The best method of propagation of walnut – sowing the seeds for a permanent place in the winter, allowing the plant to quickly enter into fruition. For planting, choose hardy varieties of fruits which can be easily removed kernel. It is desirable to take nuts from the branches off the tree at an obtuse angle. Noticed that seedlings obtained from the nuts, combined with sharply off the branches, lower yield and winter hardiness.

walnut orehPodgotovka holes for planting walnut no different from the hole for planting apple and pear trees. Before planting a walnut in the hole I put a bit of rusty iron. Sow at a depth of 10 cm

Care of the trunk and crown starting with the second year. Root growth tidy up the garden with a knife, then daubed garden pitch.

In the spring of the second year of doing furrowing of skeletal branches and trunk to the root. I took a sharp pruning knife and furrow am strictly along the trunk and branches, no patched. If only occasionally cross the knife across the cortex – this place “crying”.

In late August, prune the branches (leaving 3 skeleton, steel cut out and patched pruning tar. The young tree growth in the coming years are very vulnerable frost, they need to prune in late summer by a third. Undercut the branch at this time provides fruit buds, and by winter they become lignified, that is resistant to frost. Young does not undercut the branch begins to freeze solid, and sometimes kills the whole tree.

The soil in my area is not rich black soil, near the rocky, clay soil. The height of land above sea level, 1100 m, the temperature in winter at 10-15  lower than in the Caucasian mineral waters. But at the annual pruning of branches increased frost growth and yield. From this it follows that the boundaries of growing walnut can move far to the north. As I write, the temperature on my site are always lower than in the Caucasian Mineral Waters, but my trees are pruned with the harvest in the cold, and then (without pruning) – no.

With such a trim 40-year old tree and held ridging with 4 sides of the trunk and all the skeletal branches, walnut surprised its yield. At the branches were from 4 to 7 fruits per cluster, the normal value. In order not to damage the bark of mature conifers wear shoes with soft soles. Wounded bark dries out a ring, and the branch diameter up to 5 cm disappears.

Observations I have spent 10 years, and the yield was not reduced.