The host of the Good Morning program knows how to properly pollinate the princess and why hang computer disks on the branches of bushes.
30 2016 June
– Today, about 65 trees and shrubs grow on my site. Most of them are conifers. I practically saved many trees from death. For example, Canadian spruce conic. Even when I was leading the Other News program, one day after the New Year’s holidays I went to the reception room for newspapers, and there in the trash bin lies a Christmas tree in a pot, with rotten tangerines and sweets on the branches. I took her home and ran with her from mid-January to spring – either to the balcony or to the stairwell in search of a comfortable temperature. And came out a tree! I planted it in the spring, the tree was 25 centimeters high, and now, five years later, it has already grown a meter.
The pine tree that now grows near the gate at the entrance was pulled out by the excavator when the light was guided to the site. My wife Irina and I thought that she would die, but no, she took root and thanked me – there was a mycelium under the pine tree, now it spreads all over the site, we harvest every year. Now I’m trying to lure boletus to myself. I have a tundra dwarf birch, although it is unusual, but I believe that mushrooms can grow under it. And I act in the old old-fashioned way – when I find somewhere old, rotten boletus boletus, I soak them in water for two days. then I pour it all under a birch tree from the tundra. I spoke with experts, they said that, perhaps, the mycelium has already arisen, it just does not immediately begin to bear fruit, it happens that this happens in five years. So we are waiting.
My heather thuja also grew miraculously. One day Andrey Tumanov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Vashi 6 acres”, came to the studio, brought tiny seedlings and said: “Just bury them in the snow.” The wife said: “Let’s throw out what will grow out of them.” But I planted, and they began, and in the spring two tails appeared from the ground. Now beauties are growing.
Learned to grow cedars. I bought the first one in 2008, when we had just built the house. The tree did not take root. I pulled it out and understood why – its roots were chopped off to fit the size of the pot. And cedars are extremely capricious in relation to transplants. You need to act with them by the transshipment method: when the tree has grown from one pot, plant it in a larger one, carefully filling up the earth and not cutting the roots. Moreover, before lowering the cedar into the ground, it must be oriented to the cardinal points exactly as it grew before. This can be seen in the branches. On the north side, they are less fluffy than on the south. And in order for the cedars to bear fruit, at least two of them must grow side by side! Here is such a feature. In general, it turns out, here the Christmas tree, saved, there – and grew his own forest.
– We do not have a vegetable garden as such, but at the same time we regularly harvest. We smashed small beds of wild strawberries, it bears fruit better than usual, and you don’t really need to care for it, just water it. The berries are not large, but insanely fragrant. Throwing one of these into a jar of regular strawberry jam will change the taste of the whole jam!
We have American large-fruited blueberries, we collect three to four kilograms of berries every year. Here she requires attention. It must be planted in a very acidic soil with sawdust and must be watered with vinegar, because the acid that is in the soil is not enough for it. I learned this when it did not bloom the next spring after planting. Now I look after: I add 100 milliliters of vinegar to 10 liters of water and arrange such watering once a month.
Another of the outlandish berries grows a prince, it looks like a raspberry, only larger. Next to her are lingonberries, cranberries and my pride is cloudberries. About two years ago I really wanted this northern berry to grow, but it turned out that neither its seeds nor seedlings are for sale. I even contacted Finnish kennels, but they did not help either. Already desperate, and then found a cloudberry in Kostroma. She also needs abundant watering with vinegar. And cloudberries also have male and female plants, if only one of them grows out of a seed, it will not bear fruit, because there will be no pollination!
Cherries on the site grew wildly. We feed it, water it. The wife cuts her hair. And we get two jars of jam. We shoot 15 kilograms of blackberries every year. Moreover, at first they did not know how to handle her, and then they explained to us: when the tree reaches the height of a person, it needs to be cut off. Gives side shoots – also cut off, and on the shoots of the third order there will already be flowers and then berries. I make delicious wine out of them.
– When filming a plot for the program “Other news”, a landscape designer came to us and brought these three colorful bushes as a gift to arrange a parking lot. So at the beginning of the site, grass, barberry and vesicle settled. They get along well with each other. (From left to right: the host’s wife Irina, daughter Liza, Sergey with her pet Pandi, son Nikita.)
Recently we have a new family member – a Shiba Inu dog. She is originally from Japan. We dreamed about it for a long time and finally decided. Our pet is eight months old. Her name is Pandi, so named because, according to the passport, her name had to begin with the letter P.
– Rosemary in a pot grew from seeds. Conveniently, I broke it off into a twig and into rice, and threw it into a chicken. And we brought this olive tree last summer.
– It is better to start friends with conifers with simpler species. Tui, junipers grow well in beginners. And if you have experience, then you can plant Canadian spruces. In a drought, plants need to be watered – doused with cold water from a hose when the sun has already set. On my site there are three types of fir – one-color, Siberian, Korean, ordinary pines, black, mountain, larch of various types, Christmas trees, cedars. Conifers do not need special care. The main problem is that they are burned by the spring sun.
The branches may turn yellow. Therefore, they must be closed in the second half of February, in spring, and, until the snow has completely melted, kept wrapped up. To make them lush and beautiful, it is necessary to give trees special fertilizers for conifers – autumn and spring – twice a year. In the former, there is no nitrogen, which promotes growth, therefore they are given in the fall so that the Christmas trees become numb, prepare for the cold, but nitrogen is needed in the spring.
– When bees do not fly to the princess, I pollinate it myself using an ordinary brush.
“Blueberry discs are kind of a garden scarecrow. They should discourage the birds from eating the fruits. Alas, they do not always save.
– Children at the dacha help in everything, including setting the table. Nikita and her grandmother weave willow hedges, and Lisa loves to weed the beds. But all the worries about decorating the site were taken by the wife. Clay figurines and alpine slides are her work.