Garden wild strawberry – the most favourite berry of all summer residents. It both blossoms before others and fructifies too early. Today practically on each site it is possible to see grassy bushes of this fragrant berry. At the same time it does not belong to fashionable garden plants. The reason of popularity of wild strawberry – its taste and advantage.
To reap good harvest, it is necessary to take care of beauty and purity of strawberry plantation in the early spring. At first to cut off scissors or secateurs all old leaves. Them it is visible at once, they or yellow (dry), or with red spots. To further make scarification between plants, in parallel destroying weeds. For this purpose perfectly not the really wide sharply ground chopper approaches. Loosening is carried out small (superficially), otherwise it is possible to damage wild strawberry backs. If the plantation not too big, then is more convenient to work with easy manual rykhlilka.
The strawberry plantation which grows more than three years needs fertilizing. It is possible to use mineral fertilizers or complex (phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium). Some gardeners just scatter granules on bed, but this way ineffective. It is better to deliver fertilizer directly to roots. For this purpose near roots of each bush do deepening and fill in it granules. So they will absolutely get to plant root.
It is important to remember that the wild strawberry increases every year new green material up, and in several years she will act considerably over the surface of soil. Therefore it is necessary to hill plants a little to hide old stalks.
To keep moisture at bush and not to allow weeds mulching of the soil – soil covering certain material will help to expand. As mulch for wild strawberry garden it is recommended to use the old aired peat or birch sawdust. The main thing not to go too far in quantity. So, too big layer of sawdust at contact with the soil can begin to decay from below, taking away from it nitrogen. At such mulching it is necessary to bring on bed with plants additional dose of nitrogen.
There were now many new grades of garden wild strawberry, and many gardeners seek to try them to grow up on the site. But you should not chase mode. It is better to choose the grades checked by time, to exchange planting stock with skilled summer residents, and also to listen to their councils. Then the fragrant red wild strawberry will surely please with rich harvest.