Sprinkling of trees
Trees, and especially fruit, require careful care. One of the most important items for caring for trees is periodic and timely spraying. In order to achieve maximum efficiency when spraying trees, you need to process the entire garden. If the treatment of plants is made in order to destroy the insects that are planted on one of the plants, treat its trunks and neighboring trees, otherwise the pests can pass to them.
Performance of seasonal works
Spraying trees and shrubs in your garden is necessary periodically, several times a year. The first spraying is carried out immediately after the plants wake from hibernation, and the last - before the frost begins and the green plantations fall asleep for the winter period.
- Thanks to spraying, you can get a double benefit:
- Feed the plants with nutrients.
- You are fighting to destroy parasites and garden pests.
Spraying of trees and shrubs is done by various drugs, the choice of which depends on the needs of plants.
How to properly spray trees in the garden in the spring
Spring spraying is done in order to protect fruit bushes and trees from pests, which there are many. Thanks to spraying, you will rid the garden of insect pests that have perfectly overwintered in your plantations.
If the spring was warm and rainy days, the garden can be prone to fungal diseases. If the composition for spraying is selected correctly, your garden will be saved from diseases.
How to spray trees in the garden in summer
Summer spraying of garden plantings is carried out for feeding them with necessary useful substances. To do this, use special liquid fertilizers, which are quickly absorbed by plants through their leaves.
Very rarely in the heat, trees are sprayed to destroy pests. Usually, before the hot season, the garden is treated with insecticides, and in order to prevent damage to insects by plants, other protective measures are applied against them: plant repellent plants, use hunting belts, and so on.
Sprinkling of trees in autumn
In the autumn period of time, prophylactic spraying of garden plants and fruit trees is carried out. Sometimes, amateur gardeners are faced with a rather unpleasant phenomenon: fruits on the trees do not have time to fully ripen - rot right on the branch.
This is a very common problem. Usually, the presence of various diseases becomes noticeable at a time when the fruits are ripening. And since carrying out measures to combat diseases during fruiting is not recommended, trees can be processed after the fruits either all are lost, or will be collected.
Works on autumn spraying of the garden are made for preventive and curative purposes, so the results of your work can be seen next year - your fruit trees and bushes will be healthy.
In the winter season, there is no work to spray trees in the garden, because at this time the plants are fast asleep, and their lives are not threatened if you have taken care of them properly, from spring to late autumn.
The selection of the right formulations and the competent treatment of green spaces by them can be carried out according to the recommendations of professional gardeners qualitatively and in the shortest possible time.
Compositions for spraying fruit bushes and trees
The choice of compounds for processing garden plantings depends on what the needs of the garden. The most popular substances are the following:
Use for spraying urea trees
Urea (carbamide) is the most popular substance for the treatment of trees. It is used for different purposes. During the early spring, urea serves as a prophylaxis against attacks on plants by pests that have overwintered in the bark and near-trunks, and woke up just like trees.
Carbamide performs its tasks perfectly. But when using it, do not forget that the substance is not used in its pure form, since it can greatly damage the plants - "burn" them. Therefore, it is necessary to dilute the composition, according to the instructions.
To treat plants from insect pests, urea of higher concentration should be used than if it is used for fertilizing. When you spray trees against pests, make sure that the solution does not get on the leaves and buds of plants.
In the summer and autumn period, fruit trees are sprayed with urea for their feeding, since urea contains a lot of nitrogen, which is necessary for trees. Carrying out foliar top dressing, you must be careful - do not damage the plants. If you do not know the exact concentration of urea, do not risk and do not completely treat the garden plants. First try to sprinkle a few twigs and look at them in two to three days.
Use of copper sulphate for spraying trees
Spray the garden trees garden trees with copper sulfate for preventive purposes - to prevent the emergence of various diseases of the bearers (scab, moniliose, anthracnose and others), as well as to destroy many types of pests. In order that the trees do not get fungal diseases, they are treated early in the spring, before the buds are dissolved.
- The solution for spraying is prepared from:
- 0.1 kg of copper sulphate.
- 10 liters of water.
The same solution can be used to disinfect wounds on trees.
Use for sprinkling of iron sulphate trees
Spraying green plantings with iron sulfate solution does not at all resemble the treatment with copper sulfate. It is used to destroy pests and treat all kinds of diseases, as well as to saturate the trees with the iron they need.
Most of all, iron is required for apple, plum and pear. Iron is an essential component for the growth and fruiting of many fruit trees. If this microelement is deficient, your garden may die. For example, the presence of iron in apple trees improves their growth and development (there are more shoots), affects the number of fruits.
Sprinkle the garden trees with iron sulfate solution to ensure that the plants are saturated with iron. This is advisable especially if the soils are depleted, having iron deficiency. When processing plants, their growth is stimulated, more chlorophyll is formed. In order to get a better effect, you need to process the composition of the tree and the near-trunk circle.
Do not spray fruit trees very often. To destroy pests and prevent diseases, only a couple of procedures will last for a year. To do this, solutions of a high concentration of active substances are used, so when the garden is constantly and often treated with potent formulations, it is possible to harm the garden, not the benefit.
Top dressing of trees is carried out with solutions having a lower fungicidal concentration, so spraying is carried out two to three times during the growing season.
Fighting pests of trees in summer is carried out using folk remedies. For example, trees are sprayed from aphids not by insecticides or fungicides, but by other means. Insects do not tolerate any strongly smelling compounds, so spray trees in your garden with infusion of garlic, onion, tobacco or others. In order to prevent the appearance of harmful insects near fruit plants, plant repellent plants.
Recommendations of experienced professional gardeners will help in selecting the right composition for plant nutrition and pest and disease control.
Calendar for spraying fruit trees
In different climatic zones, the gardens are awakened at different times. Also on their awakening affect the weather conditions. For this reason, it is difficult to compile an exact schedule for spraying by dates and numbers. And, nevertheless, a work plan is drawn up, depending on the growth and development of trees in the garden.
A scheme has been developed by professional horticulturists to help in scheduling the processing of trees.
In the spring
Before the buds are dissolved, the trees are sprayed for preventive purposes against diseases and pests that have overwintered in the bark of trees and deposited their larvae. Spraying is carried out with preparations based on copper or iron vitriol, Bordeaux liquid.
When flowering. Sprinkled trees to protect against weevils and mites, as well as for preventive purposes to enhance immunity against fungal diseases. It is processed with drugs with copper.
After flowering. Preventive spraying with combined mixtures from rot and pests.
In summer
Carry out foliar top dressing (2-3 times with the onset of heat before the fruits begin to ripen). If necessary, sprays from diseases or pests by the above listed formulations. Spraying should be carried out either very early in the morning, or after sunset. It is best to cultivate trees when the weather is cloudy.
In the autumn
Preventive treatment of trees against decay and pests that like to spend the winter in the bark. Spray should be carried out in windless weather, it is not recommended to perform the procedure before the rain.
So, the timing of spraying fruit plants affects the season and the needs of the garden. In the summer, pay great attention to the development of plants, as well as conduct their regular inspection for the presence of diseases and pests.
Preparing for the processing of garden trees
Before processing trees in the garden with the help of special fungicides, fertilizers or insecticides, careful preparation for this process is necessary. For spraying, store the following tools and materials:
- Pump for spraying, which must be a reciprocating or specialized compressor.
- Respiratory mask or multi-layer gauze bandage.
- Rubber gloves (you can use ordinary garden, but they are not very effective when spraying trees with potent substances.
- Preparations for spraying plants in the garden (they are selected, based on the needs of the garden or from the above scheme.
- Points that are mandatory eye protection.
Before you start spraying trees, inspect carefully the trunk and branches of each tree. If you find lichens and moss, you should carefully remove them with a metal brush.
It is also advisable to inspect the machine you plan to spray trees with - perhaps it is equipped with an insufficiently long hose that is not suitable for processing the upper branches of trees. In this case, it is necessary to extend the hose or install a stepladder.
Do not treat the plants in parts, as this will not bring good results. The solution for spraying should have a uniform composition.
It is necessary to mix thoroughly the preparations with water, only after that they should be poured into the apparatus. Otherwise, part of the plant you treat with water, and the other part - undiluted active substance, which is very damaging to plants. Periodically shake the solution in the machine.
Technology of processing of garden trees
- Spraying of fruit trees in the garden is carried out in the following order:
- Apply fungicides, insecticides or liquid fertilizers evenly to the whole tree - branches, leaves and trunk. In order for the solution to lie down in the form of dew, keep the tip of the apparatus not close to the tree (the distance should be about 70-80 cm from the plant).
- Spraying, make sure that the back sides of the leaves are treated.
- Having finished the work on the processing of trees, you need to thoroughly wash each part of the apparatus, consisting of a hose, tip and a container for the solution.
- After spraying the trees, you should thoroughly wash your hands and face using antibacterial or simple soap, and rinse your mouth with clean water.
Proper and responsible attitude to caring for garden plants is a guarantee of high yields.
