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Summer is coming: when and how to spray fruit trees in the spring from pests and diseases

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Spring is the time to start work in the garden and in the garden. The trees have already woken up and are gaining strength. And along with them, garden pests are activated.

In order to harvest a rich harvest from fruit trees in summer and autumn, one cannot ignore the spring treatment of the garden from pests.

Gardeners advise spraying the trees first, and only then take care of top dressing, writes Ukr.Media.

As you know, fruit trees are most often attacked by sawflies, weevils, moths, and aphids. It is necessary to spray the trees in early spring before the moment the trees bloom and the first ovaries appear.

For each fruit tree, you need to choose your own solution.

Eg, apple and pear trees it is necessary to spray with a solution of copper sulfate (200 grams of the substance is mixed in 10 liters) or Bordeaux liquid (they take 300 grams of the substance per 10 liters of water).
These preparations protect against lichens and fungal infections.

In the trunk circle of a tree, you can sprinkle the soil with urea to destroy pests that have wintered in the soil.

Iron sulphate is also used to bloom buds for processing apple and pear trees, which destroys pests that have wintered in the bark of trees.

Vitriol can be sprayed on any other stone fruit crops.

Plum and cherry plum it is necessary to protect against aphids, mites, plum codling moth, weevil, clasterosporiosis, fruit rot, gomoz before flowering.

All these pests and diseases can be dealt with with the help of special store-bought preparations, which include copper. You can also prepare a solution of urea, copper sulfate or Bordeaux mixture.

Peach they begin to spray when the air temperature already reaches stable positive values.
Fungicides containing copper are used.
In early April, peaches are sprayed again, but here preference should be given to purchased products.

Cherries and cherries In early spring, they are sprayed with a 2% solution of copper sulphate or Bordeaux liquid or iron sulphate.

If the trees are sprayed correctly in the spring, the pests may no longer return during the season and this problem can be forgotten.

Previously wrote how to feed tomatoes at the seedling stage in order to increase their yield.

Author: Irina ALEKSEEVA

Source: Fakty

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