Strawberries - what you need to do in April to get large berries.

Good afternoon, dear readers, today I will tell you some useful tips that will allow you to get an excellent harvest of large strawberries in your area.

It is necessary to take care of strawberries in early spring. When the snow melts and the ground dries out a little, the first step is to scoop dry leaves from the beds.

Usually, in the fall, pruning of old leaves is carried out, but still some of them remain and must be removed from the beds.

Using a rake, preferably with sparse teeth, we carefully rake out the dried foliage without injuring the middle of the bushes, where young green leaves are already beginning to form.

Leaves collected in heaps should be removed from the garden and burned to prevent the transfer of diseases or parasites to young strawberry bushes.

Do not forget about the processing of strawberries from various diseases and harmful insects.

Previously, strawberries were considered an unpretentious plant that could resist diseases and pests on their own. But modern varieties of strawberries, which certainly delight us with simply huge berries, are very susceptible to disease.

The larger the fruits on the bush, the more attention the plant requires from you.

To avoid problems, it is necessary to treat strawberries with phytosporin or phytoncides.

Specialty stores have a huge selection of drugs, but these two have proven to be very effective biofungicides.
Thus, as soon as the first green leaves appear, be sure to process all the strawberry bushes!

Bordeaux liquid is a good proven remedy for preventing the appearance of fungal diseases. In addition to it, you can use other copper-containing preparations.

Strawberries are very fond of fertile soils and draws out all the nutrients from them in just a year.

Therefore, in the spring, it is necessary to apply nitrogen fertilizers so that the plant can develop normally. If you want large berries, feed the strawberry bushes as best you can.

If the spring is dry, then fertilizer is best applied with water, watering the strawberries. With regular rains, dry nitrogen fertilizers can be sprinkled. It is very important that the soil into which fertilizers fall is loose.

Nitrogen has such a feature as evaporation. If the soil is not loosened, evaporating, the beneficial element will go into the air and will not have the desired effect on the strawberry bushes.

Also, when scattering fertilizer, try not to get on the leaves, which can get burned. It is best to fertilize strawberries before the rain so that the grains of fertilizer are washed off with water and do not harm the plants.

When weeding strawberries for the first time, be very careful not to cover the middle of the bushes. And it's worth remembering that strawberry roots are very close to the surface and can be easily damaged.

If you follow the advice, then a rich strawberry harvest is guaranteed!

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