The victims of the devastating hail on June 21 in the Wolfratshausen region also include fruit growers and vegetable gardeners.
The total damage cannot yet be estimated.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - In the middle / end of June, several storm fronts moved across parts of the district and caused massive damage to buildings and vehicles.
Nature itself has also suffered: Numerous fruit trees in the hailstones are currently like leafless skeletons, as we know them from high winter.
It is not yet possible to say whether the local fruit growers and vegetable gardeners have literally completely ruined the harvest.
Lumps of ice were the size of pigeon eggs
In Bad Heilbrunn, for example, the pigeon egg-sized lumps of ice hit the center of the village before the front moved in the direction of Linden and Wackersberg, other parts of the community were not affected at all. Maria Fichtner, chairwoman of the horticultural association, has hardly received any disaster reports from the members. On some trees it hit segments on the southwest side, from there the storm rushed in, says Fichtner, "but the sides turned away from the weather are still bearing fruit".
Regardless of this damage, the fruit harvest will not be the same this year as in good years. The reason: “The spring was cold, there was still frost during the flowering period.” But what Fichtner can say: “The hail hit many vegetable gardens.” The only thing that helps is to mulch the squashed salads, tomatoes and cucumbers and replant them. For Fichtner, day-to-day business is: "As a gardener, you know that such storms can happen again and again."
Wolfratshausen lay fully in the flight path of the icy projectiles.
The apple and plum trees in Walter Daffner's garden have therefore suffered a lot.
The chairman of the local gardening and beautification association regrets this very much, because the apple tree in particular "has worn nicely".
Now quite a few fruits have been struck.
“They will rot on the tree until the first wind blows them down.” However, Daffner does not believe that the harvest in his hometown gardens will fail completely, “otherwise I would have received more feedback from our members.
But I haven't yet ”.
Path of devastation from Berg to Wolfratshausen
One of the worst was the storm northwest of Loisachstadt - in the villages and communities between Wolfratshausen and Lake Starnberg. Berg, Aufkirchen and Höhenrain were hit hard. Ralf Maier, a trained orchard meadow guide in the horticultural association responsible for this area, has rarely seen such damage to the flora. The mountain trainer complains that it partially blasted the bark off the trees. It did not hit all districts. The path of devastation stretched "from the roundabout in Berg via Höhenrain in the direction of Wolfratshausen". In Kempfenhausen, on the other hand, nothing happened, "the trees there are in their most beautiful splendor".
Maier has now sought advice from the experts at the Horticultural Research Institute in Weihenstephan: "We should wait four weeks and see whether and how the trees recover and whether new leaves are sprouting." And if nothing happens?
"Then only a radical rejuvenation cut will help."
In Icking, the hail caused selective damage.
The neighbor's beautiful apple trees “shaved”, says Konrad Sedlmeyer, head of the Icking horticultural association, “the apples are all down”.
Particularly annoying: in the spring they were "laboriously cut back".
However, the fruit and vegetable gardeners were not affected on a large scale.
Sedlmeyer has "not received any reports of enormous damage" from his club colleagues.
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