Many gardeners treat their plots in the fall, before the frost arrives. However, the well-known gardener Andrei Tumanov believes it is better to wait for spring and then take action.
“Understand, if you have a healthy normal garden, if you take good care of it, if you collect plant residues and there is no rot on your plot, then I see no point in treating the garden with any chemicals,” says the expert. “As is known, some pests go into hibernation in the ground in the fall. You are not going to water the soil, are you? Yes, there are recommendations to treat tree leaves with urea. Yes, it will burn the spores. But, in my opinion, the cost of this treatment will be too high and labor-intensive. Moreover, in any case, most disease spores die over the winter.”
According to Tumanov, it is better to wait for spring and treat the garden with any contact fungicide. “With the spring treatment, we destroy those remaining spores after winter that can harm us later. In the fall, we simply tidy up the area, removing all the sick plants.”
According to Andrei Tumanov, in the fall, more attention should be paid to the “physical method.” “You should walk around with pruning shears and remove everything unnecessary. For example, a dried branch. Of course, you can spend a long time figuring out why it dried up, what disease affected it. But in any case, this indicates problems; nothing dries up for no reason. Perhaps you pruned incorrectly, and necrosis began. Or maybe it is a manifestation of moniliosis (fruit rot). In general, diseases do not attack alone; they attack in armies. So, while you figure out what exactly the problem is, it is better to cut off and destroy that branch, regardless of why it dried up. And such sanitary pruning should be done year-round.
Leave a comment