Fragrant sweet berries of garden wild strawberry are loved by both children, and adults. Bushes of ""red-cheeked"" are grown up by all summer residents. The beginning of June are the peak of blossoming of strawberry bushes. To reap good harvest, power supply and watering is necessary. With watering all necessary substances for filling berries are delivered.
Why to water the blossoming wild strawberry?
The garden wild strawberry (strawberry) has superficially located root system therefore for it always important condition of high productivity is watering. Especially relevant it becomes during blossoming and filling berries in droughty and hot weather. At lack of moisture of soil layer, bushes will receive less necessary power supply, berries will be small, sour.
How to water the blossoming bushes?
Water plantation of garden wild strawberry in morning or evening from watering can or hose, it is abundant moistening the soil around plants, trying not to wash away water and not to bare roots. If necessary roots it is necessary to hill, pour lands. It is even more effective to apply mulch, using compost, humus, grass, hay, old sawdust, needles. The mulch will protect roots from siccation and will serve as additional power supply. Has well proved modern drop watering.
You should not water the blossoming wild strawberry with way of large ""overhead irrigation"" on leaves. Water, getting on flowers and ovaries, provokes fungal infection and plants can ache. Especially if this method is applied in the evening and plants do not manage to dry out, then fruit decay immediately will appear and will destroy harvest.
How often it is necessary to water wild strawberry during blossoming?
How many times a week should be watered strawberry plantation depends on weather patterns and structure of the soil. It is important that the soil when watering has become impregnated with moisture on depth of 20...25 cm. On average spend about 10 for 1 sq.m... 12 liters of water. It is inadmissible to water wild strawberry with cold water from well or the well. Waterings carry out regularly, in process of drying-out of the soil.
The wild strawberry praises on fertilizing which should be included in waterings. It is possible to apply special mineral fertilizers to the blossoming wild strawberry, alternating them to extract from infusion of mullein, bird's dung, weeds. In this phase of the development of plant demand big and high-quality power supply as a part of which microelements (pine forest, manganese, iron, sulfur, molybdenum, copper, cobalt and surely zinc). If there are wood ashes, that time to apply it. In it a lot of potassium also is in prosperity microelements. And potassium is responsible for sugar content of berries.