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gardening what a passion
Gardening is now a widespread hobby in all industrialized and developed cultures; has been so successful for a number of reasons, among which we allow ourselves to extract the most important: the first is that it allows to have a close contact and a close relationship with nature, the second is that she is very, very relaxing (and all we can imagine how important that is in our busy lives today). There was a century, the century of industrialization, in which human beings truly abandoned the earth and its care to devote themselves body and soul to factories, to commercial activities, to building cities and buildings everywhere, to tar the roads and burn the trees that are found. now “useless” and cumbersome. He immediately said that a tree will never be useless, because it has the first task of producing oxygen for our respiration and the second task of providing habitat for many animals, in addition to supporting the soil on which our homes rest with their strong roots (and we, the Italians, unfortunately we have many sad examples), it remains to say that life has improved with the “migration” to the city, but there are also negative aspects; First of all, stress, a real pandemic today.
the garden of the house
What can save us from stress as soon as we come back from a day of work or commitments in town? Normally, the rest of our family welcomes us at home, but very often, instead of asking for help, we unload all our negative thoughts on them and this ends up ruining many relationships, even very important ones. Apart from that, we have to learn how to deal with these situations, but now more and more people are resorting to equipping themselves with a garden near their house: it can be considered a paradise, or a peaceful place, free and just for us where we can be welcomed by silence, aromas and pure oxygen of nature so that everything relaxes our nerves and reconnects us with real life, which is not work, Warning.
grafting technique
Grafting is one of the typical gardening techniques of humans “affected” by the green thumb: this technique is very useful for the treatment of certain types of diseases, to make our plants proliferate, to make them productive in terms of flowers and fruit. . Apparently it is something fundamental and important, and in fact, of very ancient origin, it is still exploited today without the slightest change, both at the amateur and professional level, or in the great cultivation of grapes. and citrus fruits, for example. For this there are many techniques, all united by the fact that we must take a branch of the plant that we want to reproduce and insert it, connect it to the “base” plant; An example will help us to understand: we have an orange which does not bear fruit, while another (ours or that of one of our acquaintances) produces in abundance; well, we take a branch of this productive tree and we graft it on our own, and from this branch will come out exactly the fruits (but it can also be the flowers, depending on the type of plant) as we admire them from the other . tree. It looks a bit like Operation Frankenstein, but it’s absolutely legal, safe for plants, and used since ancient times in exactly that way.
Types of graft
We have described the grafting technique and we have also made a running example to consolidate what has been proposed; it is enough to understand what are the different techniques with which a transplant is performed, the differences between them and the cases in which they are applied. Let’s say right away that there are dozens and dozens of variants for a graft, but the three fundamental techniques are: bud grafting, cleft grafting and wedge grafting. Grafting consists of taking from the plant to be reproduced not a branch but a bud, that is to say a new “knot” which can be the first part of a new branch or a flower depending on the species; then a T-shaped slit is made in the host plant and the bud is inserted, closing the T and securing it with bands and special grafting products. In contrast, split and wedge grafting requires stems, or branches taken from the plant to be reproduced and molded in the shape of a small leaf or a sword, to be inserted into a hole in the trunk of the host plant or in a wedge always made in the trunk. The last two techniques are more suitable for large plants, real trees like fruit trees, while bud grafting is more universal but mostly suitable for flowering plants. What should be specified is that it is true that a minimum of manual skill is necessary to carry out this work, but by following our advice and taking into account the photos that you will find here, you will not be difficult to obtain good grafts in the first attempts. . to real trees such as fruit trees, while bud grafting is more universal but mostly suitable for flowering plants. What should be specified is that it is true that a minimum of manual skill is necessary to carry out this work, but by following our advice and taking into account the photos that you will find here, you will not be difficult to obtain good grafts in the first attempts. . to real trees such as fruit trees, while bud grafting is more universal but mostly suitable for flowering plants. What should be specified is that it is true that a minimum of manual skill is necessary to carry out this work, but by following our advice and taking into account the photos that you will find here, you will not be difficult to obtain good grafts in the first attempts. .