Fertilizing trees in autumn

To increase the productivity of the garden, you need to regularly maintain the fertility of the soil. Root top dressing of trees is the most effective, especially in autumn. In what period and what fertilizers should be applied in autumn under the fruit trees - find out below.

Dates of fertilizing fruit trees in autumn

Putting fertilizer on fruit trees in the spring is a big mistake. Each feeding has its own special meaning, and for each growing season there are rules of fertilization.

Gathering the harvest from their trees, it is necessary, without delay, to start enriching the exhausted land with useful substances and microelements. Start the autumn fertilizing of trees can be from the end of August and continue until September-October.

What fertilizing of fruit trees is needed in the autumn?

In autumn, trees need both organic and mineral fertilizers. Under the young fruit trees, you can make 30 kg of humus, and under those that have more than 9 years - 50 kg.

Apple trees and pears are also fed superphosphate , adding 300 grams for each tree, as well as potassium sulfate in the amount of 200 grams. Seal mineral fertilizer together with organic or sprinkled in the trunk and watered.

You can also produce not global, but local application of dry fertilizers. To do this, you need to make several wells at the boundaries of the tree crowns and put fertilizer in them. Wells are drilled with the help of a garden drill. Do not forget to remove the top fertile layer of the earth beforehand and after putting the fertilizer on again put this layer in place.

Plums and cherries need watering with dilute superphosphate and potassium sulfate. To do this, they are diluted in a proportion of 3 and 2 tablespoons, respectively, in 10 liters of water and generously watered with a solution. For each adult tree will need about 4 buckets.

It is possible to fertilize young and adult fruit trees in autumn with the help of complex mineral fertilizers. This is very convenient, because carefully selected ratio of micro- and macroelements provides a full-fledged nutrition of plants.

For the autumn garden suitable complex complexes such as "Fruit Garden", "Universal" and "Autumn". Applying these fertilizers, it is easier to calculate the proportions, guided by the instructions on the package.

Fertilizing trees in autumn with manure

The introduction of manure is no less popular than fertilizer by humus. However, there are some nuances. In no case can not make fresh manure - it will eventually turn into an ammonia mixture and not only will not have to do, but also harm the soil and plants. For pereprevaniya and full readiness of manure should take 2-3 years.

Reparted manure very well suits apricots, cherries, plums and other stone fruit trees, as well as bearers like apple and pear. To introduce fertilizer is necessary in the process of digging up the land in the near-barrel circle. After its introduction, it is necessary to clog the soil with mown grass and any other kind of mulch.

Fertilizing with nitrogen fertilizers

Every gardener, even an insufficiently experienced one, should know, that from the autumn it is extremely undesirable to bring nitrogen fertilizers under the plants. They lead to a tightening of the growing season due to a new growth of shoots. This prevents the aging of tissues and reduces winter hardiness of plants. The fruits harvested on such plants are characterized by weak crabness.

Trees are enough for that nitrogen, which remained in the soil after summer feeding. It is still involved in the processes of metabolism in plants and helps the secondary growth of roots, which occurs in August-September. In addition, the trees use the nitrogen previously stored in the leaves and shoots, so that no additional addition is required.