Preparing the apple trees for the winter: go, frost, your dear, and do not touch our apple-trees

Tales of the winter garden, which sleeps with a white dream trees, no literate gardener does not believe. He knows for a long time: in winter the tree does not fall asleep at all, it continues to grow, however, much more slowly than in other seasons. And every tree in the garden continues to rely on the man, his knowledge and help. For example, how to keep the apple tree in winter, if you let things go by themselves, hope for a bit? Do not throw your apple trees in the cold, snow and frost, help them to winter, so that next spring they will blossom again and more than one year pleased you with large juicy apples.

How do you think, when the preparation of apple trees for the winter begins? With the first cold? Too late! In the first autumn days? Again they were late. Exactly six months before this, in the early spring, when full mineral fertilizer is brought under the apple tree. Then, in the second half of the summer, it must be fed with potassium-phosphorus fertilizers. Especially it is necessary to make sure that potassium is in abundance. Then the chances of a successful wintering will greatly increase. But nitrogen fertilizers are brought in to stop, not to provoke the growth of shoots, not to weaken the bark and cambium.

During the whole vegetation period, the tree should receive its moisture norm, no more and no less. Saturated with moisture (but not excessively), apple tissue improves their condition in the cold season. The last time the autumn-winter varieties of apple trees are watered when they finish forming fruits, and summer varieties - after harvesting.

At the same time, it will be possible to avoid the phenomenon of a summer suspension of growth, especially for young gardens. If after this secondary growth starts, which often happens, new woody fabrics simply do not have time to ripen before the cold, the tree will be defenseless before them, and all the rest of the apple tree preparation for winter will not help much.

Freed from the severity of the fruit, the apple tree begins to actively store nutrients and actively grow suction roots. Time for a horticulturist - only two weeks, during this period, he must have time to dig a near-barrel circle and make fertilizer from organic and mineral fertilizers. Using a shovel, you can not particularly care about the integrity of small roots - they will recover very quickly. Delay is highly undesirable: it will entail a delay in the end of the vegetation of the apple tree, which will significantly reduce its winter hardiness.

Preparing apple trees for winter includes measures against diseases, pests and rodents. All fallen leaves, fallen trees, fishing belts, nests in which pests winter, mummified fruits should be collected and destroyed (best of all - burned). Also, the burned branches of the apple tree should be burned. Digging the soil around the tree should destroy the pests that winter in it. Do not forget to feed their feathered enemies - the titmouses and other birds. In the late autumn, the apple tree bunch needs to be "dressed" in armor from roofing felt, roofing material, etc. From mice, hares and other rodents. The main thing is that the material should fit tightly to the bark, and the bottom should be covered with earth, because it is necessary to hide the apple tree for the winter.

With the termination of autumn rains, the air temperature is +2 ... + 3 degrees. In dry and windless weather, you can start whitewashing tree trunks. This is the preparation of apple trees for the winter, and an old tradition that has not lost its meaning to this day. Lime solution will help the apple trees to avoid frostbites, sunburn in winter and early spring. If you add fungicide and insecticide to the solution, fungal diseases will occur, and the stem pests that have settled for the winter in the cracks will die.

Before whitening the mature apple, you need to clean the trunk. All dead cortex, mosses and lichens should fall on a film or tarpaulin placed in advance under the tree. This garbage must be burned. The young apple tree is whiter without any preparation.

Winter will pass, however, as always. And the fact that apple trees in the spring are wrapped in flower clouds, and in the autumn they will drop sweet fruits into the hands of a caring gardener, and his works on pre-winter preparation will also be.