Garden work in May
May is the month of flowering.
In the first ten days of May, those garden works that did not have time to spend in April: landing and transplantation of fruit trees and berry bushes, pruning and formation, inoculation and re-vaccination of fruit trees, cultivation of the soil of the near-crop circles (application of organic and mineral fertilizers, mulching peat, humus or manure).
At the very beginning of the budding of apple and pear buds, it is necessary to spray the Bordeaux liquid against the scab. Spraying is deep (300 g of copper sulfate and 400 g of freshly-dried lime per 10 l / water). However, if nitrafen was sprayed before bud blossoming, spraying with Bordeaux fluid is not necessary.
At the same time, it is necessary to shake the litter from the fruit-bearing weevil trees and the apple-tree cvetod with subsequent destruction.
Strawberries should be sprinkled with a solution of chlorophos from the calculation of 20 g / 10 l / water (during the period of exposing the buds). This is done to destroy the raspberry-strawberry weevil-tsvetoed, raspberry fly and raspberry beetle.
Currant and gooseberries are sprayed immediately after flowering with the same chlorophos solution in order to destroy the fire.
If your gooseberry is sick with American powdery mildew, then it should be sprinkled with a solution of calcined (laundry) soda (50-60 g per 10 l / in) with the addition of the same amount of ammonium nitrate (50g per 10l / in) or soap. Spraying is performed one week after flowering.
Until June 10, in the second and third decades of May, in the period of mass flowering and fruit-setting, there is a return of cold weather with frost, flowers and ovaries may die from this. That is why it is so important by this time to fully complete all the preparatory work and be prepared for unexpected colds. For this, smoke piles, smoke flasks and oil burners are prepared.
Be on the alert and watch the weather report: if the temperature drops at night to +2 degrees, ignite the heaps, without waiting for a further drop in temperature. However, do not rush everything to burn, frosts can happen again.
For the same struggle with frosts, watering of the trunks is used and sprinkling of trees and shrubs with water. Spraying with water is carried out several times throughout the night.
Before approaching frosts strawberry beds are covered with mats, straw, reeds, mats, film, paper.
If at the end of May you found on the bushes of gooseberry and white currant sawfly, then spray them with a solution of chlorophos. You can also use manual collection of pests, if the number of bushes is small. Just bed under the bushes of newspapers or sacking and strongly shake the branches of the bush. Then sawfly gather and boil with boiling water.
