Protection against burns, pests, pruning and landing - we list all the important activities that coniferous plants require on your site.
Coniferous cultures are decorated with a plot. Elegant landings are elegant and beautiful even in the cold season. But winter, as you know, is the most difficult time for all plants, and evergreen is no exception. After her end, it is important to restore the vital forces of landings, bring them in order, give impetus to rapid and active growth. We will understand which care is needed for conifers in the spring: fertilizer, trimming, watering, protection against diseases.
Look at the short video in which we list all the important actions.
And now we tell the details.All about Spring Care for Rough
1. Prevention of burns
2. Cleaning and trimming
3. Watering
4. Support and mulching
5. Protection against pests and diseases
6. Landing
1 Prevention of sunburn
With the arrival of spring heat, experienced gardeners are in no hurry to remove shelter from evergreen crops. They reliably protected them from snow-bearing and severe frosts. Early spring they will be very useful to protect the tree from burns. The mechanism of their occurrence is simple. The bright rays of the sun activate the process of photosynthesis, which flows in conifers. Therefore, they begin to evaporate moisture hard. The liquid comes to the needles from the root system. But it is still in frozen land and cannot provide enough moisture "asked" crown. Dehydrated branches are yellow and dying. This process is especially dangerous for young and newly transplanted trees. They may die. For this reason, the removal of winter shelters is postponed until the soil flashes at least 200 mm to depth.
But even in these conditions, it is completely impossible to open the crown. The tree must be adapted to the new spring conditions for him. To do this, first remove part of the underfloor material. Release the northern part of the crown. There is no bright rays here, and adaptation will pass normally. After a few days, when the adaptation period is over, the shelter is removed completely.
If the boys were not covered in the winter, it is necessary to close them from the bright sun. This is done so. At the end of February, either in early March there is a temporary shelter from the air transpayment. The easiest way to take spunbond or ordinary burlap. The material must close the plant from all sides, except Northern. The canvas fasten the twine so that it does not fall. For low cultures, shadowing scores from the mat, plywood, etc.
2 Cleaning and cropping conifers in spring
After the shelter is finally removed, the tree carefully examine. It is necessary to identify all dead, broken or sick branches. In addition, pay attention to the frost. These are cracks that appear during short-term thaws after severe frosts. They stretch along large branches or trunk. It is impossible to leave them in this form, the cracks will become a "gate" for infection.
Frost windows cleaned with a sharp blade before the appearance of healthy wood. Then handle the wound 3% copper vitriol. They give a solution to dry, after that they smear damage to special mastic or ordinary garden harr. Durable, patients and dry branches cut out. If it remains too big cut, lubricate it too. Important moment. Some conifers in the winter acquire a yellowish or grayish color. Before cropping such branches, make sure they are really dead.
At the same time, the cutting crown is carried out. It should be moderate. Coniferous cultures are growing slowly. Fir, spruce and pines are very gently cut. They do not tolerate the removal of alive shoots. You can remove only dead. After trimming, tight gloves and "combed" needle, clean the dried cupllies. This is a good prophylactic measure against pests. In addition, this "combing" improves the appearance of the tree.
3 Features of the Spring Watering
Full watering is possible only after strong frosts will cease at night. Before that plants are recommended spraying. The branches of conifers are irrigated with warm water. It protects them from drying out, has a beneficial effect on the appearance. It is best to carry irrigation in the morning. So, in the evening, the crown is drunk. Otherwise, a decrease in temperature at night will provoke the formation of ice crust.
Early watering is also held in the first half of the day. Warm water spilled the roar circle. The fluid must fully absorb until night cooling. Such watering helps the root system to recover quickly after the hibernation. In addition, the warm liquid contributes to the melting of the soil in the princess circle.
Abundant watering early spring is prohibited. There is a danger of soil fearing, which will lead to the rotten and death of the roots. Closer to the summer of watering adult copies reduce and spend only during drought periods. Growing young trees, on the contrary, watered regularly. Their root layer should always be moistened. This will be favorable in the state and growth of young.
4 feeding and mulching
After the snow gathering, it comes to feed coniferous. It is necessary to maintain their vitality. The easiest option than to feed the boys in the spring, it is to scatter a 30-40 mm compost into the rolling circle, and then mix it with soil. You can do otherwise and make a comprehensive fertilizer. It can be any drugs, but marked "for evergreen" or "for conifer". They contain a correctly selected amount of elements necessary for plants. If there is no possibility to buy such fertilizer, take universal. But the introduction uses less than for other cultures, dose. Preparations are available in the form of granules or powder. The dose recommended in the instructions is scattered in the rolling circle and neatly close in the ground using a small ravel or ripper.
For landings with obvious problems, special preparations are selected. So, if the church is desirable, an increased dose of iron is required. Buray fallen needles testifies to a lack of silicon. Evergreen spoke well on the growth stimulants of the type "Zircon", "Epina" or "Citovitis". The composition is bred according to the instructions and spray the crown. The procedure is carried out several times during the spring and until the middle of the summer.
The rolling circle is desirable to fall asleep mulch. It will help keep moisture in the soil, reduce the number of irrigation, will significantly reduce the number of weeds. As a mulch, the chips, crushed bark, sinters or bumps are used. They pour them with a layer with a thickness of 40-50 mm and roll up. Important moment. It is impossible to carry out mulching until the earth cannot be fully thawing.
5 Protection against pests and diseases
Even if cultures look healthy, preventive treatment is necessary. It is carried out after trimming and cleaning the trees. Choosing than to process conifers in the spring, it is worth paying attention to the tank mixtures of insecticides and fungicides. The advantage of such funds is that they protect immediately from the whole complex of disease and pests. Preparations are mixed, poured into a fine sprayer. Processing is carried out.
The tank mixtures allow you to save time and get an effective result. For coniferous rocks, combinations of type "Aktellik" + "Topaz", "Aktara" + "Sorrow" others. Spraying can be carried out already at low positive temperatures, but only in windless and cloudy weather. The solution should fall on the crown, but do not drain from it to the ground. If the use of tank mixtures is impossible, alternately treated landing by fungicides and insecticides.
6 Planting conifers in spring
Planted and transplant coniferous early spring, before the occurrence of weather. When landing, we must take into account several rules.
- Drainage is required on clay heavy soils. It is placed on the bottom of the landing pit. It may be sand or brick fight.
- The best soil for most varieties is the peat, the ferry land, humus and sand. 2: 2: 2: 1 ratio. Good add to it 150 g "Fercia" or 250 g "nitroposki".
- The distance between the planted trees depends on the breed. For tall, it is 0.5-0.7 m, for dwarf - 0.3-0.35 m.
A seedling or cutlets lowered into the prepared and abundant watering of the landing pit, fill its land. It is important that the root cake is at the ground level. Abundant watering is obligatory. This is the basic condition of good adaptation. For better survival, it is good to carry out an extraordinary feeder with a growth stimulator, for example, "epinoma".
Coniferous cultures are unpretentious and enduring, but this does not mean that you can not pay attention to them. Procedures for the care of conifers in the spring do not take a lot of time and effort. But guarantee an attractive view and health of home evergreen beauties. They will grow well-kept and strong.