How to Grow Cherry Trees

There are a lot of reasons for growing cherry trees: the satisfaction of choosing your own homegrown fruit, creating family memories, preserving your harvest to enjoy during the cold winter months ... the list is a very long one!

Sweet cherries are what you usually see in the supermarket. They've a "meaty" texture, much like a company plum, and a rich, sweet flavor and can be eaten fresh, cooked, dried or frozen. Sweet cherries grow in USDA Hardiness Zones 5 to 7; many are self-sterile, but will create more and bigger fruit with a unique sweet cherry collection in the area. The return will vary based on sun, available nutrients, soil quality/drainage and local weather conditions throughout the season.
Sour cherries, also called tart cherries, are noticeably smaller than sweet varieties.
These cherry trees typically require 3 to 5 years to start bearing fruit, depending on the tree size (dwarf trees will bear earlier) and the variety. Sour cherry trees will yield roughly 15-20 quarts for dwarf trees, and 20-60 quarts for semi-dwarf trees. The return will vary based on sun, available nutrients, soil quality/drainage and local weather conditions throughout the season.
Some important points to consider growing cherry trees:
Perhaps the most important decision you will make is selecting the proper place to your new cherry trees. This necessitates some pre-planning to give your trees the best opportunity for success:

• Do you know your trees' pollination requirements?
• Is this place you have chosen going to get sufficient sun?
• Does this place have the ideal kind of soil for your cherry trees?
• Is there sufficient space for the trees to grow?

Discover how to prepare your soil before planting. You can even find out how to plant bare-root and potted cherry trees. The instructions are extremely easy to follow.
After getting your cherry trees securely settled in their new house, you can tackle the "Care & Maintenance" stage. Discover how frequently and how much to water and how to prevent issues that come up from under- or over-watering.
Trees should eat, too! Fertilizing is vital to if your trees only live, or thrive. Equally significant is when to start/stop fertilizing.
The Care & Maintenance section will also instruct you how about pruning cherry trees. Pruning keeps the tree's canopy powerful and open to light -- crucial to the quality and quantity of the fruit. Here, we also review common cherry-tree insect and disease problems, and explain the value of spraying to control present issues and help prevent future ones.

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