Fragrant, tasty and healthy strawberries are a favorite of children and adults. How to grow such a wonderful berry in your garden and get a good harvest?
Top dressing of young bushes planted last year can be omitted in the spring at all or done with the following solution: dissolve 0.5 l of chicken manure or cow manure and 1 tbsp in a bucket of water. a spoonful of sodium sulfate. Water the plants with this mixture - 1 liter under each bush.
You can not overdo it with fertilizers (pictured are Victoria strawberry bushes)
Fertilizer adult strawberries
After 2-3 years, the soil in the beds becomes infertile and the plant has nowhere to take useful substances. Therefore, in order to harvest a good harvest, you need to know when and how to feed strawberries. In the spring top dressing is done 3 times:
- When the first 2-3 leaves appear
- Before the start of color
- During fruit formation
The first fertilizer is applied in mid-late April, depending on the region. For such top dressing, organic fertilizers are ideal: mullein or chicken manure. They need to be scattered under the roots of the bushes, and put a little earth on top (about 2-3 cm). You can also make a liquid solution. Take a bucket of water and dilute in not 1 liter of manure. Pour the resulting slurry over each bush (1l under the plant).
An excellent fertilizer is ordinary yeast. They contain a large number of useful substances: amino acids, proteins, minerals. Top dressing with yeast will ensure good growth and strengthening of the root system. It is necessary to dilute 200 g of live baker's yeast in 0.5 liters of warm water, let it stand for 20 minutes. Then pour the mixture into a container with 9 liters of water. Pour this solution generously over each bush.
The second top dressing should be carried out during the strawberry color period. For this, it is better to take mineral fertilizers. They have a positive effect on the taste and size of berries. Strawberries will be large, beautiful and sweet.
Strawberries on a bush
For top dressing, you need to prepare a solution: 2 tbsp. spoons of nitrophosphate, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of potassium and 10 liters of water. With this solution, you need to water each bush under the root system. Enough 0.5 liters of the mixture for each plant.
Now there is a huge selection of mineral fertilizers that can be purchased in specialized stores. But they must be used strictly according to the instructions on the package. The wrong dosage will harm the plant.
A good remedy for the third top dressing is an infusion of weeds. After weeding, you need to collect the weeds, grind them and pour water. Let it brew for about a week in a warm room, and then pour over the strawberries. Such top dressing is absolutely harmless both for plants and for people. But it will help increase the number of fruits and have a positive effect on taste. Fertilizing with weeds will protect plants from some harmful insects. An excellent top dressing is an infusion of nettle.
We would like to note that for the proper feeding of garden strawberries, you need to know exactly how old the bushes grow where. It is best if they are located on different beds, this will simplify care. So, young plants can not be fed only when a sufficient amount of useful substances is laid during planting. In the second and fourth years of life, strawberries can be taken both organic and mineral mixtures. But three-year-old bushes will like mineral fertilizers more.
During the first of the season, we recommend that you definitely use mixtures with a high nitrogen content so that the bushes can gain green mass. You can cut at the same time. Then this will reduce the amount of stressful situations for your strawberry. Instead of manure, you can take nitroammophoska.
Also, you can use ash. It is useful for plants, especially with a significant content of potassium and phosphorus, accelerates the decomposition of organic matter, and also helps in the fight against fungal diseases and root rot. You can put a small pile under each bush. In addition, when planting young annuals, it is recommended to mix a little ash into the soil.
One of the most important elements of top dressing during flowering is potassium. Browning of the leaves may indicate its deficiency. This is a symptom of a serious problem that can lead to crop loss. To make up for the lack of nutrients, we recommend using potassium nitrate. It is usually diluted at the rate of one teaspoon per bucket of liquid. Under each bush you need to pour about half a liter.
Foliar top dressing of strawberries
During spring top dressing, not only the root system is often fertilized, but also the bush itself, in order to obtain a better harvest and a healthy plant.
Strawberries are sprayed with nitrogen-containing solutions or organic matter. Top dressing promotes good growth and an increase in the ovary. When spraying, nutrients are absorbed immediately into the foliage. It is necessary to carry out the procedure in dry and calm weather, in the evening.
Abundant fruiting
There are two types of mineral fertilizer compositions: highly mobile and low mobile. The first, which include phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and nitrogen, are distinguished by their rapid absorption. They instantly fall into the roots, buds and foliage. The second ones are iron, boron, copper and manganese, they act more slowly.
Therefore, it is important to spray the plant with extreme care so that the nutrients get to the right place.
Which fertilizers to choose - mineral or organic?
Many gardeners have a question: what is the best way to feed strawberries in the spring - organic matter or minerals?
Mineral mixtures are quite effective and give good results. But they must be used correctly and with extreme caution. Follow the instructions and avoid overdose. This can adversely affect not only the crop, but also human health. Do not feed with minerals later than 12-14 days before the first fruits ripen.
Top dressing with organic matter will not provide the ovaries of very large berries. But it is safe for the human body. In addition, manure and chicken manure can be applied in any quantity. Plants will take from them as many useful substances as they need, no more.
It is very good to saturate the soil with wood ash. It can be used to feed the roots, as well as foliar top dressing. For this, an extract from the ash is used.
Care for strawberries after harvest
The fruiting period of strawberries is quite short. Already in mid-July, the plants cease to bear fruit.
Harvest of garden strawberries
And it is from the end of July to September that the foundation is laid for the next year's harvest. Therefore, during this period, strawberries also require proper care:
July and August are the time when the formation of new leaves begins in plants, the old leaves that have fulfilled their function die off. And also begins intensive growth of the mustache. It is necessary to carefully cut off the old foliage, leaving only the young and hearts. The mustache should also be trimmed.
After the beds are put in order, the soil needs to be fed. It is good to use organic fertilizers - cow or horse manure. This will improve the soil structure and help the plants overwinter.
It is very important to remember to water the strawberries after the harvest is over. The soil must be protected from drying out. Watering should be plentiful, but not too often.
Regularly rid the plants of mustaches so that the bushes do not spend all their energy on forming new outlets. Trimming the mustache promotes the formation of new buds.
While watching the video, you will learn how to care for strawberries in the spring.
If by autumn the bushes have healthy overgrown leaves, this will ensure a good wintering and a high harvest for next year.
Good day! I am an amateur gardener. I just love strawberries. But the soil in my garden is poor. Therefore, the berries grow quite small. My husband and I decided to feed our pets. We do not want to use chemicals. In addition, we keep chickens and chicken manure simply in abundance. Tell me, please, is chicken manure suitable as a fertilizer for strawberries?
It is quite possible as a fertilizer for strawberries. Thanks to its use, you can grow large and tasty red berries. The waste product of poultry is the richest source of nitrogenous compounds among all natural fertilizers. Nitrogen, in turn, ensures the growth of fruits.
Although strawberries love nitrogenous nutrition, you need to know the measure and be extremely careful in using this supplement. The thing is that nitrogen dissolves too quickly and turns into ammonia, which, in turn, greatly dehydrates and burns organic matter.
Therefore, you need to feed strawberries only with a highly diluted solution of waste products of poultry. To do this, 20 parts of water should be taken for 1 part of chicken manure. Liquid dressing is applied directly under the root. Also, such fertilizer should be combined with sufficient watering.
You can water the plant itself with a weak solution after planting. But during flowering or fruiting, it is not worth using chicken manure as a fertilizer for strawberries. It is not recommended to fertilize the soil with diluted bird droppings often and thickly. It is required to adhere to this calculation: 1 bucket of solution per 1 m 2 of soil.
Strawberries: chicken manure fertilizer (video)
Well suited for feeding a garden plant and ordinary manure. Fertilize the land with manure during digging for the winter or early spring.
Top dressing strawberries in the spring.
Spring has come, the birds are singing, the trees are budding. That means it's strawberry time. To get a good harvest, you need to properly care for and fertilize the bushes from the earliest spring. Learn more about fertilization here.
How to feed strawberries immediately after winter in spring?
- In early spring, we completely remove the spreaded sawdust from overwintered strawberries.
- Cut off old dry leaves.
- We loosen the soil under each bush.
- We also cut off the old, diseased, brown tops. We leave only the new one.
- Be sure to check the condition of the neck (point of growth) of strawberries after frost. It should be slightly higher than 4-5 mm from ground level.
- In order for the strawberries not to rot, the growing point must be open. It is very important to properly feed strawberries in the spring and regularly care for this wonderful berry.
The first feeding of strawberries is done in the spring, until flowers and buds have formed.
- To begin with, we simply clean our strawberries, remove dry and old leaves. The first fertilizer is best done with a good and rich mullein, which is prepared from fresh cow cakes.
- So, for our fertilizer, it is necessary to dilute 10 liters of water with 1 liter of fermented liquid mullein.
- If you do not use mullein, then the first feeding can be done with urea, that is, urea. To do this, dilute 10 liters of water with 2 tablespoons of urea. With this, water 0.5 liters under each bush of the plant.
- As for the mullein, you will also need 0.5 liters per bush. Thoroughly drizzle our strawberries with this mixture.
- Fertilize after rain to keep the soil moist. So the mullein will be better absorbed into the soil. And on dry it will flow around, and the crust will not allow it to be absorbed.
- Mullein is good because it is quite saturated with nitrogen and phosphorus. And nitrogen, as you know, is needed by any fruit plant to give it growth, while phosphorus accompanies the formation of ovaries so that they are larger and larger.
This is how the first spring dressing is carried out. Be sure to fertilize strawberries for a bountiful summer harvest.
How to feed strawberries in the spring before flowering and during flowering?
You still do not know how to process and how to protect strawberries? Then this information is for you.
- The first treatment is best done with the help of the drug "Horus" with the calculation of 12 g per 10 liters of water. After about 2 weeks, it is necessary to process the strawberries again for diseases.
- It is also best to use "Horus" (12 g per 10 liters of water) and the drug "Topaz" 6 ml per 10 liters of water. These two drugs will block all possible diseases, spotting your strawberries.
- You can also use plantafol leaf dressing 20 g per 10 liters of water, Brexil mix and Growth concentrate and Megafol in the same ratio in the same top dressing.
- Mix all this thoroughly and process the strawberries. You can also add Boroplus (10-15 ml) for better ovary formation.
During the flowering of strawberries, it is good to make the following fertilizer:
- Pour 1 glass of wood ash in a bucket and pour 2 liters of boiling water. Stir well and let it brew for 2 hours, after which you need to add 3 g of potassium permanganate and 3 g of boric acid.
- Also don't forget to add one tablespoon of iodine. You will get a mixture that you can safely water your strawberries. Mix everything thoroughly and add water to a total volume of 10 liters.
- Knead the whole purple mixture again until smooth.
- When diluting, it is best to use rainwater. If you don’t have one, then you can use settled water, since this should not be done with chlorinated water.
- You can spray leaves, flowers, and plant ovaries with this water. In order to give her the strength of fruiting, in order to get a good harvest, you need to pour a glass well under each bush.
Strawberries spring care top dressing with iodine
To process young pagons using this tool, you will need two components:
- actually potassium iodide
- potassium permanganate - that is, potassium permanganate
The prepared solution using the above-mentioned components helps not only from the beetle and pests, but also from gray rot and the appearance of spots on the leaves, and also saturates the future crop with microelements. To prepare such a solution, you will need to take 1 tbsp. iodine and literally a few granules of potassium permanganate per 10 liters of water.
It is desirable to water bushes with this solution, previously showered with ash and fertilizer. With such an integrated approach, the effectiveness of the result will be more guaranteed.
Strawberries in the spring: care and feeding with boric acid
- Before fertilizing strawberries, it is imperative to loosen the soil by about 10 cm with a garden fork.
- For the best effect of fertilizer and protection of the plant itself, we recommend that you sprinkle the aisle with straw. This will help not to trample our strawberries.
- Now that we have sprinkled our strawberries with straw, we need to fill them with herbal infusion. This is a thick brown-colored liquid, which is very easy to make: a third of the container is tightly stuffed with nettles, filled with water and infused either in a greenhouse or just in the sun. 2-3 days and the infusion is ready. Without diluting it, we carefully spill our berries to them.
- So, when we spilled the beds with a solution, we spill them again with a mixture of boric acid. Component ratio: approximately 10 g per 30 liters of water. Water the plant again.
A mixture of boric acid is very useful and necessary for these berries, it helps to form the ovaries of the plant. That is why, before the flowering of the berry itself, we fertilize strawberries with acid. After we have fed the strawberries, it is also necessary to process them from pests such as ticks and weevil.
Fertilizing strawberries in the spring with folk remedies
One of the most popular methods of feeding sweet red berry bushes with folk remedies is its fertilizer. nettle infusion. What does he give? Nettle contains many trace elements, and when feeding with tincture from this plant, more chlorophyll is formed in the leaves - accordingly, it becomes stronger for fruiting and the environment.
- To prepare such an infusion, you need to collect nettles, it is desirable that the plants are not overgrown, that is, without the formation of seeds.
- Fill a container to the top, packing the stems tightly. It is advisable to take a container that is not metal. And for example plastic or enameled.
- Fill a bowl filled with nettles with water. Put in a sunny place. Fermentation takes place there for 7-15 days.
- Every morning it is necessary to stir our nettle water. The liquid should be considered ready when it foams and a characteristic, unpleasant odor emanates from it. Then strain this prepared infusion.
- If you carry out root dressing - that is, pour the infusion under the roots of plants - then take a liter of our infusion for a ten-liter bucket of water. Pour at least a liter of prepared infusion under each bush.
Fertilizing strawberries with yeast
Gardeners began to feed plants with yeast relatively recently. But judging by the experience already gained, the result is impressive. Yeast top dressing can fertilize strawberries two, a maximum of three times a season.
This is, first of all, in the spring - to enhance vegetative growth, in the summer - to support during the period of active fruiting and during the recovery period - after fruiting. For strawberries for 10 bushes, an ordinary bucket of 5 liters is enough.
To prepare the solution itself, you will need, first of all, naturally yeast. You can take both regular and fast-acting dry bakers.
An ordinary plastic bottle will be an excellent container for preparing our fertilizer. It is in it that it will be convenient to dilute and shake our solution with high quality.
- When using dry yeast, dilute a 100 g bag in 2 liters of warm water, add 2-3 tablespoons of sugar.
- After closing the cap tightly, shake the bottle well, mixing the ingredients well.
- In the case of using ordinary, rather than dry yeast, a proportional ratio of 1 kg of yeast per 5 liters of water should be followed.
- Next, pour our mixture into a ten-liter bucket, add water and let it brew in a warm place for 3-4 hours.
- After the time has elapsed, pour 10 liters of the prepared yeast solution into a 200-liter barrel.
- If such a large volume is not needed, add 0.5 liters of the finished yeast solution per ten-liter watering can each time.
Water strawberry bushes directly under the root for at least half a liter.
Feeding strawberries in spring with chicken manure
Strawberries are the most common plant in our gardens, kitchen gardens and country estates. In order to grow a good harvest of berries, it is not enough just to water the strawberries in time, snore and fight pests. An important component is also the nutrition of strawberries.
- In order to prepare a solution of chicken manure, you need to take semi-liquid fresh chicken manure, pour it into a bucket so that the ratio is 1 * 15.
- Add warm water to the bucket of manure and stir more thoroughly.
- The solution of chicken manure is ready, it is not necessary to insist, since all useful substances, such as, for example, nitrogen, will evaporate very easily and quickly.
- Therefore, it is necessary to pour the solution into a watering can.
- If there is a thick chicken manure at the bottom of the bucket, then you can pour it under an apple tree or other fruit tree.
- We take a watering can and carefully water our strawberries around, not very close.
- Try not to get on the leaves with a solution.
- After this top dressing, strawberries begin to bear fruit very well, while the berries are beautiful, large, sweet and juicy.
Fertilizing strawberries in spring ash
Ash is primarily known for being an excellent potash fertilizer. In addition to potassium, it contains phosphorus, calcium, magnesium. Being a readily soluble product, combustion products can be used both in a pure - dry form, and in the form of a prepared solution.
Wood ash is the best way to fertilize strawberries - that is, the remains of the combustion of wood, firewood, branches, etc.
- To prepare the infusion of ash, you need to take two liter jars (about 1 kg) of ash for a ten-liter bucket of water.
- Leave the infusion for a day to infuse, stirring occasionally.
- All soluble elements will pass into the water and the mother liquor will be ready in a day.
- To prepare a watering solution, you need to dilute a liter of concentrated extract in 10 liters of water.
When used dry, sprinkle the ashes under the bushes abundantly. With further root watering, useful components will penetrate into the ground.
What to fertilize for strawberries in the spring?
In order to grow a generous harvest of strawberries, it is not enough just to weed and water it, to fight pests. An important component is nutrition.
In addition to the well-known traditional folk methods of feeding with chicken manure, peat or ash, industrial preparations are widely known - organomineral fertilizers. For the greatest efficiency, it is worth making those preparations that are intended specifically for strawberries.
They are best balanced and selected the necessary components in the correct proportions - nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium. The largest amount in such fertilizers is potassium and nitrogen. It is these components that are most important for the proper formation of the bud and the development of the strawberry fruit.
Such a category of fertilizers includes, for example, the drug "Lyubo-Zeleno" from the company "Rusagrokhim". In addition, various preparations containing dry chicken manure, wood ash concentrate or humus are widely represented on the market, which will easily help to fulfill the function of feeding strawberry bushes.
Strawberries spring care top dressing with urea
- For top dressing, measure out 10 liters of water, add 3 tablespoons of carbamide (urea) with a slide.
- All this is thoroughly stirred until the urea granules are completely dissolved.
- After that, we water our strawberries with this solution: 0.5 liters for each bush.
- We also recommend to treat the soil from ants with dry preparations for the best condition of strawberries. It is better to do this around the bush.
- After we have fed our strawberries, it is necessary to cover the bushes with a film on the arcs, leaving one side open.
Complex fertilizer for strawberries in spring
With complex fertilizer, it is necessary, first of all, to cut last year's dry leaves, leaving only a young rosette. After cutting, loosen the ground around the bush.
- To begin with, generously sprinkle all the strawberries with wood ash - between the rows and under the bushes themselves.
- After applying the main potash fertilizer, sprinkle with humus on top.
- The next step will be pest control and top dressing.
- As such a complex, strong enough proven remedy for strawberries, use ordinary ammonia.
- You need to dilute a pharmacy vial of 40 ml in 10 liters of water and pour abundantly on our strawberries, previously sprinkled with ash and humus.
- When watering, the necessary elements from ash and humus with water will fall into the ground.
- The top treatment of the leaves should be treated with Fitoverm - at a concentration of an ampoule per liter of water.
Complex strawberry fertilizer Foliar top dressing of strawberries in spring
As you know, strawberries are very rich in iron. In addition to iron, it has a large amount of manganese and zinc. Foliar top dressing has 3 stages.
- The first stage of the process is done to spray the new young leaves of the plant.
- The second stage is carried out when the strawberries begin to bloom.
- And for the third time it is worth processing small green berries.
A special advantage of foliar feeding is that all the necessary micro and macro elements immediately fall into the leaves of the plant. It is very acceptable when it needs nutrients.
The most optimal time for this procedure is the time after you water the strawberries. But an even greater effect will be if it is carried out in dry, sunny and cloudless weather. A very good result is the treatment of strawberries with boric acid (solution). Also besides this, you can use solutions that have a sufficient amount of nitrogen.
Video: When to fertilize strawberries? Fertilizing strawberries in spring
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Benefits of spring feeding
After the snow has melted and the plant has begun to grow, it follows. This will speed up the vegetation process, form new buds faster, improve flowering and fruiting.
In this case, the main thing is not to overdo it, so that the strawberries do not grow and stop bearing fruit.
Fertilizers for strawberries increase the yield by 30-40%, and with perfect plantation care, you can collect up to a kilogram of berries from one bush!
Before starting the preparatory work on the processing of plants, you need to familiarize yourself with some rules for feeding:
- strawberry fertilizer in the spring is carried out 2 times;
- third time after harvest;
- in mid-April, the first stage takes place, mineral fertilizers are applied;
- the second time ash or potassium nitrate is used;
- top dressing of strawberries is carried out during the ripening of berries.
Types of fertilizer for strawberries
organic
This is a compost mash, which is made from rotted grass, leaves, food waste. The “ingredients” are mixed with water until completely dissolved, after which the plants are watered with the resulting compositions.
Chicken manure is sold in the store or is easily made at home. The concentrate is diluted with water in a ratio of 1 to 10. The solution is kept for several days, and then poured into the soil.
It is important not to overdo it with the main ingredient, so as not to "poison" strawberries with nitrogen.
Humate substance is laid out between rows on dry grass, improves the taste of berries. It is made from an extract of peat, manure or plant residues.
Wood ash - a worthy substitute for piece fertilizer for strawberries, is used in the form of a powder in the proportion of 150 g per 1 sq. m. area.
Mineral fertilizers
This kind of top dressing is necessary to achieve a high-quality harvest, the berries are large and bulky. Strawberries are fertilized with urea in early spring, 0.5 liters per plant bush. Promotes rapid growth and development of the stem.
Micro-complex additives are effective, for example, Zircon, it is not only harmless, but also helps to remove harmful substances from the fruits of the plant. Ash is suitable for starting processing, which will protect the bushes from pests.
Stages of fertilizing strawberries
Spring. To fertilize strawberries, many summer residents use heavily diluted bird droppings, which will be effective throughout the year. During the second feeding, you can use mullein, it contains all the elements necessary for the life of the plant. You can water the beds with fresh manure, for this you need to dilute it with water and insist for several days.
You can also feed the product with a complex mineral fertilizer - ammophos, 15 g per 1 sq. m. It is not recommended to fertilize with urea in the spring, the composition will not be able to have a beneficial effect on the soil and developing strawberry bushes, since it will not dissolve in the ground that has become frozen after winter.
In the fall, it is important to feed strawberries from the first days of September, you can make Kemira Autumn, 50 g per square meter. m. It is forbidden to pour the composition into the center of the plant, only around the bushes. In October, the second call is made, the leaves are cut off, and the strawberries are fertilized with potassium humate. At this time, it will be useful to use superphosphate, which refers to top dressing with a long dissolution time in the ground. It is better to make it in advance, and do not disturb the plant until the end of March.
Nettle fertilizer will have a positive effect on feeding the bushes after harvest. For these purposes, you need to cut the shoots of grass and pour boiling water for three days. Then fill the soil around the strawberries with bio-fertilizer. And it is best to use an organic composition - bean green manure and manure. It goes well with other mineral fertilizers.
Attention: an overabundance of top dressing can lead to a deterioration in the yield and death of the entire plant. In everything, a measure and healthy deadlines must be observed.
Have a wonderful harvest and delicious strawberries!
When to fertilize strawberries. Top dressing strawberries in the spring - video
Growing strawberries is one of the favorite activities of most professional and amateur gardeners. Many people like this juicy, tasty berry, and jam from it is a good help in the winter. But not only planting a plant is justified by the fact that it is a tasty berry. It contains substances useful for the body. Strawberries are rich in vitamin C and folic acid. Doctors recommend it for those who suffer from anemia.
But in order to achieve stable and good yields, the plant requires good care and top dressing plays a significant role here, especially spring fertilizer for strawberries.
Why Fertilize in the Spring
After the winter, when the soil was freed from snow and dried out a little, it is necessary to carry out work to clean up the area where strawberries are grown.
- Clear from last year's rotten leaves. Such work is done on each bush. Although some gardeners leave the old foliage in order to have a gasket between the ground and the ripe berry in the future.
- They free the bed from dead plants and, first of all, from the sick.
- In the event that, for some reason, the mustache was not cut off in the fall, they are cut off in the spring. This must be done as early as possible.
- At the last stage of preparation, the soil around the bushes is loosened so that air access to the roots is as free as possible.
The first feeding of strawberries in early spring begins in April. It is very important not to be late here, but you should not rush either. You also need to remember that you need to apply exactly as much as necessary, since a lack of fertilizer, like its excess, will adversely affect how the strawberry plantation will develop. The beds of this delicious berry are fertilized in the spring to increase the yield, as well as to ensure that the berries ripen large, tasty and juicy.
It is interesting! In terms of vitamin C content, strawberries are second only to currants, but they contain more folic acid than raspberries.
adult plants
The care and feeding of strawberries in the spring also depends on their age. If these are already bushes that bear fruit for the second or third year, then they need to be fertilized and taken care of in a slightly different way than for young ones.
Top dressing of adult plants is done three times:
- after the appearance of the first 2 - 3 sheets;
- at the moment when strawberries are just blooming;
- when fruits begin to form.
During all these periods, strawberries are fed in strictly defined doses and terms, which can be distributed as follows:
- middle or end of April, depending on the region in which the plot for strawberries is allocated, the time for the first feeding;
- May, June is the flowering period, but it also depends on the region and on the strawberry variety.
It is precisely an adult plant that needs such active top dressing, since during the time that it bore fruit in previous years, the soil on which the berry grows is greatly depleted and strawberries require top dressing in the spring.
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Feeding young plants
After planting young plants, care must be taken to carefully care for them. This is the key to future good harvests. What close attention will be paid to strawberries at their early age, so will the yields. And in general, it is necessary to take care of it adhering to the following criteria:
- good watering is necessary;
- regular loosening, as the soil is compacted after watering;
- follow the timely trimming of the mustache;
- how to fertilize strawberries in the spring it becomes clear based on the fact that as soon as the snow melts and the soil dries out a little, it is necessary to feed the bushes with mineral fertilizers.
But in general, caring for strawberries in the spring requires a balanced approach, since the introduction of nutrients to young plants is not as necessary as in the case of adult plants. They completely absorb the nutrients that are in the soil. Therefore, they require constant feeding, but the young shoots can still get by with what is contained in the soil.
What to fertilize
How to fertilize strawberries in the spring will tell the experience of the gardener and what kind of nutrient is needed in each specific period of time. Fertilizers are applied, both mineral and organic.
The latter can be represented by the following types of top dressing:
It's important to know! You can not use fresh manure, but only rotted manure, otherwise the seeds that remain in it can germinate.
Top dressing with mineral fertilizers
When fertilizing strawberries in the spring, inorganic compounds cannot be dispensed with. And they are of two types: those that are quickly absorbed into the soil (phosphorus, for example) and for which it takes a longer time to soak into the soil (iron or copper). What mineral fertilizers are applied to the soil to give nutrients to strawberries:
The application of mineral fertilizers is extremely necessary for the plant to develop normally. If there is not enough nitrogen in the soil, the fruits will ripen too small. With a lack of potassium, strawberries lose their taste.
It is impossible to answer the question of which is better mineral or organic top dressing, since both types of fertilizers are needed to grow a healthy, fruitful plant. Although it is obvious that organic fertilizers are less harmful to human health than inorganic ones.
Application rules
Strawberries are fed with various fertilizers in early spring and do it as follows:
Caring for this plant is not easy and top dressing plays a very important role in its development. And most importantly - without it it is impossible to get good harvests. And not just good ones, but those where the berry will be large and sweet.
Folk remedies
How to feed strawberries in the spring is completely understandable, since fertilizers play the main role in this matter. But to all of the above, you can also add what is called folk recipes, which are as useful as traditional fertilizers.
- Strawberries grow in acidic soils, so the use of fermented milk products as a fertilizer is quite acceptable. Milk contains calcium, amino acids, sulfur, phosphorus and much more, which has a beneficial effect on the development of the plant. Old kefir, any other fermented milk product is added to humus or manure.
- In May, there is nothing better than to fertilize the soil - with bread. After all, it contains a lot of useful substances: minerals, amino acids, proteins. To use bread as a fertilizer, it is soaked in water for 10 days, then this mixture is diluted with the same water and the bushes are watered with this solution.
- There is no need to rush to throw away the weeds that were destroyed during weeding. They also make excellent top dressing. To do this, it is necessary to fill in the collected mass of weeds for a week, and then water the strawberry bushes with the resulting solution.
- A universal remedy is ash, but only pure, obtained from the burning of wood, grass, straw, without any impurities in the form of polyethylene or something similar. In the spring, the space between the bushes is sprinkled with ashes, or a special solution is made with which strawberries are watered.
The introduction of these fertilizers prepared according to folk recipes will help you get a bountiful harvest. And large fruits with a wonderful taste will be a great addition to any table. If you eat at least a small amount of strawberries every day, this will strengthen the immune system and help the body successfully fight various viral diseases.
The best fertilizer for strawberries in spring
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