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Lettuce, as the earliest and most unpretentious green crop, has always been held in high esteem by gardeners. Spring planting Most gardeners usually start by sowing lettuce, parsley and radishes. Recently, the desire to healthy eating And large selection greens in supermarkets make gardeners wonder which of these plants can be grown in their beds? In this article we will talk about nine of the most interesting, in our opinion, varieties of salad.
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Quite often, people looking for new green pets are looking for something unusual that not everyone grows. At least update the options for planting, but we suggest trying to grow a real spruce at home. Not only will the air in your home be saturated with a pleasant pine aroma, but also the eternal New Year's problem will be solved. Don’t cut down Christmas trees in the forest every year and don’t be sad in the company of artificial tree. Everyone wins – both natural lovers and conservationists.
More reliable from seeds
Oddly enough, the most reliable way to grow spruce is from seeds. The tree will be in your home from its very birth and will be able to quickly adapt to environmental conditions. In addition, it will cost a considerable amount, and the conditions in the nursery are different.
Spruce seeds prepared for planting
However, it is best to purchase spruce seeds from a nursery - the people who work there are knowledgeable, and the products there are, as a rule, of high quality. If you want to complicate the task, go into the forest yourself in late autumn and collect fir cones. The seeds extracted from them will become material for future work.
You can collect the cones in winter, bring them home and dry them until they open on their own - then remove the seeds.
There is one important point associated with growing spruce at home. We are talking about a constantly warm temperature that will not give the spruce time to rest, which is usually easily achieved outdoors. At home, coolness can be ensured with the help of a balcony, where during cold weather you will need to take the coniferous beauty out, gradually accustoming it to the cold. If you do not have a balcony, it is better to abandon the idea of growing a spruce.
However, if you are growing a spruce at home for further growth, the first two warm seasons will not ruin things.
Spruce varieties
The choice of spruce varieties does not create problems, since the buyer’s attention (unless you yourself are looking for planting material) Christmas trees are offered with different colors, needles and shape. It remains to add that if you are going to plant a future spruce on your plot, you can purchase seeds of any variety. If the Christmas tree does not leave the house, then, of course, the choice will be limited. For example, an ordinary Russian spruce, even in cramped conditions, can grow so tall that no ceiling height is enough. Therefore, you will have to choose among decorative dwarf species.
Blue spruce "Misty Blue" Norway spruce
In general, among the variety of varieties, in addition to Russian spruce, blue spruce enjoys attention, it is very unpretentious beauty, as well as Canadian, which is much more difficult to grow, and white-sided - amazing creature with wonderful colors.
It is best to grow blue and regular Russian spruce in our area; they have already been tested by nature itself for many years, and there should be no problems with their cultivation.
Growing from seeds (video)
So, since growing from seeds allows you to achieve best result, we run to the nursery, forest or store and buy seeds. They need to be soaked in warm water for 2-3 weeks so that they swell, and then planted in the ground.
To be on the safe side, the seeds can be soaked in a manganese solution for a day and planted in the ground - this method is quite logical if you found the seeds in nature yourself.
They say that best land for the Christmas tree - soil from the native forest. If the brought volume is diluted by half with peat, you will also enrich the soil with microelements. It is better to avoid other fertilizers, and especially chemicals, when growing spruce at home.
The main thing to remember when germinating seeds is that they are difficult to germinate. The hatching period ranges from a month to a year, so even the well-known leisurely strawberry is a real bamboo in terms of the speed of development compared to spruce. Therefore, if you planted a seed, and after a month or two you have not seen a sprout, do not rush to abandon your business. Sooner or later he will appear. If, of course, the seed is alive and of high quality.
And here are the young shoots of spruce - very thin and so tender. But these shoots have already grown stronger, which means everything is going fine
The seed must be planted immediately in a large pot. Small glasses are not suitable if the sprout has already been born - here things will go faster, and the tiny Christmas tree will quickly become cramped. And a transplant at such a tender age is disastrous for her.
After planting, watering the seeds is required once a week, and after the sprout appears, watering is stopped. Spruce is not the most moisture-loving tree, and therefore periodic spraying from a spray bottle will suffice.
What’s interesting is that the greatest growth of spruce is observed in winter time under thick snow, so by placing a young tree on the windowsill with the onset of cold weather, you will harden it and stimulate its development.
So that the Christmas tree pleases in the first years with beautiful needles and pleasant aroma, do not place it under straight lines sun rays. Only in the fourth or fifth year of life, when the Christmas tree reaches a height of 30 to 50 cm, can it be gradually accustomed to the bright sun.
From the window to the site
If you are growing a Christmas tree for your summer cottage, and the time for replanting (and this usually happens two years after hatching from seeds) is already approaching, it’s time to accustom it to fresh air. Periodically, the plant needs to be exposed to the street, gradually increasing the intervals. This period of adaptation should last a couple of months, after which the Christmas tree will be able to live in the open air.
This Christmas tree is ready to be transplanted
When planting on a site, it is advisable to add a little forest soil to the hole, and after the Christmas tree has found a new place, you need to water the tree for some time before it takes root. Once the tree is established, no watering will be required, except during dry seasons.
Growing a Christmas tree from seeds is not as difficult as many other plants. However, the result of your efforts will grow not in one, or even two years, but over decades and even centuries. This is what makes the Christmas tree very different from other plants, and planting it in open ground carried out once and for a long time.
Unlike deciduous trees, appearance conifers remain attractive at any time of the year, so many owners strive to decorate their site with this Christmas attribute. But before planting a spruce on the site, you should decide on the type of tree, choose optimal place placement and properly prepare the soil at the dacha for planting.
Choosing a Christmas tree variety
The main criterion when choosing the type of coniferous tree is the shape of the crown and the height of the adult plant.
When decorating a summer cottage, three varieties of fir trees are mainly used.
- Common spruce is a type of plant 1.2-3 meters high. The shade of the needles ranges from golden to bright green. This species can most often be found in the country.
- Gray spruce - got its name due to the grayish color of the tree bark and the gray-blue or ashy shade of the needles. Tall varieties of spruce have a cone-shaped crown, and in dwarf plants the top has the shape of a nest or ball.
- Prickly spruce is a tree with a decorative cone-shaped crown, sometimes reaching a height of 40 meters. Less common dwarf trees up to 2 m. The needles of such spruce trees are very prickly and have a color from whitish blue or silver to turquoise.
Choosing a spruce for small dacha, you should choose a plant of medium or dwarf height, and tall ones are suitable for country house with a large plot of land. When decorating garden plots, medium-sized or dwarf species are especially popular.
Purchasing or searching for a seedling
You can have a Christmas tree in different ways. You can choose it from a nursery, bring it from the forest, or grow it yourself in a container.
- Nurseries sell mature trees, digging them up in the presence of the buyer, or offer spruce trees in containers. Trees that are bare root system, may not survive until they are planted in the ground. Therefore, it is very important to choose a spruce with intact roots and a clod of earth that protects them from the effects of the external environment. It will be much easier to grow such a tree, since the tree will tolerate replanting well, will suffer less pain and adapt faster.
- If the type of tree does not matter, then you can bring a Christmas tree from the forest, choosing a tree from 1 to 2 meters. The tree should be dug up from all sides to remove it with a large lump of earth. Small trees can be transported from the forest with bare roots, but during transportation, cover them with tarpaulin material, and upon arrival immediately plant them in a prepared hole.
- To grow a seedling from a seed, you need to bring open cones from the forest in winter and collect the seeds. Add soil taken from the forest to the container for planting or pour soil mixture For coniferous plants. The seeds are planted in the ground to a depth of 5 mm and placed in a cool place.
During the warm season, the tree should be regularly moistened, and in cool times, reduce watering to twice every 30 days. To ensure periods of rest, the plant should be periodically placed on the balcony or in the yard. In one year, a spruce can grow up to 25 cm in height.
Selecting a location
Since spruce can reach a height of 10 m and a width of 5 m, you must carefully choose a planting site. Under natural conditions, the plant feels good near the river, where its root system can receive enough moisture. But the tree does not like wetlands, so caring for it involves arranging drainage.
Spruce greatly depletes the soil, so it cannot be planted next to fruit-bearing crops. In addition, it should be borne in mind that in adulthood, spruce is a fairly large tree. Therefore, plant it under electrical wires undesirable.
Fir trees feel great surrounded by birch trees. They are not afraid of the shade that birch trees provide; on the contrary, it is even useful to them. Spruce is one of the rare trees that retains its beauty in the shade.
In the forest you can find and dig up small one-year-old fir trees. To carefully replant a tree, you should first dig around it. The circumference of the pit should be equal to the diameter of the lower branches, and the depth should be at least 0.5 m.
The roots of the plant must be carefully removed from the ground without shaking them off. Then place the spruce on a thick cloth and carefully pack it, marking the cardinal directions with colored tape. Load the tree and a bag of forest soil into a vehicle and transport it to the planting site, being careful not to damage the branches and root system during transportation.
The soil in the forest is different from that in the garden. Therefore, you need to take soil from the forest from the place where you dug up the Christmas tree.
All varieties of spruce love light soil. They grow poorly on heavy types of soil. Before planting the plant in poor soil, it is necessary to add mineral fertilizer(about 100 grams).
Planting a tree
The best time to plant spruce is spring or early autumn. At this time, the plant has already passed or has not yet entered the active growth phase. Coniferous trees grown in a container can be planted later, since their roots are not affected.
The size of the hole for planting the plant must match the volume of the earthen ball. For small plants 2–3 years old, a hole of 60 by 80 cm is sufficient, and if it is necessary to plant a large tree, the hole should be slightly larger than a ball of earth. The distance between the recesses for large plants should be three meters, for medium-sized ones - 3-5 m, and for dwarf plants from 0.5 to 1 m is sufficient.
Sequence of actions when landing
- Brick fragments are placed at the bottom of the dug hole to ensure drainage. Soil is poured on top. For this purpose earth will do from the forest, mixed with humus.
- The plant is placed in a hole along with a lump of earth. Under no circumstances should the root collar be buried in the soil; it should be correctly positioned flush with the surface of the earth.
- Carefully cover the roots with soil and compact lightly. It is important to maintain the original position of the tree relative to the cardinal directions when replanting. To do this, you need to make a mark on one of the sides of the tree, so that you can then navigate by this sign.
- The tree must be secured by tying it to two stakes, and an earthen roller must be made around the tree to retain irrigation water and form a circle near the trunk for laying mulch from chips and sawdust in order to protect it from frost, drying out and rodents.
- During the first time after planting, the seedling needs regular watering and care. In summer, the soil under the tree needs to be watered, but in winter there is no need to do this.
Enter mineral fertilizing necessary next spring. If the spruce planting is done correctly and proper care is provided, it will adapt fairly quickly.
Plant care conditions
Spruce trees love sunlight, but young seedlings need additional care and shading. They may suffer from the spring sun, which can cause them to lose their needles and lose their decorative properties. It is better to plant them near walls and fences, which will initially give them the necessary shade.
It should be taken into account that the root system takes up a lot of space around the spruce and can eventually run into communications and the foundation of the house. It is located shallow and does not like compaction of the soil, so it is undesirable to trample the surface of the earth near the tree. Young seedlings should be covered with spruce branches for the winter, which should be removed after the cessation of spring frosts. Adult spruce trees are quite frost-resistant and do not need insulation.
During prolonged drought, the plant needs additional care in the form of watering. It is necessary to carefully monitor the level of soil moisture. When watering, water should not be poured under the trunk, but in a circle within a radius of 30 cm from the tree trunk. The amount of water to moisten the soil in hot weather should be from 10 to 12 liters per plant when watered once every 7 days.
Blue spruce is a rather demanding plant, the care of which consists of pruning dry and diseased branches. This event should be held in spring and autumn. When in decorative purposes it is necessary to provide them with appropriate care, which consists in the formation of the tree crown. The first time pruning should be done in the year of planting, and then every 2-3 years, cutting off branches by 10-15 cm.
By following these simple rules, you can create a picturesque corner at your dacha, and a healthy and well-groomed plant will fit favorably into the landscape of the site. Spruces have a lot decorative varieties and shades of pine needles, so a suitable specimen can be selected for almost any style direction.
Spruce care consists of: correct landing, shading, fertilizing, pruning and infrequent watering. Coniferous trees planted on the border of a summer cottage or on the sides of the road look very decorative. It is quite difficult for the plant to adapt and take root, but if the result is achieved, the spruce will delight the eye with its lush needles all year round.
Canadian spruce at home is not easy, but still possible. But do not forget that under natural conditions spruce is a large tree, so it cannot be planted in a pot forever. And no matter how much you would like to part with your pet, it is recommended to plant the tree in natural conditions before it reaches 3 years of age.
Canadian spruce in a pot: propagation
You can buy a ready-made seedling in the store, or you can try growing a Christmas tree from seeds. Seeds are collected from the open cones of a Christmas tree you like.
The best time for this is November-February. To ensure high germination of seed material, it is recommended to carry out stratification. To do this, the seeds are soaked in ice water for 3 days. Some gardeners even add ice to the water.
After the seeds have swelled, they are kept in damp sand at 0°C. This method ensures the highest germination of seeds. They are sown to a depth of 0.5 cm. Until the shoots appear, the pot should stand in a well-ventilated, cool place.
Remember that under natural conditions, spruce germinates in early spring under the snow. Further care– watering, fertilizing. Depending on the growing conditions and variety, seedlings by the age of one can reach 10-25 cm, and dwarf species - even less.
Canadian spruce: accommodation
When purchasing Canadian spruce trees in pots, it is best to place them in a cool but bright window. Conifers prefer diffused light. Christmas trees need frequent ventilation of the room. Watering should be optimal. Overdrying of the soil is not allowed.
At home, a phenomenon occurs when one side of a tree standing on a window facing the room begins to turn yellow and fall off. And the opposite side, being closer to the light, remains green. That is why the pot on the window needs to be turned periodically, otherwise one side may even crumble. And, as you know, spruce branches cannot be restored, since they only grow from above.
Spruce Canadian at home It will grow better if you take it out in the winter glass balcony or loggia. It is important to ensure that the soil in the pot does not freeze. To prevent this from happening, the pot can be wrapped in something warm. At a temperature of about 0°C, the spruce will not freeze, and due to the moist air, it will feel quite good. However, with the advent of the bright, burning sun, the Christmas tree needs to be shaded a little. This will prevent the young sprouts from turning yellow.
Transplanting Canadian spruce into a pot
What you don’t need to do after buying a Christmas tree in a pot is replanting it. Coniferous trees can only be replanted late spring, but even such a transplant they do not tolerate well.
If you have your own land plot, then you can try to transplant the Christmas tree directly into the ground. In this case, under no circumstances should the earthen lump be damaged. You also need to make sure that the root collar is not buried. The planting location is chosen to be sunny, but shaded from ultraviolet radiation. The Christmas tree takes a long time to take root - up to 3 years.
Canadian spruce in a pot: care
Spruce needs moderate temperature conditions. Coolness is required during the winter months. Optimal temperature at this time 0 +10°С. The Christmas tree can tolerate short-term temperature drops below 0°C.
Watering should be regular. It is necessary to ensure that the earthen ball is always evenly moistened. Excessive waterlogging and drying out are not allowed. During the dormant period, you can reduce watering to once every 2-3 weeks. This is at a room temperature of +5+10°C. When the temperature drops to 0°C, water no more than once a month.
Fertilizing is carried out with universal fertilizers. To grow a coniferous tree from seeds you need acidic soil. To do this, you can buy a ready-made soil mixture for conifers, or prepare it yourself: in equal proportions, a universal soil mixture and soil from a coniferous forest.
Problems when growing Canadian spruce in a pot
The needles turn yellow and fall off. This happens as a result of mistakes made during care: violations of temperature, watering, sunburn. Branches that have already suffered will not recover. If the needles begin to turn yellow, it is necessary to urgently change the conditions of detention. First aid can be spraying with bio-regulators, which can be purchased in specialized stores.
The needles lost their shine and wrinkled. This is possible due to insufficiently oxidized soil. To change this, it is recommended to add top layer earth mixture soil from under a coniferous tree. This must be done with extreme caution, without changing the ground level and without exposing the roots.
Date of publication: 11/10/2015Another question immediately arises: is it even possible to grow a Christmas tree at home? Yes, you can if you create it for her suitable conditions. But for this, desire alone is not enough; correct and regular actions are also needed. However, the result will justify all your efforts: New Year you will have a real, live, homely beauty.
New Year is just around the corner. When we see that Christmas trees are on sale, we buy them. Most often, of course, you want a real, live Christmas tree. Our idea of the New Year's holiday. For many people, after celebrating the New Year, the tree stands until March, until it crumbles; it’s such a pity to part with the symbol of all that is most pleasant and bright.
But this tree has no roots; it was cut down, so it crumbles. But you can grow a real living one - at home. She will delight us and our children for several years in a row. Such a Christmas tree can be remembered by children for the rest of their lives. They will always remember what a wonderful Christmas tree they had in their childhood.
If you decide to grow a Christmas tree at home, you can start by collecting seeds from a common spruce tree in our forests - the common spruce. There is also a prickly spruce, there is a blue spruce - from its seeds a blue spruce will not necessarily grow again, an ordinary spruce may grow.
First, the cones are collected from November to the end of February. You can collect cones in the forest and in the park. They need to be dried in a warm place until they open. The cones of the spruce will open, whether the seeds in them have ripened or not. Therefore, not all seeds will be viable.
Based on this, you need to sow several seeds (or even a lot), but so that later during thinning you do not disturb the plant that you choose for further cultivation, that is, you need to sow rarely, not in heaps.
Before planting, spruce seeds must first undergo stratification. Therefore, after treating the seeds with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, mix them with wet sand and keep them in a closed container in the refrigerator for 2 - 3 months. For stratification, you can take the pots with seeds outside under the snow. In nature, spruce seeds germinate early spring, even when the snow has not yet melted everywhere. Therefore, if the seeds were in the refrigerator for stratification, you can sow them at the end of April.
The soil for sowing is prepared in advance. It should be slightly acidic. To do this, either buy special soil for conifers, or you can prepare it yourself by mixing equal parts ordinary soil with soil from a coniferous forest.
For sowing, nuts are soaked for a day in warm water. They sow shallowly - 1 - 0.5 cm, that is, they crush the soil. The soil must be well moistened and maintained, without over-wetting or drying out. You can cover it with film for a while, this makes it easier to maintain humidity.
For the entire period of seed germination, pots and boxes with sowing should be kept in a cool, ventilated place. Shoots may appear in 20 - 30 days. But it happens that the seeds can hatch and sprout only next year.
As soon as the shoots appear, all attention is paid to light, watering and temperature, that is, to caring for the Christmas tree.
Young seedlings should be kept in a well-lit place, but so that direct sunlight does not burn the plant. It's better when the light is diffused. If the lighting comes from one side, then you will have to turn the pot once a week so that the branches develop evenly.
The Christmas tree should be watered regularly, abundantly, but should not be over-watered. The lump of earth must be constantly moistened. Overdrying is also harmful.
It is good and necessary to regularly spray with a fine sprayer. For spraying, use soft water; coniferous trees do not like lime. The water can be settled, boiled or used from rainwater. In addition, ventilation must be done.
From autumn to winter, it is necessary to create conditions for the Christmas tree under which it will go through a period of rest. The Christmas tree should then be in a cool place. It is believed that winter temperature for it you can keep +5 - + 10 degrees C. The tree can easily withstand temperatures dropping to sub-zero, but the lump of earth should not freeze.
During the dormant period, watering is reduced. At a temperature of +5 - + 10 degrees C, watering is allowed once every 2 - 3 weeks. If the temperature is about 0 degrees C, water up to once a month. If the room is heated, do not stop spraying.
For better growth You can feed the Christmas tree with universal fertilizers.
It happens that when growing a Christmas tree, the needles begin to turn yellow and fall off. The branches become bare, and new needles will never grow in place of the fallen needles. This means that these are errors in care: maybe this is due to sunburn, or improper watering, or broken somewhere temperature regime. Then you need to slightly change the growing conditions. You can spray with bio-regulators to increase the plant's immunity. If the needles lose their shine and wrinkle, it means the soil is not acidic enough. You can remove the top layer of soil without exposing the roots, and add soil from underneath coniferous trees. The soil is added so that the soil around the root collar remains at the same level as it was.
You can grow a Christmas tree at home for 2 - 3 - 4 years, but the time will come when it will grow so big that you will have to part with it. In nature, this is a large tree and it needs space. In order not to throw the Christmas tree into a landfill, you can try replanting it near your house or in your country house.
Spruce is difficult to transplant. The lump of soil near the spruce must be well moistened. Try not to expose the roots, do not shake off the soil from them. The roots do not need to be cut or torn off. Replanted at the end of spring. Well watered. When transplanting, you need to place the tree so that the root collar remains at the same ground level as it was.
If you want to quickly have a homemade Christmas tree, you can buy it at a nursery. Of course it will be more expensive. In the nursery you can choose conifers dwarf spruce. There is a Canadian spruce Conica, the height of a 10-year-old plant is about 50 cm, there is a spruce Nidiformis - 30 cm. These spruce trees can fit in an apartment, but their appearance is somewhat different from what we are used to.
You can buy araucaria, it grows naturally in Chile and Argentina. Araucaria grows in the form of a small tree with a pyramidal crown, but does not tolerate dry air. Therefore, the pot with it is placed in a tray with moistened expanded clay or the ground is covered with moss and periodically moistened. The plant itself is often sprayed.
Good luck to you in choosing and growing Christmas trees!
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