Spring strawberry processing is the key to obtaining a large number of large and healthy berries. plant growth starts early, so care is necessary to carry out as soon as the soil dries.
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Cleaning and guidance "marafeta"
Most gardeners for growing garden strawberry mulch applied using the organic material (straw, sawdust, chips). During the winter some of them rot in the soft shelter pests overwinter well. Therefore, the mulch should be removed and burned.
Another reason that the spring clean shelter with beds of strawberries - it insulating properties of the loose material. After removal of the shavings or straw layer thawing and warming of the soil will be faster.
While cleaning is necessary to remove the remnants of vymerzshih bushes and replace them with living plants. To replace the use young rosette of last year, they often remain after the removal of his mustache.
Restoring rows of bushes, remove from them all the old foliage. She could spend the winter spores of fungal diseases, so be sure to burn the cut material. In conclusion, ridges leveled and loose, leaving them without the mulch layer.
Spring fertilizing strawberries
For good growth of green matter in the early spring top dressing nitrogen fertilizer spend. You can apply and organic and mineral preparations:
- Dilute 1 part mullein 10 parts water. Watering nozzle 2 is based on the bush by making the solution directly under each plant. Instead mullein can use chicken droppings (diluted 1 part to 12 parts water) or infusion of nettle (1 bucket of grass cover with water and let stand 3-4 days). For every bucket of nitrogen solution, you can add 1 cup of wood ash.
- Among the mineral fertilizer selected those containing only nitrogen (urea) or complex (nitrophoska, ammophos etc.). You can buy special mixture such as Kemira suite. At 1 bucket of water need 1 tbsp. l. means, if the manufacturer does not have a different dosage. Each adult fertile bush poured 1 liter of solution and is sufficient for young plantings 0.5 liters.
Watering strawberries solutions of fertilizers, it is necessary to make sure that the liquid does not fall on the young leaves.
Spring feeding is carried out only one time immediately after the harvest in the beds. The following can be carried out only when the first flower arrows.
strawberry processing by pests and mulch
For the prevention of fungal disease immediately after the disappearance of snow carried spraying 3% Bordeaux liquid. It is prepared from 300 g of copper sulfate and 450 g of quicklime lump lime in 10 liters of water. Vitriol and lime need to separately pour small amounts of water and dissolve. Then bring the volume of each composition to 5L. Finally, slowly pour the solution blue vitriol in the milk of lime (on the contrary can not be done!).
To destroy weevils, damaging the flowers and leaf-eating insects to spray yadohimitami (Taurus, Caesar, spark-M et al.). From strawberry mite often apply watering hot water (+65... + 70 ° C) of watering or spraying the tobacco extract.
The warm spring or a later time, when the air warms up to + 18 ° C, against all pests can use preparations or Fitoverm Aktofit. These substances are non-toxic to humans and are bioactive agents.
When finished all the work on spraying and fertilizing the beds, and the strawberries begin to grow actively, loosen the soil again and cover the layer of mulch. To do this, use fresh cut straw, shavings, etc. The best material is considered a pine or fir needles.
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