How to feed strawberries in July?
Strawberries, like any other culture, need feeding.Fertilization contributes to high-quality harvest, helps the plant to cope with changes in ambient temperature, develop a high-quality root system. But in order not to harm, the gardener is required to observe the elementary rules of agricultural engineering.
Landing rules
Strawberries are resistant plants and can grow in a wide variety of conditions, depending on the variety. A summer resident who knows when and how to fertilize a crop will easily secure a bountiful harvest.
The berry should be planted in the area where the sun falls on the plant for at least 6 hours during the day.
It requires not only timely and not too abundant watering, but also rich, fertile soil containing enough organic substances for development.
Strawberries do not like moist soil, but at the same time they do not tolerate drought, so the gardener needs to be consistent in the irrigation process. The area around the berries must be completely free of weeds. A layer of mulch will create a protective "pillow" for the crop, which will protect against fungal spores and slugs.
What is fertilizing in June?
In June, begins the period of active development on the bushes plants, flower ovaries and berries. At this time, the culture actively consumes the necessary nutrients from the soil. Many gardeners begin to make nitrogen, mistakenly believing that it will trigger growth. Of course, it will provoke, but only the growth of foliage, but the ovary, on the contrary, will become smaller.
Nitrogen needs to be made at the end of the last month of summer, only then will it benefit.
Laying dressing near each bush, because the only way to provide each plant with necessary nutrition. It can be both fertilizers of own production, and ready that are delivered in a big variety on the market.
Natural top dressing
You can feed strawberries in July:
- blood meal;
- fish meal;
- chicken droppings;
- mullein
Experienced gardeners are not advised to use fresh manure as a fertilizer, as it can burn the root system and other parts of the plant. Chicken droppings are diluted 1: 15, when watering they try not to touch the foliage.
Korovyak divorced 1:10, before use it must be insisted for a day, and only then poured under the bushes with berries.
Ready fertilizer
In June, from ready-made products, nitroammofosk and nitrophoresis, which are rich sources of necessary elements, are most often used. One tablespoon of powder is enough for ten liters of water. It is allowed to add ashes to the water, since it can provide the plant with the necessary nutrients, and at the same time it will not allow slugs and snails to approach the berries.
A huge number of trace elements contained in ammofoske. One matchbox of fertilizer is enough for the same amount of water. If dry powder is used, then a matchbox is poured into one square meter. The beds after feeding should be watered well to dissolve the product and penetrate into the soil.
What can not be used?
It is strictly forbidden to use potassium chloride in relation to strawberries, since this crop has a negative attitude towards it. If we neglect the advice, the plants will not only stop bearing fruit, but also slow down considerably.
It is worth remembering that the lack of nutrients is just as harmful to strawberries as their excess, therefore the gardener must comply with the measure in everything.
There are deadlines when and which fertilizers are applied. Violation of the elementary rules of agricultural engineering leads to the death of not only the harvest, but also strawberry bushes in general. After pruning at the end of the summer, it is necessary to treat the soil with nitrogen; it will give fruitful soil for foliage development next year.
About how to feed the remonthant strawberries in July, see the next video.
