Treatment of trees - tips for gardeners

Fruit trees, being living organisms, just like humans and animals, are susceptible to various diseases. Special attention is required to their development. It is very important for gardeners to have the skills required by the treatment of fruit trees, as well as the ability to recognize plant diseases.

In the garden trees , the bark is often affected, which suffers from mosses and lichens developing on it, insects may pest under the already dead areas. It is recommended to clean each year the lower knots and the tree trunk from lichens, mosses and dead cortex. For this operation, a foggy or rainy day is best, because the wet bark is easier to remove from the tree and there is no risk of damaging the living tissues of the plant. It is scraped off with a scraper and then with a steel brush.

It is necessary to treat the trees throughout the summer season, as the plants can form wounds where the infection gets. In the winter, living tissues, which are bare, can freeze. Therefore, they recommend to cover. For this you can use garden var. Also a mixture of mullein and garden clay in a ratio of one to two. In it, add finely chopped herb or straw. After its application it is necessary to wrap the healed place with sacking. You can remove the bandage only in the spring.

If there is a hollow in the tree, this place can also become a source of disease, since water gets into it, which after the freezing can break the trunk, accumulate pathogenic bacteria. Late autumn is the most suitable time for treating trees with hollows. To do this, it is necessary to clean the rot to live, healthy tissues. Then disinfect this place with a 5% solution of iron or 3% copper sulfate. You can use a solution of potassium permanganate. If the hollow is deep enough, it can be laid with broken brick and covered with concrete mortar, or pour molten asphalt mixed with dry sawdust. Small hollows that appear on young trees can be clogged with a wooden stopper.

After the end of winter on the tree trunks, one can see longitudinal cracks, which are called frosts. They arise from moisture, which protrudes from the inner layers of wood, freezes from the temperature drop, bursts and forms deep cracks on the trunks. Morozoboin can overgrow, but can also cause the appearance of a hollow, and then the death of a plant. Therefore, the treatment of trees is necessary.

Prevention is of great importance. For example, plant the most frost-resistant varieties of fruit trees, choose for them such places that are better protected from frost air. In late autumn, the trees are covered with a calcareous solution, which is whitened with trunks and skeletal branches. It also helps protect the fruit trees from frostbite. You can wrap the trunks of plants with several layers of newspapers or burlap.

In the spring, after the detection of frostbites, the treatment of the trees begins and continues this process every year until the wound is completely healed. If the damage is large, then the trunk can be wrapped with burlap or polyethylene, every year it is necessary to update the harness. Large frosts require a special approach. For their overgrowing, it is possible to carry out stratification of the cortex. On the garden knife it is necessary to make a mark-limiter, in order not to make deep cuts. It is necessary to carry three or four discontinuous grooves along the circumference of the trunk. They can be thirty to forty centimeters. They must be carried from the top down, starting from the bitch of the first below and to the surface of the soil.

In order for the treatment of garden trees to be effective, this method is also used. On the wound you need to apply the ground sorrel a layer of one and a half centimeters, and then bandage. The dressing must be changed during the summer. This method of treating trees helps to wound the wound and make it almost invisible. New shoots next to frosts should be kept, as they contribute to the intake of nutrients to the wound. Helps vaccinate the apple trees with a "bridge".