Some people think that strawberry care after harvest is also needed? Why there, gathered the fruits, and forgot until the next spring! But no, experienced gardeners say that it is in the second half of summer, when the strawberry leaves, it is time to take full care of it, so that you can enjoy the excellent spring harvest. To do this, you need to water, fertilize, remove weeds and cut old leaves at the same time with an overgrown mustache. Let’s take it in order.
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Cut old leaves, remove the mustache
The fact is that in spring, strawberries cannot pull out the maximum of nutrients with their weak roots in order to give a good crop. Therefore, it is very important to prepare it as soon as possible after fruiting, it is during this period that the quality of the future crop is laid.
So, we begin by trimming old leaves that have already turned yellow, brown, into a hole and a speck. They are not needed by the plant. We cut them, trying not to damage the young outlet, and give the opportunity to grow new fresh leaves. Cut the leaves so that they have time to grow before the cold, otherwise your bushes will winter bare, and there will be nobody to protect them from frost.
At the same time, we remove the mustache, which will go to form new outlets. Unless, of course, you need new sockets to expand your strawberry planting. If you do not, the new bushes will take away all the strength from the old bushes, and next year you will get small and rare berries. Trim the antennae carefully, do not tear, so that the weak strawberries do not damage the roots. Now, having renewed the garden, it can be treated for all kinds of diseases, especially if the tick is noticed (the leaves grow shriveled). For this, tick-borne or colloidal sulfur is useful.
Perhaps you will come in handy: sowing calendar for 2015 for central Russia.
Loosen, water, fertilize
Now the soil needs to be thoroughly loosened, not close to the bushes, so as not to damage the roots, because they are located near the surface of the strawberry. If your bushes rose above the ground, and began to hang over the garden, they must be mulched, covering the roots. So you stimulate the growth of new roots and the strengthening of old ones, and protect them from diseases and winter cold.
Now you can fertilize your plantations by introducing a complete mineral complex that will give strength to strawberries next year for a good harvest. Humus can be added, strawberries will respond well to an ammophosque containing nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, but chlorine-containing complexes cannot be added. It would be nice to pour strawberries properly and mulch with peat. If there is little rain, you need to periodically fill the beds so that they do not stand dry.
If during fruiting you notice gray rot on the berries, after the berries have left, treat them with Bordeaux liquid or Topaz to stop the disease.
Duration of trimming mustache and leaflets
In all regions at different times - in the Krasnodar Territory, in the Kuban, for example, in June, in the middle lane in July, in the south, and in Ukraine in August. Leaflets live only a little more than 2 months, then they begin to dry, get sick, pests start up in them, which then hibernate in them so that they can start to eat a fresh crop. Therefore, ruthlessly destroy them.
Cutting all leaves
Some owners, who grow a lot of strawberries, mow or cut all the leaves at the end of August, they have time to grow new ones by winter, and grow hearts, the bushes then bear fruit well.You can try this option.
Take a look: calendar of the gardener for 2015 for the Moscow region.
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