Strawberry – very useful and tasty berry culture. Many gardeners and gardeners try to grow up it on the personal plots. But often they should face various problems: insects wreckers and diseases.
One of the most widespread diseases of strawberry is decay. It is gray, fitoftorozny and root.
At gray decay on berries the brown spots covered from above with gray raid are formed. It spreads disputes by means of wind.
Fitoftorozny decay proves in the form of brown spots with further coarsening of berries and drying. It spreads slightly worse, than gray decay.
Both of these diseases besides berries can affect both leaves, and stalks.
There is also root decay which generally strikes strawberry roots. It is formed on young roots, turning them from green into black. Then the plant dries up and dies off.
To struggle with these diseases on strawberry it is necessary to hold, since early spring, preventive events and to choose optimal variant of cultivation for the site.
How to protect the harvest of strawberry from rotting
Any decay is formed on strawberry, first of all, from abundance of moisture. It can be caused by both abundant precipitation, and the wrong watering. Strawberry not really loves strong moistening of the soil therefore watering is made not really often. It depends on quantity of rains, moistening of the soil and other factors. Only during maturing it is possible to increase several amount of water which is poured out on beds with strawberry.
Also low temperatures in night and day time positively affect formation of decay. Therefore in cold days it is better to cover beds, for example, agrily. These are will protect your harvest from diseases a little.
Decay is formed on berries when overgrowing by weeds and bad produvayemost wind. Therefore regularly delete weeds from the beds.
Often many diseases are shown on densely set strawberry beds. It is correct to put this berry culture ranks, on some removal from each other.
For protection of strawberry against rotting use various materials, for example agrofibre, spantbond or black film. In them do small openings in which pass strawberry bushes. Thereby this material appears between berries and the earth and protects them from excessive moisture.
In the same way under bushes of strawberry stack dry grass or sawdust. But they have serious shortcoming: they begin to rot over time and demand regular change of laying.
And the best option is the dry pine butcher's broom. Usually it is collected in forests in the fall or in the early spring before blooming of kidneys. Then scatter between ranks of strawberry. It protects berries from formation of gray decay. Besides pine needles it is also possible to pour fir cones is very good protective equipment of harvest on personal plot too.
It is better to do beds for jumping of strawberry high and on each side it is possible to impose with boards or slate from diffusion.
Well, and if you are not idler, and you have a lot of free time, then over beds with strawberry it is possible to make small canopies. It will protect harvest from abundant precipitation. It is better to do canopies up to 1.5 meters high for the best produvayemost and without sidewalls.
Besides all this it is necessary to delete regularly struck berries from beds.
Fight against rotting of strawberry folk remedies
Very good means from all garden wreckers is infusion of bitter wormwood. The wormwood is filled in with boiled water and left for couple of days. Then filter and water strawberry bushes. It has very specific smell therefore it is desirable to do it for few weeks before gathering berries.
For the purpose of prevention include iodine additive in weekly watering (on 1 bucket about 10-15 drops).
It is also possible to oprysnut beds infusion of mustard or horse sorrel.
In the early spring or there is possibility of use of chemical medicines, for example Horus late fall. Spray with it beds with strawberry according to the instruction.
If on your kitchen garden strawberry grows, in time think about preservation of tasty and abundant harvest.