Transplanting a Christmas tree

How to plant a spruce on your site: Choosing a time and place

Surely you want to plant something original on your site. And to plant not for a season, but so that the new green pet took root in its place and pleased the eye for many years. This also applies to all types of spruce. This useful beauty can not often be found in plots – people do not dare either because of the small plot, on which it looks strange, or because of superstition. However, those who have already done it, assure that planting a spruce was the right decision. For those who doubt or seriously plan to acquire a prickly and fragrant tree on their plot, we will tell you the way of reliable planting.

Simplicity and beauty (video)

In fact, planting a Christmas tree on your plot is hardly more difficult than any other tree. It is only important to follow the rules and do everything with love, then the result will come. Not only will the tree grow a real beauty with proper care, but its scent will clean the air from toxins and germs and even more comfortably take root in the cottage. This will especially appeal to those who love to walk in the woods, but do not have the opportunity to get there often.

A Christmas tree under the snow in winter. What do you think? At least for the sake of this, it is worth planting this green joy on the plot.

For this method, we will need a two-year-old Christmas tree, organic fertilizer, dry wooden sawdust as mulch, sand as a drainage material, a stake and a rope. There is no point in mentioning a shovel and watering – this should be the default.

Method of planting

1. First, you need to find a two-year-old Christmas tree. The easiest way is to buy it from a nursery, where the case is put on a wide footing and the call is impeccable. As a rule, large Christmas tree nurseries with years of experience are only a reliable place to sell. If you do not want to spend money on a seedling, but among your acquaintances or well-known gardeners or foresters, find help – you will be advised where best to look for and dig up the tree. And the forester digs it himself and observes all the rules.

Fortunately, spruce is a rather unpretentious plant, and in our latitudes you can grow both ordinary spruces and Canadian, blue and others.

1. When buying or digging up a seedling, it is necessary to expose the soil clump. A system with a root system in a container is just that. When the roots are free of the soil, check them – white tips tell you that the plant is okay.
2. Late April to early May is the best time to plant a spruce. During this time, the buds are still dormant and the tree is much easier to transplant. Also spruces are planted in late August to early September, when their roots are actively growing.

There is an opinion that blue spruce is better planted in winter for better habituation of its root system to a new place, Canadian or other.

Incidentally, there is a category of gardeners who argue that spring planting is the only correct time to transplant a spruce. Fall transplanting leads to nothing good.

1. The pit for planting the seedling should be prepared as early as two weeks in advance. For a two-year-old seedling, the depth and diameter of the hole are usually 60-70 cm. A mixture of compost and humus with bone meal and pine needles should be poured into the hole. Many gardeners recommend applying mineral fertilizers in the spring, when the tree is already well rooted.
2. Having poured into the hole on the fertile, put the seedling. The lump with the roots should fit freely in the hole. Before backfilling the soil, it is recommended to carefully straighten the roots. Before backfilling, the tree is slightly lifted and begin to fill it with soil. It is important to qualitatively compact the soil, so that the sapling does not float and flatten together with it. The root neck of the seedling should always be at the level of the country.
3. After the herringbone is planted, it is recommended to make handles next to it and tie the plant to them. Around the sapling you need to create an earth mole, and fill the inside with sawdust. The Christmas tree should be well watered – this is necessary not only to feed the thirst of the plant, but also to get rid of air caves in the ground after planting.

Although a planted Christmas tree needs a lot of moisture, you should not overdo it – if the soil is firm, it should be mixed with sand or just make a sandy drainage, so that water does not stagnate in the roots.

How to water and care

If in the first few weeks after planting the spruce requires abundant watering, in winter Anders-die Nutternature will do everything for you. In summer, spruce needs to be watered like all other plants, especially during hot and dry weather.

The height of the tree can be limited as desired. This is done because of the effect on the top. The top shoots are removed after emergence, and all the nutrients are distributed over the remaining crown. In this way, the Christmas tree becomes slender and fluffy and stops falling out of the lower branches.

Like other conifers, Fichte can be pruned at will if you want to achieve an unusual shape

The subtleties of transplanting

If you want to hide part of the site, there is hardly anything better to find

There are some interesting things to consider when planting a spruce on your site:

– If the spruce is small, ornamental, it should not be planted far from the house. However, when it comes to a regular spruce, you need to remember about the surface root system, which drains moisture from other plants. Such a tree is better planted outside the plot. However, if you want to see a Christmas tree closer to the house, you need to prune the roots every year.

– If you want to increase the chances of survival of the tree, when digging in the woods, orient it to the cardinal points and according to them plant the spruce in your plot.

Dig it up in the woods with care.

Plants for planting

Before choosing a place for planting, discuss the problem with your neighbors. Spruce grows over time and should be at a safe distance from the neighbor’s house and not inconvenience anyone.

Try to place the spruce away from the house, unless it is a low-growing variety that performs decorative tasks on the site. The common fir tree is a respectable tree, it grows up to 250-300 years in its place and can grow to 20 meters in height. Due to the fact that this tree belongs to the wind-resistant, mainly due to its surface root system, the place for planting should not be chosen more than twenty meters from the house.

Nadella belle likes sunlit places, so in the open sun it will show itself in all its glory. However, this can play a cruel joke with other plants, which can get into their shade. Therefore, when choosing a place, pay attention to such little things as the direction of movement and location of the tree in relation to other fruit and vegetable plants.

Photo gallery of different types of spruces

Spruce ornate Common spruce Blue spruce White spruce Canadian spruce

A seedling on a plot will take root and will take root for your actions and efforts. However, the quality of planting material, climatic conditions, and how fertile the soil is (it must be mildly acidic or neutral in reaction) at the planting site is important. Under all conditions, the new Green Resi variety is appropriate for your location.

What is the right way to transplant a spruce?

Slender spruces with their lush evergreen needles look great in country houses and country gardens. With their help, you can form a beautiful landscape design and a unique, original style in your suburban area. Clean air with the scent of pine is good for both people and pets. Therefore, everyone who cares about their health, be sure to plant pine trees on their property.

The right time

In our temperate climate, you can transplant trees almost until the coldest weather. However, the best time to plant spruce trees is considered early spring from late April to early May. This period promotes easier adaptation of the spruce to transplanting, as its buds have not yet opened.

Early fall in late August to early September is also suitable for planting Christmas trees, at this time the soil is soft, which contributes to the rapid growth of the root system. If the weather conditions are summer, as long as it is not too hot and dry, you can transplant. The main thing is to water in advance with enough water.

Choose a place

First of all, you need to choose a place for planting very carefully. The most suitable one can be the one that is well exposed to the sun. For the cultivation of coniferous plants, a slightly shaded place will also be suitable. It is in an open space that the Eden beauty will be able to develop in all its glory.

Keep in mind that spruce is a tall tree and can reach 10 or even 20 meters in height. Because of such a height, electric wires above it are not allowed. The circumference of the crown is also large and can reach 5 meters. Therefore, the distance from the planting site to the building should be as large as possible, about 10 meters.

When determining where to plant a spruce, one important point should not be overlooked: it is necessary to discuss the planting location with all the neighbors on the plot, so as not to cause inconvenience to anyone. After all, spruces grow over time, and especially if there are several of them, they should not be a nuisance to anyone. And the spruce itself should become safe.

Near the buildings, you can plant firs of different species and different heights. You can replace the fence on the territory. And one of the tallest spruces can be planted where it is best to rest. It will be a wonderful decoration of both the garden and the central resting place. Under their shady branches you can build a gazebo, a bench and a structure for relaxation and rest.

However, the proximity of spruces with other fruit and vegetable plantings or even their shade can negatively affect the growth and fruiting system of these plants. Crumbling needles oxidize the soil around the tree, which can become harmful to the Frontblade.

What should not be forgotten is drainage. Dog flooring is deadly for conifers and is not conducive to their growth and development. For green beauties, it is desirable to choose a soil where there is no groundwater nearby.

Thus, many factors determine how the spruce will put down roots. On the quality of plant material, the nature in a particular area and the acidity of the soil at the new planting site.

How to extract the tree from the ground?

Experts and gardeners say that spruces are winter hardy when they come from the natural environment, that is, from a nearby forest. They have significant advantages over purchased ready-made seedlings – it is full adaptation to local conditions, which allows to have a higher resistance to adverse influences inherent in the area. Fast growth and restoration of vitality of forest beauties is very important for them and takes place regularly.

Therefore, gardeners and owners of country houses and summer cottages prefer to transplant a forest spruce.

If you go to the forest for a coniferous tree, you should know that the fluffiest of them grow on the outskirts of the forest.

Therefore, the spruce you like is chosen and carefully inspected. It should not have any damage and visible abnormalities in health. Large spruces for transplanting adult plants are not suitable. For this purpose, a stunted one of two meters, not higher, is more suitable. Then the tree will better tolerate planting in a new place, and the probability of damage to the root system of the seedling will be significantly reduced. The older the tree, the longer its roots are and they are easier to damage.

The most difficult task is to dig up the spruce according to all the rules. The tree should be dug to the width of the largest branches around the trunk – the depth of the hole should be just over half a meter. Carefully pull the planting material out of the DUG hole, carefully preserving the basal bottom. Then wrap the clump with a pre-prepared cotton cloth. This will help transport the seedling for transplanting.

Consider the significant difference between the forest floor in which the spruce grew and the man-made bed in which it is to grow further, even if this distance is small. Transplanting will be more successful if it takes a certain amount of soil from the hole in which the sapling was dug.

If you make a branding on the south side of the dogwood tribe and then plant in the same direction as before, the tree will be healthy and its survival rate will be much higher.

Planting to the building site

Some gardeners prefer to plant spruce trees in a pot and then plant them at the construction site. However, it should be noted that in this way it is almost impossible to provide the tree with the necessary conditions for wintering. The room must be cold, light and ventilated, and a heated winter apartment is too warm for a spruce. Warmth in the winter time is impossible to provide the tree – it violates its natural cycle, which threatens to dry out, or it will have painful shoots.

The easiest way to transplant seedlings bought in a container and directly from the greenhouse. Elsewhere it has a 100% rooting rate.

There are basic rules for transplanting trees. They are all together for those dug in the woods, purchased seedlings, and for growing in pots at home.

In order for the process to exist according to all the rules, it is necessary to prepare in advance:

• Organic fertilizer;
• Prepared soil mixture;
• Dry wood cuttings for mulching;
• Drainage;
• Shovel;
• A container for watering (bucket, irrigator).

The proper transplanting process is as follows:

• About 10-15 days before transplanting, you need to prepare a hole half a meter deep and wide.
• Lay drainage on the bottom of the hole;
• Prepare a soil mixture of equal parts soil, sand, peat and humus in the forest and add 150 g of organic fertilizer.
• Spread and moisten the drainage mixture;
• Place the seedling on top of the layer of floor mix;
• Before pouring the bottom, carefully straighten out all the roots of the seedling.
• Raise the trunk slightly, backfill the bottom, level and compact the soil;
• Backfill the hole on top of the remaining fishing line and fill it with water.

Further care

And now, finally, there is a new spruce on the plot, which will grow for many years, please people with its size and every day fill the air with fragrant coolness of the needles. The spruce should be watched carefully from the moment the sapling appeared on the plot. Carefully watch how it takes root.

In the first year, small spruces are watered often and sparingly. Of course, with further growth, the regime of watering should change.

Although the spruce grows slowly, it still needs annual pruning, which should not be overlooked. In early spring, when new shoots have not yet grown, carry out preventive pruning for hygienic purposes. With secateurs or hedge clippers, dry and painful branches are removed. And in midsummer, after the growth of new shoots is finished, a second decorative pruning is carried out. If the pruning is carried out not later than midsummer, the sections have time to stretch before winter.

As for small herringbones, they can not be trimmed but can be cut by hand. In late spring and early summer, young spruce shoots are still tender and fragile, so they can do without tools.

To make the tree more lush, it is enough to cut off the top, treating the planting site with cranberry.

Another rule of rejection of side branches prohibits severely cutting them out. In a spruce under the green branches, the needles quickly approach the trunk, and there are no new buds in these places. And regardless of the time of year, “rusty” branches should be removed as soon as they appear.

Such annual pruning and pruning allows you to carefully inspect their needle-shaped shoots to detect diseases in time. After all, they often threaten them.

In order to prevent diseases of spruces, it is necessary to create cheap diseases for their growth and development, including medication, to increase their immunity against diseases. In addition, carry out root and leaf feedings with organic fertilizers that are suitable for conifers.

Unhealthy planting material, the presence of mechanical injuries, insect damage, as well as unacceptable planting and illiterate leads to the development of diseases.

Young plants are not resistant to non-infectious and infectious diseases, only with age. Therefore, an important role is played by spring treatment of conifers with prophylactic preparations, which are used to treat healthy trees to prevent diseases and pests.

Foliage infections should be distinguished from the variety of diseases that often affect spruce. At first, the crown falls off and often the trees simply die. Fungal infections are difficult to control, but there are many well-researched methods.

Carefully remove diseased branches with damaged needles – this should be done first. Then treat the soil and the diseased tree itself with highly effective broad-spectrum fungicides, which are used for prevention and treatment, as well as new generation microbiological preparations. In accordance with such procedures, treatment is recommended to increase immunity with specialized highly effective natural biostimulants. This will facilitate care and help grow healthy Christmas trees.

However, only a specialist can correctly select the medicine and choose effective doses. If you select the drugs yourself, you can cause damage not only to other plantings, but also to the gardener himself, who carries out the treatment without training and certain knowledge.

There are diseases that are untreatable, and the tree has to be removed completely with stumps and on the floor to treat them with fungicides.

Transplanted spruce trees are continually treated, flooded with heat and enjoy their splendor and beauty for many years, as well as the saving scent with fleeting oils and essential oils that purify the surrounding air of toxins and germs.