There is no doubt that most people are too kind to figs and thus they don't crop. They have been grown successfully in Great Britain since the time of Henry VIII. There are signs that the Romans may have brought the fig with them hundreds of years before.
Planting can be done any time in the winter, but it is best to plant the moment all the leaves have fallen in November. I plant trees as two-year-olds; that is, two years from layering, for he invariably propagated his trees that way though they will strike quite well from cuttings.
The cooking cherries can be fed more than the sweet cherries because they must be encouraged to produce new wood. If they are mulched with straw a foot deep, a fish fertilizer may be given at 3 oz. to the sq. yard, in February and again in August. The mulch is undoubtedly the most important thing because the fruit cannot swell properly unless the fruits can get all the moisture they need. Where mulching is not carried out watering has to be done regularly during hot summers, in June and July.
Morellos can be planted as bush trees, 18 feet apart, but they are very popular as fan-trained trees on north walls, at 15 feet apart. Time to plant is November, while the soil is still warm. Buy two-year-old bush trees or three-year-old fan- trained trees.
To be sure of a crop, the fig should be planted against a south warm wall; a loam overlying chalk or hard limestone is good because this discourages the production of tap roots. I had seen figs do well on a thin soil over sand.
If one is to succeed with sour cherry pruning, it does mean that the pruning must be fairly ruthless after the first six years. After ten years there is usually a fair amount of dead wood to cut out owing to the Brown Rot Disease. It is better not to grass down sour cherries but to grow them on cultivated land which is properly mulched, so that the roots need not be disturbed by cultivation. - 15266
Planting can be done any time in the winter, but it is best to plant the moment all the leaves have fallen in November. I plant trees as two-year-olds; that is, two years from layering, for he invariably propagated his trees that way though they will strike quite well from cuttings.
The cooking cherries can be fed more than the sweet cherries because they must be encouraged to produce new wood. If they are mulched with straw a foot deep, a fish fertilizer may be given at 3 oz. to the sq. yard, in February and again in August. The mulch is undoubtedly the most important thing because the fruit cannot swell properly unless the fruits can get all the moisture they need. Where mulching is not carried out watering has to be done regularly during hot summers, in June and July.
Morellos can be planted as bush trees, 18 feet apart, but they are very popular as fan-trained trees on north walls, at 15 feet apart. Time to plant is November, while the soil is still warm. Buy two-year-old bush trees or three-year-old fan- trained trees.
To be sure of a crop, the fig should be planted against a south warm wall; a loam overlying chalk or hard limestone is good because this discourages the production of tap roots. I had seen figs do well on a thin soil over sand.
If one is to succeed with sour cherry pruning, it does mean that the pruning must be fairly ruthless after the first six years. After ten years there is usually a fair amount of dead wood to cut out owing to the Brown Rot Disease. It is better not to grass down sour cherries but to grow them on cultivated land which is properly mulched, so that the roots need not be disturbed by cultivation. - 15266
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An early spring brings the blossom of fruit trees in your garden before the air is warm and dry.
