Here you go. Autumn has come, the garden is empty, the trees no longer adorn appetizing fruits, but your cellar is filled with apple flavor and you are almost ready for winter.
Now it's time to take care of the trees, which also need to feel comfortable in the winter time and live until spring to no losses.
Where to begin?
We start leaving the soil
Moisturizing, fertilizing and loosening are familiar to us and such important steps in the care of plants.
Already in the first half of September, autumnal efforts to take care of the trees begin. Need to saturate the soil with enough moisturethat will increase its frost resistance, but only if it will be made long before the start of the first frost. Otherwise, you can get a completely opposite result.
Best of all, if the degree of moistening reaches the depth of one and a half meters, and this requires about fifteen buckets of liquid.
Of course, it is necessary to take into account the size of the crown, and the amount of precipitation that fell before. Watering is combined with apple dressing in autumn - it will give the best result.
We choose fertilizers for apple trees, remembering that at this time of the year nitrogen-containing compounds are not suitable, and potassium and phosphorus are exactly what is needed during this period.
Can buy ready-made fertilizersthat are suitable for fall, or you can cook it yourselfusing for this 2nd st. spoons of superphosphate and one spoon of potassium per bucket of water. The resulting solution is designed for 1 m².
Loosening We spend very carefully, so as not to damage the root system. Therefore, forks for this purpose will fit better shovels. We try not to drive them very deep (up to 15 cm).
You should also not be too zealous and try to grind and loosen the soil as much as possible. The knocked down lumps are left intact, they keep the moisture in them.
Privestvol circle spud peat, compost and manure, which is well perepel. In no case do not make fresh organic fertilizer! This will cause burns and the death of the tree.
Apple pruning is also important.
Carefully inspect the trunk of the tree and make it clean of moss and any suspicious growths, because pathogens prefer to hide under them.
For this it is desirable to use tool from plastic, since metal can injure the plant.
Carefully remove the old bark, and damaged areas are treated with blue vitriol, after which we use garden var.
Recall that all these procedures are carried out, pre-spreading some oilcloth, so that after it was convenient to collect all the garbage and burn. Now you can start pruning branches.
Young apple trees are prone to light pruning, removing broken or damaged branches. Older apple trees are pruned more heavily. This is done to increase yields and rejuvenation of the crown. In addition to dry and diseased branches, those that grow at an acute angle are also cut. All cuts, cracks and wounds are also processed by garden pitch.
It is interesting to know about the care and pruning of apple trees
Protect from the sun and cold
Blinding winter sun, reflected from the snow, can lead to burns of tree bark. Whitewashing the trunk will prevent this.
In addition, it will serve as protection from rodents. Lime process the stem itself and the beginning of branches, reaching out as high as possible. Some prefer using a twine to tie the trunk with light dense paper in several layers.
Frost is also capable of causing irreparable damage to any plant, so scientists have long been working on the question: how to resist it?
Breeders are trying to bring the most resistant varieties, crossing with the most frost-resistant, and you and I have to use all available means to combat it.
Here everything goes: from burlap to every obstacle and structures of boards, especially if the tree is very young. Good for this purpose. ruberoid, and on top of the reflective foil. Similarly, measures to combat rodents, which we will discuss further, will serve a double service: they will protect against pests and from frost.
Pests and diseases deliver no less trouble. Mice and hares and strive to eat delicious bark and spoil our tree. In the fight with the first to help delicious poisonous bait, which must be well disguised and hidden from the bird's eyes, otherwise, you risk to hunt not for those who planned.
But with bunnies - very different methods. Here we need to influence the weak point, and we all know that the "oblique" is fear. Therefore enough hang rustling black bags on the treewhich will frighten and frighten off these lovely, but, in this case, harmful animals.
And, if beavers attempt on your trees, only obstacles will help. You can make them from a grid-chain-link, and if you show imagination, then you can even give this design a decorative look.
After the tree has dropped foliage, it is accepted spray him blue vitriol or with a solution of urea of 4% concentration (take a teaspoon per 10 liters of water).
Preparing an apple tree for winter is an important step in nursing.
In the previous paragraphs, we considered all the main stages that help the tree to winter favorably. We talked about feeding, loosening, pruning, protection from harmful factors.
We should not neglect such usual measures as sanitary cleaning of the territory, which includes burning all rubbish and fallen leaves, cleaning rotten fruits
It will also be a method of prevention with various pests, because many of them prefer to hide from the cold in a pile of garbage until spring. You can hang a couple of feeders on the trees. And in the garden will be more fun, and additional protection against any harmful insects.
In any case, we are convinced that having surrounded trees with care and attention since the fall, you will certainly get a return at another time of year. First, they will delight you with their magnificent flowering in the spring, and then, with the most delicious fruits in the summer.
