How to feed the cherry in the fall to have a good harvest
 Top dressing of cherry in the fall

It is no coincidence that cherry and sweet cherry are one of the favorite crops of gardeners: it delights with the beautiful flowering in spring, the wonderful taste of berries and their products, and their use helps to strengthen the body. To have a good harvest in the summer, it is necessary to feed the trees in the fall.

In addition to pruning and care, autumn dressing is included in the set of measures for the preparation of cherry bushes and trees for a successful wintering and laying a new crop. Let us dwell on each of them.

How to feed the cherry in the fall to have a good harvest

Of all the autumn events, it takes a leading place to get rich harvests. Since a cherry tree grows on a permanent place for more than one year, and for decades, the amount of nutrients in the soil decreases and cannot be restored naturally.

During the growing season, she actively assimilated organic and mineral substances from the soil. In addition, these substances are partially destroyed with time, and partially removed from the soil during irrigation and precipitation. Therefore, in order for the cherry to bear fruit well for many years, autumn dressing is necessary.

Terms of feeding are dictated climatic and weather conditions terrain It should be carried out in the middle of autumn, because cherry early hibernates, and in the spring blooms one of the first, releasing flowers before the leaves.

 Feeding is important to hold before the cherry hibernates.
Feeding is important to hold before the cherry hibernates.

In areas with a short fall and early frosts finish feeding in late August. In areas that are characterized by a long and warm autumn, feeding is made until the end of September. In regions with moderate climatic conditions, it is possible to fertilize during September and end 21 - 25 numbers.

For the first two years of life, the plants do not feed them.

It is good if a laboratory analysis of the garden soil was carried out before applying top dressing.

Root top dressing

This type of dressings include organic and mineral fertilizers. From organic, you can use any fertilizer - compost, humus, bird droppings. Top dressing bring just under the rootwhile it follows combine with watering.

Organic fertilizer

These fertilizers are applied upon reaching a cherry tree of 4 years of age.

  1. Chicken litter is one of the most popular and inexpensive fertilizers, but due to the significant fat content with improper dosage can burn the roots of the plant. For proper preparation of the solution, you need to take from 1 to 1.5 kg of litter to a ten-liter bucket, pour 4 to 5 liters of water, allow to ferment for 2 days, then top up the bucket and mix thoroughly.
  2. Next popular follow compostas well as rotted (for at least 2 - 3 years) manure, which is applied 1 time per 3 years per 1 sq. km. m wheel circle 1 bucket.Manure should not be diluted with water, otherwise it turns into an ammonia mixture. When using compost for trees under the age of 7 years old, the trunk circle should be 1.5 - 2 kg / sq. m, for older trees - 2.5 - 3 kg / sq. m
 Chicken droppings solution is a popular root feed.
Chicken droppings solution is a popular root feed.

Mineral

Of mineral fertilizers, complex phosphorus and potash fertilizers are used. 300 g for trees younger than 11 years old superphosphate and 180 g potassium chloride in pristvolny circle. For older trees, their number is increased by 1.5 times, respectively.

Dosage: superphosphate 2 tbsp. l and potassium chloride 1 tbsp. l on apt. circle for young trees, for fruit bearing increase the rate of 1.5 times.

When using liquid dressings prepare a solution from the ratio: superphosphate 3 tbsp. l and potassium sulfate 2 tbsp. l on a bucket of water. At least 15 liters are poured for mature trees and 8 liters for young bushes.

In rainy and cold years, the need for potassium increases. Therefore, in such a weather, in order to compensate for its deficiency in the soil, the application of potassium preparations is increased, potassium sulfate. Some gardeners are switching to long-lasting feedings used in the West (for example, APION-100).

 Apion 100 - long-lasting feeding
Apion 100 - long-lasting feeding
It is categorically necessary to exclude nitrogen, because nitrogen will contribute to growth processes in the fall, which will cause a decrease in cherry hardiness.

It is permissible to use balanced fertilizers, for example, nitro-ammophoska, consisting of 4 components: sulfur, phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen (in small quantities). If the gardener negatively relates to the use of mineral fertilizers, it is possible to apply wood ash - about 2 kg / sq. m

Foliar

Since they consist in spraying the foliage, and the cherry leaves are shedding for the winter, they are not used in the fall. They are held during the flowering of the cherry, as well as after the fall of flowers and ovaries.

Spraying

Spraying trunks conducted to compensate for iron deficiency. Applied inkstone in the form of an emulsion (3 tbsp. on a bucket of water) or Bordeaux mixture. This procedure is carried out with the onset of the first frost.

 Spraying cherry trunks
Spraying cherry trunks

Folk remedies

  1. Pounded eggshellcontaining calcium, which need stone fruit.Cherry grows poorly on acidic soils, and the lime contained in the shell reduces the acidity of the soil. Bring in from 1 to 2 tbsp. l per square meter when digging.
  2. Sawdust - loosen the soil, pass air well and absorb water. Used as mulch.
  3. Yeast - injected into the heated soil during watering.
  4. Shoddy - waste textile production, closed up in the fall at the rate of 6 kg / sq. m
Excess fertilizer increases sap flow, which leads to a decrease in frost resistance of the plant.

After fertilization, the stem is necessary grind with compost or manure a layer about 10 cm thick, and best of all, a thick, well-compacted layer of snow, topped with straw or sawdust.

In cherries, like in other stone fruits, the bark in the area of ​​the root collar often heats, which can lead to the death of the plant. To avoid this, you need several times over the winter. seal the snow around the trunk.

Final events

 To protect the bark from sunburn, cherry trunks are wrapped
To protect the bark from sunburn, cherry trunks are wrapped

To protect the bark from sunburns next spring trunks wrapping breathable materials: white paper, non-woven material or whiten with a solution of lime, in which glue or flour paste is added for strength.

To prepare the solution take hydrated lime 2 kg per bucket of water and add clay 3 kg and mullein 0.5 kg. The solution is filtered and the tree is whitened on all sides, especially carefully - on the south side.

If you comply with all the above activities, you can prepare the cherry for the winter period well, and she will thank you for the next year with a bountiful harvest.