Hard peaches worth trying
The choice of peach varieties recommended for cultivation in gardens is large and is growing every year. There are varieties with white, yellow or even reddish flesh. Among them there are also very early varieties, such as 'Kijowska Wczesna' or 'Springtime', as well as late ones (e.g. 'Suncrest'), which mature at the turn of August and September.In gardens, practically 100% of the varieties are typical dessert varieties.The most famous and appreciated are 'Redhaven', 'Reliance' or 'Harnaś'.
They are characterized by a soft, delicate and very juicy flesh. However, the ripe fruit of these varieties overrides very quickly after picking and softens after a day of storage.Industrial peaches are a different group of varieties.Unlike typical dessert varieties, their flesh is firm and firm, and even after complete ripening the fruit remains relatively hard.Such peaches are described as firm. These varieties can be found mainly in cans in syrup, because their flesh does not overcook during pasteurization.
These peaches are also suitable for direct consumption. They have a sweet, tasty and crunchy flesh that sticks to the stone. After picking, they soften extremely slowly and do not spoil as quickly as the dessert varieties.Virtually all hardwoods are distinguished by very good fruiting, exceeding the fertility of many dessert varieties, at the same time they are easy to handle and their cultivation does not differ from the dessert varieties.
Recommended varieties
Compared to dessert varieties, the choice of hardwood peaches is very small. In tree nurseries we can meet the 'Babygold' variety with numbers 5, 6, 7 or 9, which denote the early age group.The higher the numbers, the later the fruit will ripen. The 'Babygold' variety is distinguished by light, sweet flesh and a delicate blush that appears on the sunlit part of the fruit. Other varieties worth recommending are: 'Vinegold', 'Veecling' and 'Virgil'.
Column plum trees for small gardens
Depending on the variety, the outgrown domestic plum trees create more or less spreading crowns. By proper cutting of trees, the crowns are most often kept in an almost natural form. The umbrella crown is also popular.It is easy to drive because pruning mainly consists of cutting out all the shoots that grow vertically upwards.
Spindle-shaped plum trees are often found in commercial orchards. In this type of crown, the tree has a single conductor from which the side shoots depart. The crown is wide at the bottom and gradually tapers upwards, taking the shape of a narrow Christmas tree.The disadvantage of this type of crown is quite a strong growth of trees, which in turn requires a lot of work and skill when cutting.
A much simpler solution is the cultivation of the so-called columnar plums because they have a limited crown growth in width. Already in the nursery, a long and simple guide with many small side branches is brought out.After planting for the garden, we still maintain a similar shape of the crown, allowing the tree to grow upwards and limiting its development to the sides.For this purpose, once a year, cut out or shorten the shoots that grow too much.
Summer cutting of the grapevine
Most grape varieties grow vigorously and already in mid-summer the entire shrub is covered with a thicket of leaves and shoots. Under such conditions, excessively compacted plants are susceptible to infection with fungal diseases.In order to improve the growth conditions of shrubs and fruiting in July, during the full vegetation period, we carry out the second cutting of the grapevine.
It is a supplement to the previously performed winter cutting.Cutting the summer vine is easy to make, because we only prune the fruiting shoots. We shorten them after 8-10 leaves, counting from the last cluster. Leaving the leaves is necessary to nourish the growing berries.With a small number of grapes on the bush, you can leave a little less, only 4-5 leaves. By the way, we cut out stepchildren, i.e. young shoots that grow out of the leaf axils.They are completely useless and only thicken the bush.
After cutting, the bush becomes looser, which allows it to dry faster after rain.At the same time, the more airy center of the bush will make the leaves and fruit clusters less susceptible to attack by gray mold.An additional advantage of summer cutting is the improvement of the aroma and sweetness of the fruit by better lighting the ripening grapes.
