Although apple trees are considered to be quite strong and unpretentious trees, they also need care and maintenance. After all, you can just grow any apples and enjoy what nature has given, and you can make efforts and get from each tree to the maximum.
Not only at the beginning of the vegetative period, one should visit the apple orchard more often. Very important and autumn treatment of apple trees in autumn from pests and various diseases . After insidious insects and diseases do not sleep in any weather, so that a good gardener can not rest.
What is the processing of apple trees from pests?
The main impact that is expected from the use of chemical protection is the preparation of the apple orchard for the winter. In order that trees without losses experienced severe frosts, they must enter the winter period with strong, not weakened by all sorts of diseases. In addition, the autumn dressing of pests can significantly reduce their number, and in the spring there are all chances to get abundant flowering, not clouded by a scab or weevil.
The range of drugs used to protect trees is small, but they all have sufficient action when properly applied. Let's find out what the autumn processing of apple trees is from pests and diseases.
Urea - perhaps the most popular drug, which is carried out by autumn spraying. It kills all the existing pests hidden in the bark for the winter, literally burning them. But in order not to harm the wood itself, it is necessary to observe the correct proportion. After harvesting in autumn, the apple tree is treated with a 5% solution, and after the foliage falls completely, the concentration is increased to 10%.
To lime all possible meddinits, aphids, whitefly and weevil perfectly fit "Preparation 30". This tool has a unique effect - it does not release harmful substances into the bark and wood, but kills insects. This is because after spraying, where a solution dissolved in a proportion of 1:50 hit, a thin, invisible film is formed. It prevents the breathing of parasites, and they soon die from lack of oxygen.
All known copper and iron vitriol allows you to reduce the number of pests in the tree and simultaneously energize it. Thus, by such alternate spraying, it is possible to expel the moth, mite, weevil and other pests of the apple tree, and in parallel to get rid of scab and anthracnose, the main diseases of the apple tree.
Secondary processing of apple orchard
Chemical spraying is the main protective arsenal of the horticulturist. Thanks to these facilities, 90% of pests and diseases can be affected. But this will not be enough, if you do not take care of seemingly insignificant moments like:
- sanitary pruning of branches;
- cleaning and recycling of foliage;
- digging in the trunks.
It is known that a lot of disease-causing controversies and some insects perfectly winter among fallen leaves and are ready to attack fruit trees in the spring. To reduce the likelihood of such infection, after complete loss of leaves, they are taken to a landfill or disposed of by incineration.
The branches broken during the summer season, excessive growth and thickening should be eliminated and do it better with the onset of cold weather. During such work, it is often possible to find small lichens on large branches and trunk, which are also subject to destruction. Places slept unnecessary branches, and other wounds are densely plastered with garden vine.
To apple well over winter, watering is stopped in September. After that, the trunks are shallowly dug with pitchforks, so as not to damage the roots and flush with humus and mineral fertilizers. Prepared in this way, the apple orchard will perfectly bear both winter cold and sudden thaws, and in spring it will blossom again in a magnificent pink color.