How to cut off strawberry

How to cut off strawberry

The main value of strawberry – madly tasty and juicy berries. It is possible to receive rich harvest of strawberry on the personal plot, it is necessary only in time and it is correct to cut bushes and to make due leaving.

It is required to you

  • - scissors or secateurs;
  • - chopper;
  • - organic fertilizers.

Instruction

1. Cutting of leaves of strawberry yields excellent results therefore this process has to be carried out not less than two times a year. Thanks to it, berries of strawberry will be larger and sweet. The first time make cutting at once after bushes let go the first mustache. On bushes berries and that they have grown more largely will already grow, it is necessary to cut off mustache.

2. During the beginning of blossoming of strawberry leave two-three peduncles, remove the others. Remember, the more peduncles it will be left on bush, the berries will grow more small. During blossoming and in three weeks after it feed up plants mineral fertilizers.

3. The second time cut strawberry after harvesting. After on bush there is no berry left, the plant begins to let go again mustache which are much weaker and thinner than initial. The plant has spent many forces for maturing and growth of berries. Leave the very first mustache released plant in the spring for cultivation, by fall they will give already good posterity.

4. The end of July - the beginning of August the most suitable time for cutting of strawberry. It is simple to make it: collect all leaves of bush of strawberry in the left hand and cut off, leave only the sticking-out stalks and mustache with strong good sockets. Sockets slightly to prikopayta the earth that roots have begun to grow to the earth and to become stronger. After cutting loosen the earth and introduce organic fertilizers.

5. Some gardeners do not share that opinion that leaves should be cut off. However it is just necessary as in the fall under the decaying and old leaves there can be great number of the wreckers eating the remains of leaves and roots of strawberry. That to avoid it, the earth has to be friable and oxygenated, and leaves not to lie on the earth or to be driven in it (therefore cut always leaves at the end of summer). Only following all these rules, you will be able to receive rich harvest with large berries.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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