Recently it became fashionable to land on private sites of fir-tree and other coniferous trees. These evergreen representatives of flora – excellent decorative addition of any estate.
The fir-tree more often attracts attention visitors of the shops specializing in sale of garden trees and homestead plants. This magnificent tree can not only serve as decorative accessory of personal plot, but also to become basis for green hedge.
Landing of fir-tree
It is necessary to be engaged in landing of the forest beauty in certain season, in this case it is the end of April, the beginning of May. If weather costs not hot, then it is possible to plant tree and at the end of summer. The fir-tree is usually planted in holes not of really deep water, 50-70 cm wide. If there is planting of several trees, then it is necessary to watch that the distance between them was not less, than 2-3 meters.
When landing young fir-tree, as soil it is necessary to use nutritious substrate as a part of which there is cespitose earth, sheet mix, sand and peat. Planting fir-tree, it is necessary to pay special attention to root neck – it has always to is at ground level. It is necessary to water tree at least once a week, thus it is necessary not to forget to weed near it weeds and to loosen soil.
Fertilizing, watering, cutting and preparation for winter
Fir-trees, as well as other coniferous plants, need watering only at hot and dry weather. As fertilizing of young plant it is possible to use the complex Kemira-universal fertilizer which is rich with all necessary macro - and microelements. As a rule, the krone at fir-tree is formed also without additional intervention therefore periodically it is necessary to cut off only those branches which have dried up, have ached or have been broken. If use of fir-tree as green hedge then it is necessary to pay much attention to forming of krone is planned. It is necessary to tell that to create from the plants growing at row something like impassable wall, it is necessary to have quite good skills. It is the best of all to ask in that case for the help the person who already faced similar tasks and has experience in scrap of trees. As the young fir-tree needs protection against such natural phenomena as solar burns, early-spring and late autumn frosts, it is necessary to take the appropriate measures. Under plant it is necessary to carry out mulching (protection of the soil) by peat, and for the winter to cover needles with any nonwoven fabric, brown paper or fir twigs. Council: if on personal plot the birch grows, then the fir-tree will excellently look near it.