Every person who is seriously engaged in the arrangement of his country plot of land, thought about his own garden. Enthusiastic natures immediately raise the question of purchasing high-quality seedlings at affordable prices, which take root well in this climatic zone. The search begins, and a dilemma arises: to buy young trees in the nursery or from dealers in the markets?
Ideally, it is better to purchase seedlings directly from growers and in the same climate zone where they will be grown later. For Muscovites and residents of the suburbs, there are no particular difficulties in finding places to choose and purchase young fruit and berry plants. An old and well-established enterprise is Michurinsky Garden on Upper Alley, property 5A.
History of Creation
The idea of organizing a spacious research site for ornamental, fruit and berry crops came from the honored scientist, Professor Peter Genrikhovich Shitt.
He and his enthusiastic colleague, candidate of agricultural sciences Boris Nikiforovich Anzin, on the basis of the Timiryazev Academy, managed to lay a garden on nine hectares of land in the distant autumn1939. Their aspirations were directed to:
- Bookmark collection plantings.
- Organization of a functional teaching student allowance.
- Supplying the population with rare and new varieties.
The garden was named in honor of the scientist-breeder and gardener-geneticist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855-1935).
Seventeen years later (1976) the Michurinsky garden grew and began to have an area of 20 hectares of fertile land. Today's garden area is about forty hectares. He is the owner of the richest collection of exquisite varieties of fruit and ornamental crops.
The main purpose of the amazing garden
The modern Michurinsky Garden of the Timiryazev Academy (Russian Agrarian Institute) is the center of agricultural science and a huge fruit growing laboratory for the entire Moscow region. All the forces of employees and employees are directed to:
- Organization of educational practice.
- Development by teachers of the academy, its researchers, students and graduate students of the research base.
- Providing the material and technical basis with the help of production and economic activities.
What does the nursery do?
Michurinsky garden specializes mainly in:
- Studying fruit crops of garden trees (cherry plum, apple, cherry, pear, cherry, plum, apricot and others) on a trunk (part of a tree trunk from the ground to its first branch), skeleton (tree trunk with the first tier of skeletal branches)and crown formers. The result of the developments is to increase the winter hardiness and productivity of more promising varieties and high-value breeds.
- Testing and studying varieties and hybrid forms of apple trees, common quince, pears, mountain ash, plums, cherry and cherry trees, cherry plum, apricot, peaches, hazelnut and walnut, terry almonds, edible chestnut, mulberries, dog roses.
- Development of new ways and methods for obtaining varieties and hybrids (breeding selection) of pears, apricots, cherry plums, sweet cherries. The aim of the work is to breed the most winter-hardy, productive breeds that have excellent quality fruits.
- Comparative study of rootstocks of dwarf and vigorous pears and apple trees in different conditions (in the nursery and in the garden).
- Study of the influence of the summer formation of young plants in the nursery on the acceleration of seedling fruiting.
What services does the nursery provide?
In addition to scientific development and selection work, the Michurinsky Garden offers a number of services that are not limited to:
- Sale of seedlings of many varieties of berry, fruit and ornamental cultivated plants with open (without capacity) and closed (in containers) root system.
- Advice to amateur gardeners on various horticultural topics (grafting, pruning and forming a strong crown).
- Pruning fruit trees.
- Development of methods for protecting plants from various pests and diseases, improvement and landscaping of territories.
- Garden and plant care,living in it.
The Michurinsky garden begins to sell seedlings in the spring, from the beginning (5-10th) of April. Young fruit trees (one- and two-year-old) and fruit-bearing berry bushes are for sale, as well as more mature plants - three and seven years old.
In winter (January to March) cuttings of fruit crops (cherry, apple, pear, apricot, plum, sweet cherry, cherry plum) can be purchased in the garden for grafting. The purchase can be carried out during the entire warm (spring, summer, autumn) season until the very frosts (end of November), but the Michurinsky nursery has the largest assortment at the beginning of the spring planting season.
Michurinsky Garden at the All-Russian Exhibition Center
The garden nestled on the outskirts of the huge All-Russian Exhibition Center and has existed since 1954. Here, among the crowns of fruit trees, stands a monument to a talented person, breeder and biologist I. V. Michurin, the great creator of various varieties of berry and fruit crops.
Every year in the summer, a landscape design exhibition is held in the eastern part of the garden. Here, craftsmen demonstrate collections of various annuals, perennials, garden and park varieties of roses and other representatives of the flower kingdom.
