After the harvest is collected, it is time to prepare the garden strawberry bushes for the next season. Competent care for berries Victoria after fruiting will provide a plentiful harvest in the next season.
Victoria - what to do after the harvest?
So, the last berries are collected and you can start laying the foundation for an abundant harvest for the next season. The variety of strawberry Victoria after harvest requires careful weeding and removal of all weeds. Your task is to completely clear the site with plantings and properly loosen the ground.
The first stage is completed. Now consider step by step how to care for the berries Victoria after the harvest.
- After a thorough loosening on the ground lay out pieces of horse or cow dung. So they fertilize the earth.
- All the first whiskers, sprouted and not germinated, are placed on top of the fertilized fertilizer. Doing the rest does not make sense, since they will not overwinter anyway and after frosts you will be able to start removing them.
- In the care after harvesting Victoria needs inter-burdens. They should also be thoroughly weeded and dusted on the clean surface of sawdust, small chips or branches. Why should I care for the berries of the Victoria right after harvesting and not wait for autumn? The fact is that during these 10 weeks everything will be in time fairly overgrown and as a result all the young plantations will not be fully consolidated. In addition, with the beginning of the rainy season, weeding will become much more complicated, and its effectiveness will be very doubtful.
- Sometimes, when caring for Victoria after harvesting, additional phosphorus-potassium additives are added to the soil. Usually, ammonium nitrate, potassium chloride and superphosphates are used.
- Do not forget to look through the foliage for diseases or pests. Often there is a so-called spotting of foliage, which can be combated
with the help of the Bordeaux mixture, it is also effective in fighting the tick. All affected leaves are cut off and burned away from the site. Removing foliage will slightly improve the effectiveness of the drugs.
If you do after harvesting weeding and fertilizing Victoria, all the young shrubs that have formed during this season will be fully strengthened. If the adult mustache grows lateral shoots, they will be able to settle down and by the new season you will receive young growth. But it should work with shrubs that are two or three years old, as the causative agents of diseases and pests accumulate in older ones.