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  1. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    Reproduction by layers

    As you know, the apple tree is mostly propagated by grafting. I multiply it with layers, like currants or gooseberries. To do this, in the early spring, under an apple tree in a dug soft earth, I make grooves with a depth of 10 cm, I put in them young branches bent from the apple tree and fall asleep with earth. I tie the top to the peg, and press down the bend with brick or cobblestone.

    To make the branch better rooted, on the bark, which will be in the ground, you can make longitudinal grooves with a nail. During the summer, you need to make sure that the land does not dry out and there are no weeds. For this I use mulching.
    By the autumn roots are formed, but do not rush to dig them out. If they are small, leave it for the summer, and if it is already normal, cut the branch from the apple tree in autumn and leave it in place, and change it to the permanent place in the spring. Get a full-fledged root-bearing seedling with all the maternal characteristics.

    I have such grow more than 20 years. Gornoaltaysky variety from the Chelyabinsk nursery "walks" with me throughout the village and the district. If there are no thin branches low on the trunk, I take a large branch or twig, carefully so that it does not break. Tilt down, tie it to the trunk of an apple tree. The branches are already on the ground - please, dig in any or several at once.

    For breeding strawberries with large-fruited mustache, I take disposable cups. I cut off the bottom of them, dig in strawberries next to the bushes, fill them with the same soil, adding a little humus. When the mustache goes, I direct them into a glass, pin them with a hairpin. The continuation of the mustache will go - I cut it off, leaving only the first outlet from it.

    I make hairpins from large clerical clips, having bent the bent ends. I put out the rosettes all fall, but it is possible in the early spring, as soon as weather permits.
    The root system in the cup grows powerful, the earth's clod does not fall apart. Strawberries do not feel transplantation and get along very well.

    Tamara

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  2. Julia Petrovna Sukhanova, Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow region.

    It so happened that a new place will have to be replaced not by a small eight-year apple tree. Tell me, is this possible and in what time frame?

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    • Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

      The task is really not the easiest. After all, the transplantation of a completely adult tree, of course, differs from the transplantation of a young one. First of all, when you are trying to dig a plant, try not to damage the roots.

      We'll have to work hard, because for an eight-year-old tree, a clod of earth must be at least 1,25 m in diameter and at least 0,6 m in height and do not tighten strongly with a transplant for several more years - and this procedure will be completely irrational: the apple tree, will not transfer it.
      Another important point: you must prepare the tree for transplant in advance, even in the spring. Around it, dig a deep ditch so that the roots can be seen.
      Using a very sharp knife, gently cut the end of the protruding roots, then fill the ditch with soil and pour well. Before planting, it will be necessary again to remove the soil from the ditch and cut the vertical roots. These, at first glance, rather blasphemous actions will make it easier to dig a tree and its subsequent survival in a new place. It is better to transplant the apple tree in the early spring or late autumn, when the temperature drops a little below 0 ° C. The landing pit must be prepared in advance. In size, it should be at 0,5 m wider than the earth com. With planting everything as usual: install the plant in a pit, fill it with earth, pour abundantly.

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