Spring Orchard Preparation

Managing your orchards in the spring prepares your trees for the summer months. It gives your orchards the nutrition it will need to develop healthy shells and kernels until harvest. Check with your fieldman or WHG manager to make sure you have your applications in order.

Spring Checklist

Compost (mulch)

Eastern Filbert Blight spray

Leafrolier

Weed control

Cutworms

Aphid

Sucker

Flail

Cultivate

Fertilization

Moss & Lichen

Winter moth

Sunscald protection (May)

Boron application (May)

Based Hazelnut Breading Program and

Nut Growers Society research.