You can be left without an apple harvest not only because of mistakes made when caring for an apple tree.
Sometimes the reason for low yields is the presence of dangerous “neighbors” near the fruit tree.
There are representatives of flora that have an extremely negative impact on the apple tree.
So, what plants exactly should not be planted next to the popular garden crop?
Potato
Planting potatoes next to an apple tree is a grave mistake.
The fact is that the representative of the nightshade family “removes” many important compounds and microelements from the soil.
The result is extremely slow tree growth.
Potatoes will seriously interfere with an already mature apple tree, as they will leave it without a significant portion of nutrients: you can’t count on an abundance of apples.
Cherry
This crop also enters into serious competition with the apple tree.
The latter is left without important connections. As a result, the summer resident will collect very few apples (or none at all).
Fir
This plant is not a direct competitor to the popular garden crop.
But there is another problem: fir makes the soil more “acidic”, which is dangerous for the fruit tree.
For reference
Apple tree is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of the Rosaceae family with spherical sweet or sweet-sour fruits.
