Good afternoon, dear guests and subscribers of the "Build for Myself" channel!
We encountered gardening for the first time when we moved from an apartment to our house. This happened relatively recently, more than three years ago. The site is located in such a way that from 3 sides we are surrounded by neighbors and fences between our territories - a netting. So, everything is in the palm of everyone's hand and the courtyards are great.
Since my wife and I are just novice gardeners and gardeners, the neighbors endlessly surprise us with their unusual techniques (at least for us). Now they will wrap all the trees with sticky belts, then they will throw out something else, and now I also saw nails in the trunks of their fruit trees.
I wrote an article about sticky belts A neighbor told how he protects fruit trees from bugs, ants and caterpillars
I was curious, what is this next trick with nails and why deliberately harm trees?
In each tree to a depth of 0.5-1 cm. hammered in one or two old rusty nails.
Nail in wood
As Aleksey (a neighbor) explains, the fact is that no matter how developed breeding is today, the old problem has not gone away. Despite the fact that fruit trees take root well and bloom every year, it is very common that they bear little or no fruit at all, ovaries fall off or flowers are formed, for some reason not having fetus. And a common reason for this is chlorosis.
Chlorosis is expressed as a loss of leaf color (often discoloration) from green to yellow and is directly related to iron deficiency. During the growing season and fruit formation, any crop intensively absorbs nutrients and trees feel a lack of essential chemical elements. With their deficit, the plants throw off the ovaries, thereby getting rid of the excess load.
And if it is noticed that the leaves begin to change or lose their characteristic color, then the tree needs foliar feeding - feeding with iron, in fact, which is done by driving in a rusty nail.
A rusty carnation is driven in below the lower branch and shallowly, about 0.5-1 cm, to touch the first fibers with sap flow. As the neighbor says, he does it once every 2 years. In the fall, the carnation is taken out, and the wound is coated with garden varnish before frost and is not rewound tightly.
For me, this method is traumatic for the tree, which I told my neighbor about. To which he objected to me: “You do tree pruning every year, isn't that a mockery? Why do you cut the branches growing inward, the tree knows better than you in which direction to let the branch... "
This is how we live, we argue and go fishing at the same time, we go together!
I would be very grateful if you leave a review on how you feed the trees so that there are no empty flowers, since the problem remains urgent for me!
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