If you want your trees on the site to grow well and bear fruit, you need to take good care of them. Not only watering and pruning apply to care. A very important point is the application of fertilizers under the fruit trees in autumn. Why fall? It is during this period that all the basic fertilizers are introduced, namely autumn is the best time for this.
Terms and rules for fertilizing fruit trees
Typically, the period for fertilization under fruit trees is in mid-October. If you do everything right, then provide your garden with all the necessary elements and nutrients.
What kind of fertilizer should be applied in autumn under fruit trees? First of all, humus. It has a great influence on productivity, providing all the trees with nutrients. In addition, humus improves the structure of the soil, since if only mineral fertilizers are always introduced, the acidity can increase, which will negatively affect the plants.
Once in 2-3 years, use manure as an organic fertilizer (3 kg per 1 m & sup2). Combine this procedure with plowing and irrigation. To replace manure it is possible to compost from different vegetable wastes. It is also good to introduce bird droppings (400 g per 1 m & sup2).
Another kind of organic - ash , obtained after burning branches, leaves, weeds. It contains valuable microelements, and it, like humus, is brought into the autumn digging once every 3-4 years.
Of course, we can not do without introducing fertilizers in the autumn under fruit trees. For them, you must first prepare ring grooves around the tree. The distance from the bole should be about 40 cm, depth - 20-25 cm. At the bottom of such a groove first phosphoric fertilizers are poured, then - potash fertilizers. Each
What other fertilizers can be applied in the autumn under the fruit trees: in recent years it has become very popular to fertilize the siderates, not only the trees, but the plot as a whole. Ciderates are special plants that are planted in row-spacing, they quickly give a lot of green mass, after which they are mowed and laid under the trees and throughout the site. Bury them not necessary, but only slightly cover the soil and water. To accelerate their decomposition, it is possible to crush this plant top first. In the spring, it is necessary to plant the vetch-oats mixture, facial and peas, and in the autumn mow them and use them for fertilization.