Apple seedling planted in the spring, how to protect it from rodents in the winter

The young seedlings must be treated as small children. At this time they also like babies vulnerable to severe natural conditions and pests.

Seedling can vymerznut, if you do not have time to build a strong root system for a season. Before planting the roots a bit cropped to better tree stuck. Seedlings better to choose 1-2 yrs.

Protection against rodents

Rodent trunks tied with spruce spruce branches, roofing material, metal mesh bags from under sugar, other artificial materials, for example, spunbond (and it will protect against burns) and female tights.

In addition, make mash from manure and clay, and daubed it Stalks tree.

And trample down (seal) the snow around the trunk, so that the mouse could not penetrate closer to the root system.

Some trunks coated with birch tar and odoriferous ointments, but experts do not recommend it, because it spoils the bark of trees.

Also use plastic bottles of white color (if not white, then clear and suitable, but from burns will not be saved) of milk and other dairy products.

We bottle cut the bottom and the top is cut from the neck a little to thread through the branches of the container.

If the trunk is strongly branched, and the bottle is passed, then it is cut from the neck to the bottom, and then wrapped with tape, when it is on the tree trunk.

It turns out, as it were ringed sapling bottles. They can be used almost to the top, that will protect the young plant is not only on rodents, but also winter burns. It can be done in some places, a hole for ventilation of the bottle seedlings.

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