Cultivation of Oak (Quercus robur L.) in Estonia
2001
Kasesalu, H. (Estonian Agricultural Univ., Tartu (Estonia). Forest Research Inst.)
In Estonia the cultivation of Oak started in the second part of the nineteenth century. Some experiments of its cultivation were already made earlier. From that time some articles about Oak cultivation in Baltic provinces have preserved. In 1834 a little book about it written by A.Loewis was published in Tartu. P. Kadaja (1941) has compiled his master's thesis about the Oak stands of Estonia. At that time the Oak cultures formed 28 per cent of all Oak stands in Estonia. Most of them (79 per cent) were cultivated through planting. 63 per cent of them were pure stands and 37 per cent mixed stands. The main secondary species in mixed stands was spruce. After World War II new Oak cultures in Estonia were established. At that time the reconstruction of young deciduous stands was very popular, where the seedlings or transplants of Oak were underplanted. The results of such cultivation were mostly rather good. In conclusion, Oak needs to be cultivated only in fertile soils, mainly in Aegopodium site type. It is possible to cultivate Oak both by sowing and by planting, but the density of culture must be sufficient. Young Oak stands need regular thinning and pruning
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