The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
THE CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR FRUIT PRODUCTION
NOVEMBER
- Harvesting, grading, trenching, packaging and delivery of young sprouts, seedlings, fruit nursery plants and strawberry seedlings.
- Keeping of strawberry seedlings in cold storages for spring or early summer planting.
- Protection of sprouts, seedlings and nursery plants in trenches from mice, voles, rabbits and does.
- Stratification or sowing seeds in seed trays.
- Plantation establishing.
- Planting raspberries and blackberries for seedling production.
- Filling vacant seats within young crops.
- Fertilization of crops.
-Winter processing of crops.
- Repairing structures for growing raspberry and blackberry in two lines
- Removing and storing the grafting branches in a cold storage.
- Placing baits for harmful rodents in the crops.
- Winter spraying of crops.
- Protecting plants from rabbits and does by placing mesh and woven wire around the crops.
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
- Attending the trenched seedlings, nursery plants or offshoots.
- Painting tree trunks.
- Protection of strawberry bushes from low winter temperatures.
- Harvesting strawberries in protected areas (end of harvest).
- Producing rakija.
DECEMBER
- Repairing machines and tools.
- Procuring production supplies.
- Making a plan of fruit production for the next year.
- Educating fruit producers.
- Continuing work in the seed plot, nurseries and orchards if the weather permits it.
- Stratified seed sowing in the seed plot or nursery.
- Controlling trenched seedlings and refrigerated strawberry seedlings.
- Preparing the greenhouses for the introduction of hybrid strawberry seeds.
- Fertilization with NPK fertilizers if it was not done during the previous month.
- Repairing pathways in the plantations.
JANUARY
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
- Continuing work commenced in November and December.
- Procuring production supplies, fertilizers and pesticides for the next vegetation period.
-Sowing stratified seeds in the seed plot or nursery.
- Introducing hybrid strawberry seeds into greenhouses.
- Beginning of fruit pruning.
- Education of agricultural manufacturers.
- Repairing machinery and tools.
- Repairing packaging.
FEBRUARY
- Repairing machinery and tools.
- Continuing and completing the work started in November and December of the previous year.
- Pruning fruit.
-Rejuvenation and grafting of fruit.
- Taking care of trenched seedlings.
- Caring about fruit graft-woods in cold storage facilities.
- Weed control in orchards and strawberry crops.
- Caring for strawberry nursery plants in the greenhouse and taking care of young fruit hybrids in the greenhouse.
- Winter spraying of the orchard.
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
- Procurement of pesticides.
- Preparing the greenhouse for warming and the start of the season (strawberry).
MARCH
- Harvesting, sorting and delivery of seedlings, nursery plants, fruit sprouts and strawberry seedlings.
- Completing the establishment of fruit nurseries and their irrigation.
- Establishing fruit plantations and their irrigation.
- Filling of vacant places in orchards.
- Pruning fruit.
- Rejuvenation and grafting.
- Weed control in orchards and strawberry plantations using herbicide.
- Spring spraying.
- Protection of the fruit that blossoms early from late spring frost.
- Introducing bee colonies in fruit crops that blossom early for pollination.
- Removing old leaves in strawberry crops and introducing nutrients to crops.
- Establishing nurseries for the production of strawberry seedlings.
- Taking care of seedlings of fruit and strawberries in the greenhouse.
- Hoeing strawberries.
- First spring fertilization of strawberries.
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
APRIL
- Surface tillage in the seed plots, nurseries, orchards.
- Fertilizing the seed plots, nurseries and crops with nitrogen fertilizers.
- First fertilization of strawberries with nitrogen fertilizers (if it is not done in March).
- The binding of the raspberry and blackberry offshoots to the wire in the rows.
- Removing young offshoots in the raspberry and blackberry crops.
- Spring spraying of crops.
- Protecting orchards from late spring frost.
- Taking care of strawberry crops planted on foil.
- Weed control in orchards by using herbicide.
- Taking care of strawberry seedlings and fruit hybrids in the greenhouse.
- Shortening shoots of budded plants above the grafted bud.
MAY
- Protection of plants from disease-causing agents and pests.
- Second fertilizing of strawberries, raspberries and blackberries with nitrogen fertilizers (after late blossoming) - Irrigation (if applicable).
- Surface treatment of the soil.
- Weed management by herbicide.
- The plowing of plants for fertilization with green manure.
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
- Fertilization of the seed plot, nursery and crops with nitrogen fertilizers.
- Placing material for mulching strawberry crops.
- Harvest of strawberries, cherries... and their sale on the market.
- Removing stolons in strawberry crops.
- Taking care of young strawberry crops.
- Removing flowers in parent strawberry crops.
- The removal of hybrids from the glasshouse and their planting in the selection field.
- Taking the strawberry seedlings from the glasshouse and planting them in the open field.
JUNE
- Harvesting late varieties of strawberry, cherries and the early varieties of plums, peaches, apricots, raspberries...
- Taking care of young strawberry crops.
- Taking care of the mother plantations.
- Irrigating and cultivating seedlings in the seed plot.
- Irrigation and hoeing of the substrate and seedlings in the nursery.
- Surface treatment of soil.
-Spraying crops against pathogens and pests.
- Summer fruit pruning.
- Harvesting early varieties of fruit.
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
- Removing stolons.
- Irrigation of strawberry crops after harvesting.
- Irrigation of crops.
- Taking care of hybrid nursery plants in the field.
- Taking the strawberries out of the greenhouses.
JULY
- Taking care of young strawberry plantations.
- Establishing new strawberry plantations.
- Summer planting.
- Taking care of strawberry mother plantations.
- Removing old leaves on strawberry crops.
- Irrigation and cultivating seedlings in the seed plot.
- Irrigation and cultivating seedlings, sprouts and nursery plants in the nursery.
- Grafting the budding surface to the sleeping bud in the nursery.
- Protecting plantations from pathogens and pests.
- Irrigation of crops.
- Surface treatment.
- Harvesting fruit.
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
- Pruning fruit after harvesting.
- Basic fertilization and preparation of the surface for the establishing of a seed plot and nursery.
-Basic fertilization and surface preparation for the establishing of new crops by trenching or cross digging.
AUGUST
- Taking care of young strawberry plantations.
- Taking care of seedlings in the field.
- Planting.
- Regular maintenance of seedlings in the seed plot.
- Regular maintenance of seedlings, sprouts, and nursery plants in the nursery.
- Irrigation and grafting substrates to the sleeping bud in the nursery.
- Surface treatment.
- Green pruning of vigorous shoots and side branches in raspberry crops.
- Immersing the peaks of blackberry shoots in mother plantations.
- Irrigation (if applicable).
- Harvesting fruit.
- Basic fertilization and surface preparation for establishing seed plots, nurseries or crops.
SEPTEMBER
- Completion of grafting to sleeping buds.
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
- Fruit harvest.
- Taking care of crops.
- Basic fertilization and surface preparation for establishing seed plots, nurseries and crops.
- Stratifying hybrid seeds.
- Planting fruit.
- Picking strawberries in greenhouses.
- Producing rakija.
OCTOBER
- Preparing the soil for planting crops: leveling, land division, marking places for future crop planting.
- Preparing the soil for planting crops: leveling, land division, marking rows for establishing nurseries.
- Treatment of plantations with copper compounds.
- Stratification of seeds.
- Sowing plants for green manure.
- Taking care of young crops.
- Harvesting strawberries in greenhouses.
- Producing rakija.
- Purchasing fertilizer and manure.
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The Calendar of Activities for fruit production
Fruit
January
Pruning
Plums
February
March
April
Weed
control
Tillage,
CAN
May
June
fertilization,
July
August
Green pruning
Harvesting
Irrigation
Irrigation
Winter spraying
Weed control
herbicides
with
September
October
November
Fertilization
with
mineral fertilizer and
manure
Plowing
Spraying
copper
compounds
Protection against diseases and pests
Pruning
Sour
cherry
Winter spraying
Soil tillage
Fertilization with CAN
Protection
against
diseases and pests
Irrigation
Harvesting
Spraying
against
diseases after the
harvest and pruning
Irrigation
(if
applicable)
Fertilization
with
mineral fertilizer and
manure
Plowing
Spraying
copper
compounds
December
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