Strawberry after a fruiting. What to bring to the next year have a good harvest

In July, fruiting strawberries have ended, but the care of plants can not pause. Need watering, weeding. Also, you must not forget to fertilize shrubs phosphorus-potassium fertilizers.

Events with strawberries after fruiting

The following events with strawberries begin to conduct after will take 2-3 weeks after fruiting. Until mid-July cut off the leaves, leaving 2-3 cm from the root.

But mowing strawberries only one that has an age of 2-3 years.

You also need to remove the formed whiskers, shrunken, and subject to the virus leaves (they are pink).

Then you should fertilize strawberries. At first, I take ammonia, breed it in the amount of 1 tbsp. spoons in 10 liters of water. The solution was stirred and watering the root. The mixture fulfill the role of antiseptic, if spray it on the sheet by various diseases and noxious insects (in this case the flow rate - 2 tbsp. spoons on a bucket of water).

Also in August, fertilize strawberries ash. Dissolve 1 cup ash in 10 liters of water, insist 2 hour and watered for each bush 0.5 liters of the mixture.

In winter, you can cover the strawberries with straw, hay.

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