Secrets of the successful cultivation of sumach

Gardeners - professionals and amateurs know this plant under the name "vinegar tree". Although there is a formal, more correct and solemn name - sumac.

The choice of location and ground for planting sumach

The plant is loved by gardeners for undemanding and unpretentious, Sumy can easily settle even on poor soils. Where another plant will wither, soums will take root and straighten its vast umbrella crown. Any suitable soil for sumac, the plant grows well on acidic or saline soils. When setting up a newcomer in his garden for permanent residence, it should be noted that soums are very fond of good lighting and do not accept partial shade or even shadowed places. It easily endures a brief drought and high air temperature. Heat sumachu uneasy, but at the same time it requires protection from the winds and, preferably, mulch soil. Increased moisture sumaku not to taste. The plant likes fertile sandy soil. But it will gladly grow on poor dry, stony ground. The plant is practically nothing and never gets sick.

Planting sumac

Let's look at how to put the soums in the ground. It is easy to grow sumac from young growth, which grows in abundance from the roots of the plant. To do this, select the most developed seedling and dig it with a shovel with a very sharp edge. Since the young growth not only grows from the roots of the old tree, but also feeds on them, there will not be any good sump on the seedling of the sumach. Therefore, when digging it, it is necessary to cut the plant layers from the parent root as deep as possible.

If the seedling is not planted immediately, but will be transported over long distances, it must be carefully prepared for the trip. Seedling roots are carefully wrapped in a damp woolen cloth or in wet (not wet!) Sawdust, and all this is packed in a plastic bag.Polyethylene will protect the roots from drying out, and wet cloth or sawdust will keep delicate roots wet. In such a package, you can save a sapling seedling for a week.

In order to plant a tree sumach, you need to dig a planting hole 50 x 50 cm. Half a bucket of humus is added to this pit and mixed with the soil. Next, we pour a bucket of water into the landing pit, and when it is absorbed into the ground, proceed directly to the landing of the sumach. It is necessary to make sure that when planting the sapling was not deepened into the ground lower than it had grown before. Usually this border can be clearly seen on the seed bark. Planted sumac again watered, pouring half a bucket of water under the next near-stem circle. Sumy is unpretentious, he will grow without fertilized soil, but with sufficient nutrition he will take root faster and will thank the gardener for taking care of a beautiful crown and lush flowering. If you decide to grow soups out of a stone, nothing too difficult. Immediately prepare the planting pit, lay the fertilizer in it, sprinkle it over the fertilizer with the primer. The sumach stone digs into the ground to a depth of 15-20 cm. Pour over. Sumy germinates for a long time, so the shoots will seem from the ground only for 20-30 days.

Acetica Care

The tree sumah gives overgrowths even more than the cherry trees. It is necessary to regularly cut down young shoots. Gardeners know that it is easy to get soums in their garden, but getting rid of them is a more difficult task.

Watering and feeding the soil

Sumy feels fine without watering, but if we want to admire the chic foliage and wonderful flowering, it is best to water the plant periodically. Watering should not be abundant and not frequent. No more than once a year, the tree can be fed mineral supplements. More intensive mineral or nitrogen supplements can slow down the growth of a plant, or even completely destroy the soums.

Pruning

Delivered to our country soums from the east of North America. In the natural environment, it grows in places open to the sun and often grows to 7-10 meters.But sums are poorly resistant to frost, and in our winters the plant often freezes over. Subjected to voluntary-forced "pruning" of branches by frost. When the main branches die off in the spring, the lateral buds begin to awaken. The frozen branches in the spring are removed, and new buds have room for growth. New branches grow vertically. Sumy care and pruning can be formed into a tall shrub, and a tree.

Preparing sumach for winter

Sumy normally transfers our winters and does not need any special insulation. With a slight frostbite, the plant easily grows branches. Powerful root system does not allow the tree to die.

The use of sumac in garden design

Sumy in landscape design is in a special, honorable place. Decorative sumac, not only in an interesting silhouette, but also in broad feathery, slightly velvety leaves. By autumn, lush foliage gradually changes color from green to burgundy or almost pink. The color range of autumn foliage sumach is very wide. Young shoots of sumac covered with red edge, also slightly velvety to the touch. The tree blossoms with pyramidal candles-inflorescences, which, in turn, are composed of small flowers.Twenty-centimeter burgundy “candles” look spectacularly surrounded by a magnificent crown. At the end of summer, soumas are hung with long red panicles with pubescent tassels. Fluff on the tassels is also bright carmine. These fruits will remain on the tree as the main decoration until spring.

A low plant rarely reaches a three meter height mark. Its root system contributes to the formation of a shrub rather than a tree. Unusual and elegant form of the plant requires careful attention to the planting of neighboring plants. Unusual sumac will stand out brightly against the blue spruce or other conifers. Often planting sumach is made among mixed groups of trees and plants. They are guided by the fact that sumah is the most effective in the fall. He just blazes with all shades of crimson and gold.

Breeding sumach

Sumy is easy to breed. The plant multiplies due to its small fruits and root shoots, which when planted easily rooted in a new place. The root system of an adult sumach is located not deep into the soil, but parallel to the surface of the earth.In each interstitial roots is a sleeping kidney (growth point). Under favorable weather conditions, dormant buds wake up on the roots of an adult plant and shoot upwards. These shoots when digging and transplanting perfectly take root in new places, requiring minimal care.

Sumach bones do not germinate very readily, as they have a very hard shell. But if the bones are scattered near the tree and the shell rot over time, then a sprout appears from it and takes root, growing into a full-grown sumac plant.

Types of Acetic Tree in Garden Culture

Sumy smooth (naked)

Good wintering bush, plant height up to three meters. Almost does not freeze. The fruits of this type of sumach are pubescent, small. Flowering bushes begins towards the end of July - the beginning of August. Sumy naked especially dressed in autumn attire.

Fragrant sumac

This type of sumach looks like a three-meter bush. The branches are almost leafless, bare. The plant blooms on bare branches, even before the blooming of rare leaves. The shape of the leaf is trifoliate, the leaves are small. It grows in the Caucasus and Crimea. The shrub gives edible sour fruits.Fruits are used instead of wine or vinegar in pickling kebabs. Sweet-scented sumac gives small yellow-red fruits.

Deer Horn Sumy (Fluffy)

It grows quite well in our gardens. Its other name is velvet sumah or deer horn sumah. This species of sumac sometimes grows up to 10 m. It is beautiful with a weightless lace of leaves and velvet, thick, soft-brown shoots. The top of the leaf is velvet-green, and the bottom plate emphasizes this bright green with white bloom. On old trees, brown cracked bark. Autumn color of the crown shimmers with all the warm colors of the palette. Here and delicate pink, and yellow, and gold, and fiery crimson. Beautiful flowers, collected in loose panicle. When the sums are fluffy in bloom, the bass bees and the butterflies flutter above it.

Due to its outstanding decoration, unpretentiousness and easy survival in new places, soums are used by specialists in the formation of different landscape layouts.