It is difficult to find a garden, a garden or a summer cottage where strawberries would not grow. This wonderful berry is not only very tasty, but also extremely useful: it helps digestion, normalizes blood pressure. Strawberries are used for peptic ulcer disease, as well as for constipation and atherosclerosis. But a crop from this garden crop can be harvested only by properly caring for it. The most important for the normal development of this plant is the post-harvest period. Proper care of strawberries after fruiting is the key to a good harvest next year.
Being a perennial herbaceous culture, this berry loves the most lighted areas and does not tolerate lowlands in which cold air is collected. It can not be cultivated in one place for more than six years, since enough infections are collected on the beds. She gives a harvest from the end of May to July.
The most important role in the growing process is played by the care of strawberries after fruiting. At this time, the plant forms new leaves and horns (shoots), intensive root growth.
Therefore, it is not surprising that care for strawberries after fruiting is required no less thorough than in spring. Drought, as well as leaving antennae or plant damage by various pests, badly affects the crop. These factors significantly affect the formation of flower buds, which gives garden strawberries. Care after fruiting therefore begins immediately after the last berry is harvested.
How to start work after harvest
It is necessary to carefully weed out all the weeds with which the beds of this berry are fairly overgrown during the ripening of the crop. Then you need to dig the soil, removing at the same time a mustache with dry and diseased leaves. It is advisable to process each bush individually, only then, according to experienced gardeners, next year the plant will please with an excellent harvest. Some growers use a very radical method: they mow the crop to the very root, thereby allowing the sheet machine to be completely updated.
Planting New Bushes
Strawberry, care after harvesting which requires planting new bushes, having finished fruiting, begins to intensively form antennae, which significantly weaken the mother plant. Therefore, periodic removal of these processes is necessary.
Seedlings for the new beds are taken from a relatively young plant. Sockets that are closest to the uterine bush are best suited for this, so they are better developed. It is they who take root faster than the rest. Planting of new plants begins in late July and ends in September, so that before the frosts they manage to settle down in a new place.
Caring for strawberries after fruiting involves the addition of nutritious soil to the rhizome, since over time they are exposed, going outside. And if the plant is not spud, then the yield will decrease. This should be done carefully, without falling asleep heart.
Pruning bushes is needed to strengthen the plant. Many pests and parasites like to live in strawberry foliage, so after removing the diseased and diseased parts, the plant must be sprayed with a special preparation.
Proper care of strawberries after fruiting will help to maintain planting, and next year to enjoy the rich harvest of this fragrant and sweet berry.