I almost forgot to fertilize strawberries in the fall: it is necessary to once again enjoy the harvest
Welcome gardeners!
My whole family loves strawberries. Its berry is traditionally collected in the Soviet saucer enamel, tastier and more fragrant than ideal for the type of purchase in plastic containers. Let the home and sometimes with a little sour.
Therefore, every year I carefully take care of their miniature strawberry plantation. It would be desirable to fragrant berries enough for all comers.
And I do not bought up on plant nutrition - I want to give a strawberry nutrition that she had the strength to numerous berries. And most importantly, sweet and delicious!
Why feed the strawberries in the fall
Strawberry - plant, which lays the flower buds in the summer. They are so-called horns. This is the place where tufts of leaves grow, so pack petioles.
By the way, why are not knowledgeable gardeners cut strawberry bushes by the roots: to avoid damaging accidentally laid the flower buds. They contain the seeds of future flowers. Therefore, if the damage to the horns, you can stay all crops. Unenviable prospect, is not it?
For the aging of flower buds strawberries need potassium. Undoubtedly, it is the main element of the fall, a king of the garden in September. And on the very fruiting plant has spent huge amounts of potassium. Considering that the bushes of strawberries for many years sitting in one place without a transplant, the ground under them is likely to become very poor in potash.
What make and how to
The main rule - do not give any autumn nitrogen in any form! Of particular concern in this regard is organic: it has a nitrogen content is usually off scale. I think it's better to leave organic fertilizer until spring.
If in September pour strawberries, for example, the infusion of mullein, the bush will begin at a furious pace to build up the leaves, because nitrogen causes the plant to increase green mass. And the plant is, unfortunately, not be able to enter in the winter in a state already asleep. So, as it should be in an ideal garden.
Not later than the end of September I fertilize strawberries potash. My personal favorite - potassium sulphate (potassium sulfate), because it has no chlorine.
It is important to make granules under watering or under the rain. If you just sprinkle them on the ground or even to close up the soil (which I never do in his garden, not to damage through negligence strawberry roots), the pellets do not have time to dissolve.
A cold autumn that will come very soon, the opportunity to stop strawberry suck out of the ground nutrients. Potassium sulfate just do not have time to act!