Smart crop of strawberries after collecting berries: no harm will increase the harvest

Greetings to all the owners of the strawberry patch!

Today we will talk about the controversial procedure - bush pruning after fruiting. While some gardeners wielding the shears, all green sweep under the net, the other did not see any sense to bother with such nonsense. Who is right?

After reading the article, you'll know exactly what you can do now, and what - you can not

What happens to the strawberries after fruiting

When strawberries ends treat the owner of berries, her life does not stop. Therefore, throwing care for culture and irrational to some extent unfair. That's what happens with the plant right now:

• It continues to grow new leaves.
• Actively let roots and tendrils to give offspring.
• It lays the flower buds for next year. This means that much of the growth conditions are now dependent on the future harvest!

There is no doubt the fact that the strawberry crop after a period of fruiting plant will benefit. Only if done correctly.

Before caring gardener are 2 important tasks:

1. Remove all unnecessary, that now interferes with strawberries.

2. Leave the "necessary" part of the plant, which in the second half of the summer working to strengthen the strawberry bush and laying flower buds.

Now more about how to maintain a balance.

As it is impossible to cut off a strawberry

Firstly, the strawberries can not be cut "under a zero." Still, the leaves are involved in photosynthesis. Deprive solar power bush long before the winter - is unlikely to improve his health. Young leaves should definitely leave.

Secondly, do not damage the horns of strawberries. These are the places where the leaves grow. And not only the leaves but also the flower buds for next year. For details, refer to the photo below:

That we need to cut strawberries

Under the secateurs are:

1. Mustache. They rob strawberry nutrients and does not need. Do you want to propagate the plant - to leave the most successful bushes 1-2 strong whiskers. The rest is removed to strawberries does not expend energy on superfluous ballast.

2. Leaves: Old and with signs of disease. They may obscure young leaves, which should have time to grow back to hibernation. Another danger lies in the disease: At the end of the summer because of high humidity begin to actively proliferate fungi and bacteria. And the old leaves, especially if you are already amazed by something, become a hotbed of dangerous infections.

Logical shutdown - therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of disease / infestation. Put a "Thumbs Up" if the publication was useful! Still I suggest reading: Attack with rotting apples: how to cure tree