When planning your own garden, fruit trees often play an important role. If you make the right decisions about the location and variety of an apple tree during the planning phase, you can often harvest sweet apples just a few years later.

Sweet fruits ripen in sun or partial shade

Basically, unlike other fruit trees, apple trees are not too demanding when it comes to their location. In this way, good results can also be achieved in semi-shade with smaller apple trees as a bush or half-stem. However, since shading also entails the risk of too much waterlogging, moisture and fungal infestation, a sunny location is preferable. If a tree that has been grafted onto the rootstock as a standard tree is planted in a garden surrounded by hedges, the leaves are still well ventilated by the wind and are therefore better protected against fungal diseases.

Estimate the distances from walls and paths generously

Apple trees are sometimes sold with the promise that they can be pruned into any shape you want. Although a lot can be controlled and corrected with the winter pruning and the summer pruning, the dimensions of an apple tree are basically determined by the genetic disposition and the grafting. Therefore, an apple tree should generally never be too close to buildings or walls. Since the apple tree is a shallow root, the roots can lift the stones of nearby paved paths out of place.

The whole range of possibilities

A tall apple tree in a classic shape is still well suited as a central shade provider in a garden. In addition, the cultivation of apples is also possible in a narrow row of trellises, which can be created with painstaking work in the smallest of spaces. True, the apple tree in the pot on the balcony will not bring a very large harvest. But it can give you a lot of pleasure if you pull it from a core yourself. To do this you need the cores:

  • place between damp paper towels
  • place in a sealable plastic box
  • Stratify in the refrigerator for at least two weeks

tips and tricks

Apple trees do not tolerate waterlogging well, so they should not be planted in locations that are too wet. A seedling in a pot should have a drainage layer and drainage holes.

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