Cherry - juicy, bright and sweet. It is difficult to find someone who does not like this berry. To be able every summer to enjoy the fruits of the sweet cherry right in your dacha, you can buy ready-made seedlings of this plant and plant them on your garden plot. A variety of cherries are presented in such a variety that everyone can pick a berries, according to their taste preferences. But it is better to acquire a cherry seedling in the nursery of the region in which it is planned to grow a culture. Then you increase the chances of the plant to successfully settle down in a new place.
The average age of the cherry tree is 25 years, and it begins to bear fruit after 4-5 years after planting. Thus, you will be able to collect an annual harvest of juicy and sweet berries for a long time. In this article, we'll talk about which varieties of sweet cherries are best and which ones should be taken into consideration when choosing a seedling.
The main drawback of cherries is that almost all of its varieties are not self-fertile. Therefore, for the successful cultivation of berries in the suburban area, in addition to the desired seedling, it is also necessary to purchase a seedling of the pollinating variety. In this case, the flowering period of both trees must coincide.
Early-flowering varieties of sweet cherry
- Frontal. Pollinator variety: Iput, Ovstuzhenka, Raditsa, Fatezh;
- Homestead yellow is one of the few early varieties of cherries that is self-fertilized;
- Iput. Pollinator sort: Revna, Ovstuzhenka, Raditsa, Bryanskaya Pink, Tyutchevka;
- Ovstuzhenka. This variety is partially self-fertilized.
Medium-flowering varieties of sweet cherry
- Helena - Sylvia. These are two sorts of columnar cherry growing vertically upward. They are mutually pollinated, so they can be planted together.
- Adeline - In memory of Chernyshevsky. These two varieties are excellent for co-cultivation, since they are pollinators of each other.
Late flowering cherry varieties
- Bryanochka;
- Michurinka.
These late cherry varieties are mutually pollinated, so
Winter-hard cherry varieties
Many people think that cherry can grow only in a warm climate, but it is not. At the moment, winter-resistant varieties of sweet cherry are excreted, which successfully tolerate frosts and are grown even in latitudes with a cold climate. Among them, the following varieties are particularly popular:
- Fatezh;
- Iput;
- Revna;
- Bryansk pink;
- Tyutchevka.