To keep strawberries juicy and sweet, it is important to fertilize the plant.
Not all means are suitable for this.
What and how to feed strawberries in the summer
Mineral fertilizers - nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium - are well suited for feeding strawberries.
You can also use organic ones - compost, rotted manure.
As a rule, gardeners fertilize strawberries twice a year - during planting and after harvesting.
During the entire growing season, you can also use fertilizers containing wood ash.
If you fertilized your strawberries with nitrogen in the spring, in the summer it should be a potassium fertilizer.
This substance will increase your berry yield and the duration of fruiting.
It is important to fertilize with potassium fertilizer when the plant begins to form buds.
To do this, take one teaspoon of potassium nitrate per ten liters of water.
Apply 05. liters of fertilizer to each bush.
In addition, for feeding you can use spraying with a solution of boric acid.
To do this, dilute 1 gram of the substance in 10 liters of water.
During the fruiting period, you can use infusions of nettle and yeast as fertilizer.
Thanks to this, the berries will be larger and sweeter.
At the end of summer, you can fertilize the soil using complex mineral fertilizers.
What should you not fertilize strawberries with
You should be careful with nitrogen-containing fertilizers.
If there is too much mineral in the soil, the plant will grow leaves, but not fruits.
Previously, we told you how to grow a lemon tree.
