Gardening work in May

As you know, May is the most active month for all gardeners and gardeners, this is no accident, because it is May that gives us warm and wonderful weather. May weather is ambiguous, on the one hand, it is a warm spring month, but at the same time, subzero temperatures are not so rare, especially at the beginning of the month, as it is now. This article will describe gardening work in May, which is recommended to be done during this period of time, in order to have a good harvest.

Gardening in May: protection from the cold

During cold weather, you need to cover berry bushes, as well as low fruit trees. To do this, you can use a dense film, as well as non-woven material, for example, agrotechnical.

If you already have tall apple trees, cherries, plums, pears in your garden, then in order to prevent the trees from freezing, they can be protected by sprinkling.

The sprinkling procedure for gardening in May is as follows: a nozzle with the smallest sprinkler must be installed on the hose. It is important that the water, when splashed, is like a speck of dust. Sprinkling should be started only when the temperature drops to zero.

Do not be alarmed that there will be small icicles on the leaves, the flowers will not suffer.

Protection from pests and other diseases

The most common disease in apples and pears is scab caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis. To prevent its appearance, you need to spray the trees with agiga-peak (about 40-50 g) or soon (about 1 ampoule) per 10 liters of water before flowering.

In order for the cherry to have no fungal diseases, it is necessary to spray with chorus before flowering (2 g per 10 l), and after flowering also begins soon, with the dosage indicated above.

It is recommended to treat sea buckthorn and plum with an infusion of onion peels (200 g of onion peels per 10 liters of warm water, hold for 10 days, and then strain and can be used) this is necessary in order to protect the shrubs from leaf-eating pests.

By the way, onion infusion also helps to fight the spider mite, which quite often attacks the berry.

Around the middle of May, flying pests will appear; to catch them, you can hang jars of old jam.

To combat flower beetles and moths, you need to tie trapping belts to tree trunks.

Starting from May 13-15, the sweetest period begins - planting strawberries.

Little secret: plant seedlings in the evening or in cloudy weather.

The bushes must be staggered so that there is a distance of approximately 30-35 cm between them.

Tip: Strawberries should not be near potatoes, tomatoes and cabbage.

How to plant strawberries correctly?

We dig a small hole, then lower the strawberries and spread the roots well, then sprinkle with soil and press firmly with our hands.

The main rule is that the apical bud should be at the level of the soil!

After planting, you need to water our strawberries. Use a bucket of water for about 15 bushes.

Gardening in May and plant feeding

After May 20, our trees and plants need nutrients.

What can you use? 1. rotted manure 2. compost, it will be even better if it contains earthworms 3. organic fertilizers 4. you can water the plants with manure (stir manure and water in a ratio of 1: 5) 5. urea (20 g per m2).

Secret: many gardeners recommend watering the plants with a banana solution (we soak banana skins (dry or fresh) in water).

With such simple rules, your trees and plants will thank you and bring a good harvest, and gardening in May will only be a pleasure.