How to Properly Prepare Fruit Bushes for Winter: These 5 Things You Must Do
14.10.2023 07:59
An experienced gardener knows the importance of preparing berry bushes for the winter period.
The yield of the bush depends on certain actions.
It is very important to do some things before the onset of serious cold weather and snowfall.
Expert of the online publication Belnovosti and agronomist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh recommends doing the following.
How to properly prepare fruit bushes for cold weather?
Here are the 5 things:
- Pruning. Removing unnecessary branches prolongs the youth of the bush and improves the quality of the fruit, which increases the quality of the harvest. We remove broken, damaged, diseased branches.
- Autumn feeding. It is required to restore the plant after abundant fruiting. You can use wood ash.
- Moisture-charging watering. It is necessary so that the ground does not freeze longer in the fall. The procedure also prevents branches from drying out.
- Loosening the soil. It is necessary to loosen the trunk circle to a depth of up to 5 cm near the bush and reforge to a depth of up to 15 cm a little further from the bush.
- Pest control. You can use strong preparations like Bordeaux mixture, copper sulfate and urea.
