In the fall gardeners think of how to make flowers and other cultures ready for the winter. It is necessary in order that it was not necessary to count quantity of the died plants in the spring. Also the garden wild strawberry is not exception.
Instruction
1. Correctly to prepare wild strawberry for the winter period, consider several important nuances. Having made it it is wrong, you do much harm to bushes. There are people who advise it to warm from frosts by means of straw or hay. You should not do so. The fact is that the plant can be exposed to bigger danger – mice. Small animals love delicacy in the form of wild strawberry roots, and such shelter – the perfect place to winter with comfort. As ukryvny material use fir-tree branches. They well hold snow, and it is considered the best heater as does not allow the earth to cool down strongly, being remarkable heat insulator.
2. Time of holding these actions also plays important role. Begin works after the first cold weather. For example, if to carry out this procedure when still warmly, the plant as the winter hardiness of this culture directly depends on its training can do much harm. It is reached at the expense of gradual temperature reduction. Small frosts will temper it only.
3. Before the direct shelter of bushes carry out earthing up and mulching. In week after that feed up plants organic chemistry. It is undesirable to remove leaves, they protect buds of wild strawberry. It is possible to remove only sick and struck. Some gardeners advise to mow foliage right after harvesting that by cold weather new have grown. Before stacking fir-tree branches, put brushwood, dry escapes of raspberry perfectly will approach. Just in case it is possible to leave poison for mice.