We Grow Red Rowan In The Country

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The rowan tree will decorate the summer cottage all year round. In the spring, with its delicate green foliage and dense snow-white inflorescences, in August-September, vivid clusters of orange-red berries will be added to the foliage green, which you can not only admire, but also actively store them for future use, add to pickles and marinades to protect the blanks from pathogenic microbes, sprinkle vegetables with leaves for efficient storage. Even in winter, when your summer cottage is lonely waiting for your spring return, bright bunches will feed the birds that break the silence of the country with their voices

Characteristics of culture

The light gray-greenish bark protects the mountain ash trunk from external influences. Under favorable conditions, the height of the tree reaches 10 meters. The branches of the tree are covered with openwork foliage with a jagged edge, which are held by petioles for thin graceful twigs, located in pairs on both sides.

In May-June, the tree will be covered with snow-white multi-flowered inflorescences, the diameter of which reaches 10 centimeters, with a diameter of one white corolla of 1.5 centimeters.

Spherical orange-red fruits, reaching 1.5 centimeters in diameter with good care, will decorate the tree in August-September. They very tightly hold onto branches and can sag until spring, if they are not pecked by birds grateful for your food in winter.

The contour of the range of red mountain ash

Rowan grows everywhere both in the European part of the country and in Siberian lands. It is used to decorate courtyards, parks and city streets, planted along highways and railways, and decorate summer cottages. Wild mountain ash can be found in mixed forests, where it grows in ravines and forest edges. She loves to be located along the banks of rivers and other bodies of water.

Popular varieties of cultivated rowan

In the XX century, rowan began to be cultivated as a food plant. Many varieties have been bred, of which the following are the most popular:

** Scarlet large. The name itself suggests that the berries of this mountain ash are large and have a red-scarlet color. The tart taste of the berries is devoid of the bitterness that wild rowan berries have.

** Bead. Winter-hardy, resistant to pests and diseases, the short tree gives ruby-red fruits that are similar in color and taste to cranberries.

** Vefed. Low mountain ash, which is even more resistant to frost, gives orange-pink fruits.

** Pomegranate. A hybrid of hawthorn and mountain ash with large sweet and sour berries, devoid of bitterness. Winter hardy. High-yielding.

** Gorgeous. Rowan is not crossed with anything. Managed to bring out a hybrid of pear and mountain ash. The mountain ash inherited the oblong shape of the berries from the pear, and the tart taste from the mountain ash.

** Ruby. On dwarf trees, up to two meters high, with a spreading hair of a green crown, clusters of sweet and sour berries, pleasant to the taste, stand out with dark rubies.

** Sorbinka. High-yielding tree of medium height. Large yellow-red sorbinki berries pleasantly refresh.

Growing conditions

Red mountain ash can be propagated by seeds, grafts, cuttings. Reproduction by seeds is a very troublesome and not always rewarding business, reproduction by grafting requires certain knowledge and skills, and propagation by cuttings is available to anyone, which often happens.

Planting in the ground can be carried out both in autumn and spring. A planting pit is prepared in a couple of weeks so that the top layer of earth with humus, compost, superphosphate, and wood ash added to it is compacted. For a pit 50 cm deep and 80 by 100 cm in diameter, two buckets of compost or humus, superphosphate 200 grams and wood ash 500 grams are required.

The root collar of the seedling is buried by 4-5 cm. The planted tree is abundantly watered and the trunk circle is mulched.

Rowan care is not difficult. Weeds habitual for the gardener, loosening the soil, watering in the dry season. To give the desired shape to the tree, pruning is required, which is more effective in early spring, before the buds wake up.

Pests and diseases

Having such a weapon against pathogens as sorbic acid, mountain ash easily repels their attacks. And yet, some pests can disrupt her health.

These are sawflies and their caterpillar larvae, ticks, bark beetles, but the most dangerous enemy is the mountain ash moth. This small butterfly, with a wingspan of 13 mm, is a vicious enemy of mountain ash and apple trees. If the mountain ash has no fruit, the moth switches its energy to the fruit of the apple trees, giving the apples an unmarketable appearance and a bitter taste.

The caterpillars of the mountain ash moth leave their nutritious shelters at the end of August and immediately remain under the tree for the winter. Therefore, the autumn digging of near-trunk circles is fatal for them. An effective measure of protection is the burning of fallen leaves in the fall, as well as spraying trees at the junction of June with July, when there is a mass emergence of caterpillars, with herbal decoctions, for example, wormwood, burdock burdock or tomato leaves.