How to process a pear in spring and autumn

Pears, like other fruit crops, are often attacked by insects. Among them there are leaf-sucking, leaf-eating, as well as pests that infect flowers and fruits. Processing a pear in the spring from pests is an important event that should not be neglected. About what drugs are needed to protect pear trees from pests, the rules for their use, will be discussed further.

Rules for processing pears from pests

In order for the fight against harmful insects to be successful, you need to know some of the nuances:

1. Remove old bark, mosses and lichens from pear tree bark with a stiff brush. You need to work carefully so as not to damage a healthy bark.
2. The first treatment is carried out at a temperature above +5 degrees early in the morning or in the evening. Choose clear, windless weather. The presence of precipitation will make the treatment useless.
3. Spraying is carried out not only on the crown of the tree. They also process the trunk of a pear, the soil in the near-trunk circle, since pests can be everywhere.
4. Solutions are prepared immediately before processing in accordance with the instructions. When working with chemicals, you need to use protective clothing so as not to harm your health.
5. For processing in the spring or autumn of young pears, mild preparations are used so that the plants do not get burned.

Processing calendar

Processing of pears and apple trees from pests is carried out in spring, summer and autumn. Preparations are used depending on the type of pests. There is a certain amount of time between treatments.

How to treat a pear in the spring from pests

Spring processing of pears and apple trees is carried out several times during the growing season (time will be different in each region):

1. Early in the spring, as soon as the snow melts, to destroy overwintered pests.
2. Before swelling of flower buds to control larvae.
3. Then the trees are treated for ticks and other pests when the buds open and when most of the petals fall off.
4. The last processing of pears or apple trees in the spring is planned after the fruits begin to set. This event is necessary to consolidate the results and increase the resistance of fruit trees to pests.

Autumn pear processing

Severe cold in winter leads to the appearance of cracks and frost cracks in the pear bark. It is in them that pests and pathogens settle. It is in the fall that special measures must be taken to protect fruit trees. Most often, copper sulfate is used to process pears in the fall.

Measures to protect pears from pests:

1. You need to start processing pears when most of the foliage has flown around. Spraying from harmful insects is carried out twice: the first solution is made, as usual, the second is much stronger.
2. In October, pear trunks and skeletal branches are whitened.
3. In November, they are again treated with solutions from pests.

Processing trees in spring or autumn from any pests is carried out only in dry weather without wind. It is desirable that there is no precipitation for at least one day. The first frosts cannot be the reason for postponing the planned work, because during the day there are still positive temperatures. It is in such weather that strong solutions of drugs will not cause burns.

Preparations for processing pears

Since the variety of insects is large, the preparations for their destruction in spring, summer or autumn are somewhat different. For processing use:

• chemicals;
• antibiotics;
• folk remedies.

Chemicals

To save pears from harmful insects, chemicals are used in spring and autumn. You need to work with them in protective clothing, as many of them are unsafe for the human respiratory system.

Other chemicals to save pears from harmful insects in spring and autumn:

• “Spark double effect”;
• “Nemabat”;
• “Nurell D”;
• “Aktofit”;
• “Kinmix”;
• Omayt;
• “Calypso”;
• “Horus”;
• “Bitoxibacillin”;
• Actellik.

To process pears in spring or autumn for the winter, chemicals are diluted strictly according to the instructions. Otherwise, you can harm the plantings.

Antibiotics

Various antibiotics are used to treat pear trees from a bacterial burn. According to some gardeners, they are much more effective than many chemicals.

You can use one of the antibiotics for treating garden plants from harmful insects and diseases in spring and autumn for no more than 2 years, since pathogens develop strong immunity. For the same reason, experienced gardeners recommend using drugs alternately. When treating a pear with antibiotics, the dosage of the drugs is taken into account.

Folk remedies

If there are not so many harmful insects, then you can use various folk recipes to save fruit trees in spring or autumn:

1. Smoking tobacco. Raw straw is piled up, tobacco dust is added and set on fire. In order for the smoke to be evenly distributed throughout the garden, dry weather is chosen.
2. A solution is prepared from 10 liters of water, 40 g of citric acid, 25 g of ferrous sulfate. Plantings are abundantly sprayed with this mixture in spring, summer or autumn from various pests.
3. Humus (10 kg), iron vitriol (6 g) are dissolved in 150 liters of water. With this solution, the soil is shed along the grooves in the near-stem circle.
4. Dandelions. 500 g of green mass with flowers is poured into 1 liter of water. A day later, the infusion is boiled for a quarter of an hour, then chopped garlic cloves (2 large heads) are added, boiled for 5 minutes. The cooled broth is filtered and diluted in 10 liters of water. Rub 30 g of green soap, add to the composition. Spray the trees 1 time in 7 days until the pests disappear. Work can be carried out from spring to autumn.
5. Marigold. 100 g of flowers pour 1 liter of water and boil. After 5 days, filter, dilute in the same amount of water and process the pears.
6. Potato tops. For the infusion, you need 1 kg of green mass and 10 liters of water heated to 25 degrees. After 4 hours, strain, add 1 tbsp. any liquid soap. Saving garden crops can be done in spring, summer, autumn, the main thing is that there is no rain and wind.
7. Wood ash. For 10 liters of water, 200 g of ash and 50 g of laundry soap are required. It needs to be grated. Soap must be well dissolved and planted.

Tips from experienced gardeners

Beginning gardeners should understand that when saving a garden from harmful insects, one should not forget about one’s own safety:

1. Treat trees in protective clothing. First of all, protect the respiratory organs and eyes.
2. After completion of work, wash thoroughly and rinse your mouth.
3. The dishes in which the solution was diluted are washed.
4. The remaining funds are disposed of in places inaccessible to children and animals.
5. For work use manual or automatic sprayers.
6. During spraying, a person should stand at a distance of 75 cm from the pear.

Conclusion

Processing pears in the spring from pests is an important preventive measure. Despite the fact that breeders are trying to create fruit crops with high immunity to harmful insects, there are still varieties of pears and apple trees that require special treatment. If timely spraying with chemicals or folk remedies is not carried out, then you can lose the crop or the trees themselves.

An overview of chemicals to save the garden in spring, summer and autumn from harmful insects: