The selection of works that must be performed in the fall!

2017-10-09 21:18

The selection of works that must be performed in the fall!
Prepare the garden for winter.

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In the fall, when the entire harvest has already been gathered, work in the fruit garden does not end there. While the plot is covered with snow, there’s plenty to do. How to prepare your garden for winter?

Autumn trees and shrubs require special attention. In October remove the remaining fruit, the ground bury deep in the ground, carefully inspect plants and assess their condition. It is possible that they will have to treat, because the trees and shrubs must be healthy for the winter.

Cleaning leaves

Gently use a rake collect leaves. If your trees and shrubs were not affected by diseases and pests, send the leaves to your compost heap or warm beds, use as mulch for over-wintering flowers. But note: the infected scab, powdery mildew and other diseases of the leaves are not suitable for this. Get them off-site and burn it.

Don’t forget to remove the leaves from the roofs of buildings

Read more about how to use this material, read the article 10 ideas of what to do with fallen leaves in autumn.

Care of fruit trees in the fall

From events held in the fall, largely depends on the next year’s crop. So please do not send the tree to winter in the form of neglect.

Remove the old dead bark, moss and lichens. Under them love to spend the winter the larvae of pests, therefore in the spring it is important not to leave the insects a chance. In addition, clear all the hunting zone. Disposable (paper) burn, and fabric – wash, dry and remove before spring.

Pruning

Before the onset of frost in dry weather guide pruning fruit trees. With a sharp garden pruner or saw to completely remove dry, damaged, diseased and growing inside the crown branches. Then treat the sections with a solution of copper sulfate (1 tsp. of substance dissolved in 1 l of water) and zamazhte garden pitch or oil paint.

Treatment against diseases and pests

After the fall of the leaves start to fall tillage of the garden. If you notice on the trees for signs of mildew, spray the plants 3% solution of Bordeaux fluid. To get rid of pathogens kokkomikoza, scab, powdery mildew and other common illnesses, treat the crown with urea (0.5 kg urea per 10 liters of water). Also spray the soil around the trees, only more concentrated solution (1 kg urea per 10 liters of water).

Treatment with urea helps to destroy pests, overwintering in the top layer of soil and on tree branches

In pest control helps loosening the soil with a pitchfork in tree trunks to a depth of 20 cm After this procedure, the larvae of insects appear on the surface of the earth and die during severe frosts.

Fall fertilizing of trees

As organic fertilizer at this time of the year use the manure slurry diluted 1:10, compost (for trees from 1 to 7 years – 1.5-2 kg per 1 sq. m of tree trunks to the trees older than 7 years – 2-3 kg), ash (100 g per 10 liters of water), humus (1/2 bucket per 1 sq. m row of the circle).

Autumn fruit trees need fertilizer, except for nitrogen, which activates the unwanted at this time, the processes of growth and reduce the hardiness of plants. In the tree trunks of each tree make phosphorus-potassium fertilizer.

For trees under 10 years per 1 sq. m row circle spend 2 tbsp. l. superphosphate and 1 tbsp of potassium chloride. Trees older than 10 years and fed at the rate of 4 tbsp. of superphosphate and 2 tablespoons of potassium chloride. Cherries and plums to feed 3 tbsp. l. superphosphate and 2 tablespoons of potassium sulfate, diluted in 10 liters of water. For each adult tree, use 4 buckets of this fertilizer.

Abundant watering

It is important that fruit trees left for the winter is not dry. If autumn is rainy enough, well pour the soil in the tree trunks. During the autumn irrigation waste blagodarnogo the adult plant is about 50 l of water. Water the trees in stages of about 12-15 liters per hour. The soil should be moist to a depth of about 1 m. In this case, note that the water temperature should be 5°C higher than the temperature outside.

After watering, tree trunks circles over mulch peat, fir spruce branches, humus or compost. This will help keep moisture in the soil.

Autumn whitewashing of trees

To protect trees from pests and spring sunburn, whiten the trunks to the base of the lower skeletal branches. Use ready-made whitewash (sold in garden stores) or make it yourself: 3 kg of lime and 500 g of copper sulphate and dissolve in 10 l of water.

In the fall of conduct a whitewash of the garden in October-November

To protect the trees from rodents

Rabbits and mice are winter like to eat the bark of fruit trees. Rodents can cause serious damage to plants, especially young seedlings. To avoid this, wrap the stems to a height of 50-100 cm nylon tights, roofing material or cut plastic bottles.

The shelter of grapes for the winter

Grapes – quite a demanding culture, so in the fall requires special care. After leaf fall, cut the vine and treat the Bush a 3% solution of ferrous sulfate, and then cover the grapes with spruce branches, mats of reeds, straw or other materials for winter shelter of plants.

Preparing for winter shrubs

Autumn berry bushes to remove unnecessary shoots, sick, dead and old branches.

Slicers take over the kidney, which is directed out of the Bush

In addition, black currant, cut at the root all the branches over 5 years old, red and white currants cut branches over 8 years. This will allow the young shoots in the spring, quicker to start to rise. To Bush better wintered, after pruning feed them potassium-phosphorus fertilizer (e.g., use 1 tbsp. l. superphosphate and potassium sulfate per plant).

The gooseberry bushes, fertilize in the fall 30-50 g of double superphosphate (made in the ground to a depth of 7 cm) and 20-25 g of potassium sulfate under every Bush. Under digging can be made 2-3 tbsp. of ash on the Bush. Cut the bushes in the autumn of each year, after they reach 6 years of age. Removal is required for all dry, diseased and unproductive branches. The root growth is cut as regrowth.

On the bushes of summer raspberries, cut all the shoots that are sick and thickening the Bush branches. Keep only healthy annual shoots. If necessary, bend them to the ground so the plants are best wintered. Branches remontant raspberry cut to the ground (but you can do it in early spring).

Raspberry effectively to feed with manure (6 kg per 1sq.g soil), diluted chicken manure (1:12), as an alternative you can use double superphosphate, 20 g per 1 m row of raspberry bushes.

Now you know how to prepare the garden for winter and competently take care of fruit trees and berry bushes. I hope your green cats safely spend the winter and next season will grant a good harvest of delicious fruit.