Not Rusty Nails or Cans: What You Really Need to Carry Under an Apple Tree for High Yields
Experienced gardeners explained which fertilizer is tens of times more beneficial for apple trees.
It turns out that burying nails and tin cans under a tree is not the best idea.
Summer residents also consider it useless to drive an iron spike into the ground near the roots. Some gardeners are sure that this way apple trees bear fruit better.
There is much debate on this topic, and there is no definitive answer. But there is a more effective alternative to metal objects that are carefully driven into the ground.
They rust in the soil. But trees and shrubs do not need alloys, but chelates – substances contained in fertilizers.
In order for plants to begin to absorb chelates, they need to be fed with iron sulfate.
For 500 g of the product, take 2 liters of warm water. After mixing, bring the total volume to 10 liters and leave for 5 hours. Apply a 5% working solution on the leaf.
Fertilizing does not guarantee that the apple tree will produce a great harvest. The product may not help if there is too much phosphorus in the soil. Because of this, the trees will still not absorb the chelates.
