How to water a fruit garden? In our places, if the earth is kept loose, you can do without watering. But in the old gardens, trees often have been so accustomed before that they cannot do without watering. As soon as the time is drier, now half of the ovaries will drop, if they are not watered. Here you can only year by year, the right care, wean trees from watering, and you can not immediately throw. Young gardens are always more profitable to leave without watering, but you need to take care of them, as has already been described here.
Please note: this article is based on pre-revolutionary councils for farmers. Some data and techniques could become outdated.
And you need to water the garden skillfully. One will pour the garden 3-4 times in the summer, and the other only 1-2 times, and he will get more sense. Trees need moisture most of all not when the ovary begins to grow larger, and then when the fruits become almost of real size. Here at this time, and it is necessary to water. Before watering, the near-bottom circles are loosened so that the water does not roll in vain, but would go deep. And if you decide to water the garden, then at each adult tree you need to pour at least 15-20 buckets in order to thoroughly wet the ground. If, however, watering a little - it only spoils the trees.
3-4 days after watering, depending on the weather, you need to once again loosen the earth on the near-stem circles, because after such a strong irrigation, there is almost always a crust on the surface of the earth. At the first watering, when the ovary is just beginning to grow, it will be of great benefit if it is poured with liquid mullein. For the first time, it is possible to select several trees for comparison and water first with clean water, and then into the pits made with a pointed stake, a solution of mullein, a bucket of one and a half per adult tree. And in the fall, and compare the harvest on the watered mullein and decanted trees.
Until now, we have been talking about how to take care of the roots, how to fertilize the land in order to get good fruit yields. Now let's see how to care for the stem and tree branches.
