Young garden
Please tell me, dear forum users, when is it better to plant a young garden in spring or autumn? I bought an old house with an old garden and want to update it
Please tell me, dear forum users, when is it better to plant a young garden in spring or autumn? I bought an old house with an old garden and want to update it
It depends on what kind of trees you plant. If it's nuts, hazel, hazelnuts, then it's better in the fall. And apple trees, pears, apricots, plums prefer spring.
I completely agree with the previous answer, there is little specificity in the question. Landscaping a yard usually begins with planting fruit trees and shrubs in the spring. However, in frosty times the garden is not particularly pleasing to the eye, to avoid this, I advise you to plant some coniferous trees. In our latitudes, planting coniferous trees is considered ideal in the fall, as soon as their growing season ends. Let's say juniper or fir.
If I understand you correctly, then you want fruit trees? The usual time for planting them is spring, at which time young seedlings are sold. I think you won’t have any problems with the seedlings; they are usually sold already trimmed, or the seller will definitely advise you on how to prune them correctly after planting.
It all depends on the climate zone in which you live. If the winters are not harsh, then you can plant the tree in the fall, providing it with good insulation. But mostly fruit trees are planted in the spring, then they have time to get stronger and take root by winter.
If you want to make a new one from an old plot, then you need to take care not only of new seedlings, but also of the land.Give it a rest, fertilize it well, then plan where, what and how it will grow, and then plant it.
Of course, you need to immediately provide the correct distances between trees, taking into account the variety, type and height. In addition, trees should be planted so that vigorous trees do not block the dwarf trees from the sun. It is better to plant seedlings, however, in the fall.
According to the logic of things and according to the rules, almost all planting work should be carried out in the spring, so that the plants take root and become stronger during the summer season. And now, in the fall, you can start clearing the site, so as not to have to do it in the spring.
I planted all the trees in the garden in the fall, they all took off well and bear fruit well. Therefore, it is quite possible to plant a young garden both in spring and in autumn. I don't see any difference in this.
I have just the opposite experience. Whatever I planted in the fall, practically nothing took root. Perhaps my region has a harsher climate than yours. So no contradictions.
Over the last 10-15 years, our winters have become quite mild and frosts below 20 degrees are extremely rare. But there was a case before when at my dacha in mid-November, two peaches and apricots froze, and they had already started growing and grew for a couple of seasons.
Peaches, apricots... You'll probably be from the southern regions? In our Moscow region there is no point in even planting such fruit trees. Maximum apples, pears, plums and cherries. The rest simply won't take root.
Fruit trees on dwarf rootstocks begin to bear fruit very quickly. True, their frost resistance is lower than that of vigorous trees. I like dwarf cherries; they bear fruit abundantly and do not take up much space in the garden.
They don’t take root with me at all, unlike ordinary cherries. I definitely tried to plant them three times, a couple of times based on weight, once in the fall. As a result, a maximum of a year and a half, and then they dry out. Why? I do not even know.
Dwarf cherries have low frost resistance, so they die. If you wrap the cherries for the winter, then there will be no problems with them. All that remains is to dig, weed and water the garden.