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- Small-sized pear trees - ideal for small home gardens
- Small-sized pear trees for home gardens
- Benefits of short pear trees
- Fast and easier harvest
- Disadvantages of a stunted tree
- Tips & Tricks
Small-sized pear trees - ideal for small home gardens
In the course of time, pear trees can reach huge dimensions of up to 20 meters in height with correspondingly spreading crowns. For the small home garden such trees are too big. Small-sized varieties have many advantages but also a few disadvantages.
Small-sized pear trees for home gardens
Almost all types of pears are available as Hochstamm, Halbbstamm or kleinwüchsigen tree. The different growth forms are available in the nursery or the gardener.
If you want to plant a small pear tree in your home garden, you have the choice among the growth forms:
An alternative is to cut a tree that you have propagated yourself so that it remains small. You also have to limit the root system.
Benefits of short pear trees
The small trees take up very little space, especially if you plant them as trellises on the house wall or as a pillar tree in the tub.
It can maintain several pear trees in the garden. This ensures that the trees fertilize each other and bear a rich harvest.
If you want to transplant your pear tree, that's a lot easier with a small tree. For large trees while agricultural equipment must be used. For small trees a spade is enough.
Fast and easier harvest
The smaller the pear tree, the sooner it bears fruit. For high-stem pears several years go into the country, until the first fruits ripen.
Small trees can be harvested without a ladder. You can pick the pears without aids.
Disadvantages of a stunted tree
While tall pear trees can reach an age of up to 200 years and longer, the lifetime of a short-lived tree is limited. At best, it will grow in the garden for a few decades.
In case of disease, for example, by fire grate or crayfish you have to fell the whole tree. Large trees can be saved by cutting out diseased areas. This is not possible with short specimens.
Tips & Tricks
Since you have enough space for several specimens of small-sized pear trees, you can grow summer, autumn and winter pears. From summer to winter, you can always pick fresh pears in your own garden.