The quality of the strawberry harvest largely depends on the variety, but only without proper care, after a couple of years, even beds will turn into a field, and not a pleasing berry will grow there, but small fruits that are more reminiscent of strawberries. Feeding strawberries during flowering and fruiting is one of the most important principles of care. Consider the main options.

For an ideal strawberry harvest, although it is not a fastidious plant, it is necessary to create optimal conditions. First of all it is:

• loose and fertile soil;
• enough light;
• the required amount of moisture;
• absence of drafts.

The last points do not cause problems, but no matter how rich the soil is, its reserves are depleted, so you cannot do without human help.

When choosing a site for planting bushes, keep in mind that the optimal soil for it is sandy. It is very good if it is possible to bring ordinary river sand and dig the ground with it, where the beds will be located.

Top dressing during planting or transplanting

Many people know that the “place of residence” of strawberries should be changed at least once every three years. Such a recommendation is primarily associated with the depletion of the soil over a specified period of time. However, if you provide the soil with the necessary amount of nutrients, you can not do this at all.

Transplanting strawberries, as well as planting new bushes, has similar rules. Dig up the area allotted for the beds, water it, then dig it up again with the addition of sand.

Note! The addition of river gravel or crushed shells when digging into the soil ensures looseness of the soil for many years.

Holes or beds for bushes must be dug in advance to fertilize. One of the most common mixtures is 40 grams of superphosphate per compost bucket, and 25 grams of urea and potassium salt each.

Everything is thoroughly mixed and laid out at the rate of 200-250 grams per meter kV. Then once again the area should be well filled with water, and after a day, sprouts can be planted. They don't need to be watered.

1. Add a bucket of manure and about 500 ml of ash to a bucket of earth taken from the garden (ideally, if woody, but in principle, any will do).
2. Mix a bucket of humus with a glass of ash, pour a bucket of hot water, mix, leave in the sun to ferment.

You can also use ready-made store mixes, but it is not possible to be completely sure of their quality and safety.

Advice! Fill beds or holes with gravel or shells. This will obstruct the path of slugs and caterpillars and protect young sprouts.

Top dressing in early spring

If the strawberry bushes were well fertilized during planting, then for a year they do not need additional interventions. It is enough to provide, that is, to loosen the soil, break through weeds, etc.

Otherwise, to get a bountiful harvest, the first top dressing should be introduced in early spring, when the leaves are just starting to turn green.

Spring top dressing is carried out exclusively under the root of the plant. Firstly, at this time it is the roots that need good nutrition, and secondly, the leaves are still so tender that they should not even be touched.

Mix natural chicken manure (you can buy it at any gardening store today, by the way) with water 1:10 and leave it in the sun to ferment the mixture. If the weather is cloudy and the mixture does not ferment under natural conditions, heat it at home (for example, put it next to the battery).

There is another way. You can scatter wood ash along the beds. Useful substances will be absorbed along with moisture entering the soil, and in parallel it will be possible to protect the sprouts from pests. This is important, because only plants wake up in winter. Bugs, caterpillars and almost omnivorous slugs are very fond of tender leaves of young strawberries.

Top dressing during flowering

It is good if the soil is saturated with useful substances. This will make the bushes powerful and juicy, but will there be enough berries on them? Not a fact at all. It is a mistake to assume that a strawberry will definitely appear from each flower, so it will not hurt to carry out one more top dressing.

Note! At this time, feeding is carried out in two ways: foliar and root. Be careful when using. What is recommended to be applied under the root should not fall on the part of the plant located above the soil. A mistake can lead to the death of not one bush, but an entire plantation.

A proven method is spraying with zinc sulfate (the solution should be no more than 0.02% in strength).

Proper and timely top dressing during strawberry flowering allows you to get up to 30% more yield.

Suitable for fertilizer during the flowering period and ordinary yeast. Absolutely harmless and always at hand, the remedy is one of the best growth stimulants.

If “live” yeast is available, they are diluted at the rate of 1 kg per 5 liters of water, insisted for a day, then watered under the root of 0.5 liters, after dissolving the resulting amount in 10 liters.

You can also use dry yeast. They must be diluted with a small amount of warm water (0.5 liters is enough for one bag) and add a couple of tablespoons of sugar. Then, when active fermentation begins, dilute the mixture in 10 liters of water and pour 500 ml under each bush.

Note! Yeast top dressing gives a good effect, but it can be used no more than twice a year.

A proven method is the treatment with an infusion made from nettles. Finely chop a bucket of freshly picked grass, pour hot water, but not boiling water, and leave for a day. After the solution, strain, dilute with water 1:10 and generously spray the strawberries during the flowering period.

There is another secret, tried and tested over the years, to get a bountiful harvest of strawberries. This berry is self-pollinating, but a little trick does not hurt. Dissolve a tablespoon of honey (you can also use last year's thickened honey) in a liter of water and spray the plants with it. The smell will lure the bees, and they will be more active in their work. In addition, sweet water is and.

How to feed strawberries during fruiting

In place of the flower, an ovary has formed, and it remains only to wait until the berry fills with juice and turns red? Don't sit on your hands. During this period, top dressing will also not hurt, and with the right approach, it will allow you to get not one, but two, three or more crop streams.

You can use one of the following mixtures to choose from:

• Dilute 4 kg of compost 1:10 with water and pour 0.5 liters under each bush;
• insist 3 days mullein, dissolved with water (if fresh 1:10, if dry 1:5), pour 250-300 ml under the root;
• dissolve chicken manure with water 1:10, put in the sun for 3-4 days, pour 0.5 liters under the bush.

Feeding after harvest

The harvest is ready, and in order for it to be even better next year, strawberries must be provided with optimal conditions for wintering. Remove tendrils, leave only young leaves on the bushes, water thoroughly, loosen the ground and do not forget about nutrients. Several methods can be used. Growth stimulants are no longer needed, but it will not hurt to spread freshly cut grass or already dry hay between rows. You can spread chicken manure, humus, or any other organic matter right along the aisles. This will provide the earth with the necessary amount of nitrogen, but the strawberry loves this substance very much.

Proper and timely feeding is the key to a rich harvest. Use natural remedies, help strawberries. She will definitely thank you with tasty and healthy berries.

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The question of how to feed strawberries during flowering is relevant for many gardeners, because it is during this period that the most active growth of the crop takes place. The quality and quantity of the future crop depends on whether the plant receives the proper amount of substances necessary for development!

Why do you need top dressing during flowering?

Some gardeners believe that it is necessary to feed strawberry or strawberry bushes only at the end of autumn and immediately before flowering begins. In fact, this opinion is wrong! The plant needs fertilizer throughout its life cycle.

This is primarily due to the fact that strawberries are a perennial crop and over time, it draws useful substances from the soil necessary for the further development of bushes. If top dressing is not applied in time, then the harvest will be small, and the berries will not please with their taste.

Timely applied top dressing for strawberries during flowering guarantees a quick recovery of the bushes after hibernation. In addition, it contributes to the formation of more ovaries and peduncles. Some types of top dressing not only contribute to the growth and development of the plant, but also help it fight pathogenic bacteria.

Top dressing technology

Most gardeners know that in the first year after planting, the bushes do not need to be fed. They lack the mineral and nutrients contained in the soil.

However, after a couple of years, the soil is depleted, the plant feels a lack of potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen. Fertilization becomes a necessary factor ensuring the formation of new ovaries and leaves.

Spring feeding of strawberry bushes can be divided into 3 stages:

1. When the first leaves appear
2. During active flowering
3. When forming ovaries

How to properly feed strawberries during flowering?

Strawberry flowering starts from the end of April and lasts until the beginning of May. At this time, the bushes require special attention and care. It is necessary not only to make various top dressings, but also to regularly weed the crop, loosen the ground, cut off dried leaves and mustaches.

Root dressing is applied directly under the bushes themselves. However, it should not fall on the foliage.

Foliar mixtures, on the contrary, are sprayed over the leaves of plants. Such types of top dressing are absorbed faster and contribute to intensive growth.

Types of strawberry dressings

Depending on the method of applying top dressing, there are:

• root

Nutrient solutions are applied directly to the soil. The plant receives nutrients through the root system.

• Foliar

In this case, strawberry bushes are sprayed with various nutrient formulations. Nutrients are absorbed through the leaves.

Did you know that the lower part of the leaves absorbs fertilizer better than the top? Be sure to consider this fact while spraying, and then the strawberries will delight you with incredibly tasty, juicy and sweet berries!

In addition, all types of fertilizers are also divided into:

• Chemical;
• natural;

Root top dressing during flowering

Root top dressing is, in fact, watering. The only difference is that during such feeding, the plant receives not only the necessary moisture, but also various useful substances.

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To feed flowering strawberries, you can use:

1. Infusion of bird droppings
2. wood ash
3. "Ovary"
4. potassium nitrate
5. Yeast

When strawberry bushes begin to bloom, fertilization is carried out carefully. It is important that during root feeding, fertilizers do not fall on the leaves of plants!

Foliar treatment during flowering

In order for foliar treatment to bring the desired effect, it is necessary to spray the lower part of the leaves. For processing, you can use drugs such as:

• "Ruby"
• "Hera"
• "Agros"

On the packaging of each of these products there is an instruction for use. It, as well as the dosage norms attached to it, must be strictly observed.

In addition to ready-made chemicals for spraying strawberries, you can also use:

• potassium nitrate
  5 liters of water will require 1 tsp. saltpeter.
• Potassium sulfate, potassium permanganate and boric acid
  For a liter of water, you need 1 g of acid and 2 g of potassium sulfate and potassium permanganate.

Folk remedies for feeding

When the strawberry feeding period begins, many gardeners face a difficult choice: give preference to chemical preparations or prepare fertilizers according to folk recipes. Using chemistry is much easier, but not when we feed the plant during flowering. Strawberry bushes, like many other crops, accumulate chemicals in themselves, their overabundance can lead to negative consequences.

Organics, unlike chemicals, are absolutely harmless to the human body. Fertilizer prepared independently from natural materials will not cost a penny.

Ash top dressing

Ash is often used to fertilize strawberries after flowering, before flowering and during fruiting. A concentrate is prepared from it, which is then infused and diluted with water.

Per liter of boiling water requires 1 tbsp. ash. The composition is infused for a day and diluted with 9 liters of water.
After dilution, the mixture is thoroughly mixed and poured under the roots of strawberry bushes. There is about a liter of solution per 1 m².

Iodine top dressing

Blooming strawberries require not only additional nourishment, but also protection from various kinds of diseases. With the help of ordinary iodine, you can increase the immunity of the plant and protect it from bacteria.

To create iodine top dressing in 10 liters of water, you need to dissolve 10 drops of iodine. The resulting composition must be watered with pre-moistened soil near the strawberries.

Boric acid

Each top dressing has its own timing of application. Some formulations stimulate plant growth, others accelerate fruiting.

Boric acid contributes to the strength of the ovaries, as well as an increase in their number. Top dressing based on it is used at the very beginning of flowering during the budding period.

For 2 g of boric acid, there are 10 liters of water. Additionally, to enhance the effect, experienced gardeners add 2 g of potassium permanganate and 1 tbsp. ash.

bird droppings

Bird droppings are often used to create dressings. If we are talking about fresh chicken manure, it is simply dissolved in settled water.

Approximately 500 ml of chicken manure is required for 12 liters of water. Before using such a fertilizer, it must be insisted. This process usually takes 1 to 3 days.

When the composition is infused, it can be used to water strawberry bushes. Before you make such top dressing, be sure to water the strawberries.

If granular chicken manure is used to create top dressing, the cooking method changes slightly:

1. First, a large bunch of freshly picked nettles is lowered into a ten-liter bucket.
2. Then 1 kg of granulated mixture is poured on top.
3. All this is filled with hot water.
4. The composition is infused for at least 3 days.

To enhance the effectiveness of top dressing, you can additionally add a liter of ash solution to it.

Such feeding will enrich the soil with all the necessary elements and help create a favorable environment for the further growth and development of the plant.

Yeast feed for strawberries

Yeast-based fertilizers can be applied to the soil 2 times a season. From yeast, as well as from ash, a concentrate is first prepared. For 1 kg of yeast there are 5 liters of water.

1 liter of yeast concentrate is diluted with 20 liters of water. It takes about 5 liters of yeast top dressing for 10 bushes.
If dry yeast is used instead of fresh, then first they are dissolved in a small amount of sweetened liquid, and then 5 liters of water are already diluted. The resulting composition is infused for about 2 hours.

Yeast top dressing is applied to the soil during irrigation. Each watering can contains about 500 ml of solution.

Experienced summer residents know how to feed strawberries, they have their own proven recipes in stock that help gardeners get a juicy, sweet harvest of berries year after year. Beginners in this business have a hard time, because top dressing during flowering has a number of features:

When flowering, strawberry bushes are quite vulnerable. They have not yet had time to properly recover from the long winter, but they already need to prepare for fruiting. In order for the plant to have time to release a sufficient number of ovaries, it needs additional feeding. Reinforced "ration" is a guarantee of a large, sweet and tasty harvest!

Feeding strawberries during flowering

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To get a good harvest of garden strawberries or, as gardeners say, strawberries, you need to devote some time to caring for strawberries in the spring. Top dressing, disease prevention, pest control, watering and mulching are the main conditions for a good harvest of everyone's favorite berry.

Despite a lot of information on this topic, novice lovers have a question: how to fertilize strawberries?

The first top dressing and preventive treatment from pests

Timely feeding of strawberries during flowering and setting berries is the key to success for a good harvest. In April, after the snow melts, it is worth examining all the bushes carefully and checking how they survived the winter. You should loosen the ground around the bushes and cut off the old dry leaves. Young greens do not need to be touched. Their pruning will delay fruiting by 2 weeks and the plant will be forced to expend additional forces to build up green mass.

In spring, plants need nitrogen to grow vigorously. If an amateur gardener is not against the use of chemical fertilizers on his site, the bushes can be fed with urea, carbamide, or any nitrogen-containing fertilizer. To obtain nitrogen in the right amount for a plant, 20 g per 10 liters of water is taken.

strawberries

Adherents of natural farming can be advised after loosening to bring a handful of rotted compost and 1-2 tables under each bush. l. biohumus. You can take a 0.5 liter jar of rotted manure, stir it in a bucket of water and pour 1 liter of solution under each bush. Strawberries will gratefully respond to this concern. If there is no manure and compost on the site, you can buy dry manure in the form of granules in gardening stores. They sell horse, cow, and chicken. Dilute according to package directions and water plants, or simply sprinkle a few dry granules under each rosette.

To protect against pests and top dressing, a handful of ash is poured under each bush. Its use will increase the content of potassium in the soil, and it is necessary during the budding period and to increase the sugar content of fruits. In April, there is still enough moisture in the ground; before feeding, the plants do not need watering.

At the same time, it is worth taking preventive measures to combat the weevil and the beetle - the larva of the May beetle. The first spoils the buds, gnawing out the core, the second gnaws the roots of plants, which leads to the death of the bush. For 10 liters, take 40-50 ml of ammonia and pour 0.5 liters of solution under each plant, trying not to fall on young leaves.

Important! Under the strawberries you can not make fresh manure!

Plants can only be fertilized with rotted manure. Fresh manure will bring with it a lot of weeds and fungal diseases.

If there is no weevil and Maybug on the site, you can feed it with ammonia by taking 2 tables. l. to a bucket of water. Nitrogen from ammonia is easily absorbed by plants.

Top dressing of strawberries

If strawberries do not grow leaf mass well, you can use the folk method: make yeast top dressing. Dilute 100 g of "live" yeast in 0.5 l of warm water, add 1 tablespoon of sugar. Let stand a little. Pour into a 10 l bucket and pour the bushes 0.5 l per outlet with this solution.

Second top dressing

The next fertilizer must be done during the period of nomination of peduncles or a little later. How to feed strawberries during flowering? Here it is required to give the berries a complete complex fertilizer, such as solute, aquarin, containing not only nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in the required proportion, but a number of microelements in chelated form, which are highly soluble and immediately absorbed by plants. The required dosage is 20g per 10 liters of water. Strawberry will definitely thank for such care. You can make your own fertilizer for strawberries:

• 0.5 tsp KMnO4 (potassium permanganate);
• Dissolve 0.5 tsp of boric acid in a glass of mountains. water;
• 15 drops of iodine;
• 2 table of ammonia or urea.

Add all the ingredients to a bucket of water, mix thoroughly and immediately water the plants directly over the leaves (iodine and ammonia quickly disappear). This solution supplies strawberries with elements - nitrogen and potassium, microelements - manganese, boron and iodine, and also protects the plant from gray rot. For a better effect, ash should be added to it. Pour a glass of ash with 2 cups of boiling water for 2 hours and pour into a bucket with the prepared solution. You can simply scatter the ashes around the bushes and spill the finished mixture over it. The effect will be the same. For foliar top dressing of strawberries, strain this solution and process all plants along the leaves and buds. Plants should be treated with the same composition after harvesting. To prevent drying out, the growth of weeds, the soil under the strawberries is mulched.

Feed preparation

In the spring, grass begins to grow intensively, and green fertilizer can be prepared from it. Fill a plastic container halfway with nettles or any other grass, add water, close and leave for 7-10 days to ferment.

They take 1 liter of the prepared composition, pour it into a bucket, add water and water it at the rate of 0.5-1 liter per bush. This fertilizer is valued for its availability and efficiency, it is also called liquid manure, because its properties are not inferior to purchased organic matter. And the quality of the brought manure can be assessed only after payment and delivery to the site.

Additional Information! It is impossible to bring manure and ashes together.

Since the pH of ash is alkaline and manure is acidic, when mixed between them, a violent reaction will begin, releasing large amounts of nitrogen, which can damage plants.

fermented "tea"

There is another way to prepare green manure. Cooking steps:

• The cut grass is folded into a black bag and hermetically sealed. If the grass is dry, it is slightly moistened with water.
• Put in a warm place for 2-3 days. At this time, fermentation takes place. All pathogenic microbes die from high temperature. Fermentation allows you to enrich the solution of green fertilizer with "live" bacteria, increases the content of trace elements.
• The resulting mass is placed in a plastic bucket, filling it to 1/3 of the height.
• Pour in water, let it brew for 2 hours to obtain the most saturated and nutritious solution.
• Dilute the resulting composition in half and water 1 liter under the root.

Fermented "tea" for top dressing

The remaining grass in the bucket can be poured again and the plants fertilized with an undiluted solution. And the bushes are mulched with the remains from the bucket. Such mulch is instantly processed by worms and microorganisms.

Top dressing number 3

How to feed strawberries to get sweet and large berries? During the beginning of fruit formation, it is important to give the strawberries enough potassium to improve the taste and increase the sweetness of the berries. To do this, add 20 g of potassium sulfate or potassium monophosphate to a bucket of water (in this case, the berry will also receive phosphorus), mix, water under the root. Strawberries can get potassium from the ashes, during the season you need to periodically pour it under the bushes.

If during the fruiting period it is rainy and you need to save the harvest, they will come to the rescue:

• 3% hydrogen peroxide. Add 1 tablespoon to 10 liters of water.
• Iodine. 1 table. l. per 10 liters of water with advanced disease (gray rot). Treated to reduce and inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria and fungal diseases and 0.5 table. l. for prevention.
• Baikal EM1. 1 table. l. add to 10 liters of water.
• Dusting with ash on the leaves.

Preparation "Baikal EM1"

You can alternate these treatments or use only one of them. It is necessary to process berries once a week. You can both water from a watering can and process from a spray gun, trying to get on the berries, on the bushes and the ground. Berries can be eaten the very next day.

To avoid problems with weeds and the berries remain clean after the rain, mulching is used. Mulch is also called dry watering, as it prevents the evaporation of moisture from the surface of the earth and is an obstacle to the formation of a crust, cracking of oily or clay soil. How mulch can be used:

• fallen leaves in autumn;
• rotted sawdust;
• needles;
• dry grass;
• straw.

Translated from English, strawberry means "straw berry". Under the bushes with berries, the British always laid a lot of straw, believing that it improves the taste of the fruit.

In order for the mulch to have an effect, its height should be 10-15 cm, during the summer it must be added repeatedly.

Mulching strawberries

For better and faster processing of mulch by worms and soil microorganisms, it is shed in spring with humates, green manure or solutions prepared with the addition of manure.

Fresh sawdust, before being used as mulch, is treated with urea, carbamide, or soaked in a barrel of mullein or bird droppings so that they are saturated with nitrogen. You can leave them open until the next season. If you mulch strawberries with fresh sawdust, they will oppress the plants, taking nitrogen from them.

On a note! Spruce and pine needles can be used as mulch. Due to the content of phytoncides in them, such a mulch protects the berries from a number of diseases.

To get abundant fruiting, strengthen the flowers, prevent them from shedding, you can treat strawberries with boric acid. 2 g boric acid or 1/2 tsp. dilute in a glass of hot water. It does not dissolve well in cold water. Mix the composition with 10 liters of water and spray the bushes directly on the leaves and buds.

Before the strawberries bloom and during the formation of berries, add 0.5 tsp per 10 liters. iodine + 1.2 table. l. adhesive (liquid soap, detergent, shampoo), bushes and the ground under them are treated for preventive purposes. After harvesting, they are treated for weevil. If the pest invasion was massive, it is necessary to resort to chemistry.

There are large-fruited and small-fruited strawberries. In the spring, small-fruited strawberries are fed in the same way as large-fruited ones, but during the summer they have to be fed very often, since all small varieties are remontant, that is, there is a continuous cycle of flowering and fruiting. And to restore strength, strawberries take all the nutrients from the earth, impoverishing it very much.

Small-fruited strawberries are suitable for growing on open balconies in large flower pots. It is able to bloom and bear fruit at home on the windowsill, when there is already snow on the street. As a top dressing for strawberries, you can use the Kristalon Fertik fertilizer, which is a complex fertilizer that contains all the macro and microelements necessary for growth and fruiting.

Fertilizing the crop correctly, you can count on good yields.

Many people know that strawberries should be fed three times a year, including during flowering. This period is the most significant in the life of the plant, since at this time the fruits are tied and the final formation of the crop occurs. Following the basic rules, advice and recommendations of experts, you can get a good harvest of berries.

Why is nutrition needed?

During the period of fruit set and during flowering, when budding occurs, strawberry bushes should be taken care of in a special way. Some gardeners believe that in the phase of active flowering, it is not necessary to feed and generally touch the fruit ovaries, and all attention should be switched to watering, loosening, weeding and trimming the mustache. Therefore, fertilizers are applied only in early spring and autumn.

But the plant needs nutrition throughout the growing season. Strawberries are in a permanent place, gradually soil reserves of nutrients are depleted. For this reason, it is recommended to renew and feed the berry bushes on the ridge every two years. During the period when strawberries bloom, they especially need additional substances and care. The quality of the crop and the saturation of the fruits depend on this, which is especially important for preserving the varietal qualities of this plant crop.

Berry bushes should be fed several times: in the spring during the budding phase, during the period of the ovary of fruit buds, in the active phase of flowering and in the summer - before and after harvesting. And both just planted and already fruiting bushes. All stages are interconnected: in the period after winter frosts, the plant needs to recover, form and preserve fruit and flower buds, and also distribute the necessary substances for fruit ripening.

In order to feed the plant thoroughly and approach this process with all responsibility, you need to find out how best to do this.

What is the best way to fertilize?

Strawberries bloom in spring, in May. In the northern zones, the flowering period may be delayed until early June. It is necessary to carry out top dressing with the use of various types of fertilizers.

There are several types of fertilizers: mineral-based, organic and mixed, as well as biostimulants and hormones. Minerals include potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus and magnesium. All these substances are involved in the formation of buds, the formation of ovaries and fruits. The classic fertilizer for this period is nitroammophoska.

Complex compounds contain all the necessary elements for feeding strawberry bushes. Properly chosen balance of phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium contributes to the full distribution of nutrients. They are introduced, like mineral compounds, directly into the soil, under abundant watering.

The method of feeding berry bushes can be made on the basis of quality indicators and soil characteristics. Often, gardeners use ready-made fertilizers and formulations on the ridges. They are balanced in composition and are well absorbed by the plant through the soil. But you can fertilize them with folk remedies.

The application of mineral fertilizers to the soil during the flowering of berry bushes is an important stage in the care and laying of yields.

You should not be afraid that the fruits will be saturated with chemicals and suffer from this. On the contrary, timely watering with nutrient compositions normalizes the metabolism of the berry crop.

The choice of top dressing should also be carried out taking into account the need for useful elements during this period, among which potassium must be included. It is known to be found in wood ash and bird droppings. Therefore, it is necessary to feed with complex compositions with the addition of these products.

Common yeast and boric acid are in demand. Boron increases the quantitative composition of the ovary, improves the taste of fruits, making them sugary and large. Acid can be applied to the root zone in the usual way, as well as spraying flowering strawberry bushes with a spray gun.

Yeast during the flowering period of strawberries has been used for a long time. The vitamins and minerals that make up their composition provide nutrition for the bushes, which, in turn, has a positive effect on the quality of the berries: they become sweet and juicy, and significantly increase in mass. A sourdough is prepared for use: take one bag of yeast per five liters of water, add two tablespoons of sugar and insist for a while. Then the composition is diluted based on one part of the sourdough two parts of water. On average, watering 10 bushes will take 5 liters of yeast top dressing.

Bread composition is an alternative to yeast. This method is very convenient in terms of savings. Housewives can dry the bread pieces, and soak the finished crackers with water and leave them to ferment properly. This process takes an average of a week. The fermented composition is squeezed out, crumbly thrown away, and the liquid is diluted in a ratio of 1 to 10 and the bushes are shed under the root. One plant will need half a liter of bread top dressing.

During the flowering period, strawberries are treated with iodine to prevent dangerous diseases. The composition is prepared: copper sulfate and boric acid, half a teaspoon per bucket of water, plus 30 drops of iodine. This composition can be equally effectively watered under the root or sprayed on the plants.

Saltpeter is another means for fertilizing strawberries during flowering and the appearance of the ovary. The composition is prepared simply: add a teaspoon of potassium nitrate to a bucket of water, mix thoroughly and pour half a liter into one bush.

Being a biostimulant, the drug increases and accelerates the formation of a healthy ovary. During the flowering period, the application of the drug protects the plant from the effects of adverse factors, which are sudden changes in temperature and humidity. The active substance of the drug restores the balance of nutrients, preventing their loss. Before irrigation, a solution is prepared from one gram of the drug per liter of water. Spray the bushes at the very beginning of the formation of peduncles.

Ash from coniferous trees is an excellent means of feeding garden strawberries. In the absence of conifers, any other types of wood will do. The main thing is to dissolve it in a bucket and add it to the soil only in a diluted form. A liter of moderately warm water is taken per glass of the composition. The steamed mixture is repeatedly diluted with water before watering.

Another effective means of feeding strawberry bushes is rotted cow dung. An infusion is prepared for use: a bucket of water is taken for two liters of mullein, insisted for a day. Before use, a pinch of potassium humate can be added to the composition. A strawberry bush accounts for half a liter of such a solution.

When adding organic fertilizers, avoid contact with leaves and flowers.

Fertilization methods

In total, there are two types of top dressing - basal and foliar (leaf). Before the implementation of the procedure, a number of preparatory measures should be carried out, among which the main ones are the release of the root system of the plant from debris, branches and mulch, the removal of weeds and the loosening of the root zone of the plant. This will provide fresh air access to its vital organs and create favorable conditions for the formation of fruits.

Timely root spraying of the crown of the bush with fungicides and insecticides will keep the plant healthy and protect it from insects, fungus and pathogenic bacteria.

Root

Root top dressing during strawberry flowering is a convenient and familiar way of fertilizing. Useful substances are well absorbed through the root system of the plant, spreading through all its branches and parts. Fertilizers must be applied with caution, strictly for their intended purpose - under the root, otherwise young strawberry leaves can be burned.

There are uniform rules and the sequence of fertilizing and fertilizing:

• mineral compositions during the period of bud binding are introduced only once;
• chemicals are not used at this time;
• focus on the introduction of potash compounds, since potassium contributes to the formation of the crop;
• with the onset of the appearance of inflorescences, they are fed with the mood of mullein, ash and potassium salt;
• as soon as the buds are formed, they switch to the introduction of saltpeter.

Foliar

This method consists in irrigating strawberry bushes with nutrient compounds during flowering. You can buy them ready-made or you can make your own. It is only important to adhere to the basic rules of foliar feeding:

• irrigation with compositions should be carried out in calm weather, when there is neither rain nor wind;
• in the process and the latter, direct sunlight should be avoided;
• irrigate the leaves of the strawberry bush, focusing on their lower part, since it is there that the greatest absorption of nutrients takes place;
• for spraying, special spray guns are used - manual or mechanical, and they also apply safety measures, which consist in putting on protective masks and gloves.

For irrigation, drugs and formulations "Rubin", "Agros", "Hera" and others are used, strictly following the instructions and rules for use.

• Immunostimulator "Ruby 7" contains the necessary set of useful elements, promotes the formation of the ovary, ensures the growth and development of strawberries, and also protects them from premature wilting and diseases. The complex is designed for three applications. The composition is placed in a spray bottle, after diluting it in three liters of water. Use the prepared mixture immediately, as it does not store much. Re-irrigation should be carried out after about two weeks.

• Zinc sulfate (white vitriol) before spraying, dilute in water at the rate of several grams of the drug per bucket of water. This will promote the formation of a healthy ovary.
• For foliar feeding potassium nitrate two small spoons of the composition are dissolved in 10 liters of water. Berry bushes are treated with a ready solution.
• Boric acid solution and yeast diluting these compounds in the same proportions as for root dressings. Such top dressing multiplies the inflorescences and increases the quantitative composition of the crop.
• Infusion of young nettle leaves. To do this, finely chopped greens are poured with hot water (not boiling water), infused for a day and then strawberry berry bushes are irrigated with a diluted (1: 10) composition.

• Milk whey. It not only nourishes the plant, but also provides an acid film that can protect the plant from aphids and insects. Before irrigation, an aqueous solution is prepared on a one-to-one basis.

Often, one top dressing is not enough, so experts recommend using complex formulations. For example, irrigate bushes with compositions of several components: potassium permanganate, potassium nitrate and boric acid in equal proportions, approximately one gram per 10 liters of water. Such a healing solution is supplemented with a bag of any fertilizer for this type of plant.

In order for strawberries to remain healthy throughout the growing season and give a good harvest, agricultural experts advise during the flowering period to adhere to the basic rules.

• Preference should be given to natural, environmentally friendly compositions with the addition of organic matter: litter, ash and mullein.

• It is best to develop and use any one integrated approach applicable to a given type of soil, taking into account the varietal characteristics of plants. The use of multiple fertilizers in various combinations can do more harm than good.
• When carrying out top dressing, it is important to consider that strawberries love organics most of all, but only in moderation.
• Berry bushes should be fed on moist soil for the full distribution of the nutrient composition. The best time for this is the period after the rainfall.
• Do not touch the bushes in the heat, otherwise the leaves may burn in the sun. For this reason, the best time for this is early morning or evening.

• It is necessary to follow the instructions and prepare the compositions for top dressing during the flowering period strictly according to the recipe. Please note that the data are given taking into account the general indicators of loamy soils. Therefore, before applying fertilizers, study the composition of the soil in your garden.
• It is not recommended to carry out enhanced feeding during the formation of flower stalks, otherwise you can overdo it and lose part of the crop.
• Before applying fertilizer to the soil, water well and loosen the soil in the root zone, as well as throughout the ridge where the berry is planted.
• Strawberries during flowering must be cut, removing excess tendrils and dry leaves, as well as limiting its contact with the ground. It is best to line the root zone with a layer of mulch.

Loosening the soil, timely watering and irrigation are the key to proper plant care and ensure good flowering and a plentiful harvest of berries.

Among other things, it is necessary to remove the very first flower stalks of strawberries. This procedure is necessary so that subsequent inflorescences become larger than their predecessors.

An important point is the watering of flowering bushes. The surface root system is unable to cope with the nutrition of the plant, so the bushes are moderately watered, avoiding an excess of moisture. In hot weather, it is enough to water strawberries every three days. During the rainy season, watering is carried out much less frequently. Water the flowering berry strictly under the bush, avoiding falling on flowers and ovaries. You also need to make sure that the roots of the plant remain under the cover of the soil. After irrigation, the soil around the bush is best loosened to improve air exchange and normalize root respiration.

In the process of caring for the plant during flowering and the formation of the ovary, pollination methods are also used. Insufficient pollination leads to the degeneration of color segments with subsequent fall off. Therefore, in order to avoid these consequences, it is necessary to help the plant by pollinating the flowers with a brush method. To do this, take a soft brush and transfer pollen from flower to flower. It is preferable to do the procedure in the afternoon.

For large areas, special fans are used. Natural honey is used for natural pollination. Bees are known to be the best pollinators of all insects. To attract them, dissolve a large spoonful of honey in a liter of water. The resulting composition is irrigated with flowering strawberry bushes. An additional effect of self-pollination can be achieved by growing several different varieties of strawberry bushes on the site at the same time.

Carrying out proper care and feeding of berry bushes during the flowering period, you can significantly increase the yield and quality of berries. The time spent will pay off with interest, and beautiful fragrant berries of ripe strawberries will decorate the beds on your site.

For information on how to feed strawberries during flowering, see the following video.