Landscape Design: Fruit Trees

Fruit trees can be perfect solution when you create a landscape design adjoining the house. In the middle area apple trees, plums, cherries, sea-buckthorn are usually used; pear trees, cherries and apricot trees are more used in southern areas. Apart from a luxurious, dense crown, in the shadow of which it is pleasant to relax on a hot summer day, in case of the proper care fruit trees please us with a plentiful harvest.
If you use fruit trees when creating a landscape design in the backyard, then you need to know that you should carefully treat the soil around the trees so that they are more resistant to various pests and diseases and, therefore, they can give a plentiful harvest.
One of the main important things is the care of the soil of fruit trees, because their roots can not absorb water from the lower layers of soil.
In spring, while the shoots have not been formed yet, you must fertilize the soil around the trees. Compost is often used to fertilize the soil. The soil is fertilized by compost at the rate of about three kilograms for per square meter of land.
After fertilization you should mulch the soil with crust, which is best to mix with a bone meal. This is done in order to maintain the soil in case of moisture. The mulch will also help to cope with weeds.
It is useful to use “green fertilizers”, such as melliferous phacelia or other fast-growing plants. These plants will help loosen the soil and enhance useful microorganisms. At the end of summer do not forget to pull these plants out of the ground, chop and mix with the top layer of the soil.
Water the trees early in the morning or in the evening, when the sunlight is less intense: it will minimize evaporation of water and will significantly reduce the number of insect pests.
For watering fruit trees, use drop irrigation. It will provide a flow of water into the roots of trees. With this method of irrigation water does not stay on the leaves and bark, and on the top layer of soil no crusts are formed, which means that, roots of tree breathe.