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What must be done at the dacha during the May holidays
Fans of gardening business now have a hot time: if you miss this time, then you won’t catch up.
Those who live in houses on their own plots are now desperately jealous of residents of city apartments: after all, you can’t walk much in quarantine, you can’t breathe air. However, some manage to get out to the dacha on their own transport. And rightly so: there is a lot of things to do in the garden now.
Garden: laying a future harvest
Start by pruning branches that have not survived the winter, but do not touch live shoots: the sap is flowing in full, and the tree will experience stress from the injury. Remove under the crown all the litter left over from the winter and burn it, it is probably full of overwintered pests.
Loosen the tree trunks and feed before flowering. Urea is best suited for the garden in the spring. It is convenient to measure this fertilizer with matchboxes: if the tree is younger than 10 years old, use one box, if older – two. It is important to cover the fertilizer, not leave it on the surface. And after feeding, watering is required, 3-5 buckets of water per tree.
Now you can carry out a painless transplant of small trees and shrubs if you do not like their location on the site. After planting, water the plants with warm water, mulch the soil under them.
Berry: closer to the roots
Usually, fruit shrubs get a little attention, because they are unpretentious and bear fruit smoothly every year. But now it is necessary to loosen the soil at the roots, weed it out, apply complex fertilizer marked “Spring”. The usual rate is 40-50 g per bush. Then you need to water and mulch with sawdust, compost, humus or just good garden soil.
Set up the bush holders: this is a large circle with supports, it will prevent branches from falling to the ground. The device is cheap, but it saves a lot of time on the garter to the supports.
We loosen the strawberry beds, add good earth to the roots. Now, before active growth, it is very convenient to mulch the plants with a black film. This measure will help reduce watering, get rid of weeds completely, and get a clean berry.
Vegetable garden: hot season
Let’s start with digging and pre-planting fertilization. Mineral dressings are suitable for all plants, but do not add organic ones to the beds where carrots, onions, beets, radishes, garlic, beans, radishes will be placed.
From May 1 to May 10, cold-resistant vegetables are sown: watercress, parsley, spinach, dill, peas, beans, spring garlic, onion sets, radishes, carrots, lettuce, turnips, rutabagas and cilantro. While the risk of frost is high, it is better to cover crops with foil. Potatoes and onions are also planted on May holidays.
Flower garden: bringing beauty
Loosen the soil in the flower beds, add good garden soil to the roots of the plants. Apply top dressing, in the spring it is better to use mineral fertilizers, since many bulbous and rhizome plants do not like manure.
Remove frozen and shriveled shoots from rose bushes. Transplant perennials: phlox, daylilies, astilbe, geychera, delphinium, hosts.
You can sow the seeds of some cold-resistant annuals directly into the ground: calendula, cornflower, iberis, godetia, iberis, clarkia, cosmea.
By the way
Sow peas and beans a little every two weeks until mid-July, then the young pods will be on the table until late autumn.