Processing and fertilizing strawberries in August: the bushes and crop health is in our hands

Hello readers of "SF"!

I do not know about you, but I can not imagine a garden without strawberries. The taste and smell of "their" berries will never be compared with an externally perfect berries in containers on supermarket shelves.

Harvest next season depends on the care of the strawberries in the current. And August - an important time in the life of strawberry plantations.

Bushes spent nutrients saving fruition and is now in dire need of new: growing leaves change and the foundations of flower buds. It is because of them and flower stalks come next year. Therefore, careful care of strawberries after collecting berries = Mighty harvest!

strawberry Processing

Strawberry attracts the attention of not only human. Plants suffer from pests and diseases. Now, after the harvest, it's time to do the preventive or curative treatment, because the berries have already been collected and the gardener can not worry about the toxicity of drugs.

The first thing to do with strawberries - trim mustache, old and sick leaves. About the importance and progress of the procedure I have already published a detailed article - link will give at the end. And drugs against diseases / pests will work easier.

At the height of summer on strawberries were seen signs of pests and diseases? Without further concerns use chemical products, aiming for a particular purpose. They act quickly and correctly all sorts of "folk remedies", so it's best to save time / force, and not to test the patience of strawberries.

For the prevention of fungal diseases (including the ubiquitous black spot) strawberry beds can be shed:

• Bordeaux mixture 1%;
• "Fitosporoin-M".

Through such treatments strawberry leaves in winter dormancy WITHOUT berry disease pathogens.

The feed strawberries in August

The easiest and cheapest option - use "NPK" 10:10:10. It has all the major macronutrients that are needed to recuperate strawberries. The "NPK" not a lot of nitrogen, which does not give the bushes properly prepare for the winter.

If you have the ability and the desire, in September, in addition to crumble at the strawberry patch any complex fertilizer "Autumn" with a high content of potassium. The alternative - Potassium-magnesium. It will also be useful to plants before hibernation.

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