Strawberries are one of the favorite berries that are always desired on our tables. Being engaged in its breeding, you need to take into account some of the subtleties of seasonal plant care, then the safety of the bushes and yields are guaranteed.
Did you know? Strawberry is a useful delicacy. Contains vitamins C, E, P, salicylic, oxalic, folic acids, carotene, potassium, calcium, fluorine, iron, silicon, copper, magnesium, zinc, iodine, chromium. All of these vitamins and micro-, macro elements are involved in metabolic processes in the body, are responsible for the formation of immunity and the health of the nervous system.This article will tell you about the strawberry farming practices and how to care for them in the spring based on the advice of experienced gardeners.
How to care for strawberries in spring
The winter is over, the snow has come down, strawberries have appeared on the beds, the care for which in spring is simple, but it is necessary for the bushes to start growing after hibernation. Let's take a closer look at how to care for strawberries in spring in order to harvest a good harvest in summer.
Cleaning strawberries from trash
Before processing and feeding strawberries in the spring, you need to clear it from litter, thin out, cut, if necessary, transplant. 
They clean the strawberries from last year's foliage, if you did not make it in the fall, or the one that froze out in the winter. It is necessary to collect the old mulch, tear off or cut off all withered antennae, processes, peduncles and leaves - remove everything, leaving only a bush with several green leaves. If there are basal leaves (which spread along the ground) - they are also removed. The collected litter is discarded or burned.
Important! Care for strawberries after winter, always start with clearing. The more carefully you remove all the dead parts from the bush, the better and more friendly as a result will be growth and fruiting. In addition, removing garbage from the garden, you destroy the pests that have survived in it over the winter, thereby preventing plant diseases.
Thinning, cropping, transplanting
With thick foliage, it is thinned, a few leaves are cut off - this is to ensure maximum sunlight remaining. Bottom leaves are also removed. Need to remove and sockets, which began to develop in the winter. Trimming do shears, you can ordinary sharp scissors. From the 3rd to 4th year of growth, with the active growth of strawberries, the yield decreases, so it needs to be seated - take young shoots from the mother bushes and plant them in another place. The transplant will take place approximately at the beginning - mid-May. Saplings from mother bushes should have healthy strong stems and leaves, developed roots. They are carefully detached from the uterine hive, the antennae are removed, too long root processes are shortened and planted in a new place. Before planting the roots, it is desirable to handle the growth of the drug ("Kornevin" and others).
The plot for seedlings is prepared for 1-1.5 months. - make organic or mineral fertilizers, deeply dig, level, sprinkle with wood shavings, sawdust, covered with film or agrospan. The day for planting is not hot, cloudy, windless. The optimum distance between the bushes is 25-35 cm, between the rows is 45-65 cm. The soil is well moistened and the seedling is sealed up to of height so that the “heart” remains completely above the ground. Planted bushes water and mulch.
Important! Replant only fresh shoots. They can not be stored.
Soil mulching
Mulching is also caring for strawberries in the spring, until fertilizing is introduced. In addition to the fact that the mulch retards the growth of weeds and removes the need for loosening after irrigation, it will maintain sufficient soil moisture before the flowering phase and prevent its overheating. For mulch take peat, sawdust, straw, pine needles.
Did you know? It is advisable not to use hay, husk of sunflower, buckwheat, rice - they quickly coalesce and turn off.Add mulch under the bushes should be, and when the ovary appears - the litter will protect the berries from dirt and rot when watering from contact with wet soil.
Spring dressing and watering strawberries
Caring for strawberries in the spring - it is also mandatory feeding her after the winter. At the same time monitor and for the proper watering of the beds.
How often and how much to water strawberries in spring
When dry weather is watered up to 4-5 times a week. If it rains periodically, then of course less. Strawberries need constant moisture, but not excessive. And in the vegetation phase (before flowering), the bushes are watered over the foliage, and when the flowers appear - at the root or in the aisle.
Important! Do not use for irrigation cold water from the well, well - let the collected water stand or heat it up to slightly warm.Watering late in the evening and in the morning (preferably before sunrise). After - necessarily loosened.
Features of spring feeding strawberries
Strawberries have their own peculiarities of spring care: they are fertilized twice during the spring.
When to fertilize strawberries in spring
Fertilize strawberries after spring clearing and pruning, then - during the flowering period. To the question of what kind of fertilizer is needed for strawberries in the spring - it should be feeding, which give the maximum growth, development of the plant.
How to fertilize strawberries in spring Organic and mineral compounds are used for feeding. Litter, mullein - 30 g / 10 l of water, nitroammophos, potassium or ammonium nitrate - 25-30 g / 10 l of water, etc. are suitable.
Deciding what else to feed strawberries in the spring, you can try folk remedies - for example, yeast.
Did you know? Yeast is rich in protein (amino acids), carbohydrates (glycogen, polysaccharides), vitamins, nitrogen. They contain phosphoric acid, potassium, zinc, iodine, iron, lipids.There are several ways to feed yeast with strawberries in spring. The best option is 500 g of pressed non-dry yeast per 2.5 liters of water. It is necessary to thoroughly dissolve the yeast in this volume, and then pour another 5 liters of water to the solution and mix again. You can add 80-100 g of sugar to the resulting mass and allow it to brew for 1.5-2 hours before watering.
Strawberry treatment for diseases and pests
Before spring strawberries, make sure once again that you cut off all the diseased leaves and that all the shoots and stalks of the plant are healthy. Because the first spring treatment is preventive, and all the diseased parts of the plants need to be identified and destroyed in order to prevent the spread of the disease throughout the entire planting.
Processing strawberries in spring is needed from the following diseases and pests: against gray rot, spotting, fusarium wilt, tobacco thrips, aphids, strawberry whitefly, slugs, strawberry mite, strawberry leaf beetle, strawberry nematode, strawberry raspberry weevil. To combat them, strawberries are processed twice - immediately after the winter and at the very beginning of budding with fungicides and acaricides. The following preparations can be used for strawberries: "Kvadris", "Topsin-M", "Aktellik", "Karate", "Zolon", "Aktara", "Bazudin", "Ortus", "Flumate".
Did you know? The same treatment is carried out even after harvest. It is also a preventive preventive measure that helps keep strawberry beds from diseases and pests.Caring for strawberries in the spring at the dacha, in the garden is a necessary stage, all steps of which need to go through consistently, then the harvest will definitely please you.
