Each gardener has to have wide experience and many simple ""life hacks"" in stock. Use of copper vitriol one of them.
Iron vitriol positively influences prosperity of garden and kitchen garden:
- Helps with fight against fruit decay and black spottiness;
- Enriches plants with nutrients;
- By means of this means it is possible to overcome moss, and also lichens;
- Cures the earth of salinization;
- It can be used for coloring of trunks of trees for their protection.
Qualitatively produced iron vitriol should be stored in hermetic packing and indoors without excess moisture as in interaction with air the chips of vitriol begin to spoil and, as a result, to lose the properties. It is necessary to spray trees when on them there are no leaves. How to prepare vitriol solution that it was suitable for use: on 50 liters of water it is necessary to take 3-4 kg of mix of iron vitriol and it is necessary to prepare it in plastic capacity.
Processing of trees
Trees can be processed till summer – it will allow to avoid lichens, and fruits will be available in year. Old trees can be processed also in the fall – it will prepare them for the cold period. Some add lime to iron vitriol - it is mistake, and it harmful influences plants. Lime is added to copper vitriol. For competent use of vitriol it is necessary to consider what the tree is ill. For example, if the tree painfully apple deaf adder, then 6-8% iron sulfate solution (iron vitriol) does not have due impact but only will aggravate situation, it is necessary to use 3-4% solution.
Also you should not forget that it is necessary to apply vitriol still before kidneys are blown up, in opposite case serious damage will be caused to future harvest. When using iron vitriol it is necessary to understand that it will not be possible to get rid of harmful organisms for all 100%. Various diseases demand special processings and means. It is necessary to use vitriol approximately in the middle of April. If to use it earlier – the due effect as bacteria have not regained consciousness after cold weather yet will not be had and, respectively, have not laid some eggs, and the sleeping bacteria are not able to destroy solution.
If to use means later - damage can be caused to future fruits. Solution of vitriol allows to destroy not only wreckers, but also larva. At careful processing of the tree which is ill the same apple deaf adder about 50% of harmful organisms perish. It is necessary to process not only branches and trunks of trees, but also and nearby kidney at tree.