How to water strawberries during flowering. Spring and autumn top dressing of garden strawberries

Kirill Sysoev

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To enjoy delicious juicy strawberries (garden strawberries), you need to be able to grow them properly. Not every summer resident can boast of black soil, so the entire period of flowering and growth of berries should be given special attention to fertilizers. They are both organic (natural) and mineral (chemicals).

What fertilizer is best for strawberries

Even the most professional gardeners cannot say what is better to choose for feeding fruits - natural ingredients or chemicals. Each of these types of fertilizers has its pros and cons. The best way out will be the alternation of dressings or their use in a complex. Strawberries need all kinds of microelements (potassium salts, iron, magnesium, calcium) and vitamins for the full development of fruits. The whole set of nutrients is contained in both natural and mineral fertilizers.

Mineral fertilizer for strawberries

Just need garden strawberries mineral top dressing. It prevents all kinds of diseases of this crop, and also contributes to the rapid growth of greenery. Complex fertilizers are the most popular among summer residents, as they can be found in the gardening departments of any hardware store. So, how to feed strawberries in the spring for a good harvest:

Azofoska (nitroammophoska). This is the most popular complex mineral fertilizer. Top dressing contains equal parts of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium (16% each) and a small admixture of sulfur. It is recommended to apply the preparation directly into the soil before planting.
Stimovit for strawberries. Highly effective and reliable fertilizer consisting of biohumus. Provides growth acceleration, protection against fungal or bacterial diseases, pest control. Well suited for foliar top dressing. The solution is made at the rate of one to forty (25 ml per liter of water).
Agricola for berry crops. It is used to provide care for garden strawberries at all stages of growth (from spring to autumn). Processing is carried out by watering or spraying. The solution is prepared simply: 25 grams of the product is mixed in 10 liters of water.

Feeding strawberries according to folk recipes

An important role in the fertilizer of garden remontant strawberries is played by organic top dressings, which are elements of many folk recipes (mullein, chicken manure, ash, yeast, and others). All of them are harmless to the plant, so you do not need to worry about the quality of your crop. A few recipes:

Manure based. Since ancient times, bird/animal droppings have been used as basic fertilizers. Mullein (dried cow dung) is poured with water (ratio of one to five), put in a warm place to infuse (roam) for a week. Ultimately, the concentrate is diluted (proportion 1:10) and spreads over moist soil (preferably a few hours after watering). Instead of manure, you can use chicken or pigeon droppings - the result will be no worse.
Ash. This element is rich in potassium, phosphorus, therefore it often acts as a fertilizer for garden strawberries. To prepare the solution, you need to pour two tablespoons of ash with a liter of water, insist one day. It is necessary to fertilize garden strawberries by watering. Feeding strawberries during flowering with ash will provide the gardener with an increase in yield.
Yeast. Plant care can provide a common food product with ease. A pack of this product (1 kg) must be diluted in five liters of water. For top dressing, the solution (0.5 liters) that has been infused for a day is mixed with liquid (10 liters). Applied twice per season.

How to feed strawberries from spring to autumn

Fertilizer use varies throughout the growing season (May to September). In the spring, the first top dressing is made (including before planting), which is aimed at activating the growth of shoots and leaves. In summer, strawberries are fertilized immediately after harvest, when the process of forming new buds and the root system starts. Winter feeding is needed so that the plant can prepare for the cold, survive until spring. Mineral fertilizers alternate with organic fertilizers or are used together - it all depends on the desire of the gardener.

How to feed strawberries in spring

This period is very important for the plant. You should seriously approach such an issue as fertilizing strawberries before flowering, planting and fruiting. For the growth of leaves and buds, nitrogen is simply necessary, which should prevail in the fertilizers of the spring stage. How to feed strawberries in spring (use 0.5-1 liter of any of the products for each bush, depending on the size of the plant):

ammonium sulfate (1 tablespoon), mullein (2 cups) per 10 liters of liquid;
nitroammophoska (1 tablespoon) per 10 liters of water;
mullein (one part), urea (two parts) to 10 parts of water;

How to fertilize strawberries in summer

The second feeding of the plant is carried out closer to the last days of July, when the crop is already harvested. During this period, the fruits especially need potassium and trace elements. Recipes (used in the amount of 0.5 liters of any of the fertilizers for the plant):

nitrophoska (two tablespoons), potassium sulfate (one teaspoon) per 12 liters of water;
potassium nitrate (1 tablespoon) per 5 liters of water;
biohumus (200 g) per 10 liters of water (infused for a day, then dismounted with water in half).

Feeding strawberries in autumn

The last application is made at the end of September, and especially young plants need such care before winter. All funds can be used to transplant garden strawberries into greenhouses. Recipes (process 250-500 ml per 1 sq.m.):

mullein (one part), 0.5 cups of ash to 10 parts of water;
mullein (one part), superphosphate (one tablespoon), ash (one glass) for 12 hours of water;
nitroammophoska (150 g), potassium sulfate (200 g), ash (one glass) per 5 liters of water.

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:

When the first leaves appear
During active flowering
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:

Infusion of bird droppings
wood ash
"Ovary"
potassium nitrate
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:

First, a large bunch of freshly picked nettles is lowered into a ten-liter bucket.
Then 1 kg of granulated mixture is poured on top.
All this is filled with hot water.
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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Perhaps you will not meet such a person who would be indifferent to strawberries - the first of the gifts of summer, with which we indulge ourselves. But strawberries, like any culture, require care and timely feeding during periods of flowering and fruiting.

First feeding (before flowering)

It is carried out in the spring, during the period when the first young leaves appear. The following composition is possible in use: one part of dry chicken manure is poured with ten parts of water, after which the mixture must be infused for at least three days. With this solution, you need to water each bush, without touching the leaves.

Top dressing during flowering

During fruit development, strawberries need a significant amount of potassium. Therefore, fertilizer with chicken manure, ash, potassium nitrate (potassium nitrate) in the form of infusions will be of particular benefit.

Foliar fertilizers

Foliar top dressing proved to be quite good. In a period when color has spread widely among strawberry bushes, spraying the beds with a 0.02% solution of zinc sulfate will be a useful action.

If the treatment with solutions is carried out at the beginning of flowering, then the plant will receive a lot of trace elements and will become much stronger. This will play a role in the quality of the future harvest, because the berries will be born larger. For fertilizer, add a pinch of boric acid to a bucket of water.

A good option would be to buy completely ready-made fertilizers designed specifically for garden strawberries. The use of such complex fertilizers will lead to an increase in yield by 30%.

It is also possible to independently prepare the following composition:

potassium sulfate - 2 grams;
potassium permanganate (potassium permanganate) - 2 grams;
boric acid - 1 gram;
multi-component fertilizer for strawberries.

This mixture must be diluted in water and each bush must be processed in detail, and the inner side of the leaf must be especially carefully processed, because it is this area that most intensively absorbs useful substances.

Fertilizing with yeast during flowering

Feeding with yeast is a method that has recently appeared and is open to gardeners, which is relevant not only for strawberries, this method is universal.

It is enough to fertilize the bushes with yeast twice a season. Preparing the mixture is very simple, you will need 1 kg of raw yeast and a bucket of water. Yeast must be dissolved in water and infused. For top dressing, you need to take 1/2 liter of the finished mixture, which, in turn, needs to be diluted again in a ten-liter bucket of water. Apply the resulting solution under each bush in the amount of 1/2 liter.

If you don't have raw yeast, dry yeast will do. To do this, take 1 package of dry yeast and 2 large spoons of sugar. In a small amount of warm water, stir the yeast with sugar to start the fermentation process. Then pour this mixture into a bucket of water and let it brew for two hours. Use the resulting fertilizer for watering strawberries (1/2 liter per watering can).

Feeding during fruiting

When strawberries begin to bear fruit, this is not a reason to calm down, thinking that the work is over, and stop fertilizing the berry. As experience shows, the most beautiful and largest berries are born in the first stream, but the second and third can already boast of such fruits. Special top dressing will help to solve this problem. You can choose from any of the following recipes:

dilute compost (4 kg) in water and apply for root watering;
soak dried mullein (3 kg) in water and insist for several days, then use for watering;
chicken manure, mixed in water in proportions of 1:10, which must be allowed to stand for at least 3 days, then carefully water each bush without hitting the leaves and fruits.

Fertilizing strawberries during the periods when they bloom and bear fruit is very important if your plans include harvesting a luxurious harvest. In doing so, do not forget about the following things:

Top dressing of strawberries during flowering is carried out once and with any of the compositions;
Feeding strawberries with organic matter, you can be sure that you will collect not only a beautiful and juicy, but also an absolutely harmless crop, because the berries will not feed on "chemistry";
Fertilize only in moist soil. Therefore, either water the plants, or wait for a good rain and carry out work after it ends;
Carrying out the usual top dressing, strive to ensure that the solution does not get on the leaves and strawberries.

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Strawberries are a berry crop with an intensive yield. It absorbs many different nutrient compounds. In addition to the needs of the strawberries themselves, we must not forget that the substances consumed by the bushes go into the berries that we and our children eat. What we put in is what we get.

Briefly about fertilizing strawberries by season

Spring top dressing of strawberries increases the number of inflorescences, which means there will be more fruits.

Strawberries have their own seasonal "menu":

At the very beginning of the gardening season strawberry plants need the most in nitrogen for the rapid emergence of young leaves. Then this foliage will "work for the harvest."
Before flowering and during fruiting consumption increases potassium and trace elements .
After the harvest the second peak of consumption is coming nitrogen for the growth of new leaves and.
Late summer and autumn strawberries absorb heavily phosphorus, developing young roots and laying flower buds for the coming season.

Varieties of spring fertilizers for strawberries

To the question of what, there is no single answer. According to the advice of experienced gardeners, this berry culture loves variety in nutrition.

organic

Those who have organic top dressing do not have to spend money on expensive fertilizers.

Organic fertilizers are necessary for all berry growers. Their naturalness allows you to maintain the ecological purity of medicinal berries. Strawberries are in close contact with the ground, so the soil under them (for reasons of hygiene and safety) should not be flavored with fresh manure or droppings. They need to be allowed to mature, preferably at least a year.

The berry can even be fertilized with fecal compost if it has been overripe for at least 2–3 years.

Excess organic matter is very harmful for strawberries, it leads to fattening of plants, an increase in the vegetative mass to the detriment of fruiting. The main dose of organic matter is given to strawberries at the very beginning of the growing season.

Aged and well-rotted organic matter looks like good fertile soil.

Organic fertilizers suitable for spring application on strawberries:

stale manure(cow, horse) and bird droppings;
mature compost(herbal, prefabricated);
fermented herbal infusion.

Natural organic fertilizers are cheaper than store-bought ones (both mineral and organomineral), but manure and litter are not available to all gardeners.

wood ash

Wood ash is a mineral fertilizer, but it belongs to the group of natural fertilizers.

Feeding strawberries with ash.

The substance is inexpensive, available to almost every gardener. Contains a lot of potassium, so it is appropriate to apply before flowering strawberries.

Chemical mineral fertilizers

"Mineral water" is produced by industrial enterprises and sold in garden shops.

The composition of complex mineral fertilizers is designed specifically to increase the size of berries and improve their taste.

When buying, you need to focus on the percentage of the main macronutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium). Mineral fertilizers are divided into simple (single-component) and complex.

For spring fertilizing strawberries can come in handy:

Urea(Urea), Ammonium nitrate , on acidic soils - calcium nitrate (soluble sources of "fast" nitrogen for growth).
Potassium sulfate (potassium sulfate), Kalimag(Kalimagnesia), potassium nitrate (sources of potassium for flowering).
Nitrophoska , Nitroammophoska, Azofoska (traditional complex fertilizers in granules, are difficult to dissolve in water).
Brand complexes marked "spring" or "berry": from companies "Fertika", "Fasco" and others (granular, do not dissolve in water too well).
Soluble and liquid complex fertilizers: Agricola, Fertika Lux, Crystalon, Zdraven, Multiflor, Florovit and others.

It is better to purchase mineral fertilizers from reliable companies with a good reputation.

Application of granular fertilizer in early spring.

Organo-mineral fertilizers (OMU)

WMD of industrial production contain processed organic matter, enriched with mineral elements.

This is a modern and very "fashionable" type of fertilizer. It should be noted that the price of high-quality WMD is quite high. If a gardener has access to natural organic matter like manure, there is no point in spending money on WMD. The range of WMD in stores is very extensive: Gumi Omi(by BashIncom), Biovita(firms "Fart"), WMD under the brand name " Buy fertilizers », « Fertik" etc.

OMU organomineral fertilizer is used for soil preparation and strawberry cultivation.

When fertilizing a strawberry plantation before flowering, water infusions of OMU are used (according to the instructions for a specific preparation). WMD is also used for dry bedding in the root zone of bushes.

trace elements

Strawberry plants are very responsive to the introduction of trace elements immediately before flowering. The greatest need is observed in zinc, molybdenum, boron, iodine.

Spraying strawberries with an iodine solution stimulates the vitality of the plant.

Carry out foliar or liquid root dressing with complex preparations ( Cytovit, Polygro, Micromix, Humate +7 iodine, Mag-Bor etc. - according to the instructions).

There are universal types of dressings. They are suitable for root and foliar processing.

Can be purchased separately Zinc sulfate, Ammonium molybdate . These trace elements are diluted in water (according to the instructions for the preparations), a little boric acid is added (2–3 grams of powder per bucket of water), potassium permanganate (until a pale pink color), pharmacy iodine (6–7 drops per bucket).

Siliplant is a universal fertilizer with a high content of silicon and trace elements in a form available to plants.

Special variety modern micronutrient fertilizers - the Siliplant series from the research and production company "NEST". The preparation contains potassium, silicon and other mineral elements in a special form. Siliplant

nourishes strawberry plants,
stimulates plant immunity
increases the nutritional value of berries,
reduces the absorption of harmful heavy metals,
helps to resist drought, heat, cold snaps,

Strawberries are watered or sprayed with Siliplant 2-3 times before flowering, with a break of 7-10 days.

Stimulants

Growth stimulants increase the resistance of strawberries to sudden changes in temperature and increase frost resistance.

Not being fertilizers in the strict sense of the word, various stimulants improve plant nutrition processes. This has a positive effect on the quantity and quality of the crop.

Immunomodulators - These are artificially recreated in the laboratory or isolated from plants substances like plant hormones. The most famous and popular are Epin Extra, Zircon, NV-1. Epin Extra well relieves stress from the cold, and Zircon reduces the inhibition of plants in hot weather.
Humates increase soil fertility and stimulate the development of plants, improve the environmental performance of berry products. Can be added to every top dressing, both organic and mineral.
Microbiological preparations (Baikal, Radiance, etc.) improve the structure of the soil and its nutritional properties, limit the development of diseases. Beneficial and active microorganisms activate the processes of formation of organic matter in the soil and its assimilation by plants. They are applied several times by watering and spraying in warm weather (they work at a temperature not lower than +10 +15 degrees).

From the available fertilizers and preparations, each gardener selects the necessary set for his strawberry plantation.

Foliar feeding of strawberries.

The main mistakes in the spring dressing of strawberries

Beginning gardeners often work by trial and error. As the wise man said, success is the result of experience, and experience is the result of failure.

It is not recommended to carry out root dressing on dry soil. . If the weather is without rain, then the strawberry beds are watered abundantly before fertilizing. Foliar top dressing is given after the root, choosing a day without precipitation.
Foliar top dressing in early spring.
Leaf burns and even complete death of bushes can be the result of a high concentration of bird droppings in the fertilizer solution.. This organic fertilizer is not applied fresh; even rotted - diluted in water in a ratio of 1:20. Thus, one half-liter jar of stale bird droppings is dissolved in a 10-liter bucket of water. In the spring, such top dressing is given to strawberries during the period of growth of the first young leaves. Under each bush pour 500 ml of the finished solution.
The introduction of fresh litter is best avoided.
Over-fertilizing nitrogen is a common mistake diligent beginner gardeners make. . Urea (nitrate) or manure is watered on a strawberry plantation at the beginning of the growing season. Manure is diluted in water in a ratio of 1:10 (a liter jar per 10 liters of water). Urea or saltpeter is dissolved at the rate of: 1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water. Just before flowering, give a reduced dose or (better yet) replace these concentrated nitrogen fertilizers with a weak infusion of mature compost or grass, a mineral complex (where the amount of nitrogen is minimal).
Until flowering, strawberries can be fertilized with a solution of liquid manure.
Fertilizers will not bring the desired effect if strawberry plants are planted in soil with a high degree of acidity.. On slightly acidic soils, strawberries develop normally. But with strong acidity, the absorption of nutrients worsens. Additionally, organic fertilizers, urea and ammonium nitrate, mulch from needles or sawdust acidify the soil. If it is known that the land on the site is excessively acidic, serious deoxidation is carried out even before. Subsequently, you need to regularly make wood ash, and when feeding, replace urea with calcium nitrate. It is more useful to mulch acidic soils not with sawdust and needles, but with compost or dry leaves.
Coniferous sawdust oxidizes the soil well.

Spring dressing calendar for strawberries (before flowering)

A brief scheme-reminder of spring top dressing of strawberries.

When the last snow melts and the first spring rains fall, urea or ammonium nitrate is scattered over a strawberry plantation, and calcium nitrate is scattered on acidic lands. For 1 square meter of beds, 1 tablespoon of mineral nitrogen fertilizer is consumed.
As soon as the heat comes and the heart of the strawberry bush starts to grow, beds with strawberries need to be watered with organic, mineral or organomineral fertilizers. It is better to pick up mineral complexes and WMD directly with the inscriptions “spring” and “for strawberries”. Wood ash is also introduced - in dry form or infusion (2 cups of ash per 10 liters of water), humates.
If on strawberry bushes a few new leaves have already sprouted, they can be sprinkled with growth and immunity stimulants ( Epin Extra, Zircon ). Then this treatment is repeated every 7-10 days.
When establishing stable heat and good warming up of the soil supporters of organic live farming irrigate the beds with yeast infusion (100–200 grams of raw baker's yeast per 10 liters of water), Baikal, Radiance, etc. Further, the application is repeated according to the instructions for specific microbiological preparations.
In the very initial stage of the extension of strawberry buds they give out two liquid top dressings - first root, then foliar. For irrigation, weak solutions of manure, litter, compost, herbal infusion are used. After a few days, watering is carried out with an infusion of wood ash. Together with natural fertilizers or instead of them, WMD and complex mineral fertilizers are used ( with potassium). Then the strawberry bushes are sprayed with a set of trace elements.

Conclusion

If you strictly follow the instructions from this article, then the flowers, and then a good harvest, will not be long in coming!

Top dressing of the strawberry plantation continues further throughout the season . Only the proportional ratio of nutrients changes.

Video about feeding strawberries with horse manure infusion

Top dressing strawberries in the spring.

Spring has come, the birds are singing, the trees are budding. That means it's strawberry time. To get a good harvest, you need to properly care for and fertilize the bushes from the earliest spring. Learn more about fertilization here.

How to feed strawberries immediately after winter in spring?

In early spring, we completely remove the spreaded sawdust from overwintered strawberries.
Cut off old dry leaves.
We loosen the soil under each bush.
We also cut off the old, diseased, brown tops. We leave only the new one.
Be sure to check the condition of the neck (point of growth) of strawberries after frost. It should be slightly higher than 4-5 mm from ground level.
In order for the strawberries not to rot, the growing point must be open. It is very important to properly feed strawberries in the spring and regularly care for this wonderful berry.

The first feeding of strawberries is done in the spring, until flowers and buds have formed.

To begin with, we simply clean our strawberries, remove dry and old leaves. The first fertilizer is best done with a good and rich mullein, which is prepared from fresh cow cakes.
So, for our fertilizer, it is necessary to dilute 10 liters of water with 1 liter of fermented liquid mullein.
If you do not use mullein, then the first feeding can be done with urea, that is, urea. To do this, dilute 10 liters of water with 2 tablespoons of urea. With this, water 0.5 liters under each bush of the plant.
As for the mullein, you will also need 0.5 liters per bush. Thoroughly drizzle our strawberries with this mixture.
Fertilize after rain to keep the soil moist. So the mullein will be better absorbed into the soil. And on dry it will flow around, and the crust will not allow it to be absorbed.
Mullein is good because it is quite saturated with nitrogen and phosphorus. And nitrogen, as you know, is needed by any fruit plant to give it growth, while phosphorus accompanies the formation of ovaries so that they are larger and larger.

This is how the first spring dressing is carried out. Be sure to fertilize strawberries for a bountiful summer harvest.

How to feed strawberries in the spring before flowering and during flowering?

You still do not know how to process and how to protect strawberries? Then this information is for you.

The first treatment is best done with the help of the drug "Horus" with the calculation of 12 g per 10 liters of water. After about 2 weeks, it is necessary to process the strawberries again for diseases.
It is also best to use "Horus" (12 g per 10 liters of water) and the drug "Topaz" 6 ml per 10 liters of water. These two drugs will block all possible diseases, spotting your strawberries.
You can also use plantafol leaf dressing 20 g per 10 liters of water, Brexil mix and Growth concentrate and Megafol in the same ratio in the same top dressing.
Mix all this thoroughly and process the strawberries. You can also add Boroplus (10-15 ml) for better ovary formation.

During the flowering of strawberries, it is good to make the following fertilizer:

Pour 1 glass of wood ash in a bucket and pour 2 liters of boiling water. Stir well and let it brew for 2 hours, after which you need to add 3 g of potassium permanganate and 3 g of boric acid.
Also don't forget to add one tablespoon of iodine. You will get a mixture that you can safely water your strawberries. Mix everything thoroughly and add water to a total volume of 10 liters.
Knead the whole purple mixture again until smooth.
When diluting, it is best to use rainwater. If you don’t have one, then you can use settled water, since this should not be done with chlorinated water.
You can spray leaves, flowers, and plant ovaries with this water. In order to give her the strength of fruiting, in order to get a good harvest, you need to pour a glass well under each bush.

Strawberries spring care top dressing with iodine

To process young pagons using this tool, you will need two components:

actually potassium iodide
potassium permanganate - that is, potassium permanganate

The prepared solution using the above-mentioned components helps not only from the beetle and pests, but also from gray rot and the appearance of spots on the leaves, and also saturates the future crop with microelements. To prepare such a solution, you will need to take 1 tbsp. iodine and literally a few granules of potassium permanganate per 10 liters of water.

It is desirable to water bushes with this solution, previously showered with ash and fertilizer. With such an integrated approach, the effectiveness of the result will be more guaranteed.

Strawberries in the spring: care and feeding with boric acid

Before fertilizing strawberries, it is imperative to loosen the soil by about 10 cm with a garden fork.
For the best effect of fertilizer and protection of the plant itself, we recommend that you sprinkle the aisle with straw. This will help not to trample our strawberries.
Now that we have sprinkled our strawberries with straw, we need to fill them with herbal infusion. This is a thick brown liquid, which is very easy to make: a third of the container is tightly stuffed with nettles, filled with water and infused either in a greenhouse or just in the sun. 2-3 days and the infusion is ready. Without diluting it, we carefully spill our berries to them.
So, when we spilled the beds with a solution, we spill them again with a mixture of boric acid. Component ratio: approximately 10 g per 30 liters of water. Water the plant again.

A mixture of boric acid is very useful and necessary for these berries, it helps to form the ovaries of the plant. That is why, before the flowering of the berry itself, we fertilize strawberries with acid. After we have fed the strawberries, it is also necessary to process them from pests such as ticks and weevil.

Fertilizing strawberries in the spring with folk remedies

One of the most popular methods of feeding sweet red berry bushes with folk remedies is its fertilizer. nettle infusion. What does he give? Nettle contains many trace elements, and when fed with tincture from this plant, more chlorophyll is formed in the leaves - accordingly, it becomes stronger for fruiting and the environment.

To prepare such an infusion, you need to collect nettles, it is desirable that the plants are not overgrown, that is, without the formation of seeds.
Fill a container to the top, packing the stems tightly. It is advisable to take a container that is not metal. And for example plastic or enameled.
Fill a bowl filled with nettles with water. Put in a sunny place. Fermentation takes place there for 7-15 days.
Every morning it is necessary to stir our nettle water. The liquid should be considered ready when it foams and a characteristic, unpleasant odor emanates from it. Then strain this prepared infusion.
If you carry out root dressing - that is, pour the infusion under the roots of plants - then take a liter of our infusion for a ten-liter bucket of water. Pour at least a liter of prepared infusion under each bush.

Fertilizing strawberries with yeast

Gardeners began to feed plants with yeast relatively recently. But judging by the experience already gained, the result is impressive. Yeast top dressing can fertilize strawberries two, a maximum of three times a season.

This is, first of all, in the spring - to enhance vegetative growth, in the summer - to support during the period of active fruiting and during the recovery period - after fruiting. For strawberries for 10 bushes, an ordinary bucket of 5 liters is enough.

To prepare the solution itself, you will need, first of all, naturally yeast. You can take both regular and fast-acting dry bakers.

An ordinary plastic bottle will be an excellent container for preparing our fertilizer. It is in it that it will be convenient to dilute and shake our solution with high quality.

When using dry yeast, dilute a 100 g bag in 2 liters of warm water, add 2-3 tablespoons of sugar.
After closing the cap tightly, shake the bottle well, mixing the ingredients well.
In the case of using ordinary, rather than dry yeast, a proportional ratio of 1 kg of yeast per 5 liters of water should be followed.
Next, pour our mixture into a ten-liter bucket, add water and let it brew in a warm place for 3-4 hours.
After the time has elapsed, pour 10 liters of the prepared yeast solution into a 200-liter barrel.
If such a large volume is not needed, add 0.5 liters of the finished yeast solution per ten-liter watering can each time.

Water strawberry bushes directly under the root for at least half a liter.

Feeding strawberries in spring with chicken manure

Strawberries are the most common plant in our gardens, kitchen gardens and country estates. In order to grow a good harvest of berries, it is not enough just to water the strawberries in time, snore and fight pests. An important component is also the nutrition of strawberries.

In order to prepare a solution of chicken manure, you need to take semi-liquid fresh chicken manure, pour it into a bucket so that the ratio is 1 * 15.
Add warm water to the bucket of manure and stir more thoroughly.
The solution of chicken manure is ready, it is not necessary to insist, since all useful substances, such as, for example, nitrogen, will evaporate very easily and quickly.
Therefore, it is necessary to pour the solution into a watering can.
If there is a thick chicken manure at the bottom of the bucket, then you can pour it under an apple tree or other fruit tree.
We take a watering can and carefully water our strawberries around, not very close.
Try not to get on the leaves with a solution.
After this top dressing, strawberries begin to bear fruit very well, while the berries are beautiful, large, sweet and juicy.

Fertilizing strawberries in spring ash

Ash is primarily known for being an excellent potash fertilizer. In addition to potassium, it contains phosphorus, calcium, magnesium. Being an easily soluble product, combustion products can be used both in a pure - dry form, and in the form of a prepared solution.

Wood ash is the best way to fertilize strawberries - that is, the remains of the combustion of wood, firewood, branches, etc.

To prepare the infusion of ash, you need to take two liter jars (about 1 kg) of ash for a ten-liter bucket of water.
Leave the infusion for a day to infuse, stirring occasionally.
All soluble elements will pass into the water and the mother liquor will be ready in a day.
To prepare a watering solution, you need to dilute a liter of concentrated extract in 10 liters of water.

When used dry, sprinkle the ashes under the bushes abundantly. With further root watering, useful components will penetrate into the ground.

What to fertilize for strawberries in the spring?

In order to grow a generous harvest of strawberries, it is not enough just to weed and water it, to fight pests. An important component is nutrition.

In addition to the well-known traditional folk methods of feeding with chicken manure, peat or ash, industrial preparations are widely known - organomineral fertilizers. For the greatest efficiency, it is worth making those preparations that are intended specifically for strawberries.

They are best balanced and selected the necessary components in the correct proportions - nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium. The largest amount in such fertilizers is potassium and nitrogen. It is these components that are most important for the proper formation of the bud and the development of the strawberry fruit.

Such a category of fertilizers includes, for example, the drug "Lyubo-Zeleno" from the company "Rusagrokhim". In addition, various preparations containing dry chicken manure, wood ash concentrate or humus are widely represented on the market, which will easily help to fulfill the function of feeding strawberry bushes.

Strawberries spring care top dressing with urea

For top dressing, measure out 10 liters of water, add 3 tablespoons of carbamide (urea) with a slide.
All this is thoroughly stirred until the urea granules are completely dissolved.
After that, we water our strawberries with this solution: 0.5 liters for each bush.
We also recommend to treat the soil from ants with dry preparations for the best condition of strawberries. It is better to do this around the bush.
After we have fed our strawberries, it is necessary to cover the bushes with a film on the arcs, leaving one side open.

Complex fertilizer for strawberries in spring

With complex fertilizer, it is necessary, first of all, to cut last year's dry leaves, leaving only a young rosette. After cutting, loosen the ground around the bush.

To begin with, generously sprinkle all the strawberries with wood ash - between the rows and under the bushes themselves.
After applying the main potash fertilizer, sprinkle with humus on top.
The next step will be pest control and top dressing.
As such a complex, strong enough proven remedy for strawberries, use ordinary ammonia.
You need to dilute a pharmacy vial of 40 ml in 10 liters of water and pour abundantly on our strawberries, previously sprinkled with ash and humus.
When watering, the necessary elements from ash and humus with water will fall into the ground.
The top treatment of the leaves should be treated with Fitoverm - at a concentration of an ampoule per liter of water.

Complex strawberry fertilizer

Foliar top dressing of strawberries in spring

As you know, strawberries are very rich in iron. In addition to iron, it has a large amount of manganese and zinc. Foliar top dressing has 3 stages.

The first stage of the process is done to spray the new young leaves of the plant.
The second stage is carried out when the strawberries begin to bloom.
And for the third time it is worth processing small green berries.

A special advantage of foliar feeding is that all the necessary micro and macro elements immediately fall into the leaves of the plant. It is very acceptable when it needs nutrients.

The most optimal time for this procedure is the time after you water the strawberries. But an even greater effect will be if it is carried out in dry, sunny and cloudless weather. A very good result is the treatment of strawberries with boric acid (solution). Also besides this, you can use solutions that have a sufficient amount of nitrogen.