Garden pitch is used to treat cuts and wounds on trees and shrubs.
As the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh explained, it is needed to protect wood from pathogens, fungi and pests.
You can buy the product in a store with gardening supplies or make it yourself.
But what if there is no putty at hand, as well as time to prepare it? You can’t leave the cuts bare.
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A plastic bag or cling film can easily serve as an emergency measure to protect plants.
All that is required from the gardener is to wrap the damaged area tightly with the selected material and secure the “wrapper” with rope or tape.
Special preparations
Instead of garden pitch, it is allowed to use garden balms, varnish-balms and pastes - firstly, they protect the bark, and secondly, they have healing and bactericidal properties.
Bactericidal mastic is also suitable for this purpose. True, the mass, reminiscent of plasticine, does not adhere very well to large cuts or wounds, but is convenient to use during vaccination.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
