- Plant columnar fruit as a high-yield hedge
- Pillar fruit in a pot on the terrace
- Harvest fruit from the privacy screen on your own balcony
There is hardly a better reward for the hard work of gardening than being able to enjoy delicious fruit straight from the trees in your own garden in summer and autumn. Since many garden owners do not want to sacrifice their lawn, which is often not very large anyway, for large fruit trees, two birds with one stone can be killed with columnar fruit as a privacy screen.
Pillar fruit should not be planted too densely
Plant columnar fruit as a high-yield hedge
If the available garden area is rather small anyway, it makes sense to use the available space in as diverse and sensible a way as possible. Pillar fruit does not offer a complete privacy screen that would be comparable to the opacity of a thuja hedge or a beech hedge in summer. But if a more symbolic demarcation from the neighboring property is enough for you, then you can at least provide a productive hedge around your garden with columnar fruit. As an alternative to the relatively high-priced columnar fruit varieties, espalier trees can also be used, the branches of which are trained along stretched metal wires. Please note that columnar fruit trees can also reach a considerable height and that certain minimum distances to the neighboring property must sometimes be observed.
Pillar fruit in a pot on the terrace
Column fruit can also be a great way to take advantage of the sun's rays and warmth on a south-facing patio for growing sun-loving fruit varieties. The following types of fruit, for example, thrive well in pots on a suitably sunny terrace:
- columnar cherries
- columnar apricots
- columnar peaches
When growing columnar fruit in a pot, it is important to ensure that drainage holes and a drainage layer in the pot prevent waterlogging at the roots. During the summer months, however, due to the sometimes extreme temperatures on the terrace, care must be taken to ensure a regular supply of water. Columnar fruit in the pot must also be fertilized accordingly for a satisfactory yield situation.
Harvest fruit from the privacy screen on your own balcony
Pillar fruit even fulfills the dream of hobby gardeners who only have a balcony available for their gardening ambitions. However, due to their susceptibility to wind and weather, columnar fruit trees should not be cultivated in balcony boxes (€109.00) or in pots directly on the balcony railing, but rather in a sufficiently large planter behind the balcony railing. With good care, columnar fruit on a balcony can serve as a blooming privacy screen and at the same time provide tasty fruit.
tips
If columnar fruit varieties such as columnar apples or columnar cherries are planted as hedges as a privacy screen, you should always keep a planting distance of no less than 50 centimeters between the plants, despite your efforts to create the most dense privacy screen possible. You will get better growth, yield and privacy results if you plant your columnar fruit hedge in two rows, each about 40 to 50 centimeters apart.