Feeding strawberries during flowering and fruiting with folk remedies

To get a good harvest of berries, it is important to regularly feed strawberries during flowering and fruiting. The fruits in this case will certainly be juicy and sweet, and the productivity of the culture will increase. A significant part of gardeners prefer to use folk remedies for these purposes. Such fertilizers are readily available, cheap, and do not harm the environment and humans.

Fertilization rules and procedures

Even on well-fertilized soil, the crop is fertilized at least 3 times per season. If the soil is not very fertile and the weather is rainy, fertilizing should be done more often.

Fertilizer must be applied:

• at the beginning of the growing season in spring;
• during the flowering period;
• in the fall during preparation for winter.

If strawberries have been growing in one place for several years, they need more frequent feeding. It is best to use natural organic fertilizers, they are completely safe and do not accumulate in fruits. Top dressing can be both root and foliar.

It is advisable to alternate fertilizers with each other. Fertilize Victoria during the flowering period, the formation of berries and at the initial stage of fruiting should be carefully, avoiding falling on flowers and ovaries. Before fertilizing, it is necessary to water or apply fertilizing after rain.

At the very beginning of the growing season, strawberries need nitrogen fertilizers. They help her recuperate after winter and allow her to quickly build up her vegetative mass. Before flowering, plants need fertilizers containing an increased dose of potassium. This is the most important macronutrient that plants need during the budding period.

At the stage of ovary appearance, it is recommended to use boron-containing dressings. They are best applied by spraying. When the berries are set, for full ripening they need the intake of many macro- and microelements. Autumn feeding should include complex fertilizer. This will help you get a good harvest next season.

How to feed strawberries at the flowering stage?

In the flowering phase, it is better to fertilize garden strawberries with folk remedies. You can choose any of the following recipes to prepare the feeding. It is recommended to alternate the compositions with each other.

Wood ash

Often summer residents prefer to feed strawberries with ash. This organic matter contains a large amount of potassium, making it ideal for plant nutrition during the budding phase.

It is best to prepare an infusion from ash:

1. 250 g of ash powder is poured into 1 liter of freshly boiled water and left to infuse for 24 hours.
2. The volume of the infusion is brought to 10 liters, diluted with warm water.
3. Under each bush, add 0.5 liters of fertilizing.

Chicken droppings

This fertilizer is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other elements necessary for plant development. The substances introduced into the soil are not consumed immediately, but are assimilated by plants gradually, therefore, such feeding gives a long-term effect. In no case should you feed fresh chicken droppings. It is pre-dried in the open air and only then used to prepare a nutritious infusion.

Top dressing is being prepared in advance. The litter is mixed with clean water in equal proportions and allowed to brew for 2 weeks. Before use, 1 liter of the concentrated mixture is diluted in 10 liters of water.If you use dry pellets from the store, the fertilizer can be prepared faster. A handful of granules are added to 10 liters of water, kept for 1-2 hours and used for watering at the root. For a bush, 0.3-0.5 liters of infusion is enough.

Yeast solution

To prepare top dressing, a tool such as yeast is used. They can be taken fresh or dry. As a result of using this folk remedy, strawberries will receive B vitamins, thiamine, auxin and a large amount of macro- and microelements (potassium, calcium, phosphorus, copper, iodine, zinc, iron) as a recharge. Such fertilization strengthens plant immunity, stimulates the appearance of additional roots.

The solution can be used for root and foliar feeding:

1. prepare fertilizer from 50 g of live yeast, dissolving them in 1 liter of warm water;
2. the composition must ferment for several hours;
3. before use, 1 liter of concentrate is diluted in 5 liters of water.

The result is 5 liters of nutrient solution. You can replace live yeast with dry yeast, taking them in the amount of 1 teaspoon. To enhance fermentation, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar are sometimes added to the solution. For each bush, 500 ml of natural dressing is consumed. After that, the strawberries can be fed with yeast twice more - during active fruiting and after harvesting. It is not recommended to use yeast fertilizers on acidic soil.

Boric acid

Boric acid is better absorbed by the plant if foliar feeding is carried out. This technique not only improves the quality of flowering, but also improves the taste of the berries, making them more sugary. Bushes treated with boric acid are less susceptible to dry rot and bacteriosis. You can use this top dressing periodically throughout the growing season, but at the flowering stage this is especially important. Boron is essential for those plants that grow in soil with a lot of carbonates.

With a lack of a trace element, the root system of strawberries becomes prone to decay, the vascular system of plants functions worse, which complicates the absorption of nutrients. Over time, the bushes begin to lag behind in growth. If boron is critically lacking, the growth point may die off, and the yield decreases markedly.

It is better to prepare a solution from several components:

• boric acid - 1 g;
• potassium sulfate - 2 g;
• potassium permanganate - 1 g.

The listed substances are dissolved in 5 liters of hot water. The leaves are sprayed with the finished composition, or they are abundantly moistened on both sides. Bushes are processed at the very beginning of flowering and in the middle of this period. When the ovaries begin to form, you can feed the strawberries with boric acid again.

Fertilizers used during fruiting

In the summer, after fruit setting, strawberries still need an active supply of nutrients. All the same organic fertilizers and folk remedies will help to provide it with everything necessary. In addition to wood ash, poultry manure, yeast, boric acid, there are other fertilizers suitable for the fruiting stage.

Mullein solution

Fresh manure is not used to fertilize strawberries due to the high content of pathogens and weed seeds. In addition, at the time of combustion of organic matter in the soil, the temperature rises significantly, which can have a negative effect on the roots, therefore, only rotted manure must be used.

Prepare mullein solution as follows:

• A 10-liter bucket is filled with manure to 1/4, the remaining volume is filled with water;
• the fertilizer should be infused for several days until the specific smell disappears;
• the resulting solution is used in a diluted form - add 4 parts of water to 1 part of the concentrate;
• for 1sq. m beds make 10 liters of the resulting solution.

Strawberries are watered with the resulting fertilizer at the earliest stage of fruiting, as soon as the ovaries are formed.It is necessary to apply the solution strictly at the root, if it gets on the leaves, organic matter can cause a burn. In the absence of a mullein, you can feed the strawberries with urea (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water). The prepared solution can be used for root and foliar dressing. Urea and mullein should not be added at the same time as ash, these substances neutralize each other's action.

Ammonia

Ammonia is nothing more than an aqueous solution of ammonia, so it may well be used as a nitrogenous fertilizer. The product is sold in pharmacies, it is distinguished by its availability and low price. If the leaves of strawberries exhausted by fruiting have turned yellow, foliar dressing based on ammonia will help.

In addition, the pungent smell of ammonia repels insects. If you treat the plantation with this agent, ants, slugs, aphids, nematodes will not settle on it. Spraying with ammonia is also used as a prophylaxis for fungal diseases (brown spot and gray mold).

To prepare the working solution, you will need 10% ammonia and water. For 10 liters of water, 3 tbsp is consumed. l. ammonia. Before processing strawberries, the prepared composition is poured into a watering can and the bushes, as well as the ground under them, are irrigated. Pre-pour the strawberries with water.

Iodine tincture

The iodine solution is used to feed berry bushes in spring, at the very beginning of fruiting and after harvesting. When introduced into the soil, this element enters into complex chemical reactions, as a result of which oxygen is released, which has a beneficial effect on the condition of the strawberry roots. The effect of using iodine can be compared with hydrogen peroxide.

Due to its disinfecting properties, iodine solution can be used to prevent fungal and bacterial diseases. Foliar dressing with iodine is carried out at an early stage of fruiting. In order not to burn the leaves, the solution should be weak in concentration. It is prepared using 3 drops of iodine in 10 liters of water. For soil treatment in spring and after the release of berries, the concentration can be higher - 15 drops per 10 liters of water.

Herbal fertilizer

Nettle infusion well stimulates the development of strawberries at all stages of the growing season. You can feed the bushes with green fertilizer at the very beginning of fruiting and after its completion. It is prepared according to the following scheme:

1. It is necessary to collect grass with gloves so as not to burn your hands. Then the raw material is crushed with a knife and poured with warm water in a 1: 1 ratio.
2. The infusion should ferment within 5-7 days. The higher the air temperature, the faster the fertilizer will be ready.
3. During fermentation, the composition is periodically mixed.
4. The resulting concentrate is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10.

The fertilizer is used for watering at the root; the infusion should not get on the leaves. If the bushes look strong, you can skip top dressing with nettles at the stage of ovary formation. In this case, the plants will need to be nourished after fruiting.

Strawberries are fertilizer-responsive crops. To get a high-quality crop, you need to reckon with the needs of the plant and carry out regular feeding. When using folk remedies, it is easier to avoid an overdose of chemical elements, which means that berries can be eaten without fear for your health.