What to spray trees in the spring before bud blossoming?

Spraying is also an important part of caring for garden trees, like watering and pruning. Such treatments allow time to destroy pests and prevent disease. Usually spraying is carried out in early spring, even before the first buds are dissolved. And in autumn the garden will thank you for caring for the excellent harvest of fruits and berries.

From this article you will learn about what it is possible to spray trees in the spring before bud blossoming, and also at what temperature it is better to do it.

Treatment of fruit trees before bud opening

The main goal of the spring processing of trees is the destruction of pests that at this time have not yet woken from hibernation - aphids, weevils, apple blossoms, leaf-litter, copperfish, etc. The second, but no less important goal is the prevention of fungal diseases of garden trees.

Today, there are a lot of drugs that can be sprayed with trees before the buds blossom. We list the most affordable and well-proven tools:

  1. Bordeaux mixture , which includes copper sulphate and quicklime. Packaging weighing 300 g is diluted in 10 liters of water. For greater stickiness of the composition, you can add a solution of laundry soap - this will ensure that your work will not be destroyed by the first spring rain.
  2. A mixture of 700 g of urea (carbamide) with 100 g of copper sulfate . Such a solution will not only save you from pests, but also play the role of nitrogen fertilizer, so necessary for plants in the spring. However, it is very concentrated, and should not be abused. It makes sense to use it if last year your garden attacked a lot of pests, or you did not do any preventive spraying last spring.
  3. The solution of iron vitriol will be your ally in the fight against fungal diseases of trees. Also spring spraying using this substance will help get rid of lichens and moss on the bark of trees. Concentration of the solution for spraying young apples, cherries, apricots, as well as pears and peaches should be weak (50 g of vitriol are taken per 10 liters of water). For adult trees, a more concentrated solution should be made, increasing the amount of ferrous sulfate by half.
  4. 76% oil-oil emulsion, or diesel fuel , effectively protects the garden from scabbards, false scythes, fruit mites. It is used for spraying fruit trees and berry bushes, diluting in a ratio of 300 g of diesel fuel per 10 liters of water.
  5. Chemical fungicides of various manufacturers are also quite popular today. However, keep in mind that these products are toxic, and their use is possible only before the beginning of vegetation.
  6. Biopreparations , unlike fungicides, are not harmful either to the tree or to humans. They are a complex of bacteria that displace harmful microorganisms. They are used mainly for the prevention of diseases, because they are not very effective against harmful insects.

When and how should you spray trees?

As a rule, the processing of garden trees and bushes is carried out in March-April, or when the snow melts and the average daily air temperature is not less than + 5 ° С. Each gardener independently chooses the optimal time for this, because the beginning of spring depends on the region. The main thing is to have time to do this before the beginning of vegetation to prevent the awakening of sleeping pests, which with the arrival of heat will begin to destroy the swollen buds and young foliage.

Regardless of what you are going to spray trees in the early spring, in April or March, you need to choose for this an overcast and windless day.

Before spraying, it is recommended that all plants in the garden be inspected for diseases, pruned, the old bark and lichen removed with a metal brush, and the branches frozen during the winter. It is advisable to collect last year's fallen leaves to also process the soil under the tree in the radius of the crown - there are also many insects wintering there. The tree itself should be sprinkled so that all its branches are wet on all sides.