With the main planting season at an end here are few tips for keeping your young fruit trees happy and healthy at this time of year.
- Watering – With the wonderful Spring sunshine that has been beaming down on us lately the ground has become very dry. It is most important that you keep these young trees hydrated. A general guideline is a bucket of water each week and potted trees usually require more unless its wet.
- Mulch – If you apply a generous amount of woodchip mulch to the base of the trees in a doughnut shape this can ease the burden of watering as the soil keeps its moisture when treated this way.
- Weeding – Whilst its wonderful to see new life exploding out at this time of year along with that sprouting weeds also make an appearance.
So now is a great time remove these along with any grass. Applying woodchip as mentioned becomes a good assistant.
For further useful information on how to care for your trees and to keep them happy and healthy please visit Fruit Works
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