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Continuing the topic of strawberries, I would like to mention that the technology of growing remontant strawberries is very similar to the technology of growing strawberries, since these berries are close "relatives". And yet, the cultivation of remontant strawberries has its own characteristics, which I want to talk about
Remontant strawberry varieties bloom and bear fruit repeatedly, both in spring and autumn. The constant overload of crops is the reason for the fragility of these varieties. Some of the best varieties are: Lord, Lyubava, Albion, Vima Rina, Khonei, Selva.
Repairing Strawberry Care
Caring for remontant strawberries primarily consists of loosening and watering. Thanks to loosening, we enrich the soil with oxygen, which participates in the oxidation reactions of mineral and organic substances. During fruiting, strawberries are not loosened, and they are also not weeded, as this can harm a good harvest. Weeds, of course, affect strawberries, picking up beneficial trace elements from the soil, so if there are too many weeds, they should be carefully removed, thereby helping the strawberries. You cannot overdo it with weeding!
An obligatory procedure in caring for remontant strawberries is feeding, which must be carried out in a timely manner. It will not work to get a good harvest without fertilization, and I would like to write a little more about this.
Feeding strawberries
Let's figure out how and what to properly feed strawberries. Feeding strawberries must be done in several stages. The first feeding of strawberries should be done in the spring (April-May), when our beauty woke up after "hibernation" and requires immediate "feeding". Top dressing should be done even before the leaves bloom and preferably at a time when the weather is already warm. What specific fertilizer should you use? Currently, there are many different fertilizers on the market, but you should not get carried away with chemistry, because growing a strawberry for yourself and your loved ones, without chemical fertilizers, is much more pleasant. Many now opt for organic fertilizers, such as humus or infusion of chicken manure diluted 1:12, with which they feed the soil. You can also feed mullein infusion, dilute it in a ratio of 1:10. It is necessary to fertilize strawberries at the very root, half a liter of fertilizing for each bush.
At a time when the fruit is being formed, strawberries need potassium, which is contained in potassium nitrate, droppings, as well as ash. Therefore, such fertilizer will be what you need. We repeat the feeding process itself, as for the first time, that is, we breed in the same ratio and feed in the same proportions. The next stage of soil fertilization must be done immediately after the first harvest, since the soil needs to be replenished with microelements that the strawberries took over to give us a full harvest. This stage falls around mid to late July. During the second feeding, you can cut off the leaves and whiskers. It would even be more correct to say - tidy up the flower bed and feed our "queen of the garden". To destroy the parasites living on strawberries, you can spray the bushes with a 2% solution of Bordeaux liquid, which you can prepare yourself. To do this, we need copper sulfate and lime milk in a 1: 1 ratio. We take 200 g of copper sulfate and 200-220 g of quicklime per 10 liters of water and prepare a solution of Bordeaux liquid.
And the last, final stage of feeding strawberries will fall on mid-September, and then, only for the bushes of the first years. The sequence and process remain unchanged.
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