How to plant oak

How to plant oak

Oak – majestic and long-living tree. It has found the broad application in medicine. Oak bark is the most popular material with the tanning properties. Tannins make the knitting and anti-inflammatory impact. The great tree has found to itself the place and in magic legends. Still there is belief that the oak is conductor between the person and the Universe.

Instruction

1. Before crops of acorns estimate their viability. Make it, having opened a little from them. The acorns suitable for crops have bright yellow cotyledons, and in the place of their connection there is live germ of yellow color. Dead acorns inside black or gray. If on external signs at you it is impossible to distinguish viable acorns from dead, wet acorns in ware with water. Dead acorns usually emerge, live leave on one capacity.

2. For landing of the selected acorns mark on the site parallel grooves at distance of about 15-25 cm from each other. Spread out acorns in beds at the rate of 10–35 pieces to 1 m of length of groove. If you plant annual seedlings of oak on the constant place, then place acorns much less often – at distance of 8-12 cm from each other. At spring disembarkation place acorns in the soil of furrow so that they have appeared at depth of 2-3 cm concerning surface and 3–6 cm – at autumn. After that harrow bed, having covered acorns with the earth. Sprouts of oak will appear on the surface of the soil not earlier, than in month after germination. First the powerful root expanding in length develops and only after forming of root the stalk begins to grow.

3. Begin change of seedlings in the early spring that the root system damaged at disembarkation was restored before blooming of leaves. At change cut off the main root of each seedling at distance of 15-20 cm from that place where was located hands that the earth densely adjoined to roots of seedlings.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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