Planting viburnum, feeding and pruning

Planting a viburnum is not a troublesome business, since the viburnum itself is a rather unpretentious bush. However, it is better to observe some rules so that the viburnum does not get sick and gives a good harvest.

Planting viburnum should be timed to the spring or autumn planting of plants, in the summer it should be planted. For her, it is better to choose a semi-shady place where the soil is sufficiently moist.

The hole for the bush should be large at least 60 cm in diameter, with a depth of about forty cm. About ten kg of humus and about 0.5 kg of ash should be added to the hole and mixed thoroughly with the fertile layer at the top.

The viburnum seedling must be placed vertically in a hole and its root collar must be deepened by five centimeters. After that, you need to shed the planted bush well, at least three buckets, compact the earth and mulch. After three years, the earth will need to be dug up and the mulch changed.

In order to get a good harvest, viburnum needs to be fed. In the spring, before the buds swell, you need to add nitroammofosk (about 50 gm per square meter), and in the fall, phosphorus (about 40 g per square meter) and potassium (about 20 g per square meter) ... Fertilizers should be sprinkled on the ground and spilled well.

We must not forget that viburnum loves water, so in too hot time it needs to be spilled well (about twenty times a week, go twenty-five liters under a bush).

Viburnum can grow as a bush or as a tree, it all depends on how the pruning is done. If a bush is needed, then in the spring of the second year after planting, three nodes are left on the aboveground part. If a tree is needed, then only one shoot is left, which tends upward, and then everything new that appears is cut off, forming a trunk.