Apricot can be grown in your garden, and many gardeners do it successfully.
But not everyone knows how to care for an apricot tree to get a bountiful harvest.
Apricot care
Basic measures for caring for apricots include a number of rules:
- choosing a suitable place for planting, proper watering, fertilizing, pruning, protection from diseases and pests.
If you want to enjoy tasty and juicy apricots every year, then avoid the main growing mistakes.
Frost protection
The main reason for the lack of fruiting in apricots is recurrent frosts, which often occur during flowering.
This affects the apricot even more than other trees. The fact is that the apricot blossoms earlier.
If the air temperature drops to minus 3-4 degrees even for a short period of time, the apricot flowers may die and the tree will not bear fruit.
Pollination of apricot
The second reason for the lack of fruit in apricots is the lack of a pollinator variety.
Even partially self-fertile varieties require the presence of pollinating varieties to obtain a good harvest.
To solve this problem, you need to choose the right variety of apricot and analyze the climatic conditions during flowering.
If there is no pollinator variety, it must be planted nearby.
If conditions are unsuitable, you can plant trees closer to the house, where it is warmer, and protect the apricot from frost by smoking.
