen the sole in the planting hole with a grave fork.
3. Mix the excavated soil with compost.

Insert tree

1. The young fruit tree should be used so that the processing point (the trunk thickening over the roots) is about ten centimeters above the ground hole.
2. The tree needs support posts to grow well. Defines the positions of the piles. The distance between trunk and post should be about ten to fifteen centimeters.
3. Then hit the tree piles.

Fill the planting hole

1. The enriched excavation can now be filled into the hole and easily started.
2. Tie the tree to the supports with a coconut rope. The rope is tied around the pole and tree in eight shapes, the interspaces are then wrapped and the two ends finally knotted.
3. Watering the apple tree is important for the roots to grow. At best, dig a pouring lip around the tree so that the water can not run off to the side.

Plant apple tree: The best care tips

• To water: The first watering is also called slushing because we need to provide the fruit trees with a lot of moisture. Then we should make sure that the earth is always moist? not too wet and not too dry. The water should not be poured directly to the trunk, but to the edge of the tree disc. Only then will all the roots be moistened.
• To cut: To prevent disease, the foliage should be removed regularly around the apple trees. Immediately after planting, we can cut back the tree to give it a waxing direction and shape. In this fruit tree cut, we reduce the crown to a main trunk and four to six lateral shoots. From the second year on we have to do a winter cut once a year to remove damaged, crossing or dead shoots and twigs.
• Fertilize:The proper care of the apple tree also includes fertilization. The young apple trees do not yet have to be fertilized, as we have mixed nutrient-rich compost into the soil during planting. From the third year we can mix some compost once a year into the earth.

Plant apple tree: Which apple varieties are recommended?

Not only the different taste of apple varieties is crucial, but also the shape and size of the tree. Finally, the tree must also have enough space in the garden. In the growth habit one differentiates between the Hochstamm, the half-trunk, the bush tree or the Niederstamm. If space is limited, column fruit is also suitable.

Some varieties of fruit trees can be eaten right after harvest and others need time to develop the flavor. Therefore, they differSummer apples, autumn apples and winter apples in yourripe for picking and ripe for consumption, Popular varieties for the garden include "Peach Red Summer Apple", "Boskoop", "Cox Orange", "Elstar", "Alkmene", "Rebella", "Gold Parmaen".

More gardening tips for your home garden can be found on our Pinterest pin board. Here you can find light strawberries, raspberries and currants.

How to plant an apple tree (May 2024).