If you are enthusiastic about gardening, then, naturally, you want to get a good return, that is, a rich harvest. Of course, everything will not happen, you will have to make a lot of efforts: take care of the plants, cut them in time, water them, feed them, mulch. Only in this case you can count on an excellent result. And for the trees, care is as important as it is for annual plantations.
Spring top dressing of cherries
Although the most favorable period for fertilizing not only cherries, but also any other trees is autumn, yet the importance of spring feeding can not be underestimated. When all living things begin to wake up, it needs a push for development, active flowering and in the future - fruiting. So the selection of the right fertilizer is extremely important. Especially when it comes to young cherry seedlings.
What kind of fertilizer does cherries like in the spring?
All gardeners know that all fertilizers are divided into organic and mineral. Organic consists of substances that contribute to the rapid growth of plants by improving the condition of the soil. Organic fertilizers are peat, humus, compost, manure and so on. Mineral products include inorganic compounds containing vital nutrients.
And the first element, necessary cherries in the spring, is nitrogen. He plays a huge role in the formation of young trees. Nitrogen fertilizers are urea, calcium and ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate. It is extremely important to correctly calculate the nitrogen norm and not exceed it, otherwise you will get the opposite effect: instead of flowering trees in the garden there will be underdeveloped, low-yielding plants.
She is also an important nutrient - phosphoric-potash. It is especially relevant after the onset of 3 years of your cherries. These substances stimulate the growth of trees by improving their nutrition.
The correct technology of feeding cherries in the spring
The technology of feeding cherries in the spring depends, first of all, on the age of the trees. So, if you just plant a seedling, so many nutritious elements are put in the pit to make it enough for 3 years. However, when planting, nitrogen is not laid, but since it is extremely necessary, then the next spring after planting, you need to disperse 120 grams of mineral fertilizer around the trunk and seal it with a damp soil of 10 cm.
Also a good way to improve the growth of a young tree - three times during May, fertilize it with urea. At the same time, its proportion is 20-30 grams per 10 liters of water. In addition to watering, you need to loosen the ground.
For the fourth year after planting, the root system is already fairly well formed, so more fertilizer will be needed. Preliminary it is necessary to make ring furrows on 30 sm in width on width of a crown, to fill them with 150-200 grams of urea and humidify the soil.
After the fifth year, in addition to nitrogen fertilizers, cherries need superphosphate, wood ash (glass), potassium salt and humus (bucket). After the eighth year of life, all the above rates of fertilizer need to be increased threefold.
The best time for fertilizing
The first spring top dressing is produced before the flowering begins. And as a fertilizer use nitrogen, nitrate and urea. Fertilizer is produced by the root method, that is, the substances are applied directly to the soil, and not to the crown by spraying.
Adding cherries during flowering is also carried out under the root, or rather - in the trunks. In this period it is useful to make not only nitrogen, but also organic (chicken manure or green fertilizer).
After flowering, the cherry is fed mainly with organic matter - manure or special organic mixtures. Foliar top dressing of cherries after flowering with nitrogen-containing preparations is made in the summer.