One simple step will allow you to enjoy large and sweet berries longer without any extra effort.
Often, a strawberry bush produces a weaker harvest in the third year. Therefore, you have to constantly renew the bed by buying or planting young plants.
This allows you to maintain the quality of the harvest at a high level. But there is a way, thanks to which both three- and four-year-old bushes will produce large and juicy berries.
The reason for the short fruiting period is hidden in one fact. The plant grows 1.5-2 cm in height per season. Strawberries constantly form new roots.
If you don’t hill up the bushes, the nutrition will be disrupted and the plants will stop receiving enough nutrients.
In the old days, soil was added under the strawberries every year. Due to hilling, the beds reached a height of 80 cm.
In modern gardening, this technique is still relevant. If you hill up strawberries every year, they will bear fruit abundantly in the same place for 5-6 years in a row, which is 2-3 times more than in the usual case.
