Well, what kind of garden without a cherry? It is a real decoration of the garden from flowering to harvest.
There is a tradition - to plant cherry trees under the windows of the house, the owner is happy and passersby - by, not looking, you will not pass.
There are many varieties of cherries; everyone can choose plants to their own taste. Further in the article a full description of the Fairy variety and photos, in which you will see what this cherry looks like.
Appearance of cherry Fairy
Consider separately the appearance of the tree and fruit.
Tree
Cherry variety Fairy - undersized tree, only 2-3 meters, spherical crown, medium density, branches raised.
Flowers are white, large. Abundant flowering. The stem is short, medium thickness, the separation is semi-dry.
Fruiting annual, stable. Young plant brings first fruits in the third or fourth year of life. The leaves are elliptical, densely green, of medium size.
If you are looking for a cherry that can produce regular and abundant harvests, pay attention to the varieties of Minx, Black Large, Chernokorka and Tamaris.
Fruit
Fruits are round-oval light pink or light red, average size, about 3.5 grams., the flesh is yellow-pink, very tasty, juicy, sweet with sourness. Ripens cherry varieties Fairy in late June.
If you take into account the feedback from experienced gardeners, the Cherry Fairy tolerates low temperatures quite well, caring for it is not at all complicated, you can read the description below.
Good winter hardiness is also demonstrated by Ashinskaya Stapnaya, Tsarevna Felt, Generous and Shubinka.
A photo
History of breeding varieties
This wonderful variety was obtained by crossing cherry varieties Coral and Premiere.
The variety is self-fertile, but, besides itself, good pollinators for it are widespread varieties of cherries - Turgenevka, Vladimirskaya, Lyubskaya.
Planting and care
When planting cherries must be remembered that wet places and acidic soils, she does not like.
If the area is too humid, you need to use drainage, and acidic soil must pass chalking.
For landing scheme is used - 1.5-2 meters between plants and 3-4 meters between rows.
For every seedling digging hole 80 cm to 80 cm.
Soil enrich rotting manure, make a spade of wood ash, mix well.
Its volume in the landing pit increases.
We make a recess for the seedling, stick a stick for the garter in it, but not too close to the plant, it should not interfere with the seedling to actively grow.
When planting, the root neck of the seedling should be 6–8 centimeters above the soil surface. Deposing, the ground will deepen the roots and the root neck will be at the desired depth.
The edge of the landing pit need to draw a side of the soil, so that the water during irrigation does not spread. For watering seedlings need about two buckets of water.
Crop.
In the first year after planting, the young plant grows significantly, and in the second year after planting it needs a formative pruning.
Pruning to form a beautiful crown is carried out before the start of fruiting, since the beginning of fruiting the formative pruning has been replaced by the sanitary one.
Care.
Cherry is a plant by nature strong and unpretentious, but it is not worth depriving her of attention, very soon your plantings can turn into thickets - what a harvest here.
Radical shoots should be removed continuously and in a timely manner., but if necessary, a strong plant from among the shoots can be formed and used as a substitute if the cherry is own-rooted.
Harvesting and protection from birds.
Harvesting is an important and responsible business, and most importantly, a welcome and pleasant one.
Fairy variety tree undersized, it greatly facilitates the work. It should be borne in mind that the berry has a delicate skin and a semi-dry separation, which requires a delicate treatment.
In the harvest, you are always happy to join volunteers - birds.
They are smart enough to distinguish you from the scarecrow, all sorts of shiny and rattles cause a brief interest, only the grid is effective.
When properly installed, it will help save the crop.
Wonderful tastegood low temperature tolerance, high resistance to fungal diseases allowed the Fairy cherry variety to be received among gardeners by a large number of admirers.
The following varieties Chernokorka, Zhivitsa and Kharitonovskaya can also boast great taste.
Diseases and pests
Cherry variety Fairy resistant to coccomycosis, and this is one of the serious diseases of cherries. Good resistance to fungal diseases have Tsarevna, Minx, Ashinskaya and Tamaris.
As soon as the sun warms up, along with the plants wake up pests and pathogens, so The first processing of cherries is carried out on a green cone, and the second - immediately after flowering.
It is more convenient to carry out processing insecticide and fungicide in one working solution.
It is important to remember the exact implementation of the recommendations of the instructions.
Throughout the growing season, you need to monitor the possible appearance of wilted branches, if they appear, you need to remove them immediately and burn them.