To get the maximum yields of strawberries (garden strawberries), it must be properly looked after. Agricultural technology can correct many mistakes made during planting, as well as reveal all the advantages of the variety. With improper care, strawberries produce small sour berries, and varietal differences are reduced to nothing.

These strawberries have been properly cared for.

Introduction to strawberries

Strawberries are a perennial plant grown for their berries. The plantation gives high yields for no more than 4 years, then the berries become smaller, their taste becomes sour. Although the bushes, with proper care, can live for more than 20 years, but there will be few yields from them.

Horns

There are about 30 sockets (horns) in a bush. The older the bush, the more horns
it consists, their number depends on the care and variety. The growth of rosettes begins after the end of fruiting, every year they form higher and higher above the ground. Strong strawberry bushes have many horns, weak ones have few.

Peduncles appear from the tops of rosettes, respectively, the more magnificent the bush, the more abundant flowering and fruiting. At the bottom, the rosettes fuse into one small stem, on which adventitious roots form. Powerful bushes lay many peduncles, bloom for a longer time and the yield from them is higher.

Structural diagram of a strawberry bush

Mustache

The strongest whiskers of the plant are produced in the first year of cultivation, every year the whisker formation becomes weaker, while the whiskers become smaller. By the fourth year, strawberries usually no longer grow mustaches. If anyone is getting vegetative shoots from their 5-6 year old plantation, it is because it has been poorly cared for and there are bushes of different ages, and tendrils produce young rooted plants.

Vegetative shoots begin to form when the day length is more than 12 hours and the temperature is above 15 °C. The laying of flower buds in rooted whiskers occurs after 2-3 months (therefore, during the autumn planting of buds, very few buds are laid, they do not have time to mature and the yield for the next year is low).

Berries

Several factors influence the quality of strawberries.

1. Soil composition. Strawberries growing on poor soils have a less pronounced taste than when grown on fertile lands.
2. Weather. The more direct sun hits the bushes, the sweeter the berries. Strawberries growing under the crowns of trees, no matter how you take care of them, usually have sour berries.
3. Sort. Most European strawberry varieties are sweeter than domestic ones.

properties of berries.

• Picked unripe berries turn red during transportation and storage, but they will not be completely sweet.
• The taste characteristic of the berry variety is acquired only when fully ripe on the bush. To reveal the taste qualities, completely reddened berries are not removed for 2-3 days. Such berries are unsuitable for storage or transportation, but their taste is fully manifested.
• To obtain maximum yields, the berries are picked unripe, as this stimulates the growth of the remaining ovaries. As a result, strawberry yield increases.
• Unripe berries of any variety have the same sweet and sour taste.

On a personal plot, where good taste is more valued than an increase in yield of 300-500 g, it is better to let the strawberries fully ripen and taste their true taste. But in wet weather, the berries should not be fully ripe, since it is the ripe berries that are affected by rot and mold in the first place.

Advantages and disadvantages of culture

The main advantages of strawberries.

• Strawberries can produce good yields with very low amounts of fertilizer and simple care. The main thing is to fertilize the soil well before planting the crop.
• Annual harvests. Strawberries do not have a periodicity of fruiting, like some other berries (for example, raspberries).
• Quick first harvest.
• Very simple and easy reproduction. A bush for a season is able to give several dozen mustaches, from which the best ones are selected and rooted. During the summer, you can plant a bed of the most valuable variety.
• The unpretentiousness of plants. Strawberries can grow under the crowns of young trees, in flower beds, among weeds (but yields in such thickets are reduced).

Culture deficiencies.

• The defeat of gray rot. Most modern varieties are quite resistant to this disease, but with improper care, you can lose up to a third of the crop. Domestic varieties are more resistant to the disease than European ones.
• Insufficient self-fertility of strawberries. For a good setting of berries, several different varieties are grown on the plot.
• Winter hardiness is the ability not only to endure negative temperatures, but also winter thaws without being damaged. In domestic varieties, it is quite high, the loss of bushes in the spring is insignificant. In European varieties of strawberries, winter hardiness is lower, plants freeze slightly, and in severe winters they freeze completely. But some imported varieties grow successfully in our conditions; bushes cover for the winter, which somewhat reduces the loss of plants.
• Short fruiting period. The berry gives maximum yields for 3-4 years, then it must be completely renewed.

All the shortcomings of the berry can be overcome, the main thing is not to leave strawberries without proper care.

Features of growing and caring for strawberries

The main components of proper care are:

1. weeding;
2. loosening;
3. water regime;
4. top dressing.

Caring for strawberries is simple, but requires patience and consistency.

Weeding strawberry beds

Planting strawberries should always be free from weeds. This culture does not like competitors and, in case of overgrowing of the plot, produces small sour berries. Weeding is carried out as weeds grow, 6-8 times per season.

Along with the removal of weeds, the mustache is also cut off, especially in spring. If they are removed in time, then the plants will switch to flowering, otherwise all the strength of the bushes will go into mustache formation and there will be no berries.

loosening

Strawberries love loose, well-permeable soil. The roots should always have free access to air. Before flowering, the soil is loosened 3 times, and after picking berries - once every 2 weeks. If the weather is rainy and the earth is quickly compacted, then loosening is carried out more often. The soil is cultivated to a depth of 3-4 cm.

Starting from the second year, strawberry bushes are spudded, as adventitious roots appear on the stem. Hilling stimulates root formation, the growth of horns, the bushes become more magnificent, which gives an increase in yield.

How to water strawberries

The most demanding strawberries for moisture in June, when berries, mustaches and leaves grow at the same time. If the weather is dry, then the plot is watered every 2-3 days to a depth of 30 cm, and if possible, then every day.

Watering is best done between the rows, for which a furrow is made in the middle of the beds during planting, which will collect water when the snow melts and during irrigation. Plants are not watered under the root, since the root system of strawberries is sprawling and the bulk of the roots are located on the periphery of the aerial part of the plant.

After harvesting, the plants begin the second peak of root formation and foliage growth. At this time, the plot is watered 1-2 times a week. If there is no rain, then watering is carried out daily. Before flowering and after it, the bushes can be watered by sprinkling, strawberries are very fond of high humidity.

Before flowering, strawberry plantations can be watered with "rain".

During flowering and fruiting, only row-spacings are watered, the water temperature should not be lower than 15 ° C. The rest of the time, the plants tolerate watering with cold water well.

In autumn, water-charging pre-winter watering is done. The earth is shed to a depth of 30-50 cm. Moist soil better protects strawberries from frost, so it is necessary that the plot goes wet under the snow.

During flowering and growth of ovaries in case of rainy weather, strawberries suffer from waterlogging. Signs of this are the appearance of large brown spots on the leaves and ovaries (without spoiling them). Especially often, waterlogging of a strawberry plantation occurs on dense clay soils. The roots cannot provide normal nutrition to the aerial parts and the bushes begin to shed the largest berries.

When signs of oxygen starvation appear, deep loosening (5-7 cm) is carried out. If the berry plant experiences constant waterlogging, then the beds are raised to 15-20 cm. When there are no ovaries on strawberries, it does not suffer from waterlogging, but, on the contrary, gives lush foliage and powerful mustaches.

Feeding strawberries with folk remedies (ash, chicken droppings)

Strawberries with berries take out quite a lot of nutrients from the soil, these are not only the main nutrients (NPK), but also trace elements that need to be replenished. The lack of nutrition begins to appear in the second year of cultivation, in the first year the plants have enough fertilizer applied before planting.

Lack of nutrition never manifests itself in any one element, therefore, complex fertilizers containing trace elements are always applied to the plot. It is better to feed strawberries with organic fertilizers, as they act more gently and for a long time.

In the first year of cultivation, if the soil has been properly prepared, fertilizers are not applied. In the second and subsequent years, the berry is fed 2 times per season. In the spring, ash is brought to the surface of the soil around the bushes, and then the earth is loosened shallowly. On infertile soils in May, along with ash, humates, humus or

Do not apply ashes along with manure, as a chemical reaction occurs, as a result of which a large amount of nitrogen is released, which can damage plants.

To prepare an herbal infusion, the herb is placed in a plastic barrel, filled with water and left to ferment for 10-15 days. At the end of fermentation, 1 liter of infusion is diluted in 10 liters of water and the bushes are watered at the rate of 1 liter per plant.

After harvesting, strawberries begin the second wave of regrowth of roots and leaves, and at this time they need nitrogen. Feed with a solution of mullein or bird droppings (1 l / 10 l of water). Bird droppings are preferred for strawberries and are now sold in garden stores. This is the most concentrated fertilizer in terms of nutrients.

In the case of excessive use of organic matter, overfeeding and fattening of strawberry bushes may occur. With proper fertilization, the size of leaves and berries increases, and yields increase.

Excess nitrogen is manifested in the appearance of large leaves and crushing of berries, the yield of plants is significantly reduced. Overfeeding occurs due to the frequent use of grass fertilizer or non-compliance with the application of other organic fertilizers.

To prevent the fattening of plants with organic matter (except for manure and compost), ash is added, which does not contain nitrogen and creates a predominance of potassium and phosphorus in the soil. Plants overfed with nitrogen do not tolerate winter well and are more affected by diseases and pests.

Underfeeding for strawberries (and not only for her) is better than overfeeding, since in this case the situation is easier to correct.

Is it necessary to feed strawberries with yeast, iodine, boric acid and ammonia

Top dressing with folk remedies (yeast, iodine, boric acid, ammonia) is highly undesirable for the culture.

Firstly, it is a mono-fertilizer that does not provide plants with the entire set of microelements.

Secondly, the bushes can be easily overfed, (especially with ammonia), which will cause significant damage to the plantation.

Thirdly, iodine, boric acid and ammonia are volatile solutions that evaporate quickly, they must be immediately washed into the lower layers of the soil, which is impossible with a large plot area.

Fourth, yeast is an excellent protein food for animals, but does not contain any plant nutrients.

Strawberry plantation fertilizer should be systemic, fully provide the plants with the necessary elements, and no experiments with feeding are allowed.

Care of a strawberry plantation

Regular care is the basis of a high yield. Strawberries with proper agricultural technology in the first year can produce up to 300 g of large berries from a bush. On the garden plot, you need to have four plots (beds) of strawberries: the first, second, third and fourth years of fruiting.

How to care for strawberry seedlings

When planting seedlings, no fertilizers are applied. The soil must be fertilized in advance. A freshly planted mustache is shaded from the sun, otherwise the seedlings wither, since the roots cannot yet make up for the loss of water, which is lost when it evaporates from the leaves. Wilting is not very dangerous for seedlings; when the evening coolness sets in, they will straighten out.

For shading, the mustache is covered with newspapers, a white cloth, or some grass is thrown over them. After 2-3 days, the shelter is removed, by this time the plants have already taken root and can independently extract water from the soil. In the first days, the planted mustache is well watered. In the future, the ground under the young bushes should always be wet. In the case of a warm and dry autumn, strawberries are watered once a week.

It is important to prevent weeds from overgrowing strawberries. If this is not done in the year of planting, then in the future the fight against them will become much more complicated. Weeds will grow through the bushes and it will not be possible to remove them without damaging the crop.

Young strong mustaches after rooting themselves begin to give mustaches, which must be removed, as they weaken the plant and interfere with its preparation for winter.

Preparing strawberry beds for winter

European varieties require special care when preparing the plot for winter, since they are less winter-hardy. In autumn, if the weather is dry, water-charging irrigation is carried out. Water well protects the rhizomes from freezing, conducting heat from below to the roots of plants.

It is better to warm strawberries for the winter.

For a better wintering, strawberries are insulated by laying fallen leaves and needles under the bushes and between the rows. They cover only bare ground, the plants themselves do not need to be covered, since they leave before winter with leaves, which in themselves are a heater.

The main thing in winter is to prevent freezing of the roots. If there is no insulation, then in the aisles and under the bushes they pour the earth with a layer of 3-4 cm.

Spring strawberry care

In the spring, after the snow melts, dry leaves are cut off from the bushes, the heater is removed from the bed (if it was used), weeded from the first weeds and loosened. Old bushes, which have a small lignified stem with adventitious roots, are additionally spud so that they are more powerful. Large plants have better flowering and higher yields.

Loosening is carried out to a depth of 2-3 cm, since the roots of strawberries are shallow. With this treatment, the earth warms up faster and the plants start to grow.

The main task in spring is to ensure that the soil warms up quickly so that the plants quickly grow foliage and begin flowering. With an early start of the growing season, flowering will occur in more moist soil. For the fastest warming up of the earth, you can put a black film between the rows.

Some gardeners, on the contrary, do not remove the insulation for a long time, fearing frost damage to strawberries. But, firstly, she is not afraid of frosts in the spring, and secondly, strawberries bear fruit from mid-June to mid-July (depending on the variety), and in May she needs time to prepare for flowering. The better it is prepared, the larger the berries will be.

Dry leaves should be removed in the spring so that the earth warms up faster.

Old dry leaves, along with last year's mustache, are removed, but young foliage does not need to be cut. Pruning green leaves in spring delays flowering by 2 weeks (until new ones grow), the plant spends a lot of energy on growing foliage, because of this, the berries become smaller.

In a dry warm spring, when the earth dries up quickly, watering is carried out. After the growth of young leaves, do spring top dressing.
If the plants are weakened after winter, grow poorly, they are sprayed with the Zircon or Epin growth stimulator.

What should be the care of strawberries after harvest

After fruiting, the spring leaves look yellow and spotty and are removed along with regrown mustaches and weeds. It is impossible to mow all the foliage, because the roots growing at this time require starch, which comes just from the leaves, if they are removed, this will slow down the preparation of strawberries for winter.

After harvesting, a second top dressing is necessarily carried out to replenish the batteries taken out with the berries.

In the second half of summer, mustaches begin to grow more actively in strawberries. In no case should they be allowed to take root. They compact plantings and weaken the bushes, which leads to a decrease in yield and taste of berries.

If the bushes are intended for fruiting, then all emerging mustaches are cut off from them. The plot is inspected every 4-5 days, since the whiskers appear until October, and the spears of the shoots that have just appeared are removed.

Strawberries have a balance between mustache formation and fruiting: if the plants are not allowed to form mustaches, then it enhances fruiting and vice versa, if they are not cut off, the yield is greatly reduced.

The plantation should always be clean of weeds, fertilized, the bushes should be trimmed with mustaches.

In the autumn, water-charging irrigation is carried out, if necessary, a heater is laid out between the rows.

Plantation care in the last year of cultivation

With spring top dressing, you can give a little more nitrogen, the bushes will not have time to get fat, and the yield will not decrease from this. With dry soil, watering is carried out. Immediately after fruiting, the bed is dug up. This year, early cabbage can be planted on it, which will have time to ripen before the onset of cold weather (for this, increased doses of nitrogen were given).

Mulching strawberries

When caring for a plantation, mulching materials are used to protect berries from dirt and decay, warm bushes in winter, and protect soil from premature heating in a thaw. and prevents the formation of soil crust after rains or watering.

Using mulch when growing strawberries is the best way to keep the plot clean and makes it much easier to care for. To prevent undesirable effects during its use, mulch is applied subject to certain conditions.

Sawdust, straw, dry moss, fallen leaves, needles are used as mulching materials. Their disadvantage is the binding of soil nitrogen, which causes nitrogen starvation of plants. Therefore, mulch is applied in the fall as a heater between the rows, by spring the process of decay of fiber (of which it consists) will be completed and nitrogen binding will not occur.

In the spring, the insulation is removed to better warm the soil, then it is returned as a mulch, and a fresh portion of the material is added to it. When making mulching materials in the spring, they must be impregnated with a solution of humates, mullein or bird droppings.

To do this, they are either soaked in a barrel with a fertilizer solution (sawdust), or watered with these fertilizers very abundantly so that the mulch is completely saturated with the solution. Then the binding of soil nitrogen will not occur, and the plants will not experience nitrogen starvation.

Mulching strawberries with sawdust. Sawdust strongly acidifies the soil, watering them with urea as a nitrogen fertilizer increases acidification. This effect gives excellent results on leached chernozems. On acidic soils, this should not be allowed. To prevent acidification of the soil, sawdust is first soaked in a barrel with humates or chicken manure, after which they become an excellent mulching material. Scattered on the beds with a layer of 6-10 cm. Sawdust is stronger than hay and straw inhibits the growth of weeds.

Straw as mulch.

Mulching with grass and straw. Hay and straw consist of almost the same fiber and bind soil nitrogen very strongly. They are brought in in the fall. When used as hay or straw as a mulch, manure crumbs are added with them in the spring or watering with nitrogen fertilizers (humates, mullein, herbal infusion) is carried out over the freshly laid mulch. In this case, nitrogen fixation does not occur and the yield does not fall. They are laid out in row-spacing with a layer of 5-7 cm.

Leaf mulch. The foliage of deciduous trees is desirable to be introduced in the fall, laying out a layer of 15-20 cm between the rows. In winter, it will be a heater. During spring use, freshly spread leaves are irrigated with humates, mullein, or herbal infusion.

Mulching strawberries with needles. Pine and spruce bark and needles protect plants well from diseases, as they contain phytoncides. The material is taken only under healthy trees, scattered between rows and under bushes with a layer of 7-10 cm. Since this material strongly acidifies the soil, it is applied with manure crumbs.

Peat as mulch they do not use it on strawberries, since it has a number of significant drawbacks:

• strongly acidifies the soil;
• has a very high moisture capacity, which is why it is almost impossible to soak it with a nitrogen solution;
• in wet weather, it gets wet and interferes with the normal breathing of the roots;
• in winter it can become covered with an ice crust, which leads to the damping of plants.

Proper use of mulch not only helps to simplify the care of the plantation, but it itself is a good fertilizer.

Protecting berries from dirt

The berries lying on the ground are polluted by the ground, moreover, they are more affected by gray rot. So that the berries do not come into contact with the soil, you can make various supports for the bushes: from wire, plastic bottles, planks, films, special rings on legs are sold in stores. But all this is suitable for a small plot.

On a large plantation, plucked lower peripheral leaves are placed under green berries. If the bush is healthy, red berries may lie on the ground for some time without being damaged.

When growing strawberries, it is not necessary to maintain a plantation with a more productive fruiting period. The berry picker should move around the site in frequent rotation.

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The middle of summer is a hot time for harvesting strawberries (garden strawberries). It would seem that after collecting these delicious berries, you can forget about caring for strawberry bushes until the next season, that is, until spring. However, this opinion is erroneous, because already this year, after fruiting, flower buds of the next year's crop begin to be laid on garden strawberries. Therefore, after picking berries, strawberries should be properly looked after. How to water and how to feed strawberries after fruiting in July, August and September, we recommend that you study in our article.

After harvesting, strawberry care includes the following procedures:

• regular watering;
• weeding;
• loosening and hilling;
• top dressing;
• removal of mustaches and dried leaves.

Weeding and loosening

After fruiting, strawberry beds should first be freed from weeds. If the soil has been covered with mulch, it is removed, as pests and diseases can accumulate in old straw or sawdust.

In order for air to enter the roots, the soil around the bushes must be loosened. This should be done carefully to avoid damaging the roots.

After weeding and loosening, strawberries are watered and spudded, covering new growing roots with soil. In this case, it is necessary to ensure that the heart of the plant is not covered with earth.

Watering strawberries in July

Many gardeners are interested in - Should strawberries be watered in July?. Irrigation is a must. The frequency and abundance of watering depends on the weather. In dry and warm weather, strawberries are watered in July at least once every 5-7 days. If it’s cool outside and it’s raining, you don’t need to water the strawberry beds.

Attention! The soil must not be allowed to dry out. In the absence of precipitation in warm weather, use about two buckets of water per square meter of bed.

Pruning mustache and leaves

About 2-3 days after harvesting, remove old dried leaves from strawberry bushes, as well as those that have red, red or white spots. These are dying leaves that take food from the plant. They should be removed with secateurs or sharp scissors.

Along with the leaves, unnecessary strawberry mustaches are also removed. For reproduction, you can leave the most productive and strong outlet, which is located immediately at the mother plant.

Attention! When removing leaves and whiskers, be careful not to damage the hearts and new leaves.

Old foliage is often infected with various diseases and pests, so be sure to remove it.

How to feed strawberries after fruiting

In July, after pruning leaves and whiskers on strawberry bushes, plants need nitrogen, which will stimulate the growth of new foliage. Can choose:

1. Nitrammofoska or nitrophoska. Any of the fertilizers is diluted at the rate of 1-2 tbsp. spoons per 10 liters of water. If you use only nitrophoska, add a glass of wood ash to the solution, which contains many trace elements.
2. Ammophoscu. The fertilizer contains a large number of trace elements. From it you can prepare a solution (for 10 liters of water - a matchbox of dressing) or use it dry. Dry fertilizer is scattered around strawberry bushes at the rate of 20 grams (matchbox) per 1 sq. meter plantings, after which the beds are watered.

In the second half of July - early August, mullein or bird droppings will be a good top dressing for strawberries. They cannot be applied fresh, as the roots of plants can be burned. It is recommended to use solutions:

• chicken manure diluted 1:15 and water the bushes with it so that the solution does not fall on the foliage;
• mullein diluted 1:10, insist for a day and use as directed.

Chicken manure and mullein can be enriched with mineral fertilizers by adding wood ash to the solution (10 liters - 1 liter of ash).

Attention! Strawberries do not like chlorine, so potassium chloride and other fertilizers containing this element cannot be applied to strawberries. Otherwise, the plants will grow and bear fruit worse.

Caring for strawberries in August

watering

The last month of summer is often hot, so be sure to water your strawberry beds about twice a week. If the foliage begins to dry out and wilt, the plants do not have enough moisture.

Around mid-August, the soil around the strawberries can be covered with mulch. Pre-beds are watered abundantly (15 liters of water per 1 sq. M). Humus can be used as mulch, spreading it out in a layer of 2-3 cm. Such mulch will become a good top dressing and at the same time protect the soil from drying out. Strawberries can be watered less often.

Soil and bush tillage

Do not forget to remove weeds from strawberry beds in a timely manner, which not only prevents strawberries from growing, but also takes food from the soil.

If the leaves on the strawberries are still drying and turning yellow, keep cutting them off. Each bush should have at least 3-4 healthy young leaves.

Cut off the newly appeared mustache, and transplant those left for reproduction to a new bed.

How to feed strawberries in August

In the last month of summer, foliage is not actively growing, so fertilizers containing a large amount of nitrogen are not used.

If you did not feed strawberries with mullein or bird droppings in July, do it in August. Dilute bird droppings 1:20, and mullein - 1:10. One watering can (10 liters) will be enough to feed 12 bushes.

In August, strawberries are recommended to be fed with potassium and phosphorus. These elements are part of the Fasco fertilizer. Especially for strawberries, fertilizers Agricola, Ryazanochka, Rubin are produced, which are used according to the instructions attached to them.

After watering and top dressing, do not forget to carefully loosen and spud strawberry bushes.

Pest and disease treatment

Be sure to carry out preventive treatment of strawberries from various pests and diseases. To do this, water the soil with a weak solution of manganese and spray the foliage.

Strawberry leaves should be inspected regularly:

1. Brown spots on leaves may be a sign of a viral infection. Treat the plantings with a Bordeaux mixture.
2. Damage to young leaves often signals that an earth mite has wound up on a strawberry bed. Use Actellik, a solution of colloidal sulfur or Titovia Jet to destroy it.
3. If even before the harvest the berries rot Perhaps the plants are affected by the fungus. When all the berries are harvested, the foliage should be sprayed with a solution of copper oxychloride.

September strawberry care

In the first month of autumn, strawberries are prepared for wintering. If after harvesting the care of the strawberries was correct, flowers will still form on the plants. They should be cut off, as there will be no more berries, and flowering will take away the strength of the plant. You also need to cut off new mustaches and withered foliage.

Should strawberries be watered in autumn?

If the weather is dry, strawberry beds in September are watered 1-2 times a month. About 10 liters of water are consumed per square meter. Since it is already cool in autumn, frequent watering can lead to the development of fungal diseases. Therefore, it is better to water strawberries rarely, but plentifully.

Before sheltering plantings in October, water-charging irrigation is carried out.

How to feed strawberries in September

To survive the cold winter, plants need strength, for which they are fed with phosphate fertilizers. You can use superphosphate (50 grams) and wood ash (1 cup), which are diluted in a bucket of water.

Plants before winter can be "warmed" using cow manure or chicken manure for this:

• cow dung diluted in water (1:10), add wood ash (1 cup) and pour one and a half liters under each plant;
• chicken manure diluted in water 1:15, after which each bush is fed with a liter of solution.

Mulching

In September, the soil on the strawberry bed is covered with mulch (if this was not done in August). As mulch, you can use dry chopped grass, needles, straw, leaf humus, sawdust. The layer of mulch should be about 5 cm.

You can cover the soil under the plants with a spandboard.

Shelter for the winter

Only weakened plants that have not received the necessary nutrition need additional shelter for the winter. Bushes cover at a temperature of about -3 degrees and dry weather. In this case, the covering material will remain dry. For shelter, you can use dry potato tops, leaves, spruce branches, straw, raspberry branches.

When to cover strawberries for the winter depends on the climate of the region. It could be October or November when light frosts set in.

If all the activities were carried out when caring for strawberries after fruiting in July, August and September, next year the strawberries will thank their owners with a good harvest.

Many inexperienced gardeners, having harvested strawberries (the correct name for this plant is large-fruited strawberries), stop caring for it. Or they just weed and remove the whiskers, leaving the rest of the care for planting strawberries in the spring. Such inattention to plants is very erroneous, this culture has high care requirements.

Caring for strawberries in the summer should not stop. At this time, plants are restored after fruiting and the laying of the future crop, so the task of the gardener is to provide the berry bushes with maximum care.

If you are faced with the question: how to get a good strawberry harvest for the next year, you need to take a number of measures to care for this plant, namely:

- remove mulch. If the plantings of strawberry bushes were mulched with organic material - straw, sawdust, weeds, etc., then the mulch must be removed, pests and pathogens can accumulate in it.

- Weed beds from weeds. Weeds not only compete with cultivated plants for light and water, they also thicken plantings, thereby creating conditions for the spread of diseases.

— Be sure to remove old leaves and flower stalks, they can also serve as a source of disease.

Leaves and flower stalks must be carefully cut with secateurs or scissors, in no case should they be cut off, otherwise the growth point of the plant, the so-called "heart", may be damaged.

- Remove mustache.

- Be sure to loosen the soil around strawberry bushes. Loosening the soil is very important for this crop.

Read about it in our article. It is necessary to loosen the soil in the aisles to a depth of 10 cm, and directly next to the plant - no more than 7 cm, so as not to damage the root system. If the strawberry roots are bare, you need to spud the plants a little or add soil so that the growth point (“heart”) is always at ground level.

- Water as needed. Strawberries need to be watered rarely, but plentifully. Maintaining the correct watering regime helps to increase the yield of the next year, the best development of young rosettes.

- Fertilize, top dressing with dry fertilizer can be combined with loosening and watering.

- Treat for pests and diseases. We will dwell on the most important aspects of care in more detail.

Pruning strawberry leaves after harvest

As a rule, mowing strawberry foliage is carried out if the plant is heavily infected with diseases or pests. For example, such as brown leaf spot or strawberry mite. Pruning foliage allows you to remove a significant part of pests and pathogens.

Strawberry leaves, like any other plants, are involved in photosynthesis, so it is impossible to cut off healthy leaves from a strawberry bush without unnecessary need, incorrect and untimely pruning or mowing of all foliage can cause great harm to the plant.

When to prune strawberries after harvest? This issue is very important, pruning is carried out in time until about July 15-20, to a height of 5-7 cm, so as not to damage the "heart". With later pruning or mowing, the plant will take a lot of strength to recover at the expense of a potential harvest.

In young bushes, it is impossible to completely cut off the leaves (mow), this procedure can be carried out for 3-4 years of the plant's life.

When to trim strawberry mustaches in summer

Mustaches should be removed regularly from strawberry bushes, because the plant spends a lot of energy on their development. The increased growth of young rosettes begins immediately after the end of flowering, and so that they do not weaken the plant, the mustache must be cut several times as they grow: after flowering, after picking berries, in August - September.

The procedure should be carried out in the morning or in the evening, when the weather is warm and dry. Strawberries do not like their plants to be disturbed on a hot day or in rainy weather.

How to feed strawberries after harvest

During fruiting, the strawberry plant spends a lot of nutrients on the formation of the crop. After picking the berries, the plants are weakened, at the same time, during this period of time, the laying of flower buds begins, so strawberries must be fed.

This culture is especially responsive to the application of organic fertilizers, they can be alternated with mineral fertilizers, or complex organomineral fertilizers can be used.

To stimulate the growth of young foliage, immediately after pruning, strawberries can be fed with organic fertilizers:

infusion of mullein(Pour 1 part of mullein with 10 parts of water, leave for a day, you can add one part of ash), herbal infusion, or ready-made fertilizers from the Flumb, Kaury store, etc. (according to instructions).

After 10 - 14 days, you can make top dressing complex fertilizers with a high content of phosphorus and potassium, these elements contribute to the laying of flower buds of the future crop. Fertilizers can be universal or special strawberry fertilizers.

How to treat strawberries from pests and diseases

To answer this question, you need to examine your strawberry bushes - if they have various spots on them, then these are signs of fungal diseases. Most often, strawberries are affected by various leaf spots: brown, white, brown. If you find signs of fungal diseases on your plants, you will need to treat the plants with 1% Bordeaux mixture, Ridomil Gold, Ordan preparations.

The presence of small holes on strawberry leaves indicates its defeat by a dangerous pest - raspberry-strawberry weevil. In case of signs of damage to plants by this pest, they must be sprayed with any insecticide (drug against pests), after 2 weeks, repeat the treatment.

The most common and dangerous strawberry pest is the strawberry mite. When plants are affected by this pest, young leaves of plants shrivel, turn yellow and die, plants become smaller, strawberry fruiting is sharply reduced.

It is quite difficult to deal with this pest, during the growing season several generations of strawberry mites develop on plants, therefore, “serious” preparations have to be used to treat plants: Karbofos, Aktelik, Bi-58, Aktar.

Of the biological preparations, Fitoverm is very effective, with its concentrated solution (10 ml per 10 liters of water), strawberries should be treated 4 times with an interval of 3-5 days (no more!), Treatments should be carried out at a temperature not lower than + 18C.

Pruning after fruiting is one of the essential items for caring for strawberries. This simple procedure will help you get even larger and sweeter berries next season.

The formation of antennae in strawberries is an absolutely normal process. This is how the plant reproduces. But if there is no task to grow seedlings of strawberries, then they must be cut off.

Although not all antennae are needed for berry propagation. The most powerful are the first ones released by the mother bush. They can be rooted, and all the rest will not give full-fledged offspring, so they should also be removed.

The tendrils take a lot of energy from the plant, and only timely pruning can preserve the potential of strawberries. If you do not remove them, every year the beds will become more neglected, and the berries will be small and tasteless.

Why and how to mow strawberries in the summer?

For large plantations, mowing strawberry bushes after fruiting should become the norm. This will not only save time and effort on removing tendrils and old leaves, but also prevent the development of fungal diseases, ensure sufficient ventilation of the garden bed and help the roots build up strength for the new season.

The best results are obtained by mowing strawberries aged 3-4 years. This has a rejuvenating effect and guarantees a great harvest next year. But young bushes are better not to mow, but to carefully cut.

To do this, use a pruner or sharp scissors. Be sure to treat them in a solution of potassium permanganate before use. It is strictly forbidden to tear off leaves and antennae with your hands. So there is a risk of removing not only the aerial part, but also damaging the spine.

When to prune strawberries?

The procedure is carried out 5-10 days after the last collection of fruits. Most often this happens before July 20, but a lot depends on the variety, weather conditions and other factors. You can understand that the time has come to do this by the appearance of new young greenery on the bushes. Often you have to do it again, up to 3-4 times per season, because the antennae continue to grow, and the leaves grow old.

Note!

If you mow beds with strawberries, re-pruning is not needed.

The day before, it is necessary to water the beds with strawberries well. It is necessary to mow with a very sharp scythe and not under the root, but leaving the stems to a height of about 3 cm.

If the bush is sick or weak, pruning should be done as early as possible. It is permissible to carry out the procedure on the second third day after harvesting the fruits, and preferably as close to the ground as possible in order to remove possible spores of the fungus.

It is very important to remove not only aged, but also damaged leaves. The first pruning is carried out 3-10 days after harvesting the fruits, and the last just before shelter for the winter.

Do not delay pruning strawberries. It is necessary that young leaves have time to grow before the onset of cold weather. Bare bushes may not endure the cold and the strawberries will die.

Time spending

To make strawberries easier to endure stress after removing the tendrils and old leaves, you need to carry out the procedure at the most suitable time for this. Best if the day is overcast. Then pruning can be done at any time of the day, but if it's hot, it's better to do it in the evening, two hours after watering. After heavy rain, it is also not worth trimming the antennae and leaves.

How to feed strawberries after pruning

Traditionally, for strawberries, it is recommended to use Elegy mineral preparations, but organics also give an excellent result. After harvesting, it is optimal to use freshly cut green manure, manure or manure solutions. A good result is mulching with peat or Christmas tree needles during the laying of young flower buds.

You can feed the berry with ammonium nitrate. Just remember that the excessive presence of nitrogen in the soil will lead to lush foliage growth, but will reduce the quality of the berries.

In general, according to the rules of agricultural technology, after pruning strawberries, it must be fed three times. The first time nitrogen is used, which stimulates young foliage to grow. After 14 days, potassium-phosphorus fertilizers are fertilized, which will help to lay flower buds. And around the middle of September, mullein or other organic matter is used to water the beds.

Advice!

To make the mullein solution more beneficial, add a glass of wood ash to it (per 10 liters of water).

When fertilizing strawberries, you need to act according to the principle - it is better not to feed than to overfeed.

How to care for strawberries after fruiting

After harvesting strawberries, it is very important to maintain soil moisture.

It’s good if you can dig a small trench around each bush before watering so that water gets to the roots faster. But if there is no time, at least loosen the soil a few hours after wetting.

For top dressing, you can cook "slurry". To do this, any weed (preferably nettle, hops, etc.) is laid on a third of the barrel, filled to the top with water and placed in a sunny place before fermentation. To speed up the process, you can add some yeast.

Water under each bush 0.5-1 liter, depending on the age of the strawberries. The remaining grass can be laid out in the aisles.

Caring for strawberries after harvesting in July

In July, most varieties of strawberries stop bearing fruit, so the main work is carried out during this period.

To make the bush easier to endure pruning, it does not hurt to pre-feed it. A mixture of potassium chloride (20 g), ammonium nitrate (30 g) and superphosphate (50 g) must be added per square meter. The soil, together with fertilizers, must be thoroughly loosened to a depth of about 10 cm and slightly moistened.

It is necessary to loosen the earth carefully so as not to damage the roots, which are located almost on the surface. After fertilizing, be sure to sprinkle the bushes with earth so that the adventitious roots are carefully covered.

5-7 days after pruning, when new young leaves begin to grow, it will be necessary to re-feed with a solution from a bucket of water 2 tables. spoons of nitrophoska and a glass of wood ash. It is necessary to water under each plant a liter and a half, depending on the age of the strawberry bushes.

A week later, you can feed the strawberries with a solution of chicken manure. It is diluted with water in proportions of 1:20 and watered under the root. 10 liters of solution is enough for 10 adult bushes and 20-25 young ones. For top dressing to give the best effect, you must first moisten the beds.

Mineral top dressing gives excellent results. To do this, you need to purchase a product specially designed for strawberries, dissolve it in accordance with the instructions and process the bushes. Amophoska is considered universal. It contains not only potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus, but also sulfur, magnesium and calcium.

Important!

Fertilizers should not contain chlorine. His strawberries can't stand it.

In addition to mineral top dressing, humus can be used. Strawberries always react positively to it. Compost is simply added to the hole dug around the bush. Top must be mulched with peat.

Caring for strawberries after harvesting in August

The last summer month is dry and hot during the day, so watering comes to the fore. It must be done at least twice a week. Sometimes there is a need to do this more often. You can determine that the plant lacks moisture by drooping leaves.

Watering is carried out under the root or according to the principle of sprinkling.

Important!

If the leaves continue to turn yellow and dry, they should be cut back.

Continues in August and top dressing. For this, a solution of bird droppings (1:20 with water) or mullein (1:15 with water) is used. A ten-liter bucket should be enough for 10-15 bushes. If there is a need to transplant old bushes or plant new ones, this should also be done at the end of August so that the plants have time to take root.

In September, flowers begin to form on strawberries of some varieties. The berries will not have time to ripen, so the plant will simply waste its strength in vain. Therefore, it is necessary to cut off the color and continue to remove the tendrils and old leaves.

Before the onset of cold weather, strawberries must be fed. To do this, you can use a solution of chicken manure, which will provide additional warmth during the winter. It does not hurt to dust the beds with wood ash. Be sure to inspect the bushes, removing yellowed leaves and plants that did not take root after transplantation.

Watering strawberries after harvest

It is desirable to water even more often than before picking berries. In order for moisture to remain in the ground longer and reach the roots in sufficient quantities, it is necessary to regularly loosen the soil around the bushes and carry out mulching.

The frequency of watering in each case is individual. The soil in the garden should always be moist! A dry earthen lump should not form. But there is no clear schedule. There are only recommendations. You need to focus on the weather. If it rains, there is no need for watering. If there is a heat, then it should be done at least once a week. On average, 2-3 buckets of water are consumed per square meter.

Important!

It is necessary to use water that has been settled and heated during the day for irrigation.

The most suitable option for strawberries is drip irrigation. Indeed, with this method, the soil will always be sufficiently moistened. You can use plastic bottles for this. They just need to cut off the bottom, dig them up to the "hangers" into the ground and fill them with water. Use any volume, but it is more profitable to take five or even ten liters. They will need to be filled much less frequently than bottles of 1.5-2 liters.

You can create a drip irrigation system from hoses. They are laid out along the beds, holes are made in the necessary places and connected to a water supply source. It can be water supply, but it is better to install a large barrel on a small hill and fill it with water. This way it will be able to heat up. But when choosing this option, you must definitely take care of the filter, which will protect the drip irrigation system from leaves, pebbles and other small debris.

In terms of growing strawberries, Oktyabrina Ganichkina makes a special emphasis on spring planting care. As soon as the frosts end, it is necessary to remove the artificial shelter from it, carefully remove the foliage or other natural “blanket” to the side. So young sprouts will develop well. Watering is not necessary, at first strawberries have more than enough soil moisture.

But pest control does not hurt. The most proven method is dusting with wood ash. This will scare away dangerous insects, and provide additional feeding to the bushes.

After 2 weeks, you can feed with a solution of bird droppings (1:20) or mullein (1:15).

After another week, you can start watering. While it is not too hot, it is enough to do this once every 10-14 days, then the procedure will need to be carried out 2 times a week.

Be sure to regularly weed and loosen the soil, as well as mulch the beds. Oktyabrina Ganichkina advises laying out potatoes, carrots and other vegetables between strawberry bushes. She claims that this will help enrich the soil with additional nutrients, as well as retain enough moisture in it.

Autumn care for remontant strawberries

Remontant strawberries bear fruit several times during the season, so caring for it is different from the usual. Pruning work begins around early to mid-September. Mowing is not recommended, because new foliage will not have time to grow before the cold weather. It is necessary to cut with sharp scissors or secateurs and antennae, and old or diseased leaves. Before this, you need to slightly moisten the soil, but if the nights are already cold, then it is better to do this during the day.

Important!

The removal of tendrils and weeding on remontant strawberries should be carried out throughout the growing season.

After the procedure, it is necessary to loosen the soil, mulch with straw, hay, fallen leaves or freshly mowed green manure.

It is impossible to feed remontant strawberries, unlike ordinary varieties, three times; therefore, it is optimal for it to use complex fertilizers that contain all the necessary nutrients that the plant needs for wintering and full development for the next season.

Caring for Victoria after Harvest

Victoria finishes fruiting in late August-early September. Care for her is the correct formation of bushes. They are compact in Victoria and should not grow, otherwise it will negatively affect the quality of the fruit.

How to care for strawberries after planting in the fall

After planting strawberries in the fall, the beds are mulched with peat, sawdust, straw or freshly mowed green manure.

Strawberries will not require any more interventions until wintering. It will only be necessary to water it once a week while it is hot, and two weeks before the shelter, fertilize with a solution of charcoal (a glass per bucket of water) or bird droppings (1:15 with water).

Before the onset of cold weather, it is necessary to loosen the soil between the rows, carefully examine the bushes for damaged, diseased and weakened leaves, and also pay attention to the possible presence of pests. They often winter in the warm shelter that is created around the strawberries. To scare them away, you can use special tools or simply spread onion and garlic husks along the aisles, dust with wood ash.

Covering strawberries for the winter

It is imperative to cover young strawberries for the winter! She is not yet strong enough to endure frosts on her own without additional help.

For shelter, you can use agrofibre, ordinary pieces of fabric, old blankets, etc. Fallen leaves or straw will reliably protect you from the cold. But the natural shelter must be additionally fixed so that it is not blown away by gusts of wind. The stalks left after growing corn or thin pruned tree branches are excellent for this. They are laid out along the aisles.

The first option is more acceptable, because with the help of artificial shelter, while the cold is just beginning, the beds can be covered at night and opened during the day. So the bushes will be more hardened. You can't do that with a natural "blanket".

You can treat strawberries from pests either in early spring or after fruiting has ended. During flowering and fruiting, it is dangerous to do this.

After pruning, strawberries should be treated with a solution of light pink potassium permanganate. This helps to disinfect the cuts and remaining shoots, as well as the soil around the bushes.

One of the pests that often attack strawberry beds is the weevil. To protect against it, the drug Intavir is used. Processing must be carried out twice, once every 14 days. It is also used to kill insects. In case of damage, the solution is applied once a week.

Well helps to drive away pests from strawberries iodine solution (10 drops per bucket of water). Spraying is carried out every 10-14 days.

Important!

Before processing from pests, it is necessary to carry out weeding and loosening of the beds.

Strawberries suffer from fungal diseases. Spores-causative agents are carried with the wind, and with the tools used for work, and even with drops of water when watering or during rain.

Increased humidity, thickening of plantings, placement of beds in a lowland, as well as an excessive amount of nitrogen during top dressing contributes to the development of diseases.

Biological products Fitosporin or Fitoplus help protect strawberries from rot.

Important!

To protect the berries from rot, it is necessary to pluck them from the bushes in a timely manner, not allowing them to overripe.

Zircon is considered a novelty. It is used for foliar processing. It is absorbed into the leaf and helps the plant to activate its own forces to resist diseases and viruses.

A proven remedy for years is Bordeaux mixture. Plantings are sprayed with a solution of a teaspoon per 500 ml of water before flowering, after harvesting and after mowing or pruning.

It is necessary to regularly inspect strawberry beds, timely removing the affected leaves or plants if it is too late to take action.

One of the folk remedies for combating diseases and pests is planting marigolds, garlic and other odorous plants next to the berries.

Growing strawberries is a complicated process only at first glance. For a great harvest, just follow these guidelines:

• landing should be carried out from May to early June or from late August to mid-September;
• the first tendrils from the mother bush are best suited for reproduction, all the rest must be removed;
• processing of strawberries is carried out exclusively before flowering, and then after fruiting;
• all work with strawberries should be carried out either in the early morning or after sunset;
• pruning of leaves and removal of tendrils should be carried out only with sharp scissors or secateurs;
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A wonderful strawberry (garden strawberry) is both very tasty and very healthy. That is why, in addition to food, it is actively used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes. However, her nature is capricious and requires careful and patient care for her, which is not always redeemed by a generous harvest. To have a good harvest of garden strawberries next season, you need to lay the foundation for it this year. It is especially important to carry out a number of measures to care for strawberries after fruiting and harvesting, in particular, to properly cut strawberry bushes.

Care for strawberries after fruiting and harvesting in July: the main activities

After fruiting and harvesting, in the middle of summer (July), strawberries need proper care.

Perhaps the most important thing at this time, which, in fact, this material is dedicated to, is to prune strawberry bushes after they bear fruit.

Positive experience shows that already after the summer pruning of strawberries has been completed, optimally well weed the beds from weeds and loosen the earth. Moreover, it is necessary to loosen near the bushes shallowly so as not to touch the root system, which is located very close to the surface. Next, you should water abundantly, and then perform a light nitrogen top dressing. A little later (you can do it in a day or two, or you can do it closer to autumn) feed it with potash and phosphorus fertilizers, and then treat the bushes from diseases and pests (or do it at the end of summer).

Thus, the algorithm of actions for caring for strawberries in the summer, after harvesting, consists of the following steps:

1. cut leaves, peduncles and mustaches;
2. carry out weeding from weeds and loosening the soil;
3. water abundantly;
4. feed with nitrogen, and a little later with potassium and phosphorus (or immediately after pruning with complex mineral fertilizer);
5. perform treatment from diseases and pests (you can immediately after pruning, or you can a little later - in August).

By the way! To avoid tedious weeding and loosening every year, just mulch the strawberries or plant them under a black film. Read how to do it

Video: post-harvest strawberry care: pruning, mustache removal, weeding and loosening, top dressing

Pruning strawberries after harvest

When to prune

After fruiting is completely over and you have harvested the entire crop, it is recommended to cut off some of the strawberry leaves, its flower stalks and the resulting rosette mustache.

As for the timing, then, as a rule, this falls on the second half of July.

How to prune correctly: which leaves to remove and which ones to leave

Recommendation ! Pruning strawberries is recommended to be carried out exclusively with gardening gloves and only with the help ofacute scissors or secateurs. Only no need to break leaves and mustache hands, since they are strong enough and sit strongly in the ground, and you simply you can pull out part of the bush.

Next, already look at the state of the bush: if there is leaves with signs of disease(dotted or speckled, all spotted), old and withered, then they are also needed cut, but healthy and young - leave.

Most often, strawberries, namely its leaf apparatus, are affected.

By the way! Don't forget to remove those that bear fruit peduncles.

Video: pruning strawberries after fruiting

It would be quite logical to note that due to such pruning, the strawberry bush will get rid of some of the spores of pathogens and pests, and it will also be better ventilated and will not turn sour during the autumn rains.

Advice! All cut strawberry leaves are best burn (or take out of the site) to prevent the spread of various diseases, especially if they are with obvious signs of diseases and the presence of pests.

And them by no means such leaves cannot be composted!

There is a lot of controversy about whether it is possible to remove all strawberry leaves after fruiting, because this is the easiest way to do it.

Worth knowing! The fact is that if you cut the entire bush completely, then it will quickly deplete and strawberries will spend all their energy on restoring green mass instead of laying flower (fruit) buds for the next year and storing nutrients before wintering.

However, you must understand that in any case you will have to remove part of the green mass, which means that in the future you will help the plant recover, that is, feed it - give the whole complex of macro- and microelements.

Note! But garden strawberries, which are very affected by diseases and pests, make sense to remove them completely in order to lay a new strawberry plantation next year.

However, if you really feel sorry for her, then without fail it will be enough remove all mulch(of course, if it was mulched), and then carefully treated for diseases and pests.

mustache trimming

Need trim mustache strawberries do not just appear. She directly depends on, do you plan to transplant them to expand your strawberry beds.

Advice! It is in the first year after fruiting (in the second year of the life of the rosette after overwintering) that the mustache should be taken for reproduction, since such a dependence manifests itself - the older the bush, the less potential it has for reproduction and the weaker mustache it will give.

More often mustaches are regularly removed as they grow. But it is optimal to do this before flowering, after fruiting and harvesting, as well as at the end of the summer season. In fact, they are very convenient to remove when you once again loosen or weed the beds.

Note! The removal of the whiskers also further stimulates the laying of future strawberry flower buds.

Video: how and when to remove mustaches from strawberry bushes

Feeding strawberries after fruiting

After pruning a strawberry bush, it is advisable to carry out enhanced feeding of a weakened plant, since during this period the garden strawberry is under quite a lot of stress and you need to help form its new leaf apparatus.

As a rule, immediately after pruning the leaves, it is recommended to give nitrogen fertilizer, and after a few days (7-10) or closer to autumn - potassium-phosphorus.

By the way! More information about autumn top dressing of strawberries after fruiting you can find .

Strawberry bushes can be shed as a nitrogen fertilizermullein solution, diluted in a ratio of 1 to 10, orbird (chicken) droppings, which should be insisted during the day, while the concentration should be half as much - 1 to 20. Still perfectgreen manure(3-4 days herbal infusion, the best thing nettle).

Video: feeding strawberries after harvest

After that (best of all, after a few 7-10 days, although it is possible at the end of summer), it is imperative to give the plant potassium, for example, to powder the beds wood ash(either make an infusion-solution) or use " Potassium humate» with micronutrients.

It is also highly desirable to use phosphorus (eg Superphosphate).

Note! You need to feed only on wet ground and under a bush (without getting on the leaves), so before feeding, be sure to water the strawberries with plain water, or fertilize after rain.

However, as an option, you can immediately after pruning strawberry bushes (and then again after 7-10 days), feed the plant instant complex fertilizer with trace elements(such as Crystalon, Master, Plantafol, Kemira), in which equal amount of macronutrients(for example, 15:15:15 or 18:18:18).

Important! If, after heavy fertilizing, small flowers began to appear on the bushes, they must be promptly removed, because they will only weaken the plant, and there will be no sense from them.

Treatment of strawberries after harvest from diseases and pests

Or immediately after feeding, or already in second half of August worth doing already treatment of strawberries from diseases and pests.

• From pests, especially against ticks, it is best to use Fitoverm (Actofit), Bitoxibacillin, Vertimek, Masai.
• From strawberry diseases, especially against brown spotting - Horus (from all spots), Topaz (from powdery mildew),.

By the way! In general, you can make a tank mixture (from 2-3 selected products), first dissolving each preparation in water separately (according to the instructions), and then pour the resulting solutions into a common container (sprayer).

Remember! If after mixing the preparations the precipitate does not fall out, then they can be used in the tank mixture.

Samu processing it is desirable to carry out in calm weather, while carefully you need to spray not only the bushes themselves, but also mulch(if your bushes are mulched). It is advisable to repeat after 2 weeks.

But, if strawberry in this season was heavily affected by diseases and pests, it is recommended remove all old mulch and then carefully treated for diseases and pests.

A folk remedy for treating strawberry bushes for diseases is the use of brilliant green, diluted in water in a proportion of 4-5 drops per 1 liter of water. According to some gardeners, brilliant green- This is an excellent antiseptic that helps in the fight against gray mold, powdery mildew and other diseases.

Features of caring for remontant strawberries

Remontant strawberries are able to bear fruit all summer (hence its name), therefore traditional summer pruning for remontant bushes is not done. Cutting the leaves completely or even partially also noticeably weakens the plant, even if you feed it well after that.

Another thing is that it is necessary periodically inspect the bushes for diseased and dry leaves, in other words, you need do selective cutting, including after each fruiting and harvesting strawberries.

But as regards mustache, then their should still be cut, unless, of course, you do not need them for reproduction.

Video: features of caring for remontant strawberries

Thus, if you properly care for strawberries in the summer, following all the tips and recommendations, namely, if you correctly prune the bushes after fruiting and harvesting, as well as give good top dressing, treat them for diseases and pests, then next year you will definitely be expect a plentiful harvest of delicious and ripe berries.

Video: care for strawberries after fruiting from A to Z

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