Grab some fertilizer and the backyard gloves and give your Elaeagnus pungens — generally called silverberry — an increase. Perfect for Sunsetâs Environment Zones 4-to 24, 26 and 28 to 33, assume your silverberry to achieve around 10 to 15 feet tall and broad. Establishing a good routine helps it recuperate after pruning grow quicker and create a healthy and dense shrub, excellent to get a hedge or specimen plant.
Fertilize in the late-winter or early spring when it starts to supply new development. Use a slow release, all purpose fertilizer, such as one-with an NPK ratio of 101010.
Measure the fertilizer in accordance with the manufacturer directions. So will the program charges because fertilizer power differ. By way of example, to protect a 5 square-foot location, use 2 tbsp. Of 10-10-10 fertilizer or 2 1/2 tablespoons of8-8%8-10-10 fertilizer or 2 1/2 tablespoons of 8-8%8rtilizer or 2 1/2 tablespoons of 8-8-8 fertilizer. For freshly planted silverberry, use about half as much as you’d for shrubs that are proven.
Broadcast the fertilizer evenly across the bottom of the silverberry, within the the region under the the shrubâs canopy where all the feeder roots are located. After fertilizing irrigate the silverberry with one to two inches of water.
Reapply a-half-dose fertilizer program for recently planted silverberries in 8 weeks. Then, re apply one dose after another 8 weeks. You need not fertilize a silverberry that is established more than a yr.