Before planting an apple tree in the garden, you need to evaluate its compatibility with other fruit and berry crops. The so-called “residents” of the garden plot may seem completely harmless in appearance, but due to certain circumstances they will not be able to comfortably coexist on the same territory with the apple tree. There may be several reasons for this: the presence of common diseases and pests, natural inanimacy, or the individual characteristics of plants.
Peach
An apple tree and a peach will not be able to grow comfortably in one area. The fact is that peach grows very actively, consumes a large amount of nutrients from the soil. The tree has a developed root system, which leads to inhibition of the apple tree.
Apricot
The apricot root system in the process of growth releases toxic substances that poison the crops growing in the neighborhood. In addition, apricots and apple trees have common diseases and pests.
Rowan
The fact that mountain ash is a bad "neighbor" for the apple tree became known at the beginning of the last century in America. There, local farmers noticed that apple orchards began to massively produce substandard crops - a large number of wormy apples. Every year, the amount of substandard growth steadily. Mountain ash was planted around apple trees at that time. As it turned out, the apples hit the caterpillars of the mountain ash moth.
Cherry
Cherry also negatively affects the apple tree, like peach. The causes of oppression of the apple tree are the same. Cherry often overgrows with large root shoots, which means that it interferes with the cultivation of its “neighbors”.
Sweet cherry
Not friendly and cherries with apple trees. The abundantly developing root system of cherries pushes the roots of “neighbors” from the surface soil layer to the lower, where there is a minimum of fertility and moisture, and the apple tree withers from this.
Barberry
This wonderful and very decorative plant is dangerous not only with its thorns, but also with berberine - a chemical substance secreted into the soil and inhibits the root system by a number of growing crops.
Viburnum
The main feature of viburnum, which prevents it from being safely adjacent to the apple tree, is the consumption of a large amount of moisture from the soil. Thus, the plant deprives water of its neighbors. In addition, aphid settles in large numbers on viburnum, which later flies to the apple tree.
Lilac
Despite the fact that lilac is a beautiful, unusual and pleasantly smelling plant, all kinds of pests often settle on it and diseases appear. This is also a dangerous neighborhood for the apple tree.
Jasmine
Jasmine is thought to inhibit the growth of other plants. Therefore, it is better to plant an apple tree away from jasmine. Otherwise, a good harvest will not work.
Horse chestnut
Horse chestnut consumes a huge amount of nutrients from the soil, greatly depleting it, which leads to starvation of the apple tree. This is especially true for those areas where the soil is rarely fed and watered.
Fir
A feature of growing fir is soil acidification. As a result of its vital activity, the plant releases a large amount of tar into the soil, which pollute the earth. Experienced gardeners recommend waiting three years and only then planting other crops on the site of conifers.
It is not always possible to arrange on your site all the desired fruit trees and bushes, observing the correct neighborhood. If there is a task to get a rich harvest from apple trees, then you need to prioritize and make a certain choice between the desired plants. Some of the cultures will probably have to be abandoned.
