Autumn is no less suitable time for planting a fruit and berry garden than spring. You just need to know which crops are best suited for the autumn planting.
Next, you will find out which fruit trees are best planted in autumn, what should be considered when choosing them. You will also be given a list of berry bushes and other crops (flowers, vegetables) suitable for planting in the fall.
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What fruit trees can be planted in autumn: main factors and examples
Pome and stone fruit crops
Most gardeners are of the opinion that both stone fruit and pome fruit can be planted in spring, but in autumn - only pome crops.
Why?
- Stone fruits take longer to root than pome crops.
- Accordingly, stone fruit crops are considered less winter-hardy and thermophilic (especially apricot and peach), so it is very desirable that they have time to take root and get stronger in the spring-summer-autumn (before winter). Whereas pome fruits - it is quite possible to plant as in the falland in the spring.
We remind you! Pome crops are apple, pear, quince.
Stone fruits - cherry, sweet cherry, plum, cherry plum, turn, apricot, peach.
Planting an apricot in autumn, or even more so a peach, is a failed idea, while a cherry, sweet cherry, plum or cherry plum can be planted, and the result is likely to be positive.
Varietal affiliation
Remember! In autumn they plant only winter-hardy varieties.
Rest period and beginning of awakening
However, there is an opposite approach (relevant for southern and warmer regions).
So, it is preferable to plant seed crops in early spring, because they have a fairly long period of rest and a later awakening, while stone fruit crops wake up very earlyso their better to plant autumn, because in the spring you just might not have time, and planting already vegetating seedlings is not very good.
Depending on the region
If you live on Souththen you can plant anything and anytime... This is obvious and understandable.
Advice! Although due to the earlier beginning of spring, it is imperative to take into account the fact when crops awaken, in other words, in early spring it is better to plant pome fruit, in autumn - stone fruits.
Another thing, for example, the same Middle Lane (Moscow region), especially the North-West (Leningrad region), the Urals and Siberia... In these cooler regions, the rules for planting stone fruits should be observed - in the spring, and pome fruit - like in autumnand in the spring.
Nonetheless! In autumn you can still plant cherry, sweet cherry, plum, cherry plumbut no way not an apricot or especially a peach... Peach is generally a purely southern culture, and there won't be much sense from it.
What other fruit and berry and ornamental crops can be planted in autumn
- berry bushes - strawberries (garden strawberries), raspberries, currants, gooseberries, honeysuckle, black chokeberry (chokeberry), lingonberries, cranberries, barberries, rose hips, hawthorns, viburnum, sea buckthorn.
However! Blackberries and especially blueberries yet preferable to plant in spring.
- flower crops (roses, phloxes, peonies, asters (seeds), especially all bulbous ones - tulips, lilies, hazel grouses, bulbous irises), as well as ornamental shrubs (weigelu, spirea, lilac);
Heat-loving crops that have come to us from Mediterranean countries (budley, wisteria, boxwood), it is better to try to plant in spring.
- conifers of trees and shrubs - spruce, pine, thuja, juniper, etc.
- deciduous - oak, birch, linden, maple, chestnut, willow, etc.
- vegetables - garlic, onions, beets, carrots, parsley, dill, celery.
And here nut-bearing (walnut, almond) better to plant in springlike heterogeneous - the same mulberry (mulberry), figs, dogwood.
Nonetheless, hazel can plant and in autumn.