Are the strawberries in bloom? It's time to feed: the same care, but berries

Flaming fireworks, fellow gardeners!

Do you want to harvest 1.5-2 more strawberries from your plantation in kilograms of berry equivalent? Apply during flowering or immediately after it a simple top dressing-spraying. In the article you will learn 2 ingredients and the correct way to use it.

On the Internet, you have probably already met long lists of points of proper care. So that the garden bed is always wet, and that not a feather of weed... And 10 g of superphosphate strictly for the growing moon... But, in all honesty, let's admit: not all of us have exemplary strawberries, but we want to collect more berries.

Therefore, in my article there will be no moralizing. It's too late to drink Borjomi. We will work with what we have! And we have a flowering or just fading strawberry. The last opportunity to have time to influence the amount, size and taste of the future harvest.

Go to any hardware store that has a fertilizer shelf first. I have no doubt that the treasured potassium monophosphate will be found there.

I consider this fertilizer a masterpiece of the Soviet agrochemical industry, because I use it every year. I use it in the garden, in the garden and even for indoor flowers.

The cost is penny. A bag of 20 grams costs about 25-30 rubles. Moreover, the solution prepared from this modest bag will be enough for all strawberries.

From the author: And the flower garden will still get it. Ornamental plants bloom like mad after feeding with potassium monophosphate.

So there will be no serious blow to the wallet. We'll buy it right there or go to the pharmacy for the second ingredient.

Gardeners remember that 3 macronutrients are needed for successful plant development: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Someone knows that a yellow leaf with green veins screams about chlorosis and the need to feed with iron. But we often undeservedly forget about other trace elements... And we lose the opportunity to harvest additional crops.

But it is precisely one of the microelements in the world of gardening - boron - that directly affects the number of ovaries, their further development and, ultimately, the volume and quality of the berries harvested.

And the easiest way to get boric fertilizer is to buy a packet of boric acid powder at the first pharmacy around the corner. Sometimes it can also be found on the fertilizer shelf. It costs about 20 rubles.

And now - we are preparing that elixir, sacred for strawberries!

• Choose a day without rain or wind. After all, precipitation can wash away the composition, and the wind can blow it off before a magical effect occurs. I do all the top dressing on the leaf when the sun is already going down.

From the author - advice: If you want the dressing to be absorbed by the leaf in the maximum volume, add a little green soap to the solution. It will act like an adhesive

• Prepare a concentrate. Unfortunately, neither potassium monophosphate nor boric acid can boast of excellent solubility. So first dissolve them all the way in a glass of warm water. Otherwise, it will not be visible in the bucket whether microscopic crystals are mixed there or not.
• I will not torment you with pharmaceutical dosages, but I will say in Russian: to fertilize strawberries during flowering, take a tablespoon of potassium monophosphate and boric acid. + - 5 grams will not do any weather, so I do not consider it necessary to bother with such trifles. Will the strawberries get nourishment? Get it! Well, that's it)

• Pour everything into a 10L bucket of warm water and stir again vigorously.
• It's good if you have a spray bottle. Spraying strawberries with a boric-phosphorus-potassium composition from it is a pleasure. But nobody canceled grandmother's methods: we dip a fluffy broom - and, forward, wave over the strawberries.
• Buy a bigger bucket for a good harvest.

Perhaps the publication will seem frivolous because of the humor. But the fact that potassium monophosphate and boron seriously increase yields is a fact. Try it, you will like it!

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