The apple tree is the most popular and beloved fruit tree with delicious and healthy fruits all over the world. It ranks first among other fruit plants in terms of the amount of harvest. Apples contain a huge amount of useful substances, they have healing and medicinal properties. By consuming these nutritious fruits daily, you can cleanse the body of toxins and replenish the lack of iron.
Basic apple tree care
In order for the apple tree to bring high-quality and bountiful harvests, it is necessary to carry out constant care of fruit crops every year.
Preventive treatment
The treatment is recommended to be carried out 2 times a season. The first procedure is carried out in the spring, when budding begins on the trees, the second - after harvesting. It is necessary as prevention against pests and various diseases.
Watering
Apple trees are irrigated throughout the summer and autumn seasons. They are especially needed in hot and dry weather. Experienced gardeners recommend watering trees not so much near their trunk, but along their crown, since the suction roots that are especially important for the development of culture are located there.
Top dressing
Complex top dressing is applied every three weeks and only in moist soil in order to avoid root burns.
Ant fighting
Ants help spread aphids. To prevent them from entering the upper part of the apple trees, you need to tie the trunk with any material (for example, cardboard, cloth) in the form of a belt about 40 cm wide, impregnated with petroleum jelly or other sticky substance.
Whitewashing of trunks
Whitewashing is needed in the autumn (before the onset of severe cold weather), as it protects tree trunks in early spring from sudden temperature changes and from possible cracks on their surface.
