That berries of strawberry were large, juicy and sweet, it is necessary to look after strawberry bed: in time to remove weeds, to struggle with wreckers (if they are), to loosen soil, to water landings and, naturally, to feed up them. The checked national organic fertilizers - ideal option for fertilizing of strawberry.
To strawberry, as well as many other plants, potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus therefore to receive large berries, culture it is necessary to feed up, and not less than three times during the season are especially necessary for fructification. The first - right after snow thawing, the second - during the beginning of blossoming, the third - during forming of berries. Observance of these conditions will allow to grow up juicy, large and sweet berries. Now as for fertilizing. As fertilizer it is possible to use:
- chicken dung;
- mullein;
- dung water;
- infusion of weeds;
In the early spring, right after snow descent, it is necessary to feed up strawberry nitrogen-containing fertilizer. For this purpose it is enough to take normal ashes and by means of sieve to spray it on bed. On square meter of bed no more than a half of liter of solid matter is required.
If the above procedure is not performed - nothing terrible, still there is time to feed up strawberry bushes. During blossoming of landings it is necessary to bring solution of chicken dung, mullein or dung water in soil. In water substances get divorced, strictly observing proportions: chicken dung - 1 to 10, mullein - 1 to 5, dung water - 1 to 3. Plants at the roots in calculation of half of liter on bush pour down.
If both above fertilizing are missed, but you wish to receive large berries, then in this case it is better to use complex mineral fertilizer in which potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen and magnesium contain in the necessary proportions. Now among gardeners are most often applied ammophos and nitroammofoska as medicines are plain in application, cost not much, and their efficiency is many times higher, than expensive fertilizers, similar on structure. Their application allows to achieve increase in productivity for 30-70%.
It should be noted also that strawberry pleased with large, juicy and sweet berries, only fertilizing not to manage here, it is necessary to look after plants properly. First, for strawberry it is necessary to select bed on which the most part of day sunshine fall. Secondly, to try to delete in due time weeds (it favorably influences growth of berries and their tastes the fact is that weeds block sunlight and, absorbing nutrients from soil, deprive thereby of minerals berries, fruits are badly poured). Thirdly, it is necessary to adjust watering. The lack of moisture, as well as surplus, has negative effect on culture. In the first case because of the shortage of nutrients of berry do not grow large, they become shallow, in the second - fruits develop sour taste.