What to do with strawberry bushes after picking. Proper care of garden strawberries after harvest. When to prune strawberries

The term "leaf mowing" refers to a whole range of activities in the first-year strawberry bed.

There is no definite answer to the questions - why and when to cut strawberries. Opinions of gardeners on this matter are different.

Some are for it, some are vehemently against it. Why do this if it seems to be known that the foliage feeds the root, they say, the more foliage, the stronger the bush? Yes, this is certainly correct.

But ... Harvested - prepare for the next! Sounds like a slogan for a gardener.

So, caring for strawberries after harvesting is preparing the plantation for next year's harvest. And pruning strawberry leaves is one of the stages of this care.

We all love this berry. In the spring, a lot of time and effort is spent on care before flowering, during it, during the formation, ripening of berries. We want more strawberries, they were larger, juicier, tastier.

So, just after the harvest, you need to make every effort to improve, increase it next year. Strawberries need special care just after harvesting. This is the most important time for her and for us.

Why trim your mustache

Surely, you already noticed during the harvest that strawberries (strawberries) give a lot of whiskers. Of course, it depends on the variety. Some cultivars have a lot of whiskers, some have little, and some may be completely hairless.

We collected all the berries - carefully inspect the entire plantation. It is necessary to loosen the beds of garden strawberries, weed them from weeds, remove the mustache.

Mustaches are required for strawberries to breed. If you do not want to get new rosettes, new plants for propagation, then you need to cut them off immediately after they appear.

Usually there are several mustaches on one bush, we collect them in one bunch and cut them as close as possible to the base of the bush. By the way, this mustache trimming procedure will have to be repeated more than once per season. If we start, we don’t do it on time, then the plant will spend all its energy on growing mustaches, rosettes - the future crop will get less, there will be fewer flower buds, which means there will be fewer berries, they will be smaller.

Everything superfluous for the future harvest must be cut off.

In addition, this is necessary so that the strawberries do not thicken, since thickened plantings are more difficult to care for.

When to feed, fertilize

Some gardeners do the wrong thing by overfeeding strawberries before harvest. This leads to the fact that it is strongly affected by gray rot, this is, firstly. Secondly, although the berries become large, they are watery, less sweet, and have a shorter harvest period.

Early in the spring before flowering, we fertilize with nitrogen fertilizers. But, remember, the main fertilization should be after harvest. This is top dressing with complete mineral fertilizer and organic matter. Many bring manure under strawberries. This, of course, is good - manure not only nourishes the plants, but also takes care of the strawberry root system.

Hilling strawberries

The fact is that strawberries are a perennial berry plant. Over time, it builds up an aerial root system and begins, as it were, to bulge out of the ground. Every year, especially after 3-4 years of growing in one place, we are forced to add mulch, earth, compost, rotted manure into the aisles, thus covering the roots of strawberries. Mulching, hilling helps the roots develop well.

Reasons, timing of pruning leaves

The laying of fruit buds in strawberries (strawberries) occurs in June (Krasnodar Territory) - July (middle lane) after harvest. By this time, it is necessary to coincide with the first trimming of the mustache, leaves.

The fact is that a strawberry leaf lives only 60-70 days - 2-2.5 months. And after that, various spots appear on the leaves - whitish, rusty, red. These are signs of leaf aging, the development of various diseases on them.

That is, cutting the leaves of strawberries (strawberries) is necessary in order to protect the future crop from diseases.

Trim leaves or whiskers with secateurs or scissors. Tools must be sharp.

Do not tear them off with your hands - this way you can damage the root system. The plant, instead of building up leaf mass, will recover its strength for a long time.

The process of chlorophyll production stops 2-2.5 months after picking the berries - even in healthy plants, the leaves may turn red.

Advice:

reddened leaves should be removed to prevent the pests remaining on them from wintering quietly. Treat the plantation with pesticides.

There is a danger that young leaves will not have time to grow after pruning - bare bushes may not survive the frosty winter.

So, a month and a half after picking the last berries, we inspect the plantation of strawberries (garden strawberries) and remove all the leaves with specks, holes, while not forgetting to remove the flower stalks. We leave only young leaves.

When to do it?

In the middle lane - the first half of August. I will not say the exact date - it is not so important. Most importantly, calculate the timing so that your strawberries leave in the winter with young leaves already grown.

How to prune strawberries if the plants are affected by diseases, pests

In the event that a bush or bushes of strawberries are affected by a strawberry mite, there is severe spotting on the leaves, it is necessary to remove all leaves, even young ones.

Leaves with signs of disease should be cut as close to the base of the bush as possible, since disease spores can also persist on petioles. Try not to touch the heart of the bush when pruning - the plant will be able to recover faster.

By doing such pruning, you will not harm the bush, as strawberries grow green mass very quickly. By cutting off the old leaves, you will immediately see where you can loosen the ground, where you need to remove the weeds.

Of course, by removing all the leaves from strawberries, you will not remove all pests and diseases. They will remain on the stumps of leaves, the ground.

Simply, such a bed is easier to treat with drugs for diseases and pests. This processing is more efficient.

Now you can feed the "rejuvenated" bed.

At this time, as I said, fruit buds are laid - the basis of the future harvest, so do not forget to periodically water your strawberries. BUT

if there is no rain, keep the soil moist.

Top dressing, watering at this time are required. It is at this time that strawberries will increase their leaf mass, which in winter, covered with snow, will protect the root system from freezing.

That is, the more foliage your bushes go into the winter, the better they will winter, the more harvest you will get.

If during the harvest period you notice berries affected by gray rot - after harvesting the last berries, treat the entire plantation with some kind of fungicide - it can be Bordeaux mixture, Topaz or Horus.

Is it possible to mow all strawberry leaves

The term "leaf mowing" refers to a whole range of activities in the first-year strawberry bed. Some gardeners take the word "mowing" so literally that they go out into the garden with a scythe and even with a lawn mower, and not in July, but in August, and ignore all other methods. The results of such leaf mowing are always deplorable.

In fact, this most important stage in the care of strawberries includes not only the removal of leaves, but also loosening, treatment for pests and diseases, removal of mustaches, replanting fallen plants and preparing seedlings for a new garden bed.

Not so long ago, walking along my dacha street, I saw that my acquaintances were mowing strawberry leaves with a scythe. They have a large berry plot - several acres - they cannot do without a scythe, as they believe. At first I thought that they decided to get rid of the old strawberries in this way, they say, it's time to start a new plantation. But it turned out that everything is not so. The owner of the dacha said that they mow the leaves of strawberries every year, three or four weeks after the last harvest. And this year, some circumstances prevented them from doing it on time and they mowed in mid-August. The strawberry harvest, according to them, is good all the time, it gets sick less.

If you have a large plantation and it is more than 3-4 years old, then you can follow the example of my friends.

There is another reason for completely cutting strawberry leaves with a scythe or secateurs (scissors) - this is a strong defeat of plantings by diseases and pests. After complete cutting (mowing) of the leaves, the plantation should be treated with some fungicide or pesticide. Be sure to feed your strawberries - help her quickly build up leaf mass.

It is not necessary to carry out mowing on young healthy plantings of strawberries, this depletes the bushes and you deprive yourself of the harvest.

How to care for strawberry beds after pruning or mowing

I will repeat myself a little, but this is very important.

Loosen the ground around the bushes.

Remove weeds.

Treat the plantation for diseases and pests.

Feed with mineral and organic fertilizers.

Water regularly if there is no rain during this period.

It is very important that the soil in the garden bed is wet all the time - this is very important for the growth of young foliage.

That's all the simple rules. Now you know how and when to prune strawberries (garden strawberries). A good harvest next year is guaranteed!

If you think that garden strawberries (strawberries) can be left alone after fruiting, then you are deeply mistaken. Many people wonder when to prune strawberries. Just after the harvest, garden strawberries should be given maximum attention, since it depends on your actions during this period how juicy, tasty and sweet the berries will be next year. The main thing is to make a thorough and complete processing of strawberry plants. And if you do everything right, then you are guaranteed an increase in yield next season (it can range from 35% to 40%, which is not bad at all). And it is necessary to start taking care of the future harvest when it is already necessary to cut the strawberries after harvesting immediately.

Caring for strawberries after harvest

In July, you harvested a wonderful harvest of berries, fully enjoyed their taste and made preparations for the winter: now you need to think about how to “thank” the strawberries so that they regain their strength and stock up on new ones. To make this happen, we do the following:

• we remove dry foliage and the old mulching mass from the beds: after all, it contains those pests and pathogens of various diseases that have such a detrimental effect on plants;
• weed out weeds;
• trim the mustache and old leaves;
• we dig up bushes with a nematode and mercilessly destroy them (so that the disease does not spread further);
• we loosen the soil not only in the beds, but also in the aisles;
• water (as needed, that is, only when there is no rain for a long time);
• we carry out treatment from diseases and pests;
• we fully feed the plants;
• we mulch the soil (for example, with peat).

On a note! It is not necessary to cut off or mow all the foliage from strawberry bushes: you can overdo it. Only unnecessary (that is, already yellowed and flawed) foliage is subject to removal.

And now let's dwell on each stage in more detail.

The crop is harvested: we prune strawberry plants

Some people are hesitant to trim the strawberries, maybe "it will do." There can be only one answer: of course, it is necessary. After the crop is harvested, it is mandatory to weed the beds, removing withered foliage and all weeds. We burn the cut leaves immediately and in no case send them to the compost. It is also not worth arranging a layer of mulch from them. The thing is that pests can remain on the leaves, and they themselves can be infected with diseases. When to prune strawberry leaves? In July, right after the final berry picking.

Important! We do not recommend making a complete (total) pruning of leaves from the bushes (we do it only if the strawberry plantation has undergone a fungal infection or pest infestation). It is necessary to cut off selectively (only old and drying leaf blades).

Young bushes, which are only one year old, should not be touched at all: let them grow and gain strength.

As for the mustache, it is imperative to remove them, because if this is not done, then all the forces of the bush will be directed to the growth of new mustaches and flower buds: but we do not need this, because then we will not wait for the berries. And we cut off the mustache as close as possible to the center of the outlet. But if you have plans to propagate strawberries, then you can easily do this by digging in some whiskers.

On a note! When to prune strawberries (i.e. remove their leaves and whiskers)? The procedure must be repeated several times per season.

Cut strawberries correctly

On how well you trim the bushes and choose the right moment for this (that is, when it will be most effective to cut strawberries after picking berries), its fertility in the next season depends. We remove old leaves as follows:

• we cut them or mow them at a height of 8-9 cm (to avoid damage to growth points and healthy leaf mass) using a garden knife, pruner or scissors;
• comb out the cut leaves with a rake.

Advice! In no case do not cut off the leaves with your hands: by pulling the leaf, you can pull out either the entire bush or part of it, thereby violating the root system. Such actions will lead to the fact that the damaged plant, having become ill, will recover for a long time and is unlikely to produce a large number of berries.

When is it best to prune strawberries after harvest? Most likely, this is 8-11 days (no less) after the completion of fruiting.

Reasons why you need to cut the leaves of strawberries without fail

At the end of the fruiting of strawberry bushes, the second wave of the formation of new leaves begins, when it is simply necessary to trim the leaves of strawberries. Otherwise, all the forces of the plant will be spent only on their growth, and not on laying new flower buds. As a result, next summer you will have a lot of green leaves and very few berries.

In addition, pests try to quickly crawl from old (“tasteless”) leaves to new (“tasty”) ones and settle there. Why not? In general, we repeat once again that the most suitable moment when it is worth starting to cut strawberries is the July days (immediately after fruiting).

We loosen the soil

Advice! At the end of loosening, you can please your "favorites" and spud them with fresh soil (about 20 mm high). Moreover, special attention should be paid to bushes in which the root system is bare (most often this applies to plants whose age is 2-3 years). But be careful: the soil should not fall into the center of the bush.

Processing strawberries does not hurt

Chemical treatment of plants during this period will not interfere in any way, since during the picking of berries it was completely excluded (by the way, weeding was not recommended either). Especially if, when processing strawberries, you notice that some leaves look like corrugated paper: this is a sure sign that it is not dozing, but is doing its dirty work. In this case, we treat the plants with anti-mite devices (“Thiovit Jet”, “Fitoverm”, “Aktellik” or colloidal sulfur diluted with water), strictly following the instructions on the packages.

If brown spots are found on the leaves, then, most likely, the plants have caught viral diseases. We process them with Bordeaux solution.

If the berries rot, then the plants are affected by gray rot: we spray the bushes with copper oxychloride (a popular fungicide).

Advice! Before chemical treatment of the bushes, we recommend removing all diseased, old and pest-infested leaves from the garden.

Upon detection of yellowish leaves (located in the central part of the plant), the thickness of the petioles of which has increased significantly, we conclude: the bushes are affected by the nematode. It is useless to take any measures in this case, sometimes even spraying does not help. It is easier to get rid of diseased plants.

Advice! After removing the affected bushes from the garden, we strongly recommend that you shed the soil with very steep boiling water.

But it is better, as you know, to prevent a disease than to cure. Therefore, the following can be suggested as preventive measures:

• constantly inspect the bushes and, if sick are found, immediately remove them;
• spray the bushes and soil in the garden with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.

Feeding strawberries after harvest

Well-rotted compost (or biohumus) is excellent for feeding strawberry bushes, which is poured onto the beds directly to the roots. Ash, which is scattered between the bushes, can also serve as a good top dressing (based on the calculation: 2-liter jar per 1 m² of plantings).

Important! Due to the fact that wood ash does not combine well with fresh manure, you should not use them together.

Mineral dressing, consisting of a mixture of ammonium nitrate, superphosphate and potassium sulfate (in a ratio of 1:3:1), diluted in water, is also not forbidden.

Getting ready for winter

After all the work has been done, when it is no longer necessary to cut the strawberries, you can think about winter preparations. And they consist, first of all, in the fact that in October to bring or peat) under the plants with a layer of at least 50 mm. Then, in November, cover them with spruce branches or raspberry branches so that the snow cover does not put much pressure on the plants.

Finally

Ph.D., Art. scientific collaborator Federal Scientific Center for Horticulture named after I.V. Michurina, Scientific Secretary of the Academy of Non-traditional and Rare Plants, member of the All-Russian Society of Geneticists and Breeders of the Russian Federation

Many people think that as soon as they have harvested strawberry beds, they can relax until spring. However, in fact, there is a big mistake here, because as soon as the garden strawberry pumps fruit and gives the last berries, it immediately gets to work and begins to lay the next year's harvest.

You should not put off the fight for the future harvest, you should start it immediately after harvesting the berries and continue until the strawberry bushes are covered with a thick layer of snow.

What to start first?

The first step is to remove all the old mulch layer that was on the beds, it can be straw or sawdust. Considering that diseases and pests could well settle there during the season, the mulch is subject to removal and destruction outside the site.

The next important stage is the fight against weeds, and it is better - immediately after watering or rain, when the weeds are perfectly weeded out by hand.

Another stage is the loosening of the soil, it normalizes both the air and water balance of plants. However, it must be done carefully so that the fragile root system of strawberries is not injured. At the same time, you can carry out the hilling of plants. It is advisable to hill strawberries with loose, moist and nutritious soil in order to form additional roots. But it is important to prevent the "heart" of the plant from sprinkling.

After that, take a rake with thin and rare teeth, clean out all the old leaves on the plants and burn them outside the site, because wintering stages of pests and diseases can accumulate there.

Do not forget about the periodic watering of beds with strawberries, it must be carried out as the soil dries out.

We also need top dressing of strawberry plants, and, of course, treatments against pests and diseases.

Let's take a closer look and start with the removal of leaves and whiskers, as well as the pruning scheme for strawberries.

You should definitely know that the renewal of leaf blades in garden strawberries usually occurs three times during the growing season: in spring, in summer and in autumn. Scientists have found that one strawberry leaf blade lives for about two months, then it ages, dries up and either falls off or remains hanging on the plant.

The most important thing for strawberry plants is the spring regrowth of leaves, which is the key to successful fruiting. As soon as the harvest is over, the next stage of the formation of leaf blades starts, which is associated with the laying of flower buds and the storage of nutrients for the next year's crop. The foliage formed in the autumn period of time serves for the most part for the full wintering of garden strawberry plants.

How to understand that the leaves are to be removed? Usually, various kinds of spots form on them, they can be whitish, scarlet or red. In the process of natural death, strawberry leaves absorb a lot of nutrients from the plant and can even cause it to become depleted. In this regard, after about 20 days after the completion of fruiting, the old leaves must be removed - you can comb it, you can cut it out.

During the same period, it is quite possible to remove the mustache, unless, of course, they are needed for laying the future young plantation.

Removing foliage will not only slow down the outflow of nutrients from the plant to nowhere, but also save the bushes from possible pests and diseases that can accumulate on the foliage.

Naturally, all strawberry foliage removed in one way or another must be removed from the site.

If the plantations under strawberries are such that there is no way to manually remove old leaves, you can use mowers, trimmers, the main thing is that the cutting height is 5-7 cm, so as not to damage the growing point, the so-called " heart plant.

Remember that it is appropriate to mow or otherwise remove old foliage if the age of the bushes is more than 2 years old, but on young plants it is permissible to cut out either diseased leaves or dried ones. After removing the leaves, the soil under the plants must be carefully loosened and poured over a bucket of water per square meter.

About watering

Very often the question is asked - is it necessary to water the garden strawberries, which have completely finished bearing fruit. We answer - of course, it is needed, during this period the next year's harvest is laid and the soil must be in a slightly wet state. After fruiting ends, strawberry plants begin to lay generative buds, develop a root system, and so on. The frequency of watering should be at least once a week, and it is better to water in the evening under the root, but not by sprinkling. After watering, be sure to loosen the soil to maintain normal air and water exchange and prevent the formation of a crust on the soil surface. It’s great if after watering you have the opportunity to mulch the soil, for this you can use humus with a layer of 2 cm.

Speaking of mulching, it allows you to make the soil looser, prevents the formation of a soil crust, inhibits the growth of weeds, and if humus is used as mulch, it will serve as additional nutrition and improve soil fertility.

Not only humus can be used as mulch, sawdust, straw, dry grass, compost and even needles are suitable here.

top dressing

With the end of fruiting, the plants are as weak as possible, because they gave all their strength to the formation of berries, so top dressing is necessary, and not one-time, they need to be done three times.

• The first top dressing is usually done in August, as soon as the old leaves are removed. At this time, by the way, nitrogen fertilizers, such as urea, are suitable, a tablespoon should be diluted in 10 liters of water and this volume should be spent on 1 m 2. Such top dressing will stimulate the growth of young leaves of plants.
• After 14 days, it is permissible to make a second top dressing, this time we recommend using organic fertilizers with the addition of superphosphate and potassium sulfate, 15 g per 1 m 2. Consider - superphosphate is poorly soluble, it must first be diluted in a liter of boiling water. Such top dressing stimulates the laying of flower buds in plants.
• The third top dressing can be done in mid-September, at this time a mullein solution will be a very successful fertilizer, it is applied in the amount of 200 g per 1 m 2 of strawberry plantations.

In addition, the culture responds very well to ammophos fertilizer. Consumption rate - up to 30 grams per 1 m 2. Ammofoska should simply be scattered over the surface of the soil, after digging it up and moistening it, and then sprinkle it a little with soil.

It is also permissible at the first feeding to water the plants with a solution of ammophoska, 20 g per 1 m 2 of the bed.

Nitrofoska and nitroammophoska give good results to the second top dressing, it needs only a tablespoon in terms of 1 m 2.

Protection from pests and diseases

Is it worth it to fight pests and diseases, because the crop has already been harvested? Of course it's worth it. After removing the old foliage, the plants should be sprayed with a 1% solution of potassium permanganate.

If there is a weevil on strawberry plants, it is necessary to treat with the Taran preparation in the evening and strictly following the instructions on the package. Also, this pest can be dealt with with folk remedies - take 12 drops of ordinary medical iodine, dissolve in a bucket of water, and in the evening process the plants, wetting the entire above-ground mass.

Sometimes strawberries are affected by a strawberry mite, such drugs as Fitoverm, Fufanon, Actellik, Kemifos are effective against it.

Preparing for winter

Just before the cold weather, you need to weed out all the weeds, mulch the bushes with humus with a layer of 2 cm, sprinkle foliage on top and put spruce paws to keep the leaves from scattering over the site. But before that, be sure to inspect all the bushes and be sure to remove all diseased and old leaves.

Remember - you can not remove too much foliage. With a small number of leaf blades, plants can enter the winter weakened, and even when covered, they can freeze slightly.

Also inspect the bases of the bushes, if you notice bare roots, then they certainly need to be spudded with nutritious, moist and loose soil, the main thing is not to cover the growth point.

As soon as real frosts come, you need to throw deadwood and spruce branches on the beds with strawberries in order to “strengthen the structure” even more.

As you can see, caring for garden strawberries is simple, but very important, so you should not neglect it if you want to get a rich harvest of healthy early berries next year.

Pruning after fruiting is one of the essential items for caring for strawberries. This simple procedure will help you get even larger and sweeter berries next season.

The formation of antennae in strawberries is an absolutely normal process. This is how the plant reproduces. But if there is no task to grow seedlings of strawberries, then they must be cut off.

Although not all antennae are needed for berry propagation. The most powerful are the first ones released by the mother bush. They can be rooted, and all the rest will not give full-fledged offspring, so they should also be removed.

The tendrils take a lot of energy from the plant, and only timely pruning can preserve the potential of strawberries. If you do not remove them, every year the beds will become more neglected, and the berries will be small and tasteless.

Why and how to mow strawberries in the summer?

For large plantations, mowing strawberry bushes after fruiting should become the norm. This will not only save time and effort on removing tendrils and old leaves, but also prevent the development of fungal diseases, ensure sufficient ventilation of the garden bed and help the roots build up strength for the new season.

The best results are obtained by mowing strawberries aged 3-4 years. This has a rejuvenating effect and guarantees a great harvest next year. But young bushes are better not to mow, but to carefully cut.

To do this, use a pruner or sharp scissors. Be sure to treat them in a solution of potassium permanganate before use. It is strictly forbidden to tear off leaves and antennae with your hands. So there is a risk of removing not only the aerial part, but also damaging the spine.

When to prune strawberries?

The procedure is carried out 5-10 days after the last collection of fruits. Most often this happens before July 20, but a lot depends on the variety, weather conditions and other factors. You can understand that the time has come to do this by the appearance of new young greenery on the bushes. Often you have to do it again, up to 3-4 times per season, because the antennae continue to grow, and the leaves grow old.

Note!

If you mow beds with strawberries, re-pruning is not needed.

The day before, it is necessary to water the beds with strawberries well. It is necessary to mow with a very sharp scythe and not under the root, but leaving the stems to a height of about 3 cm.

If the bush is sick or weak, pruning should be done as early as possible. It is permissible to carry out the procedure on the second third day after harvesting the fruits, and preferably as close to the ground as possible in order to remove possible spores of the fungus.

It is very important to remove not only aged, but also damaged leaves. The first pruning is carried out 3-10 days after harvesting the fruits, and the last just before shelter for the winter.

Do not delay pruning strawberries. It is necessary that young leaves have time to grow before the onset of cold weather. Bare bushes may not endure the cold and the strawberries will die.

Time spending

To make strawberries easier to endure stress after removing the tendrils and old leaves, you need to carry out the procedure at the most suitable time for this. Best if the day is overcast. Then pruning can be done at any time of the day, but if it's hot, it's better to do it in the evening, two hours after watering. After heavy rain, it is also not worth trimming the antennae and leaves.

How to feed strawberries after pruning

Traditionally, for strawberries, it is recommended to use Elegy mineral preparations, but organics also give an excellent result. After harvesting, it is optimal to use freshly cut green manure, manure or manure solutions. A good result is mulching with peat or Christmas tree needles during the laying of young flower buds.

You can feed the berry with ammonium nitrate. Just remember that the excessive presence of nitrogen in the soil will lead to lush foliage growth, but will reduce the quality of the berries.

In general, according to the rules of agricultural technology, after pruning strawberries, it must be fed three times. The first time nitrogen is used, which stimulates young foliage to grow. After 14 days, potassium-phosphorus fertilizers are fertilized, which will help to lay flower buds. And around the middle of September, mullein or other organic matter is used to water the beds.

Advice!

To make the mullein solution more beneficial, add a glass of wood ash to it (per 10 liters of water).

When fertilizing strawberries, you need to act according to the principle - it is better not to feed than to overfeed.

How to care for strawberries after fruiting

After harvesting strawberries, it is very important to maintain soil moisture.

It’s good if you can dig a small trench around each bush before watering so that water gets to the roots faster. But if there is no time, at least loosen the soil a few hours after wetting.

For top dressing, you can cook "slurry". To do this, any weed (preferably nettle, hops, etc.) is laid on a third of the barrel, filled to the top with water and placed in a sunny place before fermentation. To speed up the process, you can add some yeast.

Water under each bush 0.5-1 liter, depending on the age of the strawberries. The remaining grass can be laid out in the aisles.

Caring for strawberries after harvesting in July

In July, most varieties of strawberries stop bearing fruit, so the main work is carried out during this period.

To make the bush easier to endure pruning, it does not hurt to pre-feed it. A mixture of potassium chloride (20 g), ammonium nitrate (30 g) and superphosphate (50 g) must be added per square meter. The soil, together with fertilizers, must be thoroughly loosened to a depth of about 10 cm and slightly moistened.

It is necessary to loosen the earth carefully so as not to damage the roots, which are located almost on the surface. After fertilizing, be sure to sprinkle the bushes with earth so that the adventitious roots are carefully covered.

5-7 days after pruning, when new young leaves begin to grow, it will be necessary to re-feed with a solution from a bucket of water 2 tables. spoons of nitrophoska and a glass of wood ash. It is necessary to water under each plant a liter and a half, depending on the age of the strawberry bushes.

A week later, you can feed the strawberries with a solution of chicken manure. It is diluted with water in proportions of 1:20 and watered under the root. 10 liters of solution is enough for 10 adult bushes and 20-25 young ones. For top dressing to give the best effect, you must first moisten the beds.

Mineral top dressing gives excellent results. To do this, you need to purchase a product specially designed for strawberries, dissolve it in accordance with the instructions and process the bushes. Amophoska is considered universal. It contains not only potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus, but also sulfur, magnesium and calcium.

Important!

Fertilizers should not contain chlorine. His strawberries can't stand it.

In addition to mineral top dressing, humus can be used. Strawberries always react positively to it. Compost is simply added to the hole dug around the bush. Top must be mulched with peat.

Caring for strawberries after harvesting in August

The last summer month is dry and hot during the day, so watering comes to the fore. It must be done at least twice a week. Sometimes there is a need to do this more often. You can determine that the plant lacks moisture by drooping leaves.

Watering is carried out under the root or according to the principle of sprinkling.

Important!

If the leaves continue to turn yellow and dry, they should be cut back.

Continues in August and top dressing. For this, a solution of bird droppings (1:20 with water) or mullein (1:15 with water) is used. A ten-liter bucket should be enough for 10-15 bushes. If there is a need to transplant old bushes or plant new ones, this should also be done at the end of August so that the plants have time to take root.

In September, flowers begin to form on strawberries of some varieties. The berries will not have time to ripen, so the plant will simply waste its strength in vain. Therefore, it is necessary to cut off the color and continue to remove the tendrils and old leaves.

Before the onset of cold weather, strawberries must be fed. To do this, you can use a solution of chicken manure, which will provide additional warmth during the winter. It does not hurt to dust the beds with wood ash. Be sure to inspect the bushes, removing yellowed leaves and plants that did not take root after transplantation.

Watering strawberries after harvest

It is desirable to water even more often than before picking berries. In order for moisture to remain in the ground longer and reach the roots in sufficient quantities, it is necessary to regularly loosen the soil around the bushes and carry out mulching.

The frequency of watering in each case is individual. The soil in the garden should always be moist! A dry earthen lump should not form. But there is no clear schedule. There are only recommendations. You need to focus on the weather. If it rains, there is no need for watering. If there is a heat, then it should be done at least once a week. On average, 2-3 buckets of water are consumed per square meter.

Important!

It is necessary to use water that has been settled and heated during the day for irrigation.

The most suitable option for strawberries is drip irrigation. Indeed, with this method, the soil will always be sufficiently moistened. You can use plastic bottles for this. They just need to cut off the bottom, dig them up to the "hangers" into the ground and fill them with water. Use any volume, but it is more profitable to take five or even ten liters. They will need to be filled much less frequently than bottles of 1.5-2 liters.

You can create a drip irrigation system from hoses. They are laid out along the beds, holes are made in the necessary places and connected to a water supply source. It can be water supply, but it is better to install a large barrel on a small hill and fill it with water. This way it will be able to heat up. But when choosing this option, you must definitely take care of the filter, which will protect the drip irrigation system from leaves, pebbles and other small debris.

In terms of growing strawberries, Oktyabrina Ganichkina makes a special emphasis on spring planting care. As soon as the frosts end, it is necessary to remove the artificial shelter from it, carefully remove the foliage or other natural “blanket” to the side. So young sprouts will develop well. Watering is not necessary, at first strawberries have more than enough soil moisture.

But pest control does not hurt. The most proven method is dusting with wood ash. This will scare away dangerous insects, and provide additional feeding to the bushes.

After 2 weeks, you can feed with a solution of bird droppings (1:20) or mullein (1:15).

After another week, you can start watering. While it is not too hot, it is enough to do this once every 10-14 days, then the procedure will need to be carried out 2 times a week.

Be sure to regularly weed and loosen the soil, as well as mulch the beds. Oktyabrina Ganichkina advises laying out potatoes, carrots and other vegetables between strawberry bushes. She claims that this will help enrich the soil with additional nutrients, as well as retain enough moisture in it.

Autumn care for remontant strawberries

Remontant strawberries bear fruit several times during the season, so caring for it is different from the usual. Pruning work begins around early to mid-September. Mowing is not recommended, because new foliage will not have time to grow before the cold weather. It is necessary to cut with sharp scissors or secateurs and antennae, and old or diseased leaves. Before this, you need to slightly moisten the soil, but if the nights are already cold, then it is better to do this during the day.

Important!

The removal of tendrils and weeding on remontant strawberries should be carried out throughout the growing season.

After the procedure, it is necessary to loosen the soil, mulch with straw, hay, fallen leaves or freshly mowed green manure.

It is impossible to feed remontant strawberries, unlike ordinary varieties, three times; therefore, it is optimal for it to use complex fertilizers that contain all the necessary nutrients that the plant needs for wintering and full development for the next season.

Caring for Victoria after Harvest

Victoria finishes fruiting in late August-early September. Care for her is the correct formation of bushes. They are compact in Victoria and should not grow, otherwise it will negatively affect the quality of the fruit.

How to care for strawberries after planting in the fall

After planting strawberries in the fall, the beds are mulched with peat, sawdust, straw or freshly mowed green manure.

Strawberries will not require any more interventions until wintering. It will only be necessary to water it once a week while it is hot, and two weeks before the shelter, fertilize with a solution of charcoal (a glass per bucket of water) or bird droppings (1:15 with water).

Before the onset of cold weather, it is necessary to loosen the soil between the rows, carefully examine the bushes for damaged, diseased and weakened leaves, and also pay attention to the possible presence of pests. They often winter in the warm shelter that is created around the strawberries. To scare them away, you can use special tools or simply spread onion and garlic husks along the aisles, dust with wood ash.

Covering strawberries for the winter

It is imperative to cover young strawberries for the winter! She is not yet strong enough to endure frosts on her own without additional help.

For shelter, you can use agrofibre, ordinary pieces of fabric, old blankets, etc. Fallen leaves or straw will reliably protect you from the cold. But the natural shelter must be additionally fixed so that it is not blown away by gusts of wind. The stalks left after growing corn or thin pruned tree branches are excellent for this. They are laid out along the aisles.

The first option is more acceptable, because with the help of artificial shelter, while the cold is just beginning, the beds can be covered at night and opened during the day. So the bushes will be more hardened. You can't do that with a natural "blanket".

You can treat strawberries from pests either in early spring or after fruiting has ended. During flowering and fruiting, it is dangerous to do this.

After pruning, strawberries should be treated with a solution of light pink potassium permanganate. This helps to disinfect the cuts and remaining shoots, as well as the soil around the bushes.

One of the pests that often attack strawberry beds is the weevil. To protect against it, the drug Intavir is used. Processing must be carried out twice, once every 14 days. It is also used to kill insects. In case of damage, the solution is applied once a week.

Well helps to drive away pests from strawberries iodine solution (10 drops per bucket of water). Spraying is carried out every 10-14 days.

Important!

Before processing from pests, it is necessary to carry out weeding and loosening of the beds.

Strawberries suffer from fungal diseases. Spores-causative agents are carried with the wind, and with the tools used for work, and even with drops of water when watering or during rain.

High humidity, thickening of plantings, placement of beds in a lowland, as well as an excessive amount of nitrogen during top dressing contribute to the development of diseases.

Biological products Fitosporin or Fitoplus help protect strawberries from rot.

Important!

To protect the berries from rot, it is necessary to pluck them from the bushes in a timely manner, not allowing them to overripe.

Zircon is considered a novelty. It is used for foliar processing. It is absorbed into the leaf and helps the plant to activate its own forces to resist diseases and viruses.

A proven remedy for years is Bordeaux mixture. Plantings are sprayed with a solution of a teaspoon per 500 ml of water before flowering, after harvesting and after mowing or pruning.

It is necessary to regularly inspect strawberry beds, timely removing the affected leaves or plants if it is too late to take action.

One of the folk remedies for combating diseases and pests is planting marigolds, garlic and other odorous plants next to the berries.

Growing strawberries is a complicated process only at first glance. For a great harvest, just follow these guidelines:

• landing should be carried out from May to early June or from late August to mid-September;
• the first tendrils from the mother bush are best suited for reproduction, all the rest must be removed;
• processing of strawberries is carried out exclusively before flowering, and then after fruiting;
• all work with strawberries should be carried out either in the early morning or after sunset;
• pruning of leaves and removal of tendrils should be carried out only with sharp scissors or secateurs;
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Which of the gardeners did not dream of harvesting a rich harvest of bright and juicy strawberries on their plot. Strawberries are not only delicious. Red berries are a real source of vitamins and minerals that are so necessary for a person. However, you need to follow the plant not only when it is covered with white regular flowers. After harvesting, strawberry bushes also need care, which consists in the treatment of shoots with herbal remedies to prevent the development of diseases, in pruning old leaves that have grown over the summer mustache layering. If these activities are carried out correctly and competently, they will become the basis for a new abundant harvest next summer.

Why and how to mow strawberries in the summer?

How to mow strawberries in the summer and why should you do it? Mowing strawberries is becoming a habit. Every season, summer residents mow overgrown leaves and shoots on strawberry beds until the end of summer, without thinking about how the plant will react to this method and whether it is time to prune. Before taking on a braid, it is better to re-read articles about growing strawberries, look at gardening forums. The owners of strawberry plantations are often advised to mow the shoots. Immediately after picking the berries, seasonal processing of strawberries is carried out if the leaves on the strawberries are covered with brown spots. Timely removal of infected shoots reduces the risk of further spread of the disease.

What to do with strawberry bushes in July, August?

Experienced gardeners are advised to wait and look closely at the plant. As soon as the shoot begins to beat off new foliage and let out a whisker, then it's time to remove the old leaves and unnecessary whiskers. This process is carried out in compliance with certain rules:

• In July, early varieties of strawberries release shoots with young rosettes. For reproduction, layers with large rosettes are selected. Usually these are the first two on the run. They should be buried, without cutting the antennae, with which the process is connected to the mother bush. Unnecessary sockets should be removed. This process must be repeated regularly so that the bush does not become thickened by autumn. If time is missed, then it is better not to touch the plant, otherwise the growth of the plant will be delayed, and this will affect the future harvest.
• Drying and damaged leaves are cut off at a height of 5 cm from the ground, since pest spores can also be found on strawberry cuttings.
• If you remove the old leaves on time, then a lot of reproductive organs, peduncles are formed, and this is the key to a good harvest. It should be remembered that it is impossible to mow leaves on young shoots. Only after the plant gets stronger, that is, for 3-4 years of fruiting, you can mow the strawberry shoots.
• Pruning old shoots is a process that cannot be done with a Lithuanian scythe. In order not to damage the bush (strawberry shoots are very strong), you need to work with a sharp and clean pruner so that the tool does not cause infection.

In August, work on the strawberry beds continues:

• it is necessary to water the strawberry bushes well;
• separate the largest sockets, prepare them for planting;
• the soil between the strawberry beds should be dug up;
• mulch aisles using sawdust or straw, dried moss or leaves that have fallen from trees; mulching stifles the growth of weeds, prevents the formation of a crust on the soil, in winter the mulch will serve as a heater for plants, in the spring it will need to be raked.

Mowing strawberries is not only cutting leaves, it is a whole range of activities that are aimed at increasing the future harvest. If you are late with pruning strawberries, then the plant will not be able to provide the necessary supply of trace elements. Young leaves will not have time to appear, the shoots will remain bare. The seedling will not endure the winter cold.

When to prune strawberries?

When and how to process strawberries? There is also controversy regarding the timing of pruning strawberries. Two options are being considered:

• the first is pruning in mid-June;
• the second - spring pruning

When can strawberries be processed after fruiting? Experienced gardeners are waiting for July, because July pruning does not violate the natural cycle, because it is at this time that the shoots that bear fruit die off, and dry foliage interferes with the further development of seedlings, it is only necessary to choose a dry, windless day. But pruning in the fall harms the plant. After the old shoots are mowed and removed, the soil around the plant should be disinfected with a solution of potassium permanganate, fed, and insulated. Wood ash is suitable for this purpose.

Seasonal tips: what to do with strawberry bushes in July and August

How to care for the beds after pruning and mowing? Many gardeners are of the opinion that after picking berries on a strawberry plantation, you can ignore it until autumn. With this approach, the next strawberry season may not be harvested generously. Garden strawberries simply need processing after harvest. In two months of summer, strawberry beds will be overgrown with grass, and the plant needs to replenish its strength, release new leaves, while the old ones still continue to hold on, lay flower buds. New strawberry shoots will be thrown out until autumn. Small rosettes will require nutrients, which they will "pull" from the mother plant. All these reasons make the gardener take the time to care for the strawberry plantation.

Seasonal tips may be as follows. In July, the gardener needs to take the following steps:

• weed out all the weeds that managed to grow by the end of July;
• if strawberries have been growing for several years, mow the foliage, not forgetting to leave the right number of outlets for the subsequent propagation of the berry, rake out the foliage;
• loosen the soil under the bush and spud each bush to prevent the roots of the plant that are on the surface of the earth from drying out; during hilling, it is necessary to ensure that the earth does not fall into the center of the bush;
• loosen the aisles and organize watering of the site, after each watering, you need to loosen the soil around the bushes.

Plantation spraying should also be done. The simplest and most affordable way is to treat the bushes and soil at the site with a solution of potassium permanganate or copper sulphate. At the end of the day, mowed plants should be treated with infusion of wormwood, garlic, tobacco dust. Mineral fertilizers, as a top dressing for strawberries, can also be used. Pruned strawberry plantations are watered with a solution of superphosphate or potassium sulfate.

Pruning strawberries after harvest

After the harvest of the strawberry plantation is freed from fruits, the gardener continues to care for the berry. Strawberry processing is necessary after harvesting strawberries in order to get a rich harvest next summer. Remove old leaves and weeds. They should not be used as mulch because the old leaves have pests that will start to multiply when they get into the new environment.

After fruiting on a plantation, the question arises of how to process strawberries. Among gardeners there are disputes about the advisability of pruning strawberries. Two opinions are put forward:

1. Many gardeners doubt the need for pruning and argue that the complete removal of leaves is stressful for the bush, and interference with the natural development of the plant can only harm it.
2. Others argue that the stress caused by pruning leaves, on the contrary, stimulates the bush to increase fruiting.
3. Still others advise you to become experimenters: choose two strawberry bushes and cut the leaves on one of them, do not touch the other. See which plant will yield the most.

Reasons for pruning leaves: pros and cons

Continuing the conversation about pruning strawberries after fruiting, we need to consider the arguments that convince the need for pruning, and the evidence that advises against it.

Arguments in favor are as follows:

1. Pruning leaves and stems accelerates the growth of the root system. There is an explanation for this: useful substances and trace elements rush to the roots, because the aerial part of the plant is absent.
2. Pests that hide on the leaves of the plant will be destroyed along with the leaves. If you do not remove the old foliage after the harvest, then spring can bring new troubles. At first, the bush looks quite healthy, but after the first flowers appear on it, the leaves change color, become covered with brown spots. This indicates that the phytodisease affected the entire plantation. How to trim the leaves if the plants are affected by diseases and pests? To cut the leaves now means to be left without a crop. Leave everything as it is, ruin the strawberry planting completely. So the gardener scolds himself for not cutting the leaves last summer, but the scheme for trimming leaves and mustaches is simple: cut off all the shoots that begin to dry out, leaving stems up to 50 cm high.
3. Some gardeners claim that sloping strawberry beds do not suffer from frost. The argument is somewhat dubious, but it is not without common sense. For the winter: processing strawberries after fruiting consists in feeding and warming.

Arguments against are:

1. In the autumn, buds begin to set on the strawberry bushes - a harbinger of the future harvest. By cutting the shoots, the gardener can damage the generative and vegetative buds, because in the process of work, each bush is not inspected, so it is not worth cutting the plantations.
2. It is believed that the stress caused by the removal of leaves will slow down the further development of the crop, on which the fruits will form much later than in other plants.
3. As a rule, before the process of removing leaves, the gardener does not treat the plantation with poisons, considering this to be superfluous. It turns out that he simply shakes off the pests on the ground and forgets about them, but as soon as young leaves appear, the insects come to life again and crawl onto the young greenery.
4. Leaves are the respiratory system of plants. Thanks to them, photosynthesis occurs, which provides shoots and stems with oxygen. With the removal of leaves, the supply of oxygen decreases.

Why trim your mustache?

Any variety of strawberries has a mustache - long shoots without leaves, diverging in all directions from the bush. Why trim your mustache? When is the best time to do this? Discussions on this problem have been going on for a long time on horticultural forums. Finally, some rules were formed about the cultivation of garden strawberries, in particular, trimming the mustache of garden strawberries after harvest is necessary. You can not bring the plant to the point where the mustache completely covers the entire mother bush. In this case, you can not expect a good harvest from a strawberry plantation. Mustaches are needed if you plan to increase plantations. And in this case, you should not be too lazy to cut out all unnecessary processes, leaving the strongest and largest. Gardeners are advised to leave a mustache - the first from the bush.

How to properly trim your mustache? The opinion of gardeners on this issue is again bifurcated. Some feel that the mustache needs to be trimmed as it develops. Another group of gardeners are relatively calm in observing the development of the plant and trimming it all at once. But there is no particular dispute about the time of trimming the mustache. it is better to remove unnecessary processes from mid-July to the end of August. It is important that the plant beat off new shoots by winter. Mustaches should not be pulled out: this can damage the mother plant. Shoots on the plant that are not needed are best cut with a sharp pruner or garden shears.

A few words about diseases and pests of strawberries

Pest control is a painstaking process. Pests of a strawberry plantation are simply difficult to see, so it is necessary to treat strawberries annually after harvesting from diseases. Their list is quite numerous:

1. If earlier the leaves of the plant were covered with brown spots, it means that a fungal disease has settled on the plant. How can you process strawberries after picking strawberries. Bordeaux liquid, preparations "Ridomil Gold", "Ordan" are effective.
2. Small holes in the leaves suggest that the strawberry plantation is being attacked by the raspberry-strawberry weevil. In such cases, insecticide treatment is needed, which is carried out regularly.
3. If a strawberry mite appeared, as evidenced by shriveled leaves that gradually turn yellow and die off, gardeners think about what can be done? How to spray strawberries is easy with the following preparations that destroy earth mites:

• "Fitoverm", "Titovit Jet" - concentrated solutions that must be applied at intervals of 5 days;
• "Aktellik", "Karbofos" - serious compositions;
• colloidal sulfur, Bordeaux liquid.

1. How to treat strawberries from diseases, if the berries have rotted, it is necessary to treat the available fungicides - Karate or Inta-vir. In the absence of poison for processing, simply pour hot water over the bushes: the tick will die.
2. If the bush has strongly thickened shoots, then the conclusion suggests itself that a nematode has settled on the plantation. You should know that no measures will help. It is better to immediately remove the bush completely, and spray the ground on which it grew with boiling water.

Processing strawberries from pests is carried out after harvest. Save named drugs. How to properly process strawberries, tell the instructions on the packaging.

Further care of the plant?

When should strawberries be processed after fruiting? This question is asked by a gardener who has finished picking sweet berries. When do you need to feed, fertilize, because the increased growth of leaves has already begun? Right now is the time to start a new plantation of strawberry crops or transplant old bushes if they have been bearing fruit for five years. To do this, prepare a new area: it’s good to find a plot where onions or legumes were grown.

On the site you need to scatter bird droppings or humus, and then dig and moisten. For planting, choose a young strong mustache, and it is better to throw out the old bushes.

If the transplant is not performed, then you must perform:

• weed the area;
• cut off all whiskers and yellowed leaves, but young shoots should not be disturbed;
• rake the foliage on the strawberry plot;
• treat plants with colloidal sulfur;
• loosen the soil on the site, observing a depth of 15 cm (you need to work carefully so as not to damage the root system).

It is important to feed strawberry bushes with mineral preparations (it is better to buy formulations intended for strawberry crops, because they contain phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium, humus, compost). Organic fertilizers are suitable for summer dressings (pour any manure with water, wait until the fermentation process has passed). Wood ash has a good effect. The ratio is as follows: 1 kg of sol per square meter of crops. Scattered ash is covered with a layer of soil. After fertilizing, you need to shed the soil well on the site. Strawberries do not tolerate chlorine. Preparations containing this element can destroy the entire strawberry plantation.

A little about watering a strawberry plantation

Well-known agricultural technicians believe that watering is the main event for caring for strawberries, which will be the key to good fruiting. Before starting to prepare the site, it is necessary to think over the irrigation system, otherwise the cost of subsidence will be unnecessary.

There are many irrigations per season:

• the first watering is done after the melt water has left;
• in the subsequent time, it is necessary to ensure that the soil under strawberry crops does not dry out, otherwise the development of the berry and the ejection of flower stalks stops, otherwise the aging process of the bushes begins, the leaves dry up and die.

In the age of application of new technologies, irrigation of all strawberry plantations can be ensured by arranging drip irrigation. Plantations need watering both in early spring and in summer, because plant growth after harvest depends on how much nutrients are supplied, and they are absorbed only in dissolved form. After watering, it is imperative to hill the bushes.

Conditions for successful strawberry cultivation

There is an opinion that strawberries are an unpretentious plant that bears fruit on its own and does not require any care. But growing garden strawberries in a garden plot is different from strawberries that grow in the forest. The bright red berry has adapted to natural conditions for centuries, and even then, not all young bushes survive, but only the strongest ones. Garden specimens are usually hybrids that the breeder has bred, so they require special conditions for growing. Without proper care, the crop will not produce a crop. Therefore, a gardener who decides to grow strawberry plantations will have to make a lot of effort:

• in order for the berry to pour and the vegetative process to proceed, the crops must be well watered;
• it should be understood that loosening prevents soil compaction and enriches the soil with oxygen;
• top dressing increases the yield and quality of berries;
• mulching protects crops from the hot sun and severe frosts.

Experienced gardeners advise not to confuse varieties of strawberries and set aside separate beds for a new variety, because there are varieties that bear fruit only once and remontant ones that bear fruit two or three times. All varieties of strawberries have a unique aroma, preserves, jams, compotes are a real storehouse of vitamins.

A few tricks for the care and processing of strawberries

Strawberry growers are gradually accumulating their own rules for growing this specimen, which form practical recommendations. Here are a few of them:

1. When choosing a place for a future strawberry plantation, you need to choose a site that is not plowed and was sown with onions, carrots, beets, garlic, herbs. It should be a sunny area, because the plant will not bear fruit in the shade.
2. This variety prefers light soils; if the soil is dense and heavy, then peat and sand should be scattered, and then dug up.
3. The site must be prepared six months in advance. Before planting, manure should not be scattered, as it can burn the root system; it is better to do this in the spring so that the soil settles, and plant new rows of strawberries in the fall.
4. Strawberries are a moisture-loving crop. A drip irrigation system will give a good effect.
5. A good top dressing for young bushes is a solution of potassium permanganate and boric acid.
6. Interesting options for natural feeding:

• It is necessary to cut the nettle shoots, pour boiling water over it, insist for several days. The nettle solution will cause shoot development and change the color of the leaves.
• The second recipe uses milk products. Pour whey or kefir (1 l) into water (3 l), mix. Pour the solution under the root of the plant. A hardworking gardener is not lazy to water the plants every 14 days.
• In subsequent years, it is necessary to make compost under the plants, which is convenient to close up with a flat cutter.
• In order for each bush to bear fruit, you need to pinch your mustache in time. During the period when the fruits are tied, the growth of shoots should not be stimulated.

An experienced gardener still plans all the activities for processing the crop in the winter. Strawberries will surely reward the gardener for their efforts with bright juicy berries.