Why was watering the blooming strawberries?
Garden strawberries (strawberries) is superficially located root system, so it is always important condition for high productivity is irrigation. This becomes especially relevant during the flowering and ripening of berries in the dry and hot weather. The lack of moisture in the soil, the bushes will not receive the necessary nutrition, berries are small fruit.
How to water flowering shrubs?
Watered the plantation of strawberry in the morning or in the evening from a watering can or hose, abundantly wetting the soil around the plants, trying not to blur the water and not to expose the roots. If necessary, the roots should be Spud, pour the earth. Even better to apply a mulch, using compost, humus, grass, hay, old sawdust, pine needles. Mulch will prevent from drying the roots and provide additional nutrition.
Well established modern drip irrigation.
Watering the blooming strawberry way big "sprinkling" on the leaves is not worth it. Water falling on the flowers and of the ovary, provokes a fungal infection and plants can get sick. Especially if this method is applied in the evening and the plants do not have time to dry out, the fruit rot will immediately appear and destroy the crops.
How often should I water strawberries during flowering?
How many times a week should be watered strawberry plantation depending on the weather conditions and soil structure. It is important that when watering the soil is soaked with moisture to a depth of 20...25 cm. per 1 sq. m spend about 10 to 12 liters of water. It is unacceptable to water the strawberries with cold water from a well or wells. Watering is carried out regularly, as drying of the soil.
Strawberry responds well to feeding, to be included in the glaze. You can apply a specific fertilizer for flowering strawberries, alternating with the hood from the infusion of mullein, bird droppings, weeds. It is in this phase of development the plants require a large and high-quality nutrition, which includes minerals (boron, manganese, iron, sulfur, molybdenum, copper, cobalt and zinc definitely). If there is wood ash, then it's time to apply it. It has a lot of potassium and has an abundance of trace elements. And potassium is responsible for the sugar content of fruit.
