Cherry Ordinary - Queen of the Spring Garden

With the poetic beauty of a blooming cherry orchard, no tree can compare. And, thanks to the majestic crown and bright red berries, the tree is beautiful not only in the spring, but also throughout the summer. And how beautiful are the leaves of the cherry-elliptical, pointed, along the edges serrated, gently green in spring and different shades in autumn.

Cherries are loved by all gardeners for the slightly sour taste of berries and the opportunity to get a rich harvest. She is a little inferior in early ripeness to the berry. Some of its varieties begin to yield a few years after planting. And the most yielding yields 10-20 kilograms of fruit.

Relatively earlier maturing is another very valuable quality of this wonderful tree. Some varieties can be collected just after strawberries, but there are varieties and with a very late maturity. Correctly picking for your garden cherry trees of different varieties, you can eat cherries from the beginning of July until the end of summer. And what an incomparable taste of cherry jam! And who did not try the sweet cherry liquids filled with summer heat ?

Literally three decades ago on private plots the most frequent were cherries of varieties "Vladimir" and "Lyubov". Today, it is very difficult to list all varieties of this fruit tree . There are more than 200 of them! And the cherry, the photo of which sometimes even causes confusion among non-professionals, and in form can be different. There is a miniature felted, trailing, in the form of a bush.

But the most common in our gardens is Cherry Ordinary. It has adapted well to the temperate climate of the central part of Russia, so it is not difficult for growers to grow it. True, to the north of Moscow the tree does not feel very comfortable. Therefore, there grow varieties that are obtained from Japanese cherries or steppe cherries, for example, "robin" or "generous."

The tree lives 30-40, and sometimes 100 or more years. The first harvest of Cherry Ordinary gives already in the third year after planting. Her flower buds can withstand frosts up to 35 degrees. But even an insignificant drop in temperature after a thaw in the winter-spring period is very dangerous for it - you can stay without cherry jam. After all, with a sharp fluctuation in temperature, the kidneys lose their frost resistance. The tree itself can be easily restored even after severe frost damage, therefore it is considered to be the most winter hardy among all the fruit crops.

In the central part of Russia, cherry can bring a harvest of 13-14 years. Cherries usually ripen on bouquet branches or on annual increments. Fruits contain about 8-12% of sugar, slightly more than 1% of acids and about 20% of dry substances. In addition, they found valuable tonic and anti - radiation substances, tannins, about 10% fructose and glucose, citric and malic acids, vitamins A, C, PP and much more valuable and useful.

Cherry Ordinary refers to shade-tolerant crops, although its harvest depends on the lighting. Usually, the more a cherry tree receives light, the more abundant will be its harvest. To the soil, the root system of the cherry well adapts, although, of course, the tree grows better on light and fertilized lands, especially on the southern, western and south-western slopes.

Propagate basically this wonderful plant with the help of grafting or shoots. Although some experimenters, gardeners try to reproduce and cuttings. In recent years, a serious fungal disease such as coccomicosis has fallen upon the cherry, under the merciless action of which the crop is immediately lost, and then the tree itself. And the main means of fighting this disease has not been found so far. Scientists gardeners hope that the coccomicosis will recede when the stocks and varieties resistant to it are created.