When cherry blossoms, I rush to feed it, wave a broom and throw sand

Fiery fireworks, fellow gardeners!

Looking to grow a good harvest of cherries? Feed it during flowering and sprinkle with sand. After reading the advice in an old magazine once, I do this every year and have an excellent harvest!

Everyone in our family loves cherries. Don't eat it all! We make compotes and jam, bake pies, give to relatives and friends

The cherry orchard bloom time is not only one of the symbols of late spring turning into summer, and a breathtaking landscape. This is a crucial stage when the flower turns into an ovary. The future harvest depends on leaving now by 60-80%.It also depends on the activity of impudent birds.

But let's not talk about sad things! It is clear that cherries need a colossal supply of nutrients for a massive harvest. Moreover, not only the number of harvested berries depends on their presence, but also their size and taste..

Just imagine: each of these flowers is ready to become a berry:

Therefore, feeding during flowering will please both you and the cherry!

It's great if the cherry is not the same as in the first photo, but lower. So, you can spray boric acid on the leaf. It is the introduction of boron that increases the productive amount of ovaries,% of sugars and vitamin C in the future fetus. The recipe is as simple as three kopecks: 10 g per 10 liters of water. I recommend first dissolving the powder in a little warm water to help the crystals dissolve faster.

... And one day our garden sprayer broke down. It's good that the neighbor suggested:

Just dip a broom in the solution and wave to your health

A drop from a broom can easily overcome a height of 2 meters... By the way, you don't need to try to get on the flowers themselves. The leaves will absorb everything and send the nutritious boron where the cherry itself needs it. So try to overcome the bar set by the height of the tree, not necessary at all.

But, even if you pour a boron solution over the cherries from head to toe, nothing good will come of it if pollination will not occur. I'll tell you about the tips from the Internet: good and bad.

I don’t know how it’s in your region. We, in the Northwest, have very few pollinating insects. And there are many rainy days. It turns out that there is almost no one to carry the pollen, and the sediments wash it off the pistils and stamens. Not the best situation for the mass formation of ovaries.

Calm down! There are folk tricks.

Once I tried a trick from the Internet - to spray with honey water. Yes, the bees have arrived. But the local aphid all over the area was delighted, immediately responding to an ambiguous invitation to the table.

I don't do that anymore! But another folk recipe works great in practice:

Sand. Normal coarse sand. It is heavy enough to cover a distance of several meters in a throw and knock pollen from pistils. I just bombard cherry trees with handfuls of sand.

I fan the flowering trees with a broom dipped in Borka solution and throw it over with sand. From the outside, they might consider me a local crazy. But a local crazy woman with a good harvest of her favorite berries.

If you liked the article and my cherries in the photo, please click "Thumbs up" in the answer! Thank you, my darlings. And I recommend flower growers to look here: What a peony wants: I share the secrets of lush bloom