How to plant chestnuts from the walnut on your site?

How to plant chestnuts from walnut? This question probably comes to your mind if you have a summer residence, and you adore these spreading trees. Let's try to answer it.

How to plant chestnuts from a walnut or a ready sapling?

Admiration with spectacular flowering is inevitable when you see this beautiful tree, strewn with pyramidal inflorescences. In the spring, the chestnut tree (the tree, which is planted with some difficulties) is literally showered with them. It is a flowering cascade. But there is not only an aesthetic reason for the cultivation of chestnut from walnut was your goal. The point is also that this plant is curative - its fruits and inflorescences (or rather, infusions and decoctions of them) will help cope with various diseases. So let's find out how to plant chestnuts from the walnut in your dacha or under the window. The first method is the easiest. It is to buy an already grown seedling in the farm. Keep in mind that the chestnut tree needs a large area of land. After all, the branches of this tree are very spreaders, and the crown is very bulky. At least five meters around the trunk should be left for each chestnut you planted. This tree needs sunlight. Therefore, choose a place where there will be no shortage. However, the seedling will also bear a slight shade, provided all other conditions of proper cultivation are observed. Definitely not suitable for dark areas.

Before planting a seedling, it is necessary to dig a cubic pit with a side not less than half a meter. The substrate is mixed with humus and half kilo of dolomite flour. Do not bury the radical neck so that after the subsidence of the ground the landing hole remains at an easy elevation. After planting abundantly water the plant. Install the supports to hold the fragile seedlings - they should be near it until the roots grow strong. This will help to withstand the sharp gusts of the wind and protect the young chestnut from damage. If you want to complicate your task and grow a tree of fruits, then before landing, which we described above, you should implement two more steps. Before planting chestnuts from the walnut, you need to treat the seeds in a special way. And also to withstand young shoots in milder climatic conditions (for example, in a greenhouse).

Chestnut from walnut. Preparation

The first step is to extract the seeds in a strongly moistened and cold environment, commonly called "stratification." It will take from two to five months. For this, it is not necessary to extract chestnut seeds from the soil into which they fell, falling from the mother tree. Leave them in the ground (marking the chopsticks with their location, so as not to lose them if they plunge into a soft substrate). You can sprinkle a small amount of any natural debris (fallen leaves, wood shavings). In spring, the sprouts that appeared are excavated and transplanted into a pot. The probability that the seeds will germinate is about 50%. After the young chestnut grows up in a pot or bucket, it should be placed in a permanent place.