Planting a walnut

Planting a walnut is not a difficult task, and the result will please you, because having received a large number of fruits, you not only get joy, but also great benefit.

Walnut is a dioecious plant. This is a heat-loving, wind-pollinated plant. Male catkin flowers contain pollen that can be carried 100 meters. This tree can live more than 500 years.

To successfully grow this type of nut, you can use any type of soil, except saline, waterlogged, heavily eroded and poorly drained.

Walnut is a heat-loving and light-loving plant. It is able to tolerate very low temperatures. Its very big advantage is that it recovers well and old shoots are easily replaced with new ones.

Planting a walnut carried out in different ways. You can grow nuts using budding and winter grafting or seedling forms. Walnut seeds can be planted both in autumn and spring. Planting is carried out to a depth of approximately 10 centimeters. It is worth planting the best forms. In the first year, seedlings grow very slowly, and at the end of the first growing season they reach only 30-35 centimeters.

It is best to plant nuts in the spring, before the buds swell. In the southern regions it can also be planted in the fall. For seedlings, it is necessary to prepare holes, the diameter of which will be one meter and the depth of 60 centimeters. You need to add about 15 kg of humus, 20-40 grams of phosphorus and potassium fertilizers and a kilogram of lime.