How & why do you do it?

Prepare for winter in autumn

If you are in autumn the hopefully rich and sweet apples from your apple tree harvested you should be appropriate with Maintenance measures ensure the yield and the health of the trees for the following year. For decades, this has also included a lime coating, with which the apple trees not only make an optically well-groomed impression, but are also protected from various harmful influences. The lime coat should be reapplied every year to ensure the vitality of the apple tree even in difficult conditions Locations to be maintained permanently.

Preparations for the tree painting

The lime paint for fruit trees can often be purchased ready-mixed in garden shops. You can also quickly and easily create a suitable coating yourself by mixing ordinary lime from the hardware store with a little water. First remove loose pieces of bark with a wire brush or a special tree scraper before applying the paint in several layers with a brush. Be careful not to injure young shoots. Otherwise you would be dangerous

Fungal diseases and others Pathogens Open the door and gate. At the time of lime painting, you should use the Treetop also check after moldy fruit mummies from the previous year and remove them.

Positive effects through a coat of lime

The most important effect of the base coating with white lime is the protection against strong temperature fluctuations in the winter. The bark of young trees in particular heats up strongly due to sunlight and can tear if there is insufficient stress dissipation. By reflecting the sunlight, this effect is greatly mitigated with a lime paint. Other positive effects of liming apple trees are:

• an optically orderly impression
• Protection against various pests
• killing pest larvae that have already been deposited on the trunk
• Uniform fertilization of the soil by slowly washing away the lime when it rains

Tips & Tricks

If you want to be on the safe side against crawling pests, you can use a green glue ring around the in addition to the white lime paint Tree trunk attach.