To prepare a garden var by your own hands, you need to know the recipe. This is a popular tool for summer residents, used to cut and heal wounds on trees. The substance will cope with both minor scratches and deeper cuts.
Garden war with your own hands
Protective garden putty is easy to buy in the store or make by own strength. Depending on what is at hand, prepare different mixtures. Preparation of garden gardening at home should be done according to recipes, which are made up a lot. It is desirable that their base is rosin, beeswax or resin coniferous trees.
What is the use of garden var?
Blotting is carried out on the wounds of trees to protect them from fungi, microbes, parasites and from the loss of woody juice. Damage to plantations is due to:
- trimming ;
- Inoculations ;
- violations of rodents;
- infection with ailments and parasites.
Garden var during application spread on the affected parts not immediately, and when the cut is a little dry. It is easy to prepare and apply on branches and trunks, such putty does not stain hands and things, and does not fall off. The composition inhibits moisture and prevents the drying of wounds. Smear it better in the warm season - in the middle of autumn or early spring in dry weather.
How to make garden var at home?
All putties are divided into two types - heat-resistant (they must be warmed before use) and cold-resistant (alcohol is included in the mixture). Garden var with their own hands - recipes for warm-smelling ointments:
- The recipe on the basis of paraffin: paraffin - 6 shares, rosin - 3 shares, vegetable oil - 2 shares. The paraffin is melted, and fine rosin is added to it. Podtyazku warm, add oil and boil for 30 minutes. The mass is cooled and kneaded to a uniform density.
- Recipe based on wax: rosin - 4 shares, beeswax - 2 shares, interior fat - 1 share. Wax melts, all components are added to it, boiled for 20 minutes, cooled, kneaded.
- Garden var with own hands - Zhukovsky's recipe: beeswax - 1 share, rosin - 1 share, fat - 1 share. The components are melted in various vessels, poured into one and mixed. In a separate vessel, we collect cool water, pour in it a garden var. When it clumps, it is removed from the water and a ball is formed, held in the glossy paper.
Cold-resistant garden varieties - are elastic, do not crack in the heat and do not harden in the frost. Examples of recipes:
- Recipe Reshetnikova: resin fir - 10 shares, yellow wax - 1 share, wine alcohol - 1 share. Wax and resin melt, after they add alcohol. The mixture is spread with a brush, it keeps the plastic well in the cold and does not allow moisture to pass through.
- The recipe of The Hague: pine resin - 400 grams, soda - 1 teaspoon, medical alcohol - 60 ml, gum - 4 g. The resin is heated, add alcohol to it. Camel and soda are dissolved in water, all the ingredients are mixed.
- Garden var according to Rayevsky's recipe: wood tar - 500 g, medical alcohol - 60 ml, linseed oil - 2 tbsp. spoons. The resin is heated on low heat, adding alcohol and oil to it.
Garden VAR - how to use?
To bring a tree less harm, work with a garden dog should be done correctly:
- You do not need to lubricate diseased wood - all dry, unhealthy parts must be cut off.
- Cut before processing to clean it to make it smooth.
- Work tools and hands before work should be disinfected with alcohol.
- The lesion is smeared with a 2% solution of copper sulfate.
- Frozen garden var soften to a plastic density - the vessel is placed in hot water.
- For the treatment of wounds, it is convenient to use a wooden spatula or brush. Ointment evenly a layer of 3-5 mm smear on the damaged area.
How to replace the garden var?
If the garden needs to be closed up with wounds on the trees, and there are not any suitable ingredients at hand, other putties can be applied. Good replacement of the garden bar - compounds with clay, dressings, paint, drying oil. The principle of action is the same for them - wound-healing, bactericidal, therapeutic. Means are also spread on damaged areas and sections by means of a wooden spatula or brush. Replacing the garden hive:
- Clay putty. 200 grams of clay mixed with 100 g of mullein, add small straw and a little copper sulfate. Everything is mixed up to the density of sour cream and applied to the cut.
- A clump of soil. If you do not have anything at hand, you can take a clod of earth and cover the treatment site with it, from above, close the site with a cloth.
- Polyethylene. Prevent a cut from drying and penetration of pathogens. Cellophane needs to tightly envelop the broken trunk, sometimes it is enough to restore the tree.
What is better - garden var or paint?
Many gardeners instead of garden varnish miss cuts on the trees with ordinary oil paint, which includes linseed oil. It is applied to the damaged area by means of a brush. The disadvantage of this method is that after some time the coating is showered and the wounds need to be treated again. If this is not done, the wood from the rainwater can rot, dry and weaken, resulting in a hollow. It will freely feel bacteria and fungi, the tree can get sick, which will affect the quality of the fruit.
Plasticine instead of garden gum
Another substitute for the garden gum is plasticine. It does not damage living tissues, protects well the injured areas, keeps on wounds for a long time. Plasticine is retained for about two years, whereas the garden var has to be refreshed every year. In cases of spreading of wounds, especially in places of vaccination, it is very convenient - does not flow from the place of the incision, the cuttings do not flow under the bark.
After all, if putty gets on the cut, then the vaccine may not take root. Before plastering the clay should be well stretched in the hands. In hot weather, its operation is even more convenient than ordinary garden fumes, since it is not required to warm it for a long time, and it does not drain from the processing site. Therefore, the use of plasticine is justified as a garden putty.