When you plant strawberries in your plot, you eagerly wait for the first fruits. Before they appear, you need to do a few things to make them big and tasty. Everyone remembers to water, mulch and trim shoots regularly. However, it is worth helping with homemade fertilizer made from a popular product.
How to make strawberries have a lot of fruit? Bet on one kitchen ingredient
If you want abundant fruit, make an organic fertilizer for your strawberries. Because it is completely natural, it will not negatively affect the taste of the fruit. You don’t have to spend money on store-bought fertilizer because everything you need can be found in the kitchen. Prepare:
- 50 g of fresh yeast,
- 60 g of sugar,
- 5 liters of warm water.
Crumble the yeast into a bowl and dissolve it in a small amount of water. Add sugar, mix and leave for a few hours in a warm place to allow the solution to ferment. When you notice that the mixture has doubled in volume, mix it with the rest of the water in a large container, e.g. a bucket.
ADVICE! To make your strawberries produce tasty and large fruit, water the bushes with yeast fertilizer every 3 weeks. When doing this, be careful not to get the leaves wet.
Strawberries on the bush Photo istockphoto.com/ author KuzovlevA
What kind of spray for strawberries? Act now, before the disease destroys the crops
Strawberries often fall victim to gray mold. It usually appears on fruits and flowers. The disease develops slowly, already during flowering, but may manifest itself much later, e.g. during harvest. How to protect strawberries from blight? Make a home spray that will help save the fruit. To prepare, you will need: 2 tablespoons of baking soda, a teaspoon of dishwashing liquid, 2 teaspoons of gray soap (it does not have to be liquid, you can also put it in a bar) and 2 liters of warm water. Mix all ingredients and pour into the sprayer. Spray the plants once a week. If you feel like it, vote in our poll below.
Source: Gazeta
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