7 helpful tips for caring for strawberries after picking to boost yields next year

What to do with strawberry bushes after picking berries? If you do not take care of the future harvest until autumn, then it may not please you next year.

Eventsfromstrawberries thatneed toconductbeforeautumn

1. All weeds in the strawberry garden should be removed.

2. Next, you need to remove faded flower stalks, mustaches, if you do not plan to plant new berry plantations this year. If you are going to propagate strawberries in the fall, then on each bush you need to leave no more than 3 whiskers, which are located first to the mother bush, in order to get good seedlings.

3. It is necessary to cut off the excess (sick-looking, with specks lying on the ground) leaves so that the bushes rejuvenate a little.

4. Also, strawberries need to be fed with fertilizers that contain a lot of potassium and phosphorus, so that the plants have time to lay flower buds next year. Ash is considered a good feeding at this time (1 glass of substance per 10 liters of water, under a bush 0.5-1 liters of solution), or superphosphate (40 grams per 1 m2) + potassium sulfate (30 grams per 1 m2), granular horse manure, prolonged actions (1-2 st. spoons on a strawberry bush, you need to sprinkle around the plant), cow dung, dissolved in water in a ratio of 1: 6.

5. After applying any of the specified fertilizers, the soil must be loosened and watered.

6. If you find various spots on the leaves of strawberries (as a preventive measure), then you should treat the plants with biofungicides (Fitosporin-M, Verticillin, Alirin-B).

7. It is necessary to treat insect pests with a biological product "Fitoverm". It is an insectoacaricide that fights against strawberry weevil, mite (1 ml per 1 liter of water) and thrips (10 ml per 1 liter of water). Also, after fruiting, you can use the systemic preparations Masai, Actellik, Sunmayt.

All these activities will help you get a good strawberry harvest.

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