What fertilizer is good for peach trees?

What fertilizer to use for peach trees

Peach trees are suitable for applying farmyard manure. Organic fertilizer and fermented farmyard manure are high-quality base fertilizers for peach trees. These fertilizers have a long fertilizer effect and more comprehensive nutrients. They can improve the physical and chemical properties of the soil in the fruit garden to a certain extent and provide high-quality environmental conditions for the growth of fruit.

After the beginning of spring, peach trees should be given bud fertilizer. Organic fertilizer should be applied in combination with inorganic fertilizer. After fertilization, the ditches should be cleared and the soil should be covered. Fertilizers such as manure, urea, calcium sulfate, potassium sulfate, zinc sulfate 3, boric fertilizer, and ferrous sulfate can be used.

How to fertilize peach trees

On both sides of the peach tree, away from the base, dig trenches close to where the trenches were dug last year, apply the prepared organic fertilizer, and then fill it in. After a few years, the entire orchard can be dug and fertilized.

Spring fertilization

Peach trees need to be fertilized around April in spring, mainly nitrogen. The largest amount is used from the flowering period to the young fruit expansion period, and gradually decreases from the fruit coloring period.

Summer fertilization

Peach trees are fertilized in summer from June to July, mainly phosphorus fertilizer, which reaches its peak during the vigorous growth period of new shoots and the fruit expansion period. The absorption of phosphorus increases again after the fruit is harvested.

Fall Fertilization

It is best to apply fertilizer in mid-October in autumn. Fruits need a certain amount of potassium. The absorption of potassium is relatively stable throughout the annual growth cycle, but the absorption of potassium also increases significantly during the fruit expansion period.

Winter fertilization

It is appropriate to apply fertilizer in winter from November to December, and topdressing should mainly be done with decomposed human feces or urine or quick-acting fertilizers such as urea and wood ash, and the amount of fertilizer applied accounts for 20%-30% of the annual fertilizer amount.

Points to note when fertilizing peach trees

1. When digging trenches and applying fertilizer to peach trees, be careful not to dig trenches in the same place every time you apply base fertilizer, as this will damage the new roots that grew last year.

2. When peach trees are fertilized with concentrated fertilizer or raw fertilizer, the roots may burn and the plants may die. Therefore, it is necessary to remove the plants from the pots in time and replant them.

3. Peach trees are light-loving species and have high requirements for light. When there is insufficient light, many flowers and fruits will fall and the yield will be low. Therefore, after fertilizing, you must also give it sufficient light.