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Do you want to grow great strawberries?It's time to find out important information. After reading the article to the end, you will find out why care after fruiting is so important for strawberries, whether it is necessary to water and feed the plantings, and, most importantly, what to do with the ubiquitous antennae.

From the author: Fragrant, unusually tasty and healthy garden strawberries appear in our gardens earlier than others. Both adults and children are looking forward to when the first berries will ripen on the bushes.

How many of them will be and whether they will be large and tasty depends not only on spring feeding and watering. Rather, it depends very little, because the most crucial period for caring for this berry is after harvesting.

Why care for strawberries after picking berries

From my own experience, I was convinced that in the summer you cannot leave strawberry bushes unattended.

If, having collected the last berries, forget about its existence, then in the next season you should not count on a rich harvest. And all because the fruit buds for the next harvest in strawberries begin to be laid at the end of fruiting.

And besides, there are other "strawberry" troubles in the form of pests, various diseases, lack of nutrients, moisture, frost, etc. Therefore, immediately after fruiting, I begin to work for the benefit of the future harvest..

To water or not

July and August for strawberries is a very important time. At this time, she begins to actively tie fruit buds, forms new stems-horns. The bushes become more luxuriant, which means that their yield also increases. Therefore, you should not forget about watering in any case.

On average, I water two or three times a week, and sometimes more often if I notice that the bushes begin to droop and the leaves begin to dry out. Comrades, we have such heat! The earth turns to dust in a day. What about the weather in your region? But, if rainy and cool weather comes out, I stop watering so that the water does not stagnate at the roots and fungal diseases do not appear.

Top dressing

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In the period after fruiting, strawberries are gaining strength for the future harvest and are in great need of feeding. Experts recommend using a special strawberry mineral complex for this, in which potassium and phosphorus play the main roles.

From the author: I use equal parts superphosphate and potassium salt. You can choose any other, but similar fertilizers in the main mineral

I sometimes use nothing not inferior, but cheaper option: wood ash containing all the substances necessary for the berry. After watering and loosening, I pour it into the soil around the bushes and cover it with humus. I use about 5 glasses of ash per square meter. By the way, humus simultaneously serves as mulch and additional fertilizing.

Is it possible to prune strawberries after fruiting and what to do with their mustache

Question to readers: How is your strawberry harvest this year? Show off in the comments at the bottom of the article - photos are welcome!

After fruiting, strawberry bushes do not look very attractive: old leaves gradually wither and die off. Such leaves are often infested with diseases and pests. So that they do not infect the young leaves, and then the whole plant, I gently break it off. Young leaves I leave it, otherwise the plant will spend a lot of energy on growing new foliage, which will reduce the harvest of next year. The mustache also weakens the bushes very much, so I always cut them off with a sharp pruner.

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