when do you fertilize spring blooming trees?

Answer 1

The answer to your question depend on may factors...the size of your tree, when you planted it and if you are looking for growth or more blooming etc.... Fertilizers are an arrangement of three numbers i.e. 20-4-8. The first number represents nitrogen, the second is phosphorous and the third potash. You can think of nitrogen as being used for promoting growth and "greening up the tree", phosphorous for blooms and roots and potash helping the all around immune system of the tree.

If your tree is large and has been in the yard for years and years fertilizing probably will not change anything. The amounts you would need to apply to the soil to affect any change would be impractical. However if this has been recently planted fertilizinf twice a year would be sufficient. Once had at bud break in the spring and once later in the summer. For you late application I would reccomend something high in "potash" or the last number of the three.

Answer 2

Start in the spring when the buds break. Fruit tree spikes and most other tree fertilizers last about 6 weeks. So you can fertilize every 6 weeks. You don't have to but you can. When the leaves change color in the fall stop fertilizing until the following spring. Just remember, you don't want to push your tree so much that the rapid growth causes weak spindly branches.

Answer 3

all year round
give it an extra hit late winter early spring