The magnificent harvest of juicy and large berry which is grown up and collected with own hand – the true pride of the summer resident. If during the spring growth of roots and foliage the major task is to help plant to become stronger and not to hurt, then since June it is necessary to control condition of bushes and then to collect fruits. It is very important to know how to look after strawberry in the summer that there was good harvest.
Care for strawberry in summertime: main works
- It is necessary to support the earth on beds damp in the summer, to make watering of strawberry approximately time in 4-3 days, during heat – every other day. Before blossoming – overhead irrigation, during blossoming and fructification – under roots.
- To mulch the earth sawdust, needles, wheat straw or to lay film under bushes. It will allow to detain moisture, to constrain growth of weeds and not to be soiled to fruits.
- It is regular to examine plants in time to notice wreckers or signs of the desease, to delete the damaged parts.
- To feed up strawberry before blossoming and at its initial stage.
It is timely to collect the ripened fruits with fruit stems.
Fertilizing of strawberry
If you want to look after correctly strawberry, surely learn in due time and in the necessary doses to fertilize plants. Excellent natural fertilizer for yet not blossoming strawberry – infusion of young nettle in which there is a lot of potassium and nitrogen. It is necessary to make 200 g of nettle family of leaves bucket of boiled water and to draw two three days. After that liquid should be filtered, sprayed with it bushes and to feed up roots.
Before blossoming it is possible to bring 0.5 l of such solution under each plant: potassium sulfate (5 g) and nitrophoska (25 g) divorced in water bucket. That strawberry has given more ovaries, it is possible to use for its spraying 0.02% solution of zinc sulfate. It can be got in pharmacy and to use one couple of hours prior to watering.
Skilled summer residents can make still set of recommendations how to look after strawberry in the summer to receive good harvest. You will be able to evaluate what options yield optimum result on your beds.