{"id":9877,"date":"2016-08-21T04:32:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T03:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9877"},"modified":"2016-08-15T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:44:07","slug":"feed-and-water-your-fruit-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/feed-and-water-your-fruit-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Feed and Water Your Fruit Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Plum by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3797905893\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2488\/3797905893_cb4a4bc56c.jpg\" alt=\"Plum\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>March is a good time to feed your Pears, Plums, Greengages and Blackcurrants.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To boost your trees into growth they will appreciate a nitrogen feed.<\/li>\n<li>A general feed like Growmore or VitaxQ4 is easy to apply.<\/li>\n<li>A surface mulch of well rotted animal manure will also help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Watering Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If spring is dry water the plants gently with a bucket of water onto the roots. repeat every fortnight if needs be.<\/li>\n<li>Any watering should be dome before mid day.<br \/>\nwater well the weather is clement not in anticipation of a night frost.<\/li>\n<li>Water pears for the first six weeks after blossoming. They are usually grafted onto thirsty root stock.<\/li>\n<li>Try to keep water away from the trunk or woody stems to prevent rot.<\/li>\n<li>Newly planted trees need watering for the first year.<\/li>\n<li>If you have dry sandy soil mulch for the first three years to help retain water.<\/li>\n<li>Water the first year after transplant after that they are on their own.<\/li>\n<li>You want the trees to build deep roots so they are self sufficient for water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blackcurrants <\/strong>are a shallow rooted so weed by hand.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackcurrents are prone to frost damage on the flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Varieties called Ben&#8230;. flower a but later or you can cover with horticultural fleece.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>March is still a good time to plant new fruit trees and bushes. As the soil warms up they should grow away quite well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is a good time to feed your Pears, Plums, Greengages and Blackcurrants. To boost your trees into growth they will appreciate a nitrogen feed. A general feed like Growmore or VitaxQ4 is easy to apply. A surface mulch of well rotted animal manure will also help. Watering Tips If spring is dry water the plants gently with a bucket of water onto the roots. repeat every fortnight if needs be. Any watering should be dome before mid day. water&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/feed-and-water-your-fruit-trees\/\"> 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-9877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877","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=9877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}