Watering and Fertilizing Methods for Mango Trees Planted in Farmland
One day I went to my family's mango tree field to take a look, because these mango trees were still very small. It had been three months since they were planted, and they were still very short, not tall at all, and not big either. There were only five or six of them planted randomly on the farmland, because originally there had been more than twenty planted, but those that had just been planted not long ago withered, and only five or six mango trees were left. I took a hoe to go and hoe away the grass or other weeds growing around the mango trees, to prevent the mango trees from being ruined by the grass. I had planted so many mango saplings, and in the end only these few were left, so I definitely had to manage them well and fertilize them. First I took the hoe to the mango orchard to hoe the grass. Only after hoeing the grass well could I fertilize. So I would go to the mango orchard almost every day to look, or take the hoe to check, to see if there was any grass, and if there was, I would hoe it away while I was at it. Every month I would apply fertilizer once, and I would also water the mango trees often. Sometimes the field would dry out, so I had to water the mango trees, otherwise these few saplings would also wither. After three months of tending, the mango trees had grown a bit taller, but they still had not bloomed or borne fruit. After three months of tending, they had only grown to knee height. Although I was somewhat unhappy, this was, after all, something I had grown, and all the hard work of planting, managing, and watering was my own achievement. But I could not stop managing them just because the mangoes grew slowly. Since I had chosen to plant this, I could not leave them unmanaged. So I hoed the grass well and watered them. Every time after hoeing the grass, I would water, because this would make them grow faster. So after I hoed the grass well and watered them well, it was time to take my small hoe and go home, waiting for the next round of management. I generally managed them twice within a month, because this would make management and watering better. So I picked up my hoe and watering can and walked on the road home.