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How to care for strawberries in the spring
It's good to have a strawberry bed. When the berries are your own, you know that they are grown without chemicals and are safe.
To get a good harvest, you need to know how to care for plants. We'll tell you what to do and how to do it.
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First, you need to assess how the bushes overwintered, whether they were frozen, whether you need to plant new ones and treat old ones. A few weeks after the snow falls and the ground warms up a little, clean the strawberry bed.
Remove dried and rotten castings and last year's mustache. Spray the plants with 1% Bordeaux liquid, or a solution of copper sulfur.
DepositPhotos To bushes develop faster and in order to protect them from possible temperature changes, cover strawberries with dense agrofiber or film.
Better, of course, agrofiber. Its use greatly facilitates the life of the gardener. It passes moisture, retains heat, passes fertilizing, which is applied in liquid form, but does not allow weeds to break out of the ground to the surface.
It can be stretched on the beds both before strawberry planting and after. It doesn't have to be filmed for the winter. One segment of agrotextile can last several years.
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But if you don't use it, there's also a way out - mulching. For him, plant materials are suitable: straw, sawdust, small branches, coniferous fall, peat.
Mulching allows you to weed and water less often, saves time on loosening, makes it possible to collect clean berries. Unlike agrofiber, mulch cannot be left for the winter. It will spoil and acidify the soil.
DepositPhotos How to feed strawberries for a good harvest? Sometime in mid-April, when the first new leaves appear on the bushes, give strawberries nitrogen-containing fertilizers.
Strawberry fertilizers
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When the first buds appear on the strawberry bushes, give her potassium-containing fertilizers. Dilute 1 tsp. potassium nitrate in 10 liters of water and pour half a liter of solution under each bush.
Before the strawberries begin to bloom, water them 1 time a week. Once every two weeks, loosen the ground and pull out the weeds.
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During loosening, lightly steep the bushes to stimulate the development of additional roots. Until the end of May there may still be frost. Therefore, cover the plants with spunbond (agrofiber) at night.
During flowering, continue removing weeds, but stop feeding and do not use treatment from pests with store poisons.
For example, if during flowering you notice such a pest as a strawberry weevil, use folk methods to combat it: infusion of garlic, mustard, tobacco dust.
DepositPhotos In the spring, strawberries actively let moustache. Leave these processes only on those plants that you grow as uterine. And those bushes from which you want to get strawberryCut them regularly.
More about how to care for strawberries and what are the benefits of this berry for health, read in our articles. Follow the links.
To get a good harvest, you need to know how to care for plants. We'll tell you what to do and how to do it.
DepositPhotos
First, you need to assess how the bushes overwintered, whether they were frozen, whether you need to plant new ones and treat old ones. A few weeks after the snow falls and the ground warms up a little, clean the strawberry bed.
Remove dried and rotten castings and last year's mustache. Spray the plants with 1% Bordeaux liquid, or a solution of copper sulfur.
DepositPhotos To bushes develop faster and in order to protect them from possible temperature changes, cover strawberries with dense agrofiber or film.
Better, of course, agrofiber. Its use greatly facilitates the life of the gardener. It passes moisture, retains heat, passes fertilizing, which is applied in liquid form, but does not allow weeds to break out of the ground to the surface.
It can be stretched on the beds both before strawberry planting and after. It doesn't have to be filmed for the winter. One segment of agrotextile can last several years.
DepositPhotos
But if you don't use it, there's also a way out - mulching. For him, plant materials are suitable: straw, sawdust, small branches, coniferous fall, peat.
Mulching allows you to weed and water less often, saves time on loosening, makes it possible to collect clean berries. Unlike agrofiber, mulch cannot be left for the winter. It will spoil and acidify the soil.
DepositPhotos How to feed strawberries for a good harvest? Sometime in mid-April, when the first new leaves appear on the bushes, give strawberries nitrogen-containing fertilizers.
Strawberry fertilizers
- A solution of 2 cups of cow dung (cowboy) and 1 tbsp. l. ammonium sulfate per 10 liters of water. Under each bush you need to pour one liter of mixture.
- A solution of 1 tbsp nitroammophoska and 10 liters of water. Under each bush lay half a liter.
- A solution of 1 liter of chicken manure or mullet and 10 liters of water. Also pour half a liter under each bush.
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When the first buds appear on the strawberry bushes, give her potassium-containing fertilizers. Dilute 1 tsp. potassium nitrate in 10 liters of water and pour half a liter of solution under each bush.
Before the strawberries begin to bloom, water them 1 time a week. Once every two weeks, loosen the ground and pull out the weeds.
DepositPhotos
During loosening, lightly steep the bushes to stimulate the development of additional roots. Until the end of May there may still be frost. Therefore, cover the plants with spunbond (agrofiber) at night.
During flowering, continue removing weeds, but stop feeding and do not use treatment from pests with store poisons.
For example, if during flowering you notice such a pest as a strawberry weevil, use folk methods to combat it: infusion of garlic, mustard, tobacco dust.
DepositPhotos In the spring, strawberries actively let moustache. Leave these processes only on those plants that you grow as uterine. And those bushes from which you want to get strawberryCut them regularly.
More about how to care for strawberries and what are the benefits of this berry for health, read in our articles. Follow the links.
