Rules for feeding apples and pears

With the onset of spring all nature comes to life. Trees are covered with new buds, and then with flowers. However, it is worth thinking about the harvest of apples and pears.After all, these plants for the formation of the maximum number of fruits need additional feeding. How to feed them, not every gardener knows. Therefore it is necessary to consider in more detail all the features of this process.

Any fruit trees need "food" in the form of various useful substances. After all, these components not only feed the plants, but also protect the trees from various pests. Plus, they are stimulants for growth.

Feeding trees can be three or four times per season. And it should be not only top dressing of the root system, but also the crown. All these works can be divided into several stages.

Top dressing of apples and pears in spring is very important. During this period, the lack of minerals is particularly pronounced. The first fertilizer should be applied closer to mid-April. First you need to cut all the dry and unnecessary branches. After all, they will take part of the fertilizer from the plant. The second dressing falls on the period of active flowering of apple and pear trees. The last spring dressing occurs immediately after the trees bloom.

It is important to know that the tree should be sprayed no more than three times per season. Therefore, in the spring of this feeding should be done in the second month. It will be useful for the growth of trees. However, all these terms are quite approximate. Indeed, in each climatic zone, the stages of plant development occur at different times.

It is also worth remembering that oversaturation with mineral fertilizers will have the same undesirable result as their lack. This is especially important for young seedlings. Indeed, as a result, a rather tall tree with a large number of branches can grow, but there will be few fruits on it.

Feeding apples and pears in summertime occurs when the fruiting period begins, approximately in June. The interval between supplements should be not less than two weeks. In the summer, you can carry out and feeding the root system, and spraying the crown.

Apple trees and pears can be fed with various useful substances. The main thing is the correct selection of fertilizer. It all depends on the following parameters:

• what the tree looks like;
• his age category;
• on what soil grows;
• what season.

In addition, there are organic and mineral fertilizers that should be considered in more detail before making your choice.

All organic fertilizers not only saturate the earth with useful vitamins and substances, but also have a good effect on its condition. Here you can enroll the following types.

It can be used for digging trees both in spring and autumn, or to make a liquid solution that can be applied under the roots at any time of the year. In order to prepare the liquid mixture, it is necessary to pour one kilogram of manure with ten liters of water and draw for one week. The prepared composition should be used with extreme caution, since it contains a large amount of ammonia, which can harm the root system.

Quite a useful substance with which you can protect trees from various harmful insects and fungal diseases. It is also very useful for the deoxidation of the earth.

To prepare it, you need to lay just cut grass in a large container and fill it with water in a ratio of one to ten. Then all you need to close with plastic film. When the mixture is at least a couple of days apart, it can be used.

The decomposed residues of both animal and plant origin are called humus.These fertilizers are much more useful than fresh manure, as they will not be able to harm the trees. The rate of their introduction is the same as in the case of manure.

In such a fertilizer is a large amount of calcium and nitrogen. It perfectly deoxidizes the ground. You can make bone meal as a powder, and in liquid form.

If you compare it with manure from cattle, the litter contains much more nitrogen. Therefore, it is worth using it as a fertilizer. Spring feeding chicken droppings can lead to burns of the root system. Especially if it is young saplings. Therefore, it is better to make it in the autumn period.

Many people are afraid to make mineral fertilizers, as they consider them harmful to health when stored in fruits. However, if you follow all the rules of use, they can bring even more benefits than organic substances.

Nitrogen fertilizers are very useful to make in the spring. This allows the tree to have a lush and healthy crown. In summer, feeding this mineral stimulates the formation of a large number of fruits. With a lack of nitrogen, the leaves of the trees turn yellow and fall off altogether.

In organic fertilizers this element is not. But without it, the tree cannot absorb nitrogen. Therefore, it is also necessary to make such mineral fertilizers. Phosphorus contributes to the development and active growth of the root system, and also significantly accelerates both the flowering and the appearance of fruits. When it is deficient, yellowish or dark green spots may appear on the leaves of the trees.

This mineral is especially important for young trees, it allows them to grow faster. Also, potassium helps them in summer drought and extreme cold.

Also in some cases it is necessary to make micronutrient fertilizers. It:

• iron - with its deficiency, leaves and small twigs die prematurely;
• boron - if it is not enough, the leaves change color and deform;
• copper - when this substance is lacking, the shoots dry out, and small brown spots appear on the leaves;
• zinc - in case of its lack, the tree bears poor fruit, and the fruits become shallow;
• manganese - its deficiency leads to the extinction of the edges of the leaves.

In addition to these important minerals, you can also make fertilizers such as ammonium nitrate, urea or nitroammofoska.

For fertilizer application it is necessary to take into account the age of the trees. If you carry out feeding with the help of digging, then for young seedlings under the age of three years will be enough depth of twenty centimeters. For adult trees, digging requires a deeper, up to forty centimeters.

In summertime, you can feed apples and pears with mineral supplements. However, for older trees should not use nitrogen fertilizers. They will be required for young seedlings to improve fruiting. In addition, in the summer you need to make and potassium, and phosphorus. In the autumn, the introduction of minerals is also recommended.

In order to properly feed apples and pears, it is necessary to consider the scheme of these works in more detail.

Top dressing allows you to get a great harvest in the end result, and also provides an opportunity to more fully develop mature trees. It can be divided into several stages.

• The first dressing can be done during flowering. For this you need to make a large number of mixtures that contain nitrogen. It is worth considering one of the options. Five hundred grams of urea, forty grams of ammonium nitrate and five buckets of any humus need to be added to one tree.
• After the flowering period has passed and the first ovaries appear, it will be possible to apply the following feeding options. For example, use a solution of one hundred grams of superphosphate and seventy grams of potassium. A top dressing made from two liters of bird droppings will also work. At this time, you can also make three hundred grams of urea. All these solutions are designed for one bucket of water. Under each tree will need to make three buckets of any such composition.
• Feeding trees can be both root and foliar. You can sprinkle crowns of apple and pear trees with urea. However, it should be used only after the leaves appear on the trees. So the plants will be able to get all the useful elements through them and transfer them to the roots.
• For young seedlings, it is better to use a solution made from one glass of wood ash and two liters of hot water.. After that, you need to add water to obtain ten liters of the mixture. She needs to spray the crowns of the trees before the blossoming of both apple and pear trees. It is necessary to do it again in fifteen days and so to repeat almost until the end of the season with the same interval. It is necessary to stop a month before the start of the harvest.

In the summer you can feed the trees with various fertilizers. You can start with nitrogen, then add potassium and phosphorus. The first summer feeding is done in the second half of the first month. In the second, you just need to spray the plants. Especially if the month is hot and dry.

In the autumn you can not feed the trees, because the fruits are collected. However, they still need some supplements in order to recuperate. The first feeding must be done before the fruiting season ends. For this you can use three kilograms of manure per thirty liters of water. You can also dilute three hundred grams of potassium and three hundred grams of superphosphate in thirty liters of water.

The second feeding is carried out to build a healthier crown. To do this, you need one hundred and fifty grams of nitroammofoski, diluted in thirty liters of water. This solution is made under the roots of trees.

In order for apples and pears to bear fruit, and fruits not to crumble, they must be given proper care. It must be remembered that the area of ​​the tree trunk circle increases every year. This means that more nutrients will be needed. For accurate fertilization it is necessary to make a calculation of one square meter and multiply by the surface area that is fertilized. For example:

• the tree, which is already four years old, has a near-stem circle of about 5 square meters. m;
• a tree under the age of eight is surrounded by an area of ​​approximately 10 square meters m;
• a tree up to twelve years old area comes to 20 square meters. m

It is also necessary to know all the norms of mineral substances used per square meter (in grams):

1. urea - twenty;
2. ammonium nitrate - twenty-five;
3. wood ash - seven hundred;
4. superphosphate - sixty;
5. nitroammofoski - eighty;
6. potassium - twenty-five;
7. phosphate rock - forty.

You need to know that foliar feeding should be carried out in the evening or morning time and best of all in cloudy weather so that the sun does not burn the leaves.

Every gardener wants to please his family with delicious apples and pears. Having studied all the rules of fertilizer application, both mineral and organic, it is possible to achieve excellent results in growing both apple and pear trees.And then all the works will be rewarded with a large number of tasty and fragrant fruits.

How to feed a pear, see the following video.