About Apricots

Apricots are admirable to attending at and admirable to eat, abnormally if harvested beginning off the tree. The copse can aswell be admirable centerpieces in a yard, with their abounding bounce blossoms and adorable foliage.

Apricots can be a claiming to abound in algid regions because the copse blossom aboriginal and the flowers are generally dead by backward frosts. If you garden in the north, accept late-blooming varieties. Although a lot of apricots are self-fertile, bake-apple set is bigger if buried with one or two added varieties nearby. Copse will alpha address in the third or fourth season. Expect 3 to 4 bushels of bake-apple from a standard-size tree, 1 to 2 from a dwarf variety.

Where apricots are calmly grown, alternation to an accessible center. For colder areas use a adapted axial leader. Prune address copse annually to animate new fruiting spurs. If fruits are 1 inch in diameter, attenuate to 3 to 4 fruits per array to access the admeasurement of actual apricots and anticipate over address one year, little the next. Apricots are accountable to a amount of altered ache and insect pests, depending on region. Contact your accommodating addendum appointment for advice on managing pests in your area.