To prepare fruit crops for the winter, experts recommend to make the area a number of mandatory work. These include the treatment of autumn garden from pests and diseases.
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Autumn general cleaning
To disease and parasites are not able to damage the fruit crops next spring, is required after harvest to do a thorough cleaning of the entire country site.
It is important to gather all rake the fallen leaves and the remains of the fruit - they are the breeding ground for parasites. The collected garbage is preferably burned, and the ashes sifted and leave until next year to use as fertilizer.
It is desirable at this time to remove trees dried, patients sterile branches - in their timber can multiply pests that with the onset of heat can go to healthy shoots, and to destroy harvest. Sawed branches are also required to burn.
Each tree trunks is recommended to carefully dig up, simultaneously removing the roots of weeds and the remains, which can overwinter pests. It is desirable to produce in the autumn digging shallow 2-3.
Trunks need to whitewash, to protect them not only against pests, but also from the severe frosts. To whitewash can apply Bordeaux mixture or other drugs that are easy to buy in the store for gardeners.
After whitewash the trunks of trees, it is desirable to wrap burlap pieces of matting, spruce spruce branches - so it will not reach to the rodents.
spraying chemicals
In autumn it is important to treat horticultural crops with special preparations that protect the garden from pests.
Carry out treatment recommended in the dry, windless, cool days. Spray requires not only the trunks, branches and leaves, but also the soil around the trees and bushes. But if during the day will be held rain, the procedure will have to spend again.
Good effect gives the garden urea treatment. It helps to get rid of fungal diseases and helps burn-eggs and larvae of pests of fruit plants.
If the trees have not spread through the whole foliage need to dissolve 0.5 kg of urea in 10 l of water at room temperature, it is best to use rain or settled tap. In that case, if the branch is fully exposed, can be used for treating solution in a concentration of 8%. You need to spray no later than mid-October.
Equally effectively treat fruit trees solution of iron or copper sulfate, which sometimes recommend adding soda ash. Often, this structure includes grated soap - it contributes to a better adhesion of the solution to the branches and leaves.
Sprinkle sulphate preferably carried out in late October, but before the snow will fall.
To prepare such solutions must directly before processing portion. Spraying should take 0.3 kg of lime and copper sulfate in 10 liters of water to dissolve and let stand in a warm place for 24 hours. Then boiled for 45 minutes and diluted in 10 liters of water. Watering trees and bushes of calculation: for young specimens - 2 liters, for adult consumption may be up to 10 liters.
If there is no desire or ability to prepare a solution on their own, can be used to treat drug Nitrafen that are bred and used as indicated on the package instructions.
Thanks to the timely spraying of plants with these solutions can effectively deal with the majority of diseases and pests afflicting fruit trees and significantly reducing the yield of garden cultures.
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