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- Aronia - How to grow a beautiful and productive hedge
- An aronia hedge offers many advantages
- Tips & Tricks
Aronia - How to grow a beautiful and productive hedge
The frugal and very easy-to-clean chokeberry is ideal for creating a low-maintenance hedge. Not only does it look very pretty at the height of flowering in May, as well as with the fire-red colored leaves in autumn, you will also be able to harvest abundant edible fruits and provide birds with a natural shelter with food source.
An aronia hedge offers many advantages
Thus, an aronia hedge has a lot to offer in every season. The pure white flowers appear in May, from them eventually develop the dark purple to black fruits that are ripe for harvest in late summer or early fall. Per shrub you can expect an average yield of about three kilograms of berries. For a hedge you should plant several shrubs at a distance of about half a meter in a row. The hedge can grow up to two meters high and just as wide.
Tips & Tricks
If you want to harvest as many berries as possible, you should cover your aronia hedge as early as possible with a bird net or a curtain - birds also love the dark and healthy berries very much.