Care for the peach in the spring

Peach is a light-loving and thermophilic culture. Its fruits are not only very tasty, but also useful. They contain many vitamins and trace elements.

To enjoy the personally grown fruits of a peach is not difficult, the main thing is to choose the right care for a peach.

Care for peach tree

Care and cultivation of peach tree consists in following the elementary rules directed on cultivation and fertility of trees: timely watering, fertilizing, periodic pruning and treatment from pests and diseases.

At the beginning of spring, when the days became warm and windless, and the air temperature rose to + 4 ° C, it is necessary to make the first treatment of peach tree from wintering pests and diseases. Subsequent processing is carried out in April, during the beginning of flowering of leaf buds, along a pink bud. At this time it is recommended to treat the peach tree with one of the fungicides that contains copper. Leaves curl, klyasterosporiosis, kokikomikoza and much more - can be avoided if treated with 3% solution of Bordeaux liquid .

Care for the peach in the spring helps protect the flowers from freezing. To do this, it is necessary to whitewash the whole tree with lime with copper sulfate, thereby stopping flowering.

An important stage in the care of peach in spring is pruning. It is made during the pink bud phase, as well as the beginning of flowering. Removing branches that were spoiled by frost or disease. Also, pruning is necessary for unloading a large number of small fruits, unnecessary branches, improving the penetration of sunlight. If you do not do this - eventually the trees are depleted, they are affected by fungal diseases, viruses, they do not tolerate the winter, they die early.

Consider the types of trimming the fruit tree :

1. Truncated pruning with a bough - replacement. The well-developed and young shoot is shortened by approximately 8 kidneys, and is left for fertility. The second is shortened by 2 kidneys. It will be used as a bitch - a replacement for fertility next year.
2. Long pruning. Extra flowers are removed during flowering. This is done to reduce the load of fruit on the branches and the tree itself.
3. Formation and correction of the crown. Also called sanitary pruning. Remove dry, frozen shoots, infected with diseases or pests.
4. The last pruning helps to regulate the harvest load, both for each shoot and for the tree as a whole. Carried out in April by a pink bud or by color. Excess branches, fat shoots, growing inside the crown, cut into a ring.

After the trimming process, it is necessary to grease the peach tree wounds with garden gauze or oil paint.

Care and growing of seedlings

It is necessary to know that circumcision of all peach tree seedlings occurs in the spring, regardless of when they were planted. Delay with pruning can reduce the chances of survival of seedlings. To do this, shorten all shoots on the seedlings for 1-2 kidneys. Of these, later, shoots will grow to form skeletal branches.

Formation of the crown occurs before the age of five years of the tree. Care for peach seedlings is to regulate with the help of pruning a good, useful and promising crown. In the first year of planting, the seedlings need to leave skeletal branches. It is important that they are not located at an acute angle and are at a certain distance from each other. In the case where it is necessary to leave a branch that is at an acute angle - it is well strengthened. To do this, you can substitute a spacer for it or tie it to a peg that is jammed into the ground.