Feeding the pear in the spring and caring for it

Unlike most fruit crops, the pear is quite independent and flexible in the content of the tree. Experienced gardeners experiment with it, turning it into shrubs, and novice lovers rejoice at the annual harvest of fruits. For comparison, the apple tree fructifies at best once every two years. However, it depends on the variety. Anyway, in order to enjoy delicious and fragrant pears, appropriate care is needed. The main activities include pear feeding in the spring, but for a full-fledged content, it is necessary to provide for a number of other procedures that will ensure the proper level of care for the tree and its future fruits.

First feeding

To ensure the normal growth and development of the pear to introduce into the soil the necessary additives should already be planted. The soil layer should be mixed with peat, manure and compost. At the bottom of the deepening, in which it is planned to plant a pear, there must be a phosphorus-potassium fertilizer. In this case, it should be borne in mind that the feeding of a young pear in the spring in the form of mineral deposits should not directly contact the roots. Six months later, the truncated circle of the tree is dug and also mixed with manure and peat. These components have a beneficial effect on the structure of the soil system, ensuring its protection for the winter. Next spring meltwater will impregnate the earth, and the roots will receive useful trace elements.

Regular spring top dressing

Further, spring fertilizers should include nitrogenous additives, which during the growing season strengthen the tissues of the tree. Ammonium nitrogen compounds are most effective, since they have the minimum coefficient of leaching out of the soil. Also useful is the feeding of the pear in the spring urea, which refers to mineral additives. For the preparation of the solution, 10 liters of water are required, in which 50 grams of urea must be dissolved. In some cases, you can use the spraying of the leaves, but in a small concentration to exclude the possibility of burns. Potassium sulphate can be used as a component contributing to the assimilation of top dressing . A good addition will be phosphorus, which accelerates the ripening of young shoots.

How to deal with acid soil?

On such soil the pear can fully develop and bear fruit only under condition of sufficient supply of calcium. For this, the land under the tree must be lime. In addition, calcium deficiency is supplemented by ash, which also contains phosphorus, potassium and magnesium. Moreover, such fertilizing of apples and pears in the spring has an important advantage - the substances come in the assimilated form and in optimal proportions.

Sufficient ash for the pear is 4 glasses per 1 m ² . The composition is scattered on the wet surface of the earth, but it is also possible to use it on dry soil, if immediately after irrigation watering is performed. It is also important to take into account that excessive pear feeding in the spring of calcium can adversely affect the absorption of potassium and magnesium. This is another confirmation of the need for moderate dosing of fertilizers and mineral substances included in them.

How to properly feed?

The peculiarity of the pear lies in the deep position of the root system. This is the main difference, based on which the apple and pear top dressing is performed in the spring and autumn. To fertilize penetrate to the level of the roots of the pear, it is necessary to make small holes in the near-trunk circle at a depth of about 30 cm. To do this, you can use a regular stake, a spinner or a drill. The distance between the wells should be from 50 to 100 cm, depending on the age of the pear tree. They fill a mixture or solution with top dressing.

Many gardeners and gardeners act differently. Even during planting, they introduce into the fossa with seedlings the narrow sections of the pipes, leaving their upper endings above the ground. Subsequently, these tubes are used to fill liquid mixtures and solutions. However, feeding a pear in the spring in this way is not always effective - for example, if you need to use the same ash or dry drug. In addition, pipes can become clogged - and then this way of feeding roots becomes completely useless.

Foliar top dressing

Non-rooting top dressing is also used for pears. But they should be resorted to only in cases where there is confidence in the lack of certain components of nutrition. In addition, it is important to strictly observe the fertilizer dose. For example, to enhance the supply of nitrogen by means of foliar nutrition, the same urea solution can be made. The first spraying should be performed one week after the flowering, and then - 3-4 weeks later. Foliar top dressing with pear borax in spring is also performed after flowering and during fruit ripening period. The composition for the solution of this microfertilizer includes 15 g of boron diluted in 10 liters of water.

Spring cleaning

In addition to fertilizing, the gardener must provide thorough care for the pear and other directions. For example, an important event for adult trees (10-15 years) is spring cleaning. It is necessary to regularly clean the surface of the old bark, as pests gather in its cracks, fungus turtles, moss, etc. are formed. Getting rid of harmful insects and diseases can be considered as the primary care for the pear in the spring. Feeding also contributes to the prevention and general strengthening of the tree, but this is not enough.

Using metal scrapers and brushes will help make the bark smooth and clean. In this case, all the hollows, wounds and places with pogruzes must be cleaned and disinfected. This is done by copper sulfate, which is diluted in a ratio of 50 g to 5 liters of water.

Trimming pears

Saplings and young pear trees do not need this operation. But for adult specimens, pruning is mandatory, and it should be performed before the beginning of the foliage and sap movement. After reaching the age of two years, the pear is cut at a distance of 0.5 m from the surface of the earth, which will help to form shoots on the lower buds. By the way, from the same period, regular fertilizing of the pear in the spring with nitrogen fertilizers also begins . Moreover, this is a necessary condition both for the formation of the crown and for supporting development in general.

The main trunk can be shortened by a quarter of its length, while adjacent branches are cut off under the ring. To preserve the base for the central trunk, branches on the sides should be left, but not more than four. They should branch and move away from the stem at a 45-degree angle. Ovaries with shoots are bent downwards, after which they can be left in a horizontal position. The remaining branches of the pear must be bent and tied with rods. This operation is repeated in a year. In the process of its implementation, two rules should be taken into account. First, the growth of the main branches should not be hampered by second-order processes. Secondly, the space inside the crown should not be excessively thick.