How to trim strawberry mustache Bashny.Net

Pruning leaves hair strawberry - when, how and whyMany gardeners, so many opinions: some believe that the crop of strawberries is required until July 20, while others are beginning the procedure of trimming in August, and the third one deny the need for leaf removal. There is something confused beginner!





 

So, when you trim the strawberries, and is helpful or harmful to plants?

Opponents of the strawberry crop bring these arguments:

• The leaves are very important in the process of photosynthesis in strawberry plants, due to which the Bush is breathing. Removing this important organs of the plant, we "overlap oxygen" strawberries, resulting in difficult preparation of a berry Bush for the winter.
• In the fight against pests and diseases pruning useless, since remove strawberry leaves and small pests and fungal spores fall to the ground, remain in the soil and quietly moving next season to the new leaves.

On the other hand, you yourself may notice that the strawberry leaves remain healthy for only two months, after which, red spots, "rust" and other unhealthy signs. This means that the sheet is already old and needs to be removed, in its place rose a fresh green leaf.

Harm berry Bush leaf-cutting you will not put as strawberries propagated mustache and quickly able to build up a fresh "green mass".

And in order to prevent the propagation of disease-causing spores and bacteria in the soil, it is necessary to spray special preparations, water solution of potassium permanganate or fill the wood ashes. This should be done in any case – you cut the strawberries or not.
 

How to prune strawberry bushes?

Rigidly attached to the terms does not make much sense: you can do leaf-cutting before July 20 or after. It is important that in winter the strawberries were gone already circumcised, with young shoots that have grown during autumn.

The most common variant – crop in early August when the plant is not fruiting. Thus it is better to choose a dry day, with no bright sun and no rain by scheduling pruning in the morning or evening.Trim the leaves and strawberry mustache to a thin shears or sharp scissors. If you start to cut your moustache with your hands, you risk damaging the plant and its root system, because the antennae are much stronger than bushes.Do not try to cut the leaf to the root!

Strawberry bed must remain bushes with stems with a length of about 10 cm, remove the need will only do the leaf blade. So you are guaranteed to save the "growth point", which then grow new shoots. You can only delete limp, unhealthy leaves, or completely cut off all strawberry foliage. Removing unnecessary mustache, leave on the reproduction of antennae with a healthy outlet, first from the Bush. These outlets prikopat in the ground that they were given the roots. In that case, if the reproduction of strawberry mustache you are not interested in, without delete all existing whiskers from the bushes. Leave them no reason – thickening mustache will only lead to a reduction in the harvest of berries.



Further care of cut strawberries

After trimming unnecessary leaves and mustache, the land will need to podrujit, water potassium permanganate, feed or organic fertilizers and cover it with ash. First, pour the strawberries every day or every other day to bed wet, while the Bush grows again, the young foliage.If strawberry Bush will have time to refresh and to grow good foliage until cold weather, no winter he will not be afraid. Additionally, for protection from severe cold you can sprinkle the strawberries with pine needles.

Knowing how to trim strawberry for winter preparations, you can significantly increase the crop of berries next season. Your strawberries will grow better and less sick. And some varieties of strawberries after updating the result of the July pruning you can manage to get another crop of beautiful berries! published

 

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