Getting a large crop is the goal of any gardener. But to come to your dream without losses you need some knowledge about how to grow, feed, water the trees, and, of course, fight pests.
For example, a gardener should know what to spray apple trees in the spring from pests , both before flowering, and after it. Insects and microbes begin their active activity imperceptibly for the eye. And if time is lost, there is no harvest. Therefore, it is necessary to stock up in advance with the necessary chemical preparations, protective equipment, sprayer and go into battle with uninvited guests.
When to start spraying?
Approximately in the middle-end of March, when the snow begins to fall and the temperature rises above the 5 ° C mark, it is possible to start processing apples and other plantings from pests. During this period, until a variety of insects are activated, they must be tried to eliminate in a half-asleep state.
Before you can spray a tree, it must be prepared. This is not always known to beginner gardeners, and all their work is a nuisance. The trunk of the apple tree is carefully treated with a brush, and the places of ruptures in the bark are cleared, sprinkled and sealed with garden vine. It is in the cracks of the cortex is the largest hotbed of pathological microorganisms that can completely destroy not only the yield, but also the tree.
In the spring, it is necessary to perform at least three treatments of the apple tree. The first is in March over the bark, when the kidneys just begin to wake up. The second in the period before the swelling of the kidneys and the third - after the blossoming. All this set of measures will allow to destroy as much as possible the flower-cage and other insects, who are attempting on another's harvest.
How to spray apples in the early spring against pests?
The most popular of the drugs, which should be sprayed apple in the spring, was and remains copper sulfate. In addition to early spring spraying, processing with it is also carried out in late fall after the fall of the foliage.
This chemical has a rather aggressive effect, and therefore it is necessary to work with it very carefully and certainly before the appearance of the kidneys, which it can damage. That's why do not recommend its use on green mass. In March, the barrel is carefully sprayed, all the branches to which it is possible to get, as well as the trunks, where parasites can also winter.
In addition to copper, in this period, it will be superfluous to use iron sulfate, about a week after the first spraying. This product simultaneously saturates the plant with the iron it needs and protects it from pests.
Than to spray apples against tsvetoeda?
An unfortunate weevil, or as it is correctly called, is a flower-breed, bears a huge damage to the orchard, despite its small size. It is very important to choose the right time for spraying, since even a delay of even five days or too early treatment will not be effective. Spray the tree should be when the kidney has already woken up and started to grow, but has not yet opened. This phase of development in the people has the name "mouse ear".
Apple trees can be sprayed with various solutions from the weevil , including "Decis", "Fufanon", "Carbophos" and the like.