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How to Properly Treat a Fruit Tree from Pests: The Most Common Mistakes
19.05.2023 14:15
Updated: 15.02.2024 12:04
When treating fruit trees against pests, infectious or fungal diseases, gardeners often make the same common mistakes.
Let's try to figure out what exactly you shouldn't repeat after your neighbors, even if you lack experience and confidence.
Mistake one
You shouldn't neglect basic methods of protecting tree bark from pests, such as whitewashing. But you should be more careful with bandages and other coverings at this time.
The reason is that additional materials make air exchange difficult and moisture begins to accumulate under them, which causes no less harm to the wood.
Mistake two
Treatment with copper sulfate solution can only be carried out at positive temperatures.
It is also important to finish before the garden crops wake up and the buds begin to bloom.
In addition, bushes, trees, and the soil beneath them are treated. The soil treatment zone should be equal to the diameter of the plant crown.
Mistake three
More effective than copper sulfate treatment may be treatment with Bordeaux mixture. It is not washed away by rain so quickly.
It is carried out in early spring after the green cone appears. The concentration of the working solution is 1%.
