Chokeberry: planting and care, breeding

Aronia ashberry - an ornamental plant up to three meters high, which is famous for its beauty and tasty useful fruits. Today we will talk about what kind of growth conditions like chokeberry. Landing and care, the choice of location - we'll cover all this in this article.

Select a location

Aronia blackberry loves fertile soil with a weak acid-alkaline environment. For it unfavorable high groundwater , dry slopes and hollows. It is there where the snow accumulates more, the chokeberry most protected. Planting and care should therefore be carried out in places where there is a lot of light and moisture.

How to plant seedlings?

After determining the place, you can start directly landing. It is recommended to plant aronia in autumn. For this, dig a hole up to half a meter in width, length and depth. Mix the earth with humus, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers. Pour most of this mixture back into the pit. Plant the plant and pour the remains of the earth. Pour warm water and cover the ground around the trunk.

How to care?

Landing of aronia is made, now you need to take care of it, so that your shrub quickly took root and began to bear fruit. You need to care for rowan all season, while you need:

• To carry out top dressing at least three times;

• Regularly water;

• Cut off annually;

• Loosen the soil around the trunk;

• Protect from the wind by other plantations;

• Conduct disease prevention and control pests.

We have already said that the soil must be fertile - this is what black chokeberry likes. Planting (and care) involves fertilizing with nutrient fertilizers. It must be done for the first time in the spring, for this use humus. Before flowering, pour potash fertilizers, and in autumn - phosphate fertilizers. When your ashberry blossoms, it especially needs moisture, so during this period, water it more intensively. In general, chokeberry (the photo is attached) is moisture-loving, so regular watering is needed. When pruning, first of all, remove dry and damaged branches. Crop the young shoots so that the bush is not overgrown. If you annually properly cut your rowan, you can get a rich harvest for 40 years.

Reproduction

Propagation of rowan can be seeds, cuttings, grafting, dividing the bush. It is easiest to propagate independently by the last method. To do this, divide the old bush, short cut it and transplant. Seeds are usually propagated by specialists or experienced gardeners. Cuttings propagation is very common, but for this purpose a greenhouse with a special installation for spraying is needed. Cuttings are harvested in autumn or spring.

Conclusion

And finally I would like to note that this plant is unpretentious, sick much less than other fruit and berries, gives 8-10 kg of berries per season, besides, it is an excellent element of landscape design. Here it is - chokeberry. Planting and caring for her are simple, flowering is magnificent, and her fruits are very tasty and healthy.