Plant columnar fruit as a high-yield hedge
If the available garden area is rather small anyway, it makes sense to use the available space in the most diverse and sensible way possible. Column fruit does not offer a complete privacy screen that would be comparable to the opacity of a thuja hedge or a beech hedge in summer. But if a more symbolic demarcation to the neighboring property is enough for you, then you can at least go for one with columnar fruit profitable Hedge around your garden. As an alternative to the relatively high-priced ones Column fruit varieties However, espalier trees can also be used, the branches of which are specifically raised along tensioned metal wires. Make sure that column fruit trees are also quite stately height can achieve and sometimes certain Minimum distances to the neighboring property must be adhered to.
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Column fruit in a pot on the terrace
Column fruit can also be an excellent way to take advantage of the sunlight and warmth on a south-facing terrace for growing sun-hungry fruits. The following types of fruit, for example, thrive in the tub on a suitably sunny terrace:
- Column cherries
- Column apricots
- Columnar peaches
When growing columnar fruit in a pot, it is essential to ensure that drainage holes and a drainage layer in the pot prevent waterlogging at the roots. During the summer months, however, due to the sometimes extreme temperatures on the terrace, you should ensure that you have a regular water supply. Column fruit in the pot needs to be satisfactory Earnings situation also accordingly fertilized will.
Harvest fruit from the privacy screen on your own balcony
Column fruit even fulfills the dream of hobby gardeners of their own fruit harvest, who only have a balcony available for their gardening ambitions. However, columnar fruit trees should not be in the because of their susceptibility to wind and weather Window boxes(€ 7.99 at Amazon *) or in pots directly on the balcony parapet, but better in a sufficiently large planter behind the balcony parapet. With good care can column fruit on one balcony serve as a blooming privacy screen and at the same time deliver tasty fruit.
Tips
If columnar fruit varieties such as columnar apples or columnar cherries are planted as a privacy screen in the form of a hedge, you should always have one despite your best efforts to ensure that the privacy screen is as dense as possible Plant spacing of not less than 50 centimeters between the plants. You will get better growth, yield and privacy results if you plant your fruit hedge made of column fruit in two rows, each about 40 to 50 centimeters apart.
