How to get rid of overgrowth of trees on the site: causes, best methods

Many fruit trees have the ability to sprout. This brings a lot of problems to the summer resident and harms the tree itself, since the yield is significantly reduced. To find out how to get rid of the growth of fruit trees on the site, you need to find out first of all the reasons for its appearance.

On what trees does it occur?

Growth can be found next to most fruit crops. But most often, young bushes begin to grow next to those trees that are weakened due to various factors. For example, due to temperature changes, lack or excess of nutrients in the soil.Or if these trees are just dying of old age.

Most often this problem occurs when growing plums, cherries, lilacs, apple trees, cherry plums, poplars, birches. These trees can cause a lot of trouble before you can successfully remove the growth from the site.

Reasons for appearance

The most common causes of undergrowth:

• Exposure of the root system if the root neck was poorly buried.
• Damage to the bark or branches (for example, if too many branches were cut during pruning).
• The formed wounds after pruning (the places of cuts must be immediately treated with garden pitch).
• Incompatibility of scion and rootstock (because of this, there is a metabolic disorder, you can notice the problem in about a year).
• Pruning the overgrowth (if you just cut off the shoots every year, they will not become smaller, you need to dig them out along with the root system).

Almost all the reasons why a tree begins to grow strongly are associated with improper care.

When should tree growth be removed?

Despite the fact that the growth negatively affects the yield, it is not always necessary to get rid of it. Very often young bushes are used for reproduction. For example, cherries and plums give very strong shoots. For propagation, 2-3-year-old shoots are used, growing at a distance of 2-4 m from the mother tree.

Removal of bushes is necessary if, because of this, the yield is greatly reduced, since all the nutrients go to growth.

Also, growing, the bushes take up a lot of space on the site. If you do not control their growth, after a while the garden may become completely overgrown.

How to destroy the growth of trees on the site?

There are two ways to deal with this problem. The first is to destroy the bushes mechanically. The second is used if the site is heavily overgrown. To do this, you will have to resort to the use of chemicals.

With chemicals

Destruction of shoots is used if other methods are completely ineffective. This method should be used as a last resort, because during processing you can not only destroy the growth, but also harm the tree itself.

After treatment, the substances that make up the herbicides break down in the soil and do not adversely affect the environment and plants growing nearby.

For the destruction of young sprouts, it is best to use amine s alt 2,4-D. The solution is applied directly to the leaves. Butyl ether effectively fights the growth of fruit trees. Roundup, Tornado, Glukor are also effective.

Mechanically

The safest method of removal is mechanical.

Features of the destruction of shoots mechanically:

• Shoots should be removed immediately, as soon as they began to appear, until they had time to get stronger.
• Cutting the shoots with a pruner will not be enough, you need to dig it out without separating it from the root system.
• You need to cut the trunks of the shoots as close as possible to the base of the root.
• After removing the shoots, the pruning sites should be smeared with garden pitch so that they do not start to grow back.

For the procedure, sharply ground pruners are used so that there are no creases after cutting the bark system from the mother tree. Also, after this, the soil around can be scalded with boiling water so that the shoots do not start growing again.

For example, cherries have a very specific growth system. Even if you dig up a shoot with a root, next year several more shoots will grow in its place. So you can dig up the shoots indefinitely and not achieve any results.

You can get rid of shoots if you cut them with pruners. Bushes are cut at a level of 30 cm from the soil. Thanks to this method, in a few years it will be possible to “wean” cherries to give a large number of shoots.

Folk remedies

In addition to the use of chemicals and the mechanical method of removal, folk remedies will come to the rescue. For example, you can plant a shady tree (chestnut or maple) nearby. These trees will not allow other plants to sprout. In order to prevent shoots from appearing in this area, the soil is mulched with a thick layer of peat, sawdust or straw.

In order to prevent the appearance of unnecessary shoots, the root collar is abundantly buried in soil. Very often, it is the exposure of the roots that leads to the active development of the shoots.

Prevention of occurrence

In order not to cut down the undergrowth every year, you can take preventive measures in advance. Near the tree, you need to leave a circle with a diameter of up to 1.5 m. Next to the tree, slate is driven in to a depth of 1.5 m. It will limit the space at the root system, and the tree will not have enough space to grow. True, shoots will appear in the circle itself. There will be much fewer of them, and it will not be difficult to remove the shoots.

Another option is to choose varieties that don't tend to overgrow. For cherries, these varieties are Chocolate, Crimson, Lyubskaya.

In plums, these varieties include:

• Ochakov yellow;
• Italian Hungarian;
• Hungarian common.

Mulching the soil will also help prevent shoots, as will infrequent watering in the summer. During watering, you can not make a strong jet and direct it to the root system. This will expose the roots.

It is not recommended to dig deep into the soil next to the trunk.

During digging, you can damage the roots. It is better to weed the topsoil with a hoe.

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