Care of fruit trees in autumn

Autumn preparation of the garden for the upcoming winter is extremely important. This will guarantee that in the next year you will assemble in it a rich harvest. But what needs to be done in this period, not everyone knows. Consider in our article the main points for caring for fruit trees in autumn.

Stages of caring for fruit trees in autumn

Pruning trees as the first step in caring for the garden in the fall. In the fall, all weak, intertwined, broken, dried branches should be removed from the trees. Examine the trees and make sure that all the shoots grow correctly, do not interfere with each other and do not interfere with the penetration of the sun and air. All work on the formation of the crown can be done with a pruner or saw, if the branches are old and thick.

Removal of outgrowths, lichens, moss, and tops. All sores require immediate removal. You can clean them with a scraper brush. Wolfs are shoots that grow from sleeping buds on old branches. Sometimes they appear after damage to the tree. Removing them helps reduce the thickening of the crown, stimulating the growth of young, correct shoots.

Protection of the bark is an indispensable part of caring for fruit trees in autumn. If you do not dye stems of trees with lime or other white solution, their bark may become very chapped due to the differences in night and daytime temperatures. Also, the staining protects against pests. In addition to whitewashing, it is possible to use the winding of the trunks with protective nets, burlap and so on.

Fertilizing of fruit plants . Produce it after harvest. It increases the winter hardiness of plants, contributes to better yields in the coming year. In autumn, organic and mineral top dressing should be applied, avoiding fresh manure and nitrogen fertilizers. After applying fertilizers, you need to water well and cover the soil.

Spraying with pesticides is also a stage of caring for trees with their autumn preparation for winter. Helps to get rid of existing diseases and pests and to prevent them. Spraying is done in late autumn, when all the leaves from the trees have already fallen.

Raskorchevyvanie and removal of all the dead trees. If there are dry, dead, completely hopeless trees in the garden, they need to be riven. First you need to remove the aboveground part of the plant, after which it will leave a stump. Then it is necessary to dig out at a distance of about half a meter from it the skeletal roots and cut them.