How and what to feed apple trees in summer

Why top dressing is needed in the summer

In order to obtain a high-quality and abundant harvest of tasty and nutritious fruits, gardeners carry out feeding of apple trees in the summer. If in the spring the apple trees need to be fed during the period of intense flowering, for which 5 buckets of humus are introduced into the soil under a fruit-bearing tree within a radius of about a meter, then in the summer the tree enters the period of fruit formation. With the onset of the second half of July, the third feeding should be carried out - after two spring ones.

In order for your favorite fruits to receive enough minerals for normal ripening and grow tasty, you need summer feeding of apple trees. All fruit trees entering the fruiting period suffer from a lack of minerals. If you carry out sufficient watering of the tree, then you should not forget about the "food" for it, which are fertilizers applied to the soil. Starting in the second half of summer, when the growth of shoots stops, and nutrients will only be supplied for the formation of fruits, flower buds are laid and useful elements fall into the stem, branches and roots, apple trees require phosphorus-potassium supplementation.

In home gardening and collective gardening, the recommended doses of fertilizers are applied to the soil, which are designed for soil with an average level of fertility. Lack of nutrients in the soil adversely affects the condition of the tree, and as a result, you risk getting small and not too sweet fruits.

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How to fertilize

In June, the apple tree needs to be saturated through the leaves; for this purpose, the crown is sprayed with potash and nitrogen fertilizers. The recommended preparations should be distributed evenly over the surface of the foliage - so that they are not only on the top, but also on the lower part of the leaf. You need to make fertilizing after the flowering period, choosing for this early morning or late evening. Otherwise, spraying with drugs may not be effective - they will evaporate under the influence of sunlight. It is advised to apply fertilization by this method in several approaches.

Add nitrogen substances, after a couple of weeks, feed the apple trees with preparations that include phosphorus and potassium. When choosing the root method of fertilizing, a solution is preliminarily prepared from 200 liters of water, to which 1 kg of nitrophoska and 20 grams of sodium humate are added in dry form. The consumption of such fertilizer for each fruit tree is 3 buckets. There are other options for feeding - you can stop at adding an aqueous solution of mullein or chicken droppings to the soil in the second half of July. A mullein or dung in the amount of half a bucket is bred for 200 liters of water.

How to feed

After the end of the flowering time of fruit trees, when you decide to fertilize the apple trees, use the classic fertilization scheme.They need to be distributed over the site, keeping a distance of half a meter from the culture stem. In this way, nutrients will quickly enter the root system of the tree. Do not forget to moisten the ground around the apple tree with a bucket of water. After preparing the soil, start applying the prepared water-based fertilizer. Water the ground again with water. Trace elements, if you carry out all the manipulations correctly, will surely get into the root system of the plant and provide it with the substances necessary for full growth.

Foliar fertilization of fruit trees is also effective, as is the introduction of drugs into the soil. Since the bark and leaves of plants have the ability to absorb the nutrients necessary for the health of the tree. Fertilization by spraying is called additional fertilization - the second after root fertilization. But experienced gardeners and experts insist on its benefits and the need to carry it out during the period of intense fruiting. For spraying fruit trees, mineral fertilizers are offered, which contain a lot of manganese, boron, copper, magnesium.

If you are worried that after spraying chemicals will get to the surface of the fetus and think that their use will harm your health, you can use grandmother's methods. Dissolve a mug of dusty ash in a bucket of warm water, strain the resulting solution. He is ready to spray the trees. You cannot carry out such a procedure when there are about three weeks left before the start of the harvest.

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