While the buds on trees and shrubs have not yet awakened, it is necessary to have time to carry out a number of protective procedures against garden pests and diseases.
Therefore, early spring for gardeners is the time to treat with preparations that can no longer be used during the growing season.
We will tell you how to spend this time with maximum benefit for the future harvest.
Where to start processing
1. The first to be put in order are the bushes that wake up before the trees. A preliminary inspection is carried out, branches damaged by pests, frost or infectious diseases are removed, as well as simply old and dried shoots.
Then the soil is loosened, treated with protective preparations and fertilized.
2. After this, you can switch to tree care.
An inspection is also carried out, then the old bark is removed, pruning, cleaning, treatment with copper sulfate, the cuts are treated with garden pitch, and then whitewashing and digging of the soil in the trunk area.
3. In the garden at this time, summer residents will have to fight leaf rollers, caterpillars, aphids, mites and other pests.
It is important to do this before the buds begin to swell, because significant results can only be achieved by using specialized (chemical) preparations, and not folk remedies.
Along with this, it is necessary to carry out preventive treatment against the spread of scab, moniliosis, powdery mildew and other fungal diseases. For this purpose, fungicides and copper-containing preparations are used.
