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How to grow organic fruit trees!

By Super Admin

The Organic fruit gardens are gaining popularity. To grow fruit trees organically with the help of following guidelines.

Weather
Raising of fruit trees has to be adjusted to the location's weather. Some trees grow after winter. Some have to grow in cold countries while others grow in tropical climates.

Fertilizers
Fertilizers have to be organic, it is an essential aspect of keeping trees from plant disease and other parasitic infiltration. Young trees need the large amounts of fertilizers.

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Weed Control
Weeds shouldn't be allowed to grow within one meter of the tree.

Desuckering
Remove any shoots coming from below the graft on grafted trees and this removal promotes growth.

Cutting the top off the tree
If you cut the top off of a tree, the other weakly attached limbs usually grow back higher than the original branches. Cutting the top of a tree is one of the worst things you can do for the health of a tree. It starves the tree by drastically reducing its food-making ability and makes the tree more susceptible to insects and disease.

Girdling

Girdling is any activity that injures the bark of a tree trunk and extends around much of the trunk's circumference. Injuries to the tree's bark caused by lawnmowers and weed trimmers, destroy the tree's layers that conduct water and minerals from the roots to the leaves and return the food produced by the leaves to the rest of the tree.

Water your tree
Watering fruit trees is critical to their health. Nearly all trees benefit from long, slow watering. Young and newly planted trees especially need a lot of water and should be put on a watering schedule best suited for the tree type, soil type and time of year.

Place mulch around the tree
Mulch insulates soil, retains moisture, keeps out weeds, prevents soil compaction, and reduces lawnmower and weed trimmer damage.

The best materials for mulch are:

  • Bark chunks or shredded bark that is at least 3/8 inch in size,
  • Pine needles
  • One-year old wood chips
  • Leaves that were shredded and composted for at least three months
  • The worst materials for mulch are:

  • Fresh grass clippings or fresh wood chips
  • Fresh organic mulch
  • Organic mulch that smells bad
  • Peat moss or sawdust
  • Pebbles, rocks, or cobble stones
  • Bricks or pavement or black plastic
  • Ground-up rubber tires
  • Organic gardening replenishes the resources as it makes use of them.

    Story first published: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 15:35 [IST]