During the last month of winter, summer residents will have to do a lot, including stocking up on fertilizers to feed berry bushes and fruit crops.
You need to hurry, because in March you will need to apply the first portion of fertilizers for strawberries.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", a scientist agronomist and landscape designer, told what and when to feed strawberries.
Experienced gardeners know that you need to start caring for strawberries in early spring. Usually, organic or mineral additives are added at this time.
Organic fertilizers
Fans of environmentally friendly farming can add wood ash to strawberries – a source of potassium and phosphorus.
Consumption is approximately one glass of ash per strawberry bush.
Chicken manure is also added.
This is a natural source of nitrogen, without which it will be difficult for the berry plant to grow green mass.
It will be easier to use granular fertilizer.
In this case, the dosage is one tablespoon of granules per strawberry bush.
Mineral fertilizers
Gardeners who see nothing wrong with using industrial additives can at the same time add nitroammophoska, superphosphate or complex fertilizers.
Don't forget to tidy up the garden bed before fertilizing.
Remove all last year's vegetation, trim damaged shoots if necessary and loosen the soil.
These simple procedures will help you harvest a rich harvest of sweet and large strawberries.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
