How to care for strawberries after harvest

Time after harvest - an important period in the life of the strawberry bush. We can not forget about the plants and to neglect the careful care of them! After all Strawberry has spent a lot of energy, nutrients, so that we can enjoy delicious berries. Therefore, we must help the plant to recover and prepare for the new season. If you leave the strawberries without care, the harvest will be poor for the next year. In this publication, I will tell you about all the necessary arrangements: from Opener to fertilizing and pruning. Our main task - to restore the power plant!

It is interesting: In terms of botany, our strawberries - a strawberry pineapple (valid names - large-fruited and garden). His popular name of the plant derives from the large round berries of the Old Russian word "club" (as well as "a ball").

Working with strawberry patch

The first thing we do in the garden after the fruiting strawberry - working with the land. it should be weed and proryhlit. I'm doing these two things at once, using the normal "tsapulki". If the soil is covered with a special film, then skip this step. If bed zamulchirovat be useful to remove the old layer proryhlit soil and put a new one. The fact that in such a "litter" hiding bacteria, fungi and pests. Worth strawberry bush weaken the immune system - and close to the disease!

The meaning of loosening - improving soil aeration. Often its upper layer is converted into a dense cake, and the roots do not admit air. Loosen need so as not to damage the roots of plants. I try a little "okuchit" bush, especially around its base circle the earth settled from irrigation or visible to the underground part of garden plants. At the same time choosing all the weeds (preferably roots), so that they did not take away nutrients, moisture and sunlight.

Water - the key to plant health

After fruiting strawberries in dire need of proper watering. The first rule states: the ground on a bed should always be slightly moist, but not turned into dirty slush. Therefore, focus on the weather: rainy, you can not hang with a watering can or a hose, but in the heat - watered 1-2 times a week. The second rule - surface irrigation landing will not bring any good, so it is less likely, but plentiful. So that the earth was soaked by 5 cm.

Council: Try to use only to defend the water for irrigation. Ideal - rain. But whatever the water, its temperature should not be colder than the ambient temperature.

Diet for weight gain!

Strawberry spent a lot of organic and mineral substances from the soil on the growth of berries. They should make up - make fertilizer. But at the same time the plant begins to slowly prepare for winter: vegetative processes gradually braked. Therefore it will be enough to fertilize 1 time: the end of July-September.

Suitable for feeding organic:

• infusion of chicken manure;
• wood ash;
• cow or horse manure.

As mineral fertilizer I think the ideal ammonium nitrate. Also good NPK and superphosphate. Prior to use, read the instructions, follow the recommendations and dosage. I scatter them evenly on the garden beds, and then harrow the ground with a rake.

Council: I like to make a dry cow dung "in-kind". I just put the pieces between the bushes. Then the autumn rains razmochat manure, and nutrients will flow into the ground gradually.

Pruning - the final stage of the care of strawberries in the country this season

Immediately after fruiting strawberries with her need to remove all damaged leaves. If there are signs of disease or pests - perform therapeutic treatment by appropriate means, on the basis of "diagnosis".

Later, closer to the fall, carry out "total" pruning: removing leaves and mustache. ✔ Place the "Thumbs Up" if you like the publication. Read more: Fertilizing potatoes during flowering. Recipe of the Belarusian-uncle