What fertiliser for Cherry Trees

[Dean Lofthouse]

The amount fertilisers available is mind boggling and confusing.

 

I have an avenue of Cherry trees which are showing signs of necrosis and I did a soil test which showed:

 

PH = 5.5

Nitrogen = 0 depleted

Phosphorus = 0 depleted

Potash = 4 surplus

 

The sub soil round here is heavy clay in most places, the cherry avenue is on slightly clay soil but not too bad. There,s a Tarmac drive running down the middle of the avenue so the trees have around 60% of their root system dripline circumference in grassland and the rest is Tarmac

 

I have asked if they salt the drive and the answer was definately no.

 

I thought about liming the area, but want to know if fertilising would be a better option as the ph is just inside the tolerated ph of cherry trees

 

Any advice on which, what fertiliser to use and where to buy it online that delivers to the Yorkshire area would be welcome

 

The avenue is around 100m long with about 40 trees

[David Humphries]

Mulch, Mulch, Mulchity-Mulch, Mulch

 

 

What are the spacings of the trees?

 

 

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[Dean Lofthouse]

Mulch, Mulch, Mulchity-Mulch, Mulch

 

 

What are the spacings of the trees?

 

 

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Spacing is around 4-5m David, mulching is out because its a lawned area.

[David Humphries]

mulching is out because its a lawned area.

 

Mulch, Mulch, Mulchity-Mulch, Mulch

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Dean Lofthouse]

Mulch, Mulch, Mulchity-Mulch, Mulch

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I can try and persuade them......

 

What's the link the the mulching thread so I can read up

[David Humphries]

I can try and persuade them......

 

What's the link the the mulching thread so I can read up

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/2847-mulch-not-mulch.html

 

 

 

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[Eddy_t]

Agreed, mulch is necessary, just applying a fertiliser will just feed the grass, also try mulch-mowing the lawn, hollow-tine and fill with compost if the owner won't mulch, but you will need to go deep if you really want to improve the soil

 

 

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[Dean Lofthouse]

What about a partial mulch ?

 

I try get a pic tomorrow but the layout is, the drive is 8-10ft wide, then there is a 4ft verge either side of the the drive in which the cherry trees are, then a metal fence and the mowed lawns behind.

 

I could possibly persuade them to mulch the 4ft verges either side of the road around the bases of the trees.

 

One of the other problems is the lawns on the other side of one of the fences belongs to someone else, so mulching on that side of the fence is definitely out of the question.

 

Maybe partial mulch is better than no mulch ?

[Eddy_t]

Yes, something is better than nothing

 

 

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[Goaty]

Is it these that you posted before Dean? http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/44915-cherry-leaf-diagnosis.html