Trees for the garden - where to buy and how to choose

To plant a tree – так же важно, как построить дом и вырастить сына. А если вы недавно обзавелись дачей и у вас пока пустой участок – то это вообще срочная задача.

But there is a lot of questions: where Buy trees For the garden, so as not to run into deception? Which is better - a small seedling or Crooper tree? How much does one tree cost? The answers to them were given to us by Olga Koryabkina-a biologist-botanik, agroecophytocenologist, a practitioner of organic farming, author Blog in VK "Living Garden of Olga Koryabkina".

Olga Koryabkina

What are the nurseries

To grow a tree from a seed is a feat. It is much easier to buy a seedling in garden nursery. They are different. Wholesale sell seedlings in large batches of landscape firms and other nurseries that themselves do not propagate the plants, but grow them to the required size.

Retail nurseries work with private customers and sell plants one at a time. They can specialize in fruit trees and shrubs or decorative. There are nurseries that grow trees to restore forests, create protective forest belts, etc.

In some nurseries, plants are not only propagated and grown, but also conducting research work, they engage in selection, and derive district varieties.

How to choose Plant nursery

It is necessary to distinguish nurseries from trading floors. A trading platform is a place where plants are sold from different manufacturers. If you want to buy a tree here, you are unlikely to be able to learn more about it than it itself will “tell”.

Buy seedlings of fruit trees First -hand, you can in small private nurseries in your area and at seasonal fairs for gardeners.

How to understand that the nursery deserves trust? First of all, study his site. There should be photographs of the field in which plants are grown, a detailed description of the stock* and varieties, information about the cultivation technology.

If on the site - only beautiful photos and words like “hit sales” or “the best crop”, close it: these are just marketing tricks. It is likely that the plant bought here will not correspond to the variety or die in the first year - for example, if it is southern and not adapted to your area.

Savings of decorative trees (maple, spruce, thuja and others) can be imported. Two years ago, most of them were brought to Russia from Europe. Now domestic ones have begun to appear, but the nurseries are still selling the remnants of the procurement. In what conditions they raised the imported plant, it will not work to find out - you can only evaluate its current state.

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Is it worth it to order a plant in online store

It depends on your readiness to take risks. If you are a novice gardener, it is better to go to the nursery and get what you like.

If you are special and have long been looking for a certain variety, you may be ready to order a plant from a collector from afar. But you must understand that this is a kind of lottery: a non -viable seedling or not the same may come to you.

How to choose дерево

You can not rush and save. The tree will take a large area in the garden and will live with you for many years. In the event of an unsuccessful purchase, you will have to constantly treat it, or it will give a little crop, or it will be the wrong variety.

Therefore, it is better to measure seven times. Find out what varieties grow well in your region, what care is required, how to recognize Diseases of trees etc. Read thematic blogs, reviews, look at the YouTube channels of authoritative bloggers-Natalia Petrenko, Ivan Russians, Dmitry Zallka.

When you clearly decide what exactly you want to buy, find out how to choose this plant and how to live with it later, you can go to the nursery. If among your friends there is a gardener with experience or agronomist, take it with you.

When choosing a tree, carefully inspect all its parts: the kidneys should be strong, healthy, the trunk is even, the bark is without damage. Be sure to remove it from the pot and check the root system. Healthy root is the most important thing. If the plant has a vaccine (a place where the blanket is connected to the seam), evaluate its condition.

How much a tree costs depends on its age, variety, rarity, number of intermediaries on the way from the field to your hands. You can save on age: buy a smaller plant and grow yourself.

What is a seedling, seedling, large -scale, and what to buy

A seedling is any perennial plant intended for transplantation. It is like seedlings in tomatoes or cucumbers.

A seedling is a plant grown from seed. The plant obtained from the cuttings is called “clone” (no matter how scared this word). That is, a seedling and a clone can be a seedling.

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The coarseer is an adult tree (from four years and older).

Если в своем саду вы используете традиционную агротехнику – интенсивные обработки, химию, то можете купить Crooper tree. За годы жизни в питомнике оно привыкло к подобному уходу. Но по той же причине оно будет постоянно нуждаться в удобрении и защите.

If you are a supporter organic farming, it is better to buy a middle -aged seedling (in the case of fruiting it is 2-3 years) and slowly grow it. The tree will be healthier and stronger.

A closed or open root system - which is better?

Seedlings with an open root system (ACS) are seedlings grown in open ground: on a field or in the garden. When the seed is placed in a pot or container and grown in it, a seedling with a closed root system (ZKS) is obtained.

It is better for newcomers to take a plant with ZKS. There are fewer difficulties with him. It can be taken out of the pot at any time throughout the summer season and transplanted into the garden.

But if you see trees in containers in a nursery or on a trading platform, this does not mean that all of them are with ZKS. Perhaps they were placed there before sale. To find out the truth, you need to get a tree. If it is removed along with a large lump of earth in the shape of a pot entangled by roots, it means that it grows in a pot for a long time and is well rooted. If pieces of land fall off from the root, it was transplanted recently. It is better not to buy such a tree: it has not yet been adapted and may die.

What certificates or documents should a nursery have

Certification of seedlings is a voluntary procedure, quite expensive and complex. Therefore, only large highly specialized industries - microclon laboratories and nurseries producing millions of seedlings. Small private nurseries may have official tax documentation. A quarantine certificate of the absence of certain diseases and pests is attached to seedlings from Europe. But all these documents are intended primarily for regulatory authorities. As a private buyer, they are unlikely to be shown.

How to transport the plant home? And in what terms to plant?

If you bought a tree with an open root, put it in a bag or a wet substrate (ground, peat, sawdust) in the store. This is necessary so that during transportation the roots do not dry out. Carry it carefully so as not to damage it.

The plant with ACS must be bought in the spring until the kidneys are bloated or autumn, with ZKS through the entire warm season. Immediately put it in the ground - not necessarily in a permanent place, later it will be possible to transplant.

If you bought a seedling in the cold season, keep it warm as little as possible. In no case do not put in the room - take it to the balcony, loggia or in the greenhouse. And drop out into the garden when spring comes.

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Is it possible to get seedlings for free

You can, if someone gives you. It is forbidden to dig up trees in the forest - a fine is for this (Art. 8.28 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation).

To produce seedlings in our climatic conditions is a lot of work, and it must be paid. But, if you buy a tree that, according to all the rules, has grown a professional agronomist, it will live for a long time and happily - unless, of course, to care for it.

*The stock is the lower part of the plant (usually the root and bottom of the stem), to which the blanket is increased - the stalk or kidney of another plant to get a certain variety.

Текст: Olga Koryabkina, Наталья Захарова

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