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We solve the last and most important tasks of the off-season holiday.
This winter for many participants FORUMHOUSE was just endless, and all winter "bonuses" - severe frosts, unprecedented snowfalls, large temperature changes, the invasion of mice... The arrival of spring happy as ever, and at the same time afraid of a bunch of possible problems. Is it possible to save the victims of cold apple and pear? How to "treat" the trees that nibbled the mouse? How, with such a snow, to protect against damping off plum? When and how to shoot a winter shelter plants? On these and other questions we seek answers together with users and experts FORUMHOUSE.
If you have suffered an orchard frosty winter
In cold winter at risk are very young plants, up to five years. They are damaged, but remain alive (excluding nezimostoykie most varieties).
Plants that come into fruition, from six to nine years, more resistant to low temperatures. Even those varieties that are significantly damaged by frost, will recover in a few years.
Old trees, which 12 years or more, do not tolerate freezing. They will most likely no longer be restored. If a variety of roads you wait a couple of years and courageously uprooted tree.
If your garden is in a snowy region
Keep this in mind when making the landing. Scientists gardeners always remind fans: the yield of fruit crops can be increased almost twice as if to break them into two groups - those that snow is needed for protection from frost, and those in deep snow conditions are damage.
Culture, which in the winter need to be protected from the snow: currants, raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries.
Culture, which normally tolerate deep snow: buckthorn, pear, apple.
Culture who "do not like" the deep snow plum and cherry. At sea buckthorn ambivalence toward the deep snow - she carries a snow cover is only one and a half meters.
The most important thing in the March garden - to view all the trees and shrubs, to assess how they have suffered this winter.
After this we will:
1. Help plants cope with the freezing of
One of the most common winter injuries - freezing of. To understand a fruit tree suffered from low winter temperatures or not, and to what extent the scale of catastrophic damage, take a sharp knife and make a cut. If the wood is light, there is no damage, but the darker it is, the greater the damage.
If damage to the plants weak or moderate, you can restore it with the help of continuous care and enhanced nutrition. Podmerzshie of the tree sharp knife garden first thing cleaned up to healthy tissue, coated with a garden pitch, are wrapped with burlap and cover with foil.
The properly throughout the growing season tree watered, loosen the soil in the tree trunks, remove weeds. Each podmerzshie tree will need in the next feeding:
- 20-30 grams of ammonium nitrate
- 150-200 grams of superphosphate
- 50 grams of potassium fertilizers
2. Help plants cope with damping-off
In contrast to freezing, with damping-off (the most common problem in the sink) is damaged bark, wood is light. Fight the effects of damping off is difficult, often are plum wilt sick and still vyprevayut in one of the following winters.
The best treatment for damping off - prevention. Plums should be put in the appropriate places portion and fall close them - the topic of a lecture FORUMHOUSE Academy.
3. Eliminate the consequences of the activities of mice
If the mouse gnawed tree on one side, spread traces of the "bites" garden pitch or a conventional oil paint. If the plant is young, as the putty using a homemade putty: 50% clay, 50% of mullein. Just as in the treatment of frost-crack, plastered the place zamatyvaem burlap, and on top - film. If the mouse nibbled Stalks almost round, the tree can save vaccinated bridge. On our video shows its technology scientist, horticulturist of the highest class Ivan Puchkin.
Here's how feasted mouse in the garden FORUMHOUSE Member shturmovick. Since then, he became interested in vaccination trees
4. Zamulchirovat currants to increase yields
Black currant - one of the most winter-hardy plant, but it does not tolerate spring frosts return. The Research Institute of Pomology Siberia found a way to cope with this disaster. To do this now, when the snow has not yet melted, currant bushes mulched with humus, peat or straw. Lingering snow melt, we will delay and vegetation. Thus, currants begin the growing season after the return of frost, which will greatly increase the harvest of berries. In the future, on the way to harvest currants lurks another danger - bud mite, but gardener, armed FORUMHOUSE Academy of knowledge, know how to cope with this disaster.
5. To save the plants from frost-crack
When daytime temperatures will steadily positive make spring whitewashing of trees. Usually whitewash by frost-crack is carried out in the autumn, but last fall in some parts of the winter came suddenly in October, and blanch the fruit trees, many simply do not have time.
mila_pav
Participant FORUMHOUSE
I did not have time in the autumn whitewash the trees in October, it was the winter with temperatures below zero. And if the trees are not whitewashed, in March, there are major frost-crack. You can now whiten until warm, and garden work yet.
To whitewash use a special acrylic paint that is sold in garden stores or conventional mortar.
In the photo below - trees after spring whitewash. Participant FORUMHOUSE le soleil White trees in such a budget structure:
A solution of lime + copper sulfate solution (from pests and gives a beautiful shade) + PVA glue (not washed off), in a ratio 8l: 0.5 l: 0.5 l.
Before the whitewash trunks and skeletal branches of plants cleaned of dead bark.
6. To save the plants from disease
In March - early April, has not yet blossomed buds, conducted so-called "early spraying", the first treatment of fruit crops with copper sulfate (100 g. 10 liters of water). This treatment - prevention, it makes fruit crops resistant to scab, various spotted moniliosis and shrinkage. Processing is carried out once.
7. Water the garden melting snow
To speed up the melting of the snow sprinkled a thin layer of manure or pereprelym old foliage. Plus this method is that the soil saturate the melt water. It is important that water does not stagnate in the strawberry beds and the roots of fruit trees - it makes it difficult to access oxygen, and the plants die.
8. Make fertilizer
Time, when the snow melts in full swing, the most favorable for mineral fertilizers (we are talking about plants with a strong, extensive root system). Fertilizers are scattered directly on the snow. Many snow sprinkled ashes and kill two birds with one stone - fed fruit trees and accelerate snowmelt.
Quail
Participant FORUMHOUSE
When I lived in a private house, on a bed of snow ashes scattered, but when spring is already beginning. The snow is melting faster and the ground can be covered with further warming.
toliam1
consultant FORUMHOUSE
By the ashes – with respect. Since few, the only use for stone fruit. It is enough to sprinkle tree trunks on the area, ie. E. reduces the acidity and am making calcium which pulls deep melting snow).
9. Remove the winter cover
Winter shelter from the plant is removed only when a site will do all or nearly all the snow, and the ground is completely thawed. It is important to remember that in the early spring weather is very capricious, changeable. Only that the sun was shining, it was warm - and now again frosts and snowfalls. Under the shelter plants survive the winter in the microclimate, to which they are accustomed to, and out of this climate they should be gradually, without stress. When it comes to air shelters, first we open the day ends, the plants are accustomed to moisture and sunlight, and only then, after a period of adjustment, remove the cover completely.
Shelter shoot on a cloudy day or in the evening to avoid sunburn.
10. Trim fruit trees
Spring pruning - one of the most serious March gardening, many believe it is for the opening of the season. As a rule, it is done in March, but considering that the members of our portal live in different climates, it is best to apply the rule formulated by the consultant FORUMHOUSE.
toliam1
You can use this rule: start pruning, when the pass by frost below 10 degrees. It is important to have time before the sap flow is likely to planting potatoes.
We are told, how to do a spring crop, and on which it plants its conduct - we hope our publication will be useful to you.
Work in the garden should not be waged at the expense of vegetable garden (we competently carry out the sowing, grow superkrepkuyu seedlings) And flower gardens: See a video about theHow to keep the flowers before transplanting into the ground.
How do you prepare your garden for the new season?
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