After noon. Do you think it would be too late to fertilize nectarines and other stonefruit? I have seen conflicting evidence on the web. Some say fertilize in autumn, some 5 or 6 weeks before flowering. I doubt that I would have six weeks before blossom appears on the trees. I think it will be in a week or two max. If I fertilized now would I reduce the chances of a good crop?
All stuffed after yesterday’s big effort…Hang in there Anne…
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Dinetta said:
All stuffed after yesterday’s big effort…Hang in there Anne…:)
Earlier today one of my neighbours brought me two bare rooted self sown peach trees! I’ve dug the hole and planted one of them…now my back is stuffed for a while. Might have to leave the other one till tomorrow (or con MrS). I think I will still go ahead and fertilize the nectarine. What have I got to lose? It could do with plenty of leaf growth this year and concentrate on fruit next year I reckon. Get the tree healthy first. Again that might be a tomorrow’s job.
I also have to dig a bed for a some roses that I am trying to salvage. They are my Mum’s. About 3 years ago my brother (who lives with Mum and hates gardening with a passion) decided to dig up all of her roses (about 30 of them) and put them in pots so that he could turn the beds over to lawn for easy maintenance. Trouble was, because of work commitments etc he never had time to look after them, and they dried out and became overgrown with weeds. Mum is heartbroken, because she really loved her roses, but being too frail has also been unable to care for them.
So I have brought 9 of them back with me to try to salvage but although I know nothing about roses, having never grown them myself, I feel that most of them have reverted to rootstock. I can’t even tell where the graft is on them, but the way the canes are growing suggests roorstock to me. Anyway after advice from Thee and a few others I am going to stick them in a bed and see what happens. If they are only rootstock maybe I will be able to graft on to them later.
Never too late to fertilise a tree.. get it done now though, if you want it in the soil ;)
Fertilising can be done and needs to be done almost all year.
roughbarked said:
Never too late to fertilise a tree.. get it done now though, if you want it in the soil ;)Fertilising can be done and needs to be done almost all year.
19:20pm would prolly be too late roughbarked, unless your orchard was well lit… I would aim more for daylight hours…
pain master said:
roughbarked said:
Never too late to fertilise a tree.. get it done now though, if you want it in the soil ;)Fertilising can be done and needs to be done almost all year.
19:20pm would prolly be too late roughbarked, unless your orchard was well lit… I would aim more for daylight hours…
LOL. Think I might too…hehehe
pain master said:
roughbarked said:
Never too late to fertilise a tree.. get it done now though, if you want it in the soil ;)Fertilising can be done and needs to be done almost all year.
19:20pm would prolly be too late roughbarked, unless your orchard was well lit… I would aim more for daylight hours…
You’re catching it from Collie PM.