Many gardeners are grown on their plots strawberry, but not all, it is impossible to gather a rich harvest of berries. This is due to the inexperience of gardeners who do not respect the basic rules of agricultural technology, do not know how to deal with pests and culture etc. Answers to urgent questions about strawberries, which set novice growers, will help to avoid mistakes in the cultivation of berries, to protect crops from damage caused by pathogenic microorganisms and parasites.
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Carestrawberries
Strawberry is best suited sandy and loamy neutral and slightly acidic soil. If necessary, it deoxidized ash, lime and dolomite flour. A good harvest in the plant will loose soil that is easy to handle.
They are effective disintegrating:
- peat;
- river sand;
- rotted sawdust.
Before you make it is desirable to add peat ash (1 bucket 2 tbsp. l.). The sawdust is mixed with dolomite meal or ash and urea solution (1 tbsp. l. fertilizer per 1 L of water). As an organic fertilizer for strawberries suitable horse manure. Designed for strawberries soil should be disinfected.
Berry readily grow to give sufficient light and heat, so it is put in the open sun, but sheltered areas (strawberry contraindicated drafts). The soil in the beds should be well drained.
It is desirable to plant in September, but if there is a possibility of regular watering shrubs, planting can be done in July. If the berries are planted in the spring, the first flower stalks are removed. Tear them and the plants placed in the garden in late autumn, and planted strawberries in the summer can still have time to give the first crop of cold weather.
Novice gardeners often ask the question of whether it is necessary to loosen the soil in strawberry beds. This procedure is repeated for the season from 6 to 8 times. Processing contributes oxygen to the roots, destroy weeds and pests are in the soil, which helps to get a higher yield.
It can be collected in the first year, if planted strawberries quite thick, but a large number of berries with the beds are just the first 2-3 years. Then the old socket should pull out and new - to move to another area.
In appearance plants mean you can determine what elements they need to feed. At deficiency nitrogen sheets yellow uniformly. With a lack of iron veins yellowing leaves remain green. The lack of potassium is manifested in the staining at the edges of the leaves red. The old foliage with magnesium starvation becomes purple and berry shrinking and lose flavor. Not receiving phosphorus old plate sheet become dark color.
Pest Control
Strawberry foliage turns yellow in the defeat of spider mites. Destroy it by sprinkling the plants Fufanonom. This method is used to flowering. After it bushes treated with the formulated Tiovit Jet. Strawberry mite destroy sulfur colloid and karbofosom. With aphids, thrips tobacco and tobacco whitefly fighting infusions or garlic or means such as Sharp and Nurell D.
After heavy rain, at night and on cool cloudy days the leaves and berries of strawberry threaten snails and slugs.
To protect the bushes:
- Thunderstorm drug use;
- mulch the soil of pine needles, sawdust;
- sprinkle the ground around the plant ash;
- make a circular groove, filling them with pepper, tobacco, or lime.
Repel molluscs fertilizers containing potassium and phosphorus, which can scatter between the rows.
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