If you want to get a lot of large and healthy berries from your strawberry plant, you need to take proper care of it.
An expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist, and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh told how experienced gardeners do it to pick strawberries by the bucketful.
Thus, many farmers believe that the seemingly harmless whiskers significantly weaken the mother plant.
In this regard, approximately in mid-July, after the berries on non-remontant strawberry varieties have been collected, you should start fighting the runners.
For this, it is better to use the morning or evening of a warm and dry day - at such a time, it will be easier for the strawberries to endure the procedure of removing shoots with rosettes that have grown from the mother bush.
Please note that you should only remove all the tendrils if you do not need planting material for growing new plants.
To get rid of the whiskers, you should use scissors or pruning shears - otherwise the mother plant may be pulled out along with the roots.
In parallel with removing the whiskers, do some weeding and loosening, and you can also remove dried leaves or those on which signs of disease were found.
