Strawberry - mulching leaves and top dressing Azot: I advise!
Top-dressing of strawberry azofoska - my feedback on the result
What can’t you do with great love, especially if its fruits are very tasty ... Then you’ll even go for “illegal” actions. And surprisingly, the result can be positive.
Surprised strawberry
Many times she was going to write a letter, but somehow she put it off - she was embarrassed, or something ... But finally she gathered herself, and her favorite strawberry was the “fault”. After all, this berry can be considered almost a symbol of country life. Have you seen a summer resident who does not grow it? I personally have not yet met. As, by the way, I have not seen such a method of growing it, which I have been using for a long time.
And it all started with the fact that my sister and I have become quite old, but we want more strawberries.
And the point here is not that we turned into a sweet tooth, it just so happened that for several consecutive seasons the yields of our beloved berry were almost zero - some kind of illness prevailed over it. Than we didn’t water the bushes, than we didn’t spray and dust, and besides the “tops” the strawberries gave us practically nothing.
But one day in the spring I look - a strawberry is tied. She began to cherish her with even greater force. I look - there were enough berries in order to, as the saying goes, only feast on the bush. So this is already good!
But I'm not used to rest on my laurels, I still need to help the strawberry. But as? Everything you need already seems to have done. And then from the excess of feelings to the resurgent plantings sprinkled them at the end of the season by Azofa and from time to time began to do watering.
M I see that the bushes are very happy about this. According to the mind, it would already be necessary to cut them off, but now the hand does not rise. Well, then I decided not to touch them - that’s how strawberries went into the winter.
In the spring, my sister and I arrived at the cottage, checked the planting and made sure that the plants were alive. If so, we thought, then we need something to urgently feed them. Than? No manure. Then they collected all the dry leaves with a large rake, lightly plowed up the earth and patched them up. And after that, my sister suggested that I feed the strawberries again with an azophos. And what? Can. What am I losing? And since the plot for this berry was allocated to me with a size of 6 × 10 m, I scattered two kilos of fertilizer on it, and then I put spray-irrigation sprayers and lavishly watered the plantings with water.
I look - the bushes began to be as good as new, they began to gain strength. Since this is the case, I began to water them 2-3 times a week for an hour and a half. And there were berries at that time - the sea! My sister and I did not believe our eyes. When the strawberries were fruitless, then, remembering last year’s experience, I decided to do the same: in late July, I again sprayed the azofoska on the ground and again gave work to the sprayers. And she didn’t cut anything again, letting go of the bushes during the winter in a cheerful state. In the spring, she repeated all the actions - and again my sister and I had a good harvest.
The main thing is not to be afraid
Since then, this technology has become clearly adhered to. True, in five years the yield began to decline, but I added a special fertilizer with micronutrients in the spring, and everything went smooth again. Now my sister and I take off 30-35 buckets of good, strong berries from the same site (on which, incidentally, we have been growing strawberries for 20 years).
See also: Sprinkle strawberries with green, iodine and ammonia - my testimonials
I want to say something else: the land under the bushes, like fluff.
You step into the strawberry - the leg is sinking. Plants grow, as they say, a continuous carpet, which happens to be knee-high. The bushes are green, beautiful, and when they bloom - you can’t take your eyes off. I tell many of my friends about my method of growing strawberries. They come, look, and then thank for such a hint.
Although some are afraid: "How is it not to cut the bushes in the winter?" Yes, that's it!
Sometimes they ask: "What about after the rain?" And everything is fine, because the bushes are high and the foliage with berries of moist earth does not touch: For 20 years in the strawberry there is so much stuff! And I collect only leaves from the top when harvesting in the spring.
Actually, my sister and I (her name, by the way, are Faith) are still growing a lot of things. But next time I’ll tell about it, if my health allows. I’m already over 70 years old (and Vera - about that). That's how we live. I hope we have followers.
Two years ago, we began to overcome slugs, and this season almost completely did not eat us together with berries. Prosherstila all she could and found advice that you should pour beds with ammonia (3 tablespoons per liter of water) or sprinkle with lime quicklime. I'll try it in the spring.
© Author: Valentina Stepanovna TRUKTANOVA, Samara
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Mulch on strawberries: don't repeat my mistakes!
When cleaning a strawberry bed from weeds that sprouted through a leaf mulch laid in the fall, I found mold on it. But she did not attach much importance to it. From above, all the mulch looked, as they say, decent, and therefore did not change it, but simply moved it.
And a week later I saw a gray fluffy coating in several more places of the strawberry garden. I realized that if I don’t rid the site of this contagious mulch, the mold can then spread to the berries. She immediately took action - removed all the mulching material from the garden, loosened the soil around the bushes. She let the soil dry and shed the bed with Figosporin. Then I covered it with new high-quality mulch - well-dried mowed grass. I burned the old mulch.
For safety, I treated the bushes with mustard infusion. Diluted 5 tbsp. table mustard powder in 12 liters of very warm (almost hot) water. She let the mixture brew for two days, then diluted it with water 1: 1 and sprayed strawberries with a thick panicle. The garden revived in a few days, the bushes bloomed perfectly. Ripe berries were healthy. The harvest was good.
From what happened, I concluded that the mulch should be changed every season, and not leave the old one.
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I had a dream - to feed the whole family with strawberries to the full. In the 1990s, when she retired, she took up her incarnation. Of course, not immediately, but planted a large plot in the sunniest place. I had 18 rows of 15 bushes. Chemicals and fertilizers are not very fond of. Care was the simplest: watering in the hot summers and weeding, there was a lot of grass - sow thistle, euphorbia, woodlice and thorn. In late August, after picking berries, everyone mowed oblique (I can mow it myself).
All the greens in a pile, and row-spacing dug up and poured in them sawdust. It turns out like a bass potato. In spring, I scissor removed all the old leaves and grass, which has already grown. Time passed: the family ate plenty of berries, no one wanted any more jam or compotes. I had to sell the berries, so nothing was lost. Ten years later I realized that the berry should be rejuvenated.
Every year, two borrows (or even three at once) began to dig up after picking berries. I dug up the earth, chose every root, and until the spring the land rested. Meanwhile I grew a new planting stock. I took it from the most beautiful bushes that I chose during fruiting. In the spring the ground was once again dug up and planted young bushes, which took root very well.
F. Galkina
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Strawberries were grown as soon as they purchased the plot.
I harvested good ones, picked berries in buckets. Then the fruiting scale decreased significantly, and I realized that the best way to return to previous achievements is to transplant strawberries to another place. I decided to do everything according to the experience of skilled gardeners and took the experience of Nikolai Rosshibin as a basis.
First I had six beds, then four, and then six again. Moreover, in the first year of planting, the bushes kept the whole green mass, cutting off only the mustache and peduncles, which made it possible to quickly bring young plants to "commodity" yields. It was only after that that many berries began to rot, because the peduncles under their weight fell on the ground. On the advice of one of the readers, I began to put "basketball rings" under the bushes out of the wire, and the problem was gone.
By the way, last year (that is, five years after the start of this experiment), I again planted strawberries in the old place, and I made only two beds: one for fruiting and the other on green mass. And on the first one there was a strange bush: it is the most magnificent, the most beautiful, but in fact the dependent, because it gave only flowers, flower stalks and a mustache. I don’t know what to do with it. Tell me, please, will he be any good?