When the garden begins to green and bloom again after winter, many hobby gardeners become more motivated to make changes in their own garden paradise. With many plants, it can also make sense to take concrete steps to redesign the garden in autumn and winter.
Container plants can be planted out practically all year round
Generally plant fruit trees between November and March
Most fruit trees are grafted when they are just a few years old and transplanted bare-root into your own garden. This also applies to columnar fruit, which is not dissimilar to other types of fruit in terms of location and care requirements. Fruit trees generally tolerate transplanting best when done at a frost-free time during the winter months. At this time, the plants are in the so-called sap dormancy, but root growth can also ensure solid rooting at the new location during the winter. By the next spring, the columnar fruit that was planted a few months earlier is already firmly rooted in the soil to invest all of its growth energy in the formation of leaves, twigs and flowers.
Pillar fruit in the plant container
While bare-root columnar fruit should only be planted out on frost-free winter days, specimens purchased in a plant container can be planted more or less all year round in the desired location in the garden. However, midsummer should not be used as a planting time for container plants either, as the plants can suffer drought damage even if they are transplanted very quickly. While a certain pruning of the roots before winter planting can promote the growth of bare-rooted plants, the soil ball around the roots of a container plant should be affected as little as possible when planting. The following factors should also be taken into account when planting and transplanting during the year:
- do not choose a heat and dry phase as the planting time
- water the plants more intensively in the first few weeks at the new location
- Provide shade with a parasol when transplanting
- dig the planting hole large enough and fill it with loose substrate
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Potted columnar fruit should be transplanted at least every five years. If possible, this should be done in autumn so that the roots can recover sufficiently before winter and can thus cope with the more exposed temperature situation of a tub culture.