How to plant seedlings in autumn

As soon as the autumn troubles on the beds are completed, summer residents appear on the streets of cities, carrying seedlings with carefully sheltered roots.



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Autumn tree planting And shrubs have their own important specifics, without taking into account which it is easy to ruin planted plants. "Site" will tell you how to meet the timing of planting and measures to prepare the plant for the winter cold.

Autumn seedlings Advantages

1. It's more profitable.
   Seedlings in the autumn to buy much more profitable: and nurseries, and gardeners-private begin the implementation of just excavated planting material - hence the great choice, affordable price and the ability to assess the quality of purchase.
   
   
   
2. It's easier.
   Autumn planting will deliver a little: you can limit yourself to one watering, and nature will finish the rest. Autumn coolness and rains will provide the seedling with the necessary soil moisture and comfort.
3. This allows the seedlings to recover more easily.
   Planted before the winter, trees with injuries sustained during transportation or planting will easily recover to the spring heat.
4. This ensures faster regeneration.
   It is during planting in autumn that faster regeneration occurs and suction roots grow back.
5. It saves time.
   Autumn planting of trees will free the summer resident strength and time for other garden chores, which in the spring will be above his head.

Deficiencies

1. Severe frosts that can destroy weak trees.
   
   
   
2. Rodents that often damage seedlings in autumn.

All varieties of fruit trees and shrubs can be planted in autumn, but it is preferable to plant still winter-resistant varieties. The main thing that the plants were ready to plant, it should be a period of sleep, after the end of their growing season.





This important work should be completed no later than 3 weeks before the onset of persistent frosts. Then you are guaranteed success and there is great hope that the seedlings will take root.

In Central Russia fall-planting It starts at the end of September and continues until mid-October (in the southern regions until early November).



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The weather dictates the timing. Each year, borders can “float”, significantly different from the dates of previous years. There were years when it was possible to plant trees until the last days of November.

There are a number of rules that guarantee good survival of plants planted in the autumn period.

1. Immediately before planting, all remaining leaves on the seedling should be cut. The rule is followed if the planting material is fresh and the foliage is not yet dry.
2. The stamped part of the seedling should be smooth and intact, and the crown of the tree should have laid buds and have prominent main branches.
3. In autumn, the hole must be dug a month or two before landing. The longer the pits are open, the better the earth will “flood” in them and become more permeable to the roots.
4. When digging a planting pit, the upper soil layer should be removed and transferred to one heap, and the lower and deep-lying soil layers should be folded to the other side.
5. The depth of the landing hole should be such that when immersed in it, the root neck rises above the surface of the earth by 5 centimeters.
   
   
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6. The width of the planting pit should be twice the diameter of the root system of the seedling, but not less than 60-100 cm. On heavy soils, holes dig larger sizes.
7. Removed upper soil should be mixed with humus at the rate of one bucket for each seedling.
8. Unlike spring planting, in autumn seedlings can be fertilized only with phosphorus fertilizers that stimulate the development of the root system. The high concentration of nitrogen fertilizers during this period can be disastrous for plants, as they can re-enter the growing season and do not have time to prepare for winter.
   
   
9. On top of fertilizers, two-thirds of the pit must be filled with a mixture of earth and humus and a special peg installed. Currant, gooseberry and honeysuckle are trimmed to a height of 5-7 cm from ground level, and fruit seedlings are tied with an eight to a peg.
   
   
   
10. You should carefully tamp the ground with your feet and water the planting site at the rate of 20-30 liters of water per tree and 8-10 liters of water per bush. When the water is absorbed, you can pour a little dry nutrient soil, peat or compost on top.

Not bad tolerate planting in autumn most species of garden trees - apple tree, cherry, pear, plum, mulberry, ash, many varieties of plum. Experienced gardeners note this pattern: the fruits of trees planted in autumn are usually larger and juicier.

If a seedling dies, we prefer to blame the unscrupulous seller, the weather or garden diseases. But more often the reason lies in the wrong planting of fruit trees and shrubs.

Landing errors

1. Many people dig holes on the day of planting. Nothing good will come of such a rush. Soon the soil will begin to settle, the root neck will be buried, and the gardener will have to do a lot of work to correct errors.
2. Many beginner gardeners incorrectly determine where the root neck is. You can't deepen it! Destruction inevitably leads to rotting of the cortex. The process of decay is slow, annular damage to the trunk is not noticed for a long time. Trees can grow and bear fruit, but gradually acquire an oppressed appearance.
3. Some gardeners in rainy autumn do not consider it necessary to water the seedlings, believing that the soil is already moist. It's a mistake! Watering is needed in any weather.
4. Excess fertilizers, planting a seedling on a compost pile, in forest land or in humus lead to the fact that the plant begins to hurt, bends from the wind and can not be properly fixed in the ground.
5. If you place the seedlings too close, they will soon compete for nutrients in the soil, light, air and moisture. This will lead to thickening of planting, diseases and reduced fruiting.

Now you know how to properly plant saplings in autumn and make sure that they take root and please the harvests in the future.

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