Create the best conditions for healthy growth of your robinia. If you take a few aspects into account, your otherwise undemanding deciduous tree will develop even better. The following article reveals what is important when caring for a robinia.
Older robinias need almost no maintenance
What does caring for a robinia include?
- Fertilize
- pour
- To cut
- hibernate
- Protection from pests and diseases
Fertilize
It is best to plant your robinia in loose, well-drained soil. If these requirements are not met in your garden, it will help. Enhance loamy or clayey soil with coarse sand or organic compost. Fertilizing a robinia is only necessary when it is young. The tree can then provide itself with sufficient nutrients.
pour
If your robinia is on very dry soil or is exposed to intense heat, you should keep the substrate constantly moist. Otherwise, the same applies here as for the application of fertilizer: only immediately after planting is watering necessary.
To cut
The robinia is a wonderfully easy-care deciduous tree and shows even growth even without pruning. You can still remove unwanted or dead branches. A pruning is actually only necessary if you want to hook your robinia at a certain height. Cultivated forms of the tree are an exception. Choose a day in January or February for pruning. Small interventions can be made all year round, but never during the budding season in spring.
hibernate
Robinia are hardy plants and can stay outside all year round. A layer of mulch or brushwood provides additional protection.
Protection from pests and diseases
Lice often infest the robinia. You can recognize them by their yellow, withered leaves. Chemicals are available from the tree nursery to combat the pests. However, if it is the Robinia leaf miner, there is no need for action. The deciduous tree develops its own defense system to kill the larvae.