✔ Caring gardener: What to do with trees and shrubs in the fall?

Autumn - an important time in the life of the garden. Trees and shrubs restore power after fruiting, and more are preparing for the winter. Our task - to help the maximum landing. This is one of the guarantees that the next year will give the garden a good harvest!

Cutting and forming crowns

After the end of the fruiting comes the time to trim the tree or shrub. Not only for the sake of beauty, but also for practical use:

• Remove diseased, broken branches and dry. This extra ballast for plants, weakening his health.
• It is a mistake to think that the great escape - the more fruit. The plant simply do not have enough power to "contain" three-dimensional crown. As a result - in the next year the fruit or berries will be small and not as tasty as they could get. Besides density causes shading fruits ripen poorly, and because of the absence of light and moisture excess (thickets poorly ventilated) problems begin with trees and shrubs diseases. Remove excess young shoots, leave only the strongest shoots.

The main purpose of this procedure is the preparation of trees and shrubs for the winter, as well as their crop, contributing to higher yields in the coming year.

sanitary works

Many gardeners prefer whitewash trees in spring, but autumn is better suited for this procedure. We will not only make the prevention of infectious diseases. But also help better planting winter.

Some shrubs, unstable before the frost, you can shelter. This is particularly useful in regions with harsh climates. In his region - central Russia - I harbored some varieties of raspberries: collect branches in bundles, binds and bends to the ground. When the snow falls, he shoots and shielding to protect from frost.

necessarily remove uncollected fallen fruit. When factoring, they become an active source of pathogens. It is better to bury them in a special pit.

top-dressing

Fall fertilizing performs 2 tasks:

1. It improves soil structure.

2. Compensates for nutritional deficiencies in trees and shrubs, which is not uncommon after fruiting. Still, it plants have spent a lot of micro-and macro!

Fertilizers are applied to the tree trunks, then gently closing up into the soil hoe. This must be done in September, before the frost. When the thermometer starts to stay below zero, the activity of the root system of perennials stops and fertilizer will not work. I fertilize your trees and shrubs in late August and early September, but always focused on the long-term weather forecast.

Still one important rule - not to use nitrogen fertilizers. In autumn, nitrogen plants completely useless and may even harm: make grow young shoots, which die from frost. Better to take superphosphate. Of "folk remedies" tick humus, compost and wood ash.

Mulch

One of the important tasks of the autumn mulch - to protect the roots from frost and the soil - erosion. In addition, decomposing slowly, it becomes organic fertilizing. Mulching around-trunk circle tree or shrub can be used:

• sawdust;
• hay or straw;
• fallen leaves;
• pine needles;
• sawdust;
• chips.

Avoid using hay and straw from the seeds of plants - there is freedom for the mice.

What to do with fallen leaves

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There are 3 opinions:

1. Fallen leaves can be left under trees and shrubs. They retain heat, if there is not enough snow, and the root system is not affected by severe frost. Pereprevaya, will be a source of nutrients.

2. Remove from the lawn, but used for mulch tree trunks.

3. Remove completely to make it clean. In this case, the leaves drip with fallen fruit.

Yes, the fall will not have to miss. But will thank your planting in the next garden season rich harvest! The main thing is to try to ensure the fall of trees and shrubs in the garden of the conditions that suit them in this lifetime! Read more: The last chord: how to care for cabbage in September for a rich harvest