Treatment of fruit trees in autumn from pests and diseases

The advent of autumn for garden lovers is the time of harvesting and processing of trees from parasites. How to properly prepare plants for winter? Experts recommend that trees be treated in autumn. Weather on this day should be dry, without frost. In the period of flowering, fruiting and maturation, trees practically do not need protection from small pests. For the winter, all insects are trying to find a warm place. After all, you can wait out the severe cold in it. Such places are fallen leaves, soil, and bark. Therefore, the treatment of fruit trees in autumn is extremely necessary. This will help to save plants from scab, putrefactive diseases, patches and other misfortunes.

Preparing trees for processing

Due to the fact that bacteria grow rapidly under the bark of untreated trees, the vegetative process slows down. Plants slowly "wake up" after winter. Therefore, the treatment of fruit trees in autumn is very important. To do this, you need to prepare the plants. Treatment of trees that are older than six years, begins with the removal of the old bark and lichen with a metal brush. This is necessary so that the pathogens of various diseases can not hide. Immediately after the removal of the trees need to be processed. The last spraying in autumn occurs when all the leaves are opal. You can make this procedure after the first frosts. For starters, all foliage, fallen branches and weeds are removed. Protection of fruit trees is provided by solutions from copper or iron vitriol, urea, etc. Each preparation is directed to a specific type of threat. Therefore, the treatment of fruit trees in the autumn can not consist in spraying with only one agent. The drug is selected depending on the required results. It is recommended that the procedure be carried out at the end of October.

inkstone

This drug is intended for spraying and fertilizing fruit trees - apple, cherry, plums, peaches. After the procedure, the plants are saturated with iron and useful trace elements. Processing of fruit trees in autumn with iron sulfate improves oxidative processes. The drug fights pests, destroys lichen, scab, moss, black cancer, cytosporosis. Iron plays a big role in the life of fruit trees. Its lack reduces the amount of harvest and leads to incomplete development of the fruit. A solution of iron vitriol is very easy to prepare. It is necessary to dilute one kilogram of dry powder in a fifteen liter bucket of water.

Copper sulfate

This agent, which includes a fungicide, prevents the appearance of putrefactive diseases, scab, powdery mildew, spotted spots. Copper sulphate sprayed trees are recommended twice - in spring and in autumn. Treatment of fruit trees in autumn with copper sulfate is particularly recommended for pears, apple trees and plums. You can, of course, sprinkle and other plants in the garden. Plum copper sulphate provides a protective reaction against moniliosis, klyasterosporosa, coccomicosis, curly. Pears and apple-tree remedy protects from scab, moniliosis and phyllosticosis. For fruit trees (up to six years), up to two liters of copper sulphate per seedling is sufficient. Expenditure on older plants - up to ten liters. Fruit trees are recommended to spray in the morning or evening. The weather should be no wind, and the temperature - from +5 to +30 degrees. From contact with the drug should be protected people and animals, as well as prevent it from getting into water sources.

Processing with urea (carbamide)

Urea to spray fruit trees is recommended as the first stage or the last preparation for the winter period. The first treatment should be carried out with a solution with a high concentration of the substance in question. This procedure will ensure the destruction of all the larvae of parasites. For plums, spraying will slow the rate of its "waking" after winter for about two weeks. Treatment of fruit trees in the autumn with urea is carried out at a time when half the foliage fell on the plants. The solution should be prepared in such a way: not less than 500 grams per ten liters of water. If the foliage is completely opaque, then the agent needs to make a percentage of seven more concentrated. Sprinkle recommended trunks of fruit trees, branches and land. This will be a good protection for trees and at the same time fertilizer. If the solution is too concentrated, then the leaves will get burned after spraying, they will fall before the time limit. And this will necessarily affect the reduction of nutrient intake and frost resistance of fruit trees.

Apparatus for processing

The processing of fruit trees in autumn is simplified due to the existing apparatuses of mechanical or manual operation. These devices protect the horticulturist from contact with drugs, they are evenly sprayed. Regardless of the principle of operation, all units are equipped with a spray pump. Differences between mechanical devices and manual models are in the convenience of their application. And, of course, there is a difference in their value. Mechanical devices are more convenient, but more expensive. And for spraying trees with a manual device, periodic pumping is required.

Additional processing

Treatment of fruit trees in autumn from pests and diseases should not be limited to spraying with copper, iron vitriol or urea. Plants are also required to water abundantly and whiten. The layer of lime on the bark should be at least three millimeters.

If the tree has cracks and wounds, then to the lime you need to add a little cow dung and finely chopped straw. The resulting solution will protect the plant from cracking.

Another way to protect - garden var. You can buy it in the store or make it yourself. To do this, take one hundred grams of rosin and two hundred grams of beeswax. It is necessary to melt these substances (each separately), then mix them and add one hundred grams of unsalted fat. Before spreading cracks var must be heated.

Autumn training in the southern areas involves pruning trees. In northern cities, this will doom the plant to freeze.