Sweet cherry: description of varieties Prichuda, Cinderella, Sevastyanovskaya with photo

Cherry in your garden is a great solution. The tree blooms beautifully and gives a bountiful harvest. Fragrant compotes and jam are cooked from berries, they are used for pies and dumplings. But there are few lovers of fresh berries, because they have a pronounced sourness. In fact, today many varieties of sweet cherries have been bred that any gardener can grow.

Features of sweet varieties

To make the berries sweeter, breeders crossed the usual cherry with sweet cherry. There are varieties with other origins, for example, hybrids of different types of cherries. They are characterized by the following features:

High yield.
Large or medium sized cherries.
Attractive berry appearance.
Tolerates cold temperatures well in winter.
Suitable for central Russia.
Easy to care for.

Sweet cherries

Work on improving the characteristics of hybrids is ongoing. I would like the tree to be resistant to cold, pests and diseases, to bear fruit every year, the berries to be large and sweet. Each variety of sweet cherry has its own characteristics. The most popular among gardeners are Fancy, Cinderella, Miracle Cherry, Sevastyanovskaya, Firtash, Evans Bali. You can get acquainted with the descriptions of varieties and choose the most suitable for your garden.

Fancy

Trees of medium size, with a dense rounded crown. It has a high growth rate, while the adult cherry is quite compact - a maximum of 3-4 meters. From one tree they harvest 6-7 kg of crop, less often - up to 9 kg. Partially self-pollinating.

Recognized dessert variety. The berries are large, the average weight is 5 g. They ripen in mid-July. They have a dark red skin and pulp, the bones easily move away. The taste is sweet. The pulp is very juicy, so the Whirlwind is well suited for making cherry juice and making compotes.

Cherry has an average winter hardiness, tolerates autumn frosts well. Suitable for cultivation in the central regions. Among the shortcomings - it is sensitive to fungal diseases, in particular coccomycosis, therefore it requires regular processing of the leaves.

Cinderella

Another medium-sized representative, the berries ripen in mid-summer. The advantages of Cinderella are high yields, 15 kg of berries are harvested from one tree, good winter hardiness and immunity to fungal diseases. The variety is completely self-pollinated.

Medium-sized berries, 4 grams each, dark red, sweet with slight sourness. Suitable for growing in gardens near Moscow.

Sevastyanovskaya

Cherry grows in the form of a bush, reaches an average height of 4 m, begins to bear fruit in the 3-4th year of life, yields up to 16-17 years. The variety is partially self-pollinated; Rubinovaya, Uralskaya, Tveritinovskaya cherries are used as pollinators. From the latter, the Sevastyanovskaya variety was obtained.

Berries ripen in early August. They have an average size, rounded shape, weigh 3.5-4 g each. The taste is sweet and sour, the pulp is juicy, the bones are easily removed. The strengths of the variety are resistance to fungal diseases and cold. Seedlings of Sevastyanovskaya take root well.

Evans Bali

Short, compact variety developed in the 80s. An adult tree does not exceed 2.5 m in height, the shape of the trunk is bushy, the crown is dense. The small size makes it easy to harvest, with up to 15 kg of berries coming from one bush.

Cherries are late, ripen in August. They have a large size, 5 g each. The fruits are dark red, sweet with a slight sourness, juicy and fragrant. Suitable for fresh consumption, for baby food and home preservation.

Evans Bali is suitable for cultivation in Central Russia, with proper preparation for winter, it tolerates frosts down to -40 degrees. Does not require pollinating trees in the garden.

Fit features

Sunny, calm places are chosen for seedlings. Hybrids with sweet cherries also grow in partial shade, it is necessary to clarify the conditions for a particular variety. Trees are planted in the spring, usually in mid-April, earlier or later, depending on the weather in the spring. Planting is carried out when the soil has already warmed up, but before the buds open.

A distance of at least 3 m is left between seedlings of medium-sized cherries.

Care

Care for sweet cherries consists in the formation and thinning of the crown, watering, feeding and protection from pests and diseases. The rules are the same as with regular varieties of cherries.

The crown is thinned every year so that it does not thicken - this can lead to crushing of the berries.

Feeding starts in the second year. Organic fertilizers are applied to the soil at planting and then every 3 years, mineral fertilizers of different groups - every spring.

It is important to remove weeds near the trunk of a tree, especially in the first half of its life (7-10 years, depending on the variety). Once a month, you need to loosen the soil in this area.

Trees are watered as needed, an average of 4 times per season. Berries attract birds, so at the beginning of ripening, you need to take care of protection. Install a special mesh around the crown or an ordinary scarecrow.