When young they need special cares
as, for instance, the aeration of the base by weeding and
hoeing the ground around the collar and than forming a small
circle serving to receive the irrigation water and to increase
its absorption. In the summertime when the water lack balance
is higher, it is advisable to effect numerous watering with
enough water to comply with the plants’ physiological needs.
Manure: in spring it is important to manure with ternary chemical
compound made of N.P.K. with trace elements in the ratio of
between 200 and 400 grams each tree; in autumn it will be
suitable to use a ternary manure 12-12-12 to give to the solution
flowing in the ground the best possible concentration of the
nutritional elements both from a quality and quantity point
of view. The chemical manure can be carried out up to four
times per year.
Treatments:
Springtime: prophylactic treatment with fungicide + insecticide
mixed according to the quantities shown on the packaging from
April through June. Treatments of diseases have to be carried
out with specific products and under the agronomists phyto-sanitary
control. To protect the whole trees heritage, specific treatments
have been get ready with special nebuliser machines having
high covering capacity and spreading out avant-garde chemical
products against parasites and cryptogams or through endo-therapy
procedures at the trunk or at the roots. Thanks to the proper
choice of products said treatments can be both prophylactic
and curative if made at the right moment and taking into consideration
different reasons for possible growth of parasites. Treatments
have to be carried out by skilled workers provided with special
licence for the use according to rules and regulations in
defence of public health in force. It is also suitable to
take proper precautions against accidents to people, animals
and things. Rearrangements pruning: not all trees need this
treatment and, in any case, it is a special treatment the
technology of which is varying according to different species.
In any case it concerns, most of all, broad–leaf trees and
it is suitable to give the plant a particular shape and to
keep it, to limit the growth and to give the plant a youthful
appearance by removing the old exhausted branches. One pruning
to be made during winter time by skilled workers is enough.