Gardeners bleach apple-trees and other fruit and berry cultures annually. It is necessary in order that spring sunshine have not done harm to roots of plants. The fact is that under bark of apple-tree the cambium layer lies, at excessive heating this nutritious layer is activated much earlier and starts vital processes in plant ahead of time. Damages of trunk from root, burns, flaking of bark and deep cracks are frequent. Whitewashing will save from all this.
It is required to you
- - 10 l of water;
- - 3 kg of lime;
- - 0.5 kg of copper vitriol;
- - 1 kg of clay;
- - 100 g of joiner's glue;
- - wide brush;
- - gloves.
Instruction
1. Whitewashing of apple-trees not only protects trunks and branches of tree from damages, but also saves plant from activity of wreckers. Insects just perish after whitewashing.
2. In order to avoid death and defeat by wreckers bleach apple-trees late fall, at the end of October – in November. For whitewashing ready mixes in shops for gardeners are on sale for a long time. Solution can be prepared and independently from lime. Pour into 10 liters of water 3 kg of svezhegasheny lime, 0.5 kg of copper vitriol and 1 kg of clay. It is recommended to add joiner's glue (about 100 g) to pobelochny solution – it will allow painting to remain till spring.
3. The second whitewashing of trees should be carried out in the spring, in March-April. Try to be engaged in whitewashing not in rainy and not in sunny weather. There is danger that paint will quickly descend from moisture or will crack from the sun at hardening stage.
4. Take wide brush and densely cover with the divorced solution all tree trunk. You bleach apple-tree from the earth to branching of the central main branches. Try that there is no free site left. Let paint get under bark. Let's pobelochny layer dry and repeat all procedure 1-2 more times. The trunk has to become white as snow to reflect hot sunshine.
5. Sometimes gardeners shower roots and trunk of apple-tree for the winter with the earth, neglecting the procedure of whitewashing. It will lead to the fact that the root neck will wet through, the tree badly grows, yields insufficient harvest.