Quality crop strawberry depends not only on a seasonal fertilization and fertilizing, but also by the competent care and cultivation. Opinions gardeners about this differ: some say that pruning leaves, strawberry mustache needed, others - on the contrary, complain that procedure adversely affects the development of culture.
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Pruning strawberry leaves
Strawberry leaves from the beginning of the growing season live less than 2.5 months, after which they appear black or rust stains, which indicate the bush aging and disease. Some professional gardeners believe that during this period should be carried out pruning. It comes at the end of July - early August after the harvest. Before winter strawberries will be able to build up a lot of green, form new buds, to accumulate nutrients for the winter and spring development.
Old and sick leaves are removed for the following reasons:
- Rejuvenation of the plant.
- Prevention of fungal diseases.
- Getting rid of insects and pests.
- The increase in yields.
- Well-groomed appearance beds.
Trim the leaves must be thin shears or pointed scissors. They can not tear his hands. Perennial root system is located in the upper layer of the soil, so if you pull the sheet, you can pull out all the bush.
In the garden work gloves, also prepared container to collect leaves and yard baking powder. The procedure is carried out in dry weather in the morning or evening.
Leaf pruning is performed as follows:
- Along the ridges visiting berry plants.
- Dried and diseased leaves are removed, leaving a small stalks, so as not to catch the point of growth.
- The cut part is folded into the container, and then take out the compost heap. If the plant is sick, they burn.
- Garden baking powder aisle and work the soil to a depth of 3-5 cm.
- Defended aisles poured water, then easy solution of potassium permanganate for preventing fungal diseases.
- To make the power feeding based mullein (1 kg mullein a bucket of water), or poultry manure (1 kg fertilizer per 20 liters of water).
Trimming the mustache strawberries
During the summer, most types of garden strawberries emit long shoots for propagation. At the ends of his mustache formed a new outlet to pull nutrients from the mother bush. To increase the number of plants and species conservation gardeners recommend a cut formed rosettes and rooting them to separate from the mother plant beds. The process of trimming the first and second outlets to the period:
- before flowering bush;
- after fruiting;
- at the end of the summer season.
Features trim mustache strawberries:
- Suitable for breeding healthy and strong plants. Weak outlet discarded.
- Celebrating the most prolific uterine bushes. They should not form flower ovaries, all the power plants is sent to the formation of a new seedling.
- Allocate stronger tillers, on which the first-order outlet near the mother plant, then the second order. The farther away from the mother bush, the young seedlings are weaker.
- Trimmed mustache, leaving 7-10 cm escape from the bush on one side and from the wall socket - on the other.
- The remaining whiskers are removed.
- New bushes transplanted to the prepared area.
If the mustache is not cut from the bush strawberry bed overgrown and will look ugly berries crushed and will not give a great harvest next year.
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