{"id":9420,"date":"2015-12-19T00:28:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T07:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2015-12-14T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T13:27:09","slug":"feeding-fruit-trees-top-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/feeding-fruit-trees-top-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Tree Feeding Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"pear cordon by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4834905494\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4090\/4834905494_93ceb1c7d9.jpg\" alt=\"pear cordon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Encourage a better fruit crop by feeding your edible and ornamental fruit trees. Fruit trees are heavy feeders and need extra food to crop well.<\/p>\n<h2>Nutrition Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nitrogen promotes foliage and vigorous growth.<\/li>\n<li>Dessert apples need less than cooking apples and pears. Plums, gages and cherries appreciate more.<\/li>\n<li>Phosphorus promotes healthy growth and fruit.<\/li>\n<li>Potassium gives fruit good colour, flavour and bud development.<\/li>\n<li>Magnesium can stop bitter pit &#8211; apply Epsom salts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Feeding Quantities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As a rule of thumb, feed apples and pear with Growmore 100g per square meter.<\/li>\n<li>If foliage is yellow increase feeding by half and double the quantity for plums and cherries.<\/li>\n<li>Organic gardeners can use blood fish and bone plus organic potassium material at 15gm p\/sq.\/m<\/li>\n<li>Apples and Pear appreciate a low nutrient mulch like garden compost whilst plums like manure. If possible avoid growing fruit trees in grass.<\/li>\n<li>Mulching is very good for organic growing as it preserve natural nutrients and helps make them accessible.<\/li>\n<li>Soil can be tested for deficiencies but good husbandry will help create good fruit crops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Quince will appreciate some tomato feed in spring.<\/li>\n<li>Treat crab apples like pears.<\/li>\n<li>Vigorous rootstocks are unlikely to need feeding once they are established.<\/li>\n<li>Water is a form of food and a shortage will reduce the number of fruit and stop them swelling.<\/li>\n<li>Feed the outer roots not particularly\u00c2\u00a0 those\u00c2\u00a0 close to the tree trunk.<\/li>\n<li>A good cooking apple is a variety where the fruit &#8216;falls&#8217; when cooked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encourage a better fruit crop by feeding your edible and ornamental fruit trees. Fruit trees are heavy feeders and need extra food to crop well. Nutrition Requirements Nitrogen promotes foliage and vigorous growth. Dessert apples need less than cooking apples and pears. Plums, gages and cherries appreciate more. Phosphorus promotes healthy growth and fruit. Potassium gives fruit good colour, flavour and bud development. Magnesium can stop bitter pit &#8211; apply Epsom salts Feeding Quantities As a rule of thumb, feed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/feeding-fruit-trees-top-tip\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}