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  1. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    How to get rid of the strawberry mite? Tried chemo, didn't help.
    N. Anisina Moscow Region

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    • OOO "Sad"

      You can try a gas burner. With its help, you need to completely burn out the entire plantation infected with a tick. They do this immediately after fruiting, but rather, without waiting for the last, smallest berries, mow all the leaves with a trimmer. They burn the soil not only in the rows, but also in the aisles. Then the plantation is watered abundantly.
      In the future, water and feed the plants with mineral and organic fertilizers. By autumn, the bushes give new, completely clean leaves, lay flower buds and bear excellent fruit next summer.

      It is more convenient to use burners for roofing work on a long handle. They are sold in hardware stores.

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  2. Nikolay Borisovich TALEIKIN.

    If strawberries die, then there is nothing supernatural here. Judging by the description, strawberries are overwhelmed by the larvae of the May beetle (beetle), eating up the roots of plants. I also once faced a similar situation.
    The garlic growing in a neighboring garden helped me to save the young bushes, which frightened off pests with its smell.
    To have fewer larvae in the soil, first of all, when digging the earth, they must be selected by hand. Further, when planting (or in the event that they are already there), plant a clove of garlic between the bushes. If time permits, you can first sow the dug ground with mustard and, after loosening it thoroughly, plant young bushes. Watering with ammonia solutions affects the safety of the bushes from the beetles, there is also a different chemistry that is embedded in the soil.

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  3. Boris Shiroki, Irkutsk

    On our site, I grow strawberries not only on ordinary beds, but also on a pillar. This is very convenient, as it greatly facilitates the care of the crop. Strawberries receive favorable conditions for growth and development: better lighting and heating of the soil contribute to earlier ripening of berries, it does not need to fight for moisture and nutrients with other strawberry bushes located next to the beds, diseases of berries and damage by their pests are reduced.
    The height of the wooden pillar that I dig into the ground is 1 m 80 cm. I fix plastic cans with a capacity of 2 to 3 m with wire around the circumference of the pillar, drilling holes in the pillar and in the cans. On od
    Mr. Pillar I have up to 20 cans. After planting strawberries in cans, for better moisture conservation, I lay a plastic circle on top of the soil with a slot in the middle and a hole in the center.

    Strawberries are responsive to top dressing with boric acid and potassium permanganate. To 10 l of water I add 1 g of boric acid and 1 g of potassium permanganate. Such top dressing significantly increases the yield. Large berries are obtained, there are no underdeveloped freaks. The taste of berries improves, their color becomes brighter.
    After fruiting, I remove all the cans from the pillar and bury them in the ground on the site. In winter I cover them with snow up to 40 cm high.

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