Garden wild strawberry which is very often called strawberry, – the most widespread berry culture in Russia. Very tasty and fragrant, it is good as fresh, and at preparation for the future and therefore it enjoys deserved popularity.
Some modern grades of strawberry large-fruited, resistant to cold and various diseases. There are also remontant grades which maturing drags on up to fall. But steadily to have good harvests, it is necessary to look after this culture correctly. Care for strawberry needs to be begun in the spring after snow descends and the earth will a little dry out. First of all accurately you prorykhlit the earth around bushes and a few its podsypta to root neck (only without filling up neck at the same time). If you covered bushes for the winter with mulch, move away her or at least move apart so that around each bush there was open soil. Examine plants and remove all frozen slightly, dry and darkened leaves.
If the young bushes planted last summer badly have postponed wintering and are obviously strongly damaged, remove them without hesitation.
Feed up strawberry. In the spring it most of all needs nitrogen fertilizers therefore bring humus in the soil. If you do not have it, water around bushes with solution of ammonium nitrate or sulfate ammonium (30 g on 10 liters of water). On each bush use about 0.5 liters of such solution.
Further care for strawberry consists in regular weeding of weeds and waterings. Strawberry needs to be watered rather seldom, but it is abundant. In dry weather one watering a week suffices. In the summer strawberry it is desirable to feed up potash and phosphoric fertilizers to stimulate forming of berries.
With the same purpose it is possible to spray bushes with means "For ovary".
In the summer, especially in hot weather, strawberry water either early in the morning, or in the late afternoon when the sun is low over the horizon. For watering do not use cold water, it has to be warmed. It is desirable to cover beds with mulch by the time of forming of the first berries. Also regularly examine bushes of strawberry and in due time you treat sick plants (or delete them). Break the ripened berries together with fruit stem and accurately stack in spacious capacity with flat bottom. After the end of fructification cut off old leaves, you prorykhlit the earth. It is necessary to consider that it is undesirable to grow up strawberry on the same place more than 3-4 years as the productivity then will sharply decrease. Therefore it is necessary to move strawberry to the new site regularly. It is the simplest to make multiple copies this plant mustache and sockets. Choose the most powerful and fruitful bushes, leave on them up to 2-3 mustache and prikopayta the first sockets (including from bushes). When they take root, accurately dig out these small bushes and replace to the chosen place. For the winter cover strawberry with fir twigs, dry grass or straw. To receive rich harvest, constantly pick the ripened berries, and together with fruit stems. Regularly feed up plant, and during setting of berries pour sawdust that berries did not decay. If during fructification there are heavy rains, cover bushes with film not to allow maturing of watery berries. Delete the damaged plants.