Remontant strawberries. What to do in November?

Remontant strawberries bears fruit up to the frost to snow. What activities should be carried out with it in November?

pruning

If you remove the flower stalks before, in October, you can go to grow new ones, if the street will keep zero temperature. The plant will spend just wasted their strength.

I crop the flower stalks only to to dry them for winter. A winter brew tea with those dried plant parts. We get very fragrant drink. When the flower stalks are cut? After a heavy frost, when the inside of strawberry flowers appear black (not to be confused with the weevil activity in this case is from the cold). If you do not want to harvest the flower stalks, then cut away nothing.

Remove leaves, too, is not necessary, because the plants with cut leaves bad winter. Green mass is a natural shelter for the bush for the winter. Remove should only yellowed leaves and signs of disease. In the spring you can cut the bushes already full, which will give the development of new young shoots.

Watering

When autumn was dry, then you can spend vlagozaryadny watering. Flow rate - 10 liters per 1 sq beds. It also contributes to a better overwintering.

Remontant strawberries better planted in raised beds, because that it is warmer than the normal range. And the harvest in October, respectively, will be better. As is known, the main cold passes from the soil itself, as already above the ground a little bit warmer. And even some half-degree play a role in the formation of berries. And high beds faster the snow melts and the soil dries out better.

feeding

Bushes need regular feeding for abundant fruiting. By winter they should feed the solution of ash and superphosphate. These fertilizers will increase the frost resistance of plants.

Humus can not make, it leads to the luxuriant growth of wild strawberries and the winter it's not necessary.

Mulching

As the mulch you can use straw, hay, oak leaves, pine litter, compost. Especially in need mulching plants 2 and 3 years of vegetation (bushes slightly raised, and the kidneys are not protected from the cold). Manure under the mulch can be made only in the spring.

These are the actions you need to take place in November with remontant strawberries.

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