How to spray a garden in April against pests and diseases. What to make from fertilizers for trees and shrubs

From early spring, you need to take care of the future harvest of fruit trees and berry bushes from your site. With the establishment of positive temperatures, both diseases and pests wake up. If you manage to process the garden in spring, a fungal infection is unlikely to occur on fruit trees, there will be no mass invasion of pests.

What and when should the garden be treated in April?

During the period of swelling of the kidneys, the ambient temperature is established with positive indicators. Next, we will consider drugs that are effective against diseases.

Remedies for diseases

Scab spores wake up on pears and apple trees, spots on gooseberries, strawberries, currants.

Not all remedies may be effective in April, as the temperature may not allow them to do so. After all, in April there may be frosts.

In this spring, it is advisable to choose for treatment preparations of contact action, means based on copper (Bordeaux mixture, copper sulfate, Abiga-Peak, Hom).

Copper-containing preparations are effective even at temperatures of plus + 4- + 5 degrees.

In addition to contact agents, non-contact fungicides (Fundazol, Topaz) are suitable. They act at temperatures of + 5- + 6 degrees and above.

Insect pests

In spring, insect pests appear on trees and shrubs in the form of aphids, various mites, flower beetles, leaf gnats emerge from under the bark and cracks.

Spring treatment on swollen buds or in the green cone phase with special preparations of insectoacaricidal action (complex) will reduce the number of pests. It could be Aktara, Fufanon. They fight both ticks and insects.

It is imperative to use protective equipment (respirators, goggles and gloves) when working with drugs. Processing should be carried out in calm and cloudy weather.

You can immediately prepare a tank mixture (add drugs for diseases and agents for treating the garden).

How to feed

In the spring season, nitrogen fertilizers should be applied under the trees and shrubs to develop the green mass. In this case, ammonium nitrate is suitable (40 grams per 1 sq. m) or urea, which is embedded in the soil with a rake in a dry form (30 grams per 1 square meter).

You can prepare a liquid solution from them (30 grams of fertilizer per 10 liters of water) and pour evenly into the trunk circle. From organic matter, humus is suitable (5 buckets for adult fruit trees). In the same turn, organics will work as mulch.

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