Everyone must know the taste of hazelnut. This wonderful nut is used in confectionery, loved by all Nutella , and even if it is simply fried, an excellent treat will come out. Very many gardeners who planted hazelnut garden, because of improper planting and care often get only a handful of nuts from the bush instead of an abundant harvest. This material will help you understand how to grow this hazel, and get a good harvest from each bush.
Rules of landing
If you want to plant a hazel dug in the forest, then you know that almost certainly your idea is doomed to failure. In the garden areas, not hazelnut is discarded, but its specific variety is hazelnuts. Fruits of hazelnut, in addition to being a delicious nut, still have a number of useful properties. Reproduction of hazelnut is most often performed by planting seedlings. Of course, you can grow a bush and a nut, but this is an unjustified work.
To begin with, you need to choose the grade of your future hazel. The best choice is a variety resistant to frost and with large nuts. Take a closer look at the following varieties:
- Circassian II;
- Roman;
- Khoji;
- Ata-Baba;
- Kutkashen-Niji-69;
- Vartashensky-2/39.
These varieties are good both for growing for own needs, and for sale. So, now let's figure out when it's better to plant hazelnuts in autumn or spring? The planting, carried out in both spring and autumn, has a number of undeniable advantages. Then choose you what to put in priority. Plants planted in spring have time to strengthen the root system before the winter cold. Plants planted in the autumn time begin to bear fruit much earlier.
Prepare pit for planting shrubs experienced gardeners recommend about a month. In this way they stop the process of bacteriosis, and the soil has time to be properly ventilated.
Features of care
So, the variety is selected, the bushes are planted, and what's next? Hope that care for hazelnuts is not required, is incorrect, so it is worth familiar with a number of rules of care.
- Be sure to take care of the soil around the plants. It is necessary periodically to loosen the earth, it is desirable to do it shortly after watering the bushes. The bayonet bayonet should not dive deeper than 10-15 centimeters when loosening the soil. Such precautions are simply necessary, because the roots of the plant are located just below the surface.
- Trimming hazelnuts is, perhaps, the simplest. It is necessary to cut the bent and diseased branches. Even pay attention to the branches that grow deep into the crown, making it excessively thick, they are also subject to pruning. If to speak about long-term prospect of cultivation of this culture experts advise to rejuvenate a bush once in 20 years, cutting it practically under a root. There is one nuance that should be remembered when starting pruning - most of the fructifying female flowers are on the tips of branches.
- Cross-pollination plays a decisive role for the normal fruiting of plants. Notice how the hazelnut blossoms.
Earrings are male inflorescences, and they need to be protected, because many of them do not tolerate wintering. Try to bend them to the ground and sprinkle with snow, so you can significantly increase the future harvest. Female flowers blossom in the spring, their pale pink petals are barely noticeable, but it is in them that your crop will be born. - Diseases and pests have not bypassed and hazelnuts. The main trouble is delivered by weevils and Acarus tick. But these problems are easily solved by timely treatment with acaricides and insecticides.
If everything is done correctly, then you will enjoy how fast grow hazelnut and enjoy every year a plentiful harvest of delicious nuts.