Features of the apple-tree variety Carpet
It's hard to find a garden that doesn't have apple trees. These trees are often grown for their beneficial fruit, good looks, and other benefits. Apple-tree Carpet is characterized by high yield, excellent taste of fruits and an interesting dwarf shape.
Features of the apple-tree variety Carpet
Variety characteristic
To obtain this species, scientists used the ancient German variety Eliza Rathke. The Kovrovoe apple tree was bred in the South Ural Research Institute of Horticulture and Potato Growing M. A. Mazunin, N. F. Mazunina, V. I. Putyatin.
Advantages and disadvantages
This apple variety has a large number of advantages:
- its chemical composition and high appraisal of consumers are especially valuable;
- in addition to delicious fruits, you can get an unusual garden decoration;
- apples are easy to pick from a branch without the use of additional tools.
The undoubted advantage is the small size of the apple tree, because several such trees can be planted on one site. Because of their size, you can spend less money on purchasing drugs for processing.
The disadvantage of these apple trees is that with prolonged drought, the quality and taste of the fruits deteriorate. Because the trees are small and wide; during a snowfall, branches can sag or even break from precipitation. To avoid this, it is necessary to constantly free the branches from snow.
Description of the tree and fruit
Apple-tree Carpet belongs to the dwarf species, because the height of an adult tree is 1.5-2 m.
The leaves are large, oblong, and have a very bright green color. Apples are green-yellow. Despite the small size of the tree, the fruits are quite large - 170-190 g.
Taste
The taste of the fruit is standard - sweet and sour. The rind is shiny and smooth. The pulp is beige, medium-grained. The apples are slightly flattened and not too juicy.
Yield
According to the description of the apple-tree Carpet, it gives a rich harvest - up to 60 kg from one tree. Some managed to collect more than 100 kg from one adult apple tree.
Pollinators
In order for the apple tree to be pollinated, you need to have at least 2 varieties in the garden, which will be located about 5 m from each other. It is recommended to choose those species that bloom at the same time. The best pollinators will be the apple trees Sokolovskoe, Snowdrop, Prizemlennoye.
Winter hardiness
The apple tree is resistant to cold weather, and drought will not benefit it, therefore it is important to water the tree during such periods.
Disease and pest resistance
Most often, fruit trees suffer from fungal diseases. This variety is not very resistant to damage by them. Apple-tree Carpet can be affected by powdery mildew, scab, tinder fungus.
The appearance of wounds on the bark of a tree signals a defeat by the tinder fungus. The fruits remain intact, only the trunk is sick.It is better if you notice something amiss with a small lesion, then you can carefully clean everything with a garden knife and not harm the tree.
If the mushroom has grown strongly, then only an ax will help. It will be necessary to cut down both bad and (partially) good wood. It is important to remove the mushroom under the root, because otherwise it will reappear after a while. After this, the place where the tinder fungus grew should be treated with copper sulfate and covered with oil paint for quick healing.
If, after a heavy rain, you notice a white bloom on the leaves, then most likely it is powdery mildew. It strikes the entire tree, starting from the bottom.
Scab appears on both leaves and fruits. First, there are brownish-green foci on the leaves, then a brown crust covers the apples themselves. The cause of the onset of the disease can be air retention in the crown of a tree or too high humidity.
If you regularly adhere to simple tips, you can save the tree from disease. Apple trees should be fertilized with potassium, calcium, compost, and ash should be poured into the ground. At the right time, you need to form the crown of the tree, process it with colloidal sulfur. Try to choose varieties that are resistant to disease and treat the apple tree at the first sign of illness.
Growing regions
This apple variety adapts well to weather conditions.
According to the description of the variety, at the moment the tree has adapted best in the West Siberian and Ural regions of Russia. If you follow the rules of planting and care, the tree can adapt to many climatic conditions. Only regions that are too dry will not work.
Landing
To collect delicious fruits from an apple tree of the Carpet variety, you need to carefully plant it.
The choice of a seedling should be approached with special responsibility. You need to rely on the following rules:
- the seedling must be young so that it quickly adapts to the land on which it will grow;
- he must have a developed root system;
- you need to buy young trees in a region with similar weather conditions.
Timing
You can plant a tree at any time, but not in winter. Gardeners are advised to choose for this the end of April, the end of September or the beginning of October.
Scheme
The landing site should be light and away from groundwater. Desirable fertile land is needed.
The pit needs to be prepared a month before disembarkation. Because the trees grow small, the size of the hole should be about 70x70x60 cm. Place the apple trees at a distance of 3-4 m from each other. Fertilizers (superphosphates, calcium nitrate, wood ash, manure humus) are poured into the pit, which must be mixed with the ground.
A third of the hole is left to be covered with soil. It needs to be well watered with 2 buckets of water and covered with a layer of fertile soil. It is better to plant the tree together, so that one holds the seedling evenly, and the other bury it. After the procedure, the apple tree must be watered abundantly and tied to a stick so that the strong wind cannot break it.
Care
All summer (every week) the tree must be watered. After this procedure or rain, the soil must be loosened. Twice a summer, it is worth fertilizing the apple tree with chicken droppings or mullein.
In the first year of a tree's life, it is necessary to clean the area around it, pull out weeds and monitor watering. During this period, some pruning is also done to create the bottom layer of the crown. In the second year, the ends of the branches are cut off. It is necessary to remove up to 90% of all flowers.
Shoots that begin to grow vertically should also be cut off. It is best to do this with a sharp instrument in the spring, before bud break. This is done so that the apples do not become smaller, and the tree bears fruit longer and does not age.
Apple tree Carpet is not afraid of cold weather, so you should not insulate it. If there are pests such as hares and various rodents, then you can wrap the tree with rags.
Features of ripening and fruiting
You can collect fruits from the Kovrovy apple tree in 2-3 years after planting. The first few years the harvest is regular, and over time it becomes periodic.
The first flowers appear on the lower parts of the tree and then on the upper ones. Due to the prolonged flowering, apples will grow even under the condition of spring late frosts.
Harvesting and storage
The fruits are picked at the beginning of September, after which they are left to ripen for several more weeks. Already in October, you can enjoy the taste of the harvest.
Fruits can be eaten fresh, canned, processed. In addition, you can save them and feast on these fruits until the end of autumn, if you create the right conditions. The room should be dark, with a temperature of 0 ° C and a humidity of 90-95%. It is best to put the fruits of the Carpet apple tree in boxes or put them on the shelves.
Subspecies and variants
If you really like this apple variety, but there is no way to plant it, you can use a cutting. To do this, you need to choose a tree in the garden that is resistant to cold and pests, and graft an apple tree rootstock or part of it with a bud into it.
The dwarf apple tree is an autumn variety that begins to bear fruit in the 4th year after grafting. It is characterized by high productivity. Trees have larger buds at the ends of the branches. Dwarf apple trees are more expensive than ordinary ones.
It is possible to distinguish an apple tree on a dwarf rootstock from a semi-dwarf variety only by the size of an adult tree. Semi-dwarf trees are a quarter smaller than usual, and dwarf trees are 2 times smaller.
Gardeners reviews
According to gardeners, Kovrovoye is a wonderful apple. The fruits are harvested in the fall and most often processed: they are used to make jam, jam or compote. The apples are sour. The tree is picky about leaving. Already 3 years after planting, you can harvest a rich harvest.
Apples keep well in boxes, so you can eat them fresh for a long time. The gardeners are also pleased that the tree is winter-hardy. Some owners of the Kovrovoe apple tree say that they do not get a harvest after 3 years, but they still hope to enjoy the taste of these fruits.