Catalpa - planting and care

Surely you have often noticed beautiful, not very tall trees along the city avenues, more often in business districts of the city. Catalpa is effective and will easily decorate any area. It is a beautiful tree in all seasons: in spring it is beautiful inflorescences remotely resembling chestnut candles, in autumn interesting hanging fruits, similar to beans, and in summer large leaves in the form of a heart. Planting and caring for the globular catallus can not be called complex, it is only timely watering and soil quality that are really important for the plant.

How to plant a catalpa?

The tree loves a lot of light, but the wind and the so-called air corridors with drafts do not tolerate. The leaves are very gentle and will start to fall from the strong wind. The pit is digging about one and a half meters. As for the soil, the ideal combination is sand with leafy soil and peat. If you find a place for landing, according to the specified parameters, it must first be prepared. The soil is well fertilized, superphosphates are introduced and necessarily wood ash. The most suitable is neutral acidity. Further care after planting the globular catalpa will consist in the timely watering and loosening of the soil around.

Catalpa and its pruning as part of care

In order to obtain the most decorative flowering and the original hanging boxes in the form of green beans, the tree should be provided with comfortable conditions. In addition to soil and watering, you will have to monitor the following points:

  1. After planting the catalpa, care should be thorough, and for the young the arrival of winter can be a serious test. Therefore, the young are advised to cover with bilberry or burlap, cover the area around the roots with dry branches and leaves.
  2. Many problems are solved by ordinary pruning. For example, all frozen branches after wintering should be sheared, thus making decorative pruning and the necessary sanitary measures.
  3. An important point in the care is the cleaning of the site around the tree. Weeds regularly remove and work through the soil, loosening it. Then we water abundantly. About once a week, such abundant watering is enough.
  4. It is not bad in the process of caring for a catapult to take care of timely nutrition. Manure for this culture is ideal. It should be made immediately during the preparation of the pit, and then again during the active vegetation period. Once a month, we add the manure and watch our plantations begin to grow actively.
  5. After a time after planting the catalpa and quality care for her neighbors, you are sure to be hinted that the plant is a real piece of jewelry and they also want to have it in their home. Sooner or later the question of breeding will arise. For this purpose, the method of propagation or germination of seeds is used. The scheme of growing the planting material is the same in both variants: cover with film or glass, keep the temperature at about 15-25 ° C, water regularly. Seeds are pre-soaked for half a day in warm water. Planted in March or February. Concerning cuttings, they are cut in the second half of summer, then planted in a mixture of sand and peat. After the final formation of the root system, you can start planting in greenhouses or open ground.

Diseases of the Catalpa

This culture is not in vain so like to plant on open areas in urban parks - it perfectly resists illnesses and pests. Its only enemy is the Spanish fly, which can be disposed of with the help of carbofos. When there are chervets before budding, they must be treated with insecticides to avoid deforming future shoots.

Among the diseases of the catalpa, the Verticill fungus should be feared. But it will appear only if the soil is not cleaned in time from weeds and loosened.