3 mistakes made when caring for strawberries in the fall: even experienced gardeners are not immune to them
Probably, even those gardeners who have minimal experience in growing strawberries know that nitrogen should not be applied to the bushes in the fall.
Give up the idea of using organic matter as fertilizer, advises the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
Instead, replace organic fertilizers with mineral ones that contain phosphorus and potassium.
This way you can help your plants prepare properly for winter.
But there are other, less obvious mistakes that can nevertheless lead to a decrease in crop yield.
This is, for example, late pruning.
Farmers insist that strawberries should go into winter with their leaves, which provide the plants with nutrients.
Finally, the third mistake is ignoring the treatment, the purpose of which is to rid strawberries of pathogens and harmful insects.
