Autumn processing is a guarantee of a rich and high-quality harvest in the coming season. Cutting and removing old leaves, loosening and feeding, covering plants for the winter - this is the basic care of strawberries. Autumn work with this crop they begin after the fruiting phase.
Weeding and loosening
The basic rule of pruning is: don't overdo it. For each bush, you need to cut off the leaf blade itself, preserving the protruding stems. Thus, the growing point remains intact, and the bushes soon begin to sprout new leaves. All tendrils of berry bushes also need to be removed.
Top dressing
Fertilizer application is another one important stage on the question of how to care for strawberries in the fall. The plant responds well to organic nutrients: bird (chicken) droppings, horse manure, mullein or humus. Gardeners also often add it (it replaces fertilizing well).
As for mineral fertilizers, you can use superphosphate or potassium salt. 
Important!It is extremely undesirable to apply chlorine-containing substances as fertilizer, since the strawberry plant reacts poorly to chlorine.
First across all the beds small pieces lay out humus, mullein or. Rains and scheduled watering will gradually dilute fertilizers, evaporating useful substances from them and delivering them deep into the strawberry root system.
However, the bed method works much faster. For this purpose, fresh droppings are dissolved in water in a ratio of 1:20 and thoroughly mixed. Then the resulting liquid is poured under the berry bushes. Consumption for 7–10 bushes is approximately 1 bucket of the composition. If mineral fertilizers are used, they are scattered over the area, embedded in the ground with a hoe. It is necessary to water immediately. To prevent a crust from forming on its surface after moistening the soil, the area is mulched or covered with pine needles. In the future, it will be possible to loosen the soil and water the plants through the layer.
Soil renewal
If you have a small land plot and you have to grow the same plant crop in one place year after year, it is natural that the soil needs renewal (improvement). In old soil, pathogens of fungal diseases accumulate, and the number of nutrients decreases.
The whole secret of renewing the land lies in enhanced agricultural cultivation technology. For example, you can create sunken or raised beds by filling them with humus or compost. In such conditions, the soil is partially replaced, microorganisms are intensively functioning, processing organic matter into new soil. In addition, the berries are abundantly supplied with nutrients. 
Plants can be protected from and thanks to health-improving treatment of the soil under strawberries in the fall. Do not forget also that the beds need to be mulched from time to time. Mulch will serve as a barrier to the penetration of infections into the above-ground parts of strawberry plants.
Autumn transplant
For replanting, take one- or two-year-old bushes, previously divided into parts. You can also use the growth formed on the antennae. Transplantation is carried out primarily for the purpose of rejuvenating the planting. Over the course of 3–4 years, the berry bushes age, the number of flower stalks decreases, and the berries themselves become smaller.
It is carried out in the fall, since during this period the soil is wetter and warmer, and the weather is cool. Start replanting bushes in mid-August and finish in the first weeks of September. This way you give the plant time to take root, take root and grow good green mass. 
Before winter, the strawberries will leave stronger and dressed in lush foliage. Most of the seedlings transplanted during this period easily tolerate winter, and
For good fruiting of strawberries, year-round care for this crop is required. After harvesting, strawberry bushes require special care to restore. With proper preventive maintenance, strawberries increase fruiting by at least 15-30 percent.
The fruits become larger, juicier and sweeter. Any variety of simple or remontant strawberry is grateful for care, and berries grown with your own hands are strikingly different from store-bought ones.
How to properly care for strawberries after fruiting
Care after picking berries in July
In July, after fruiting of strawberries, care corresponding to this period is carried out, these are:
- mustache trimming,
- dried leaves,
- weeding,
- feeding,
- hilling strawberries.
In July, after picking berries, the plants begin to grow new leaves, form new horns, the growth of tendrils with lateral rosettes intensifies, and new flower buds are laid.
First, the beds are weeded. Excess tendrils and dried leaves are removed. Reddened leaves are removed first. You cannot tear off the foliage and mustache, you can only cut it, otherwise the bush will be damaged and will hurt.
For pruning, use sharp scissors or pruning shears. It is better to burn old leaves to prevent the proliferation of pests. If young leaves curl or take on a corrugated shape, this is an indicator of strawberry mite infestation and the plants should be treated with acaricidal preparations.
If the central leaves turn yellow and the petioles are thickened and short, this is a sign of a nematode. At the same time, the plant is dug up, treated with boiling water and removed from the site.
After pruning, old mulch is removed from the beds. The soil around the strawberries is loosened, fertilized, and watered.
The row spacing is loosened to a depth of 10 centimeters. Around the plants, loosening is carried out to a depth of 5 centimeters. The bushes are sprucing up. 
In this case, the roots should be completely covered, and the upper part of the bush should remain above the ground. This is especially true for plants that have been growing for several years, since they root system begins to protrude above the ground.
Taken for feeding mineral fertilizers with an admixture of microelements. There are about 30 grams of fertilizer per square meter. A special fertilizer for garden strawberries, Fertika, ammophoska, is suitable for this. 
Fertilizers containing potassium chloride cannot be used, as it slows down growth and impairs fruiting. Fertilizers are embedded in the soil to a depth of about 6 centimeters. 
In addition to these fertilizers, you can use last year's humus. It crumbles on top. It will improve the soil structure and make it more fertile.
You can also fertilize the beds with diluted chicken manure (15 parts water and 1 part manure). When feeding, we must not forget that this solution should not get on the foliage, otherwise burns will appear on the plants, which provokes the development of diseases. A high concentration of the solution can completely destroy the bush. That's why this type fertilizing is not used so often.
In dry weather, the beds are watered. Soil moisture should be maintained until the end of the season. Watering is done once a week with a bucket per square meter. 
For better results, you can use drip irrigation. This type of watering will allow you to receive the right amount of moisture and at the same time the plants will not rot, since the soil will not become waterlogged.
The soil around the bushes is mulched with chopped grass, peat, and straw. 
Caring for strawberries in August
To get a bountiful strawberry harvest next year, proper care is required. The last month of summer is best suited for this.
Care includes:
- pruning leaves,
- mustache transplant,
- preparing plants for winter.
Old leaves are cut off. If varieties grow in groups, they are processed first early varieties. Then come the middle and late varieties, this will allow you to evenly care for the plants and will not allow them to outgrow, which leads to the threat of infection with diseases and pests. 
The mustache is cut off at a distance of 10 centimeters from the base of the bush. After pruning, young foliage and the core (horns) remain on the bush.
The mustaches with new rosettes and young roots are planted to form young bushes. For this purpose, the strongest specimens are selected, and the weak ones are removed.
For better yield, after harvesting, the strongest tendril remains on the bush. A new mother bush will grow from it to replace the old one. This operation is performed every three years. 
And the spots are treated with therapeutic and preventive spraying of strawberries.
For spraying the following preparations are used: Karbofos or Actellik, this is protection against weevils and strawberry mites; Azocene and Topaz are used for the prevention and control of powdery mildew; one percent lime solution and copper sulfate saves bushes and berries from rot and spotting.
Feeding the bushes during this period increases the degree of frost resistance of the plant and promotes the formation of flower buds.
Feeding with fertilizers
For fertilizers, fertilizers with nitrogen are used (a strong urea solution is not suitable).
Complex mineral fertilizers should include: 1 part nitrogen, 2 parts phosphorus, 4 parts potassium. IN ready-made version, it could be: Fusco, Autumn, Autumn. All these preparations contain other beneficial substances in addition to the base. 
The Autumn fertilizer does not contain nitrogen, which allows it to be used even at a later period, but this preparation contains all the elements that are necessary for the growth and good fruiting of strawberries.
Suitable organic fertilizers include: peat, horse manure in granules, humus, bone meal.
Bird droppings are not used to avoid excess nitrogen.
Mineral and organic fertilizers should not be mixed. In rare cases, when the soil is depleted, mineral and organic fertilizers are applied over the entire area of the beds. If the strawberry planting area is quite large, this mixture can also be used.
After feeding, the plants are covered with mulch, and for wintering the bushes are covered with leaves, pine needles, potato tops, and straw. Dry weather is chosen for shelter, otherwise the layer may cake and cause the formation of pests and diseases inside the layer or lead to root rot. 
The layer of mulch protecting plants from frost should be at least 7 centimeters. In addition to mulch, non-woven material, such as spunbond, is used.
Caring for remontant strawberries after picking berries
Remontant strawberry differs from standard varieties in that it produces several harvests per year. Proper care not only guarantees bountiful harvests, but also the formation of new bushes, which allows you to quickly grow this variety on the site.
To obtain the second and third good results, the flower stalks must be thinned out.
After each fruiting, reddened and diseased leaves are removed from the bushes. The first order whiskers remain on the mother bush. It is best to root them in prepared cups for further planting. After the end of the season, the cups are collected, the tendrils are cut off from the main bush and they can be planted in prepared beds. 
When caring for remontant strawberries, watering should be done more often than when watering standard varieties, but less abundantly. For irrigation, it is better to use heated water. The soil should be moist, but not waterlogged, otherwise the strawberry root system may begin to rot.
Remontant varieties of strawberries are demanding of fertilizers and must be constantly supplied with potassium and nitrogen. When preparing the soil for planting new plants, phosphorus fertilizers are added.
You should not leave bushes with berries under the snow After collecting the last autumn harvest it is necessary to cut off all the foliage and flower stalks from the plants and cover the bushes with a special non-woven material, which will protect plants from frost.
Remontant strawberries, in comparison with simple varieties, have a short life span and after two years the plants must be replaced by new ones. Some varieties do not produce whiskers and are easier to care for, but they use seeds to propagate them, which complicates the breeding process.
July and August are suitable for renewing strawberry plantations. By autumn the bushes take root and easily endure the winter.
In preparation for winter, flower stalks and leaves are torn off from the mother bushes. The bushes are earthed up so that the roots are covered with soil. But the core must remain open, otherwise it will begin to rot. The prepared beds are covered with leaves and grass. 
In addition to the standard growing method, remontant strawberries can grow on trellises, columns, and in tunnels.
To protect plants, protective plants, such as corn, are planted on trellises on both sides of the strawberries, which remain overwinter and additionally save the strawberries from freezing.
After the last fruiting, the strawberries are covered with breathable non-woven material, which saves the plantings from freezing. When grown in tunnels, fruiting lasts until the first frost.
During the warm period of Indian summer, the covering material is raised on one side for air circulation. Even when temperatures drop under the material, strawberries fully ripen and do not lose their taste.
And remontant, and this especially applies to the period after fruiting, as the plants become depleted, grow and may begin to hurt.
With careful and careful care, the yield increases, the size of the berries of even small varieties becomes larger, the fruits are saturated with moisture and sweetness.
And in every region, even quite cool ones, you can choose a suitable option that will delight you with a tasty and aromatic harvest.
Strawberries are undoubtedly the favorite of almost all gardeners and home garden owners. At proper care, it will bear fruit next year and for another five years.
Please note when purchasing that seedlings must be purchased from reliable nurseries and planted only in early spring.
Pruning strawberries after harvest can ensure normal growth and high fertility of your chosen variety in your garden plot.
When to prune strawberries: summer or autumn?
When it comes to pruning strawberries (or any other berry culture) – everyone goes as fast as they can. The results are completely different - sometimes even disastrous. What should a novice gardener do if he decides to do something like this for the first time and sees such diversity?
The first possible question is the timing of pruning strawberries. When should you do this: in the summer after harvesting, or in the fall, when the plant is preparing for winter dormancy?
There is no definite answer here, since pruning strawberries in the summer is necessary to the same extent as the autumn procedure. When pruning strawberries after harvesting, it is necessary to free the bushes from excess mass of tendrils, leaving only those that are necessary for seedlings.
When pruning strawberries in the fall, the main attention is paid to the damaged parts, which can be carriers of pests and pathogens. This entire mass must be burned or removed from the site. After autumn pruning Strawberries are treated with insecticides and Bordeaux mixture.
You should not try all sorts of ways to trim strawberries, as a result of which you can nullify all the desire to grow beautiful and delicious strawberries, as well as spoil the soil and young bush. That is why we recommend listening to the advice of experienced gardeners who have tested and lived different ways and they found the one - the most effective, the most effective.
For example, there is the following method: cut off old leaves and place the roots in water about an hour before planting in the soil. They need to be placed in the ground to such a level that even the crown of the leaves is covered with soil. And be sure to use fertilizers to ensure the active growth of your strawberries.
During the first year of life, it is necessary to pinch the plant - remove flower beds from the bearing bushes - cut them out or pinch them. This will lead to increased fruit production next year.
There are also gardeners who believe that strawberries do not need pruning at all. Why?
Firstly, because the leaves of the berry are a conductor of photosynthesis, which allows the young bush to breathe and develop. If you cut off this source of oxygen, then there is a high probability that the strawberries simply will not survive the winter.
Secondly, pruning will not provide any help in the fight against pests - after all, they still remain alive, they only move to the soil, from where they calmly crawl to new bushes in the new season.
But if you look closely at them during the growth period, after two months the leaves become covered with spots, the effect of rust and other unpleasant things that can harm the strawberries even more.
It is recommended to trim strawberry tendrils in the summer, after which they quickly take root in any soil and are actively overgrown with greenery. If it turns out that you have transplanted a diseased bush or are planting it in the soil where the diseased strawberries were located, the soil must first be treated with water and potassium permanganate and sprinkled with ash from different varieties tree. It is treated in the same way after circumcision.
There is usually considerable debate about when to conduct this procedure. Most gardeners agree that the period after July 20 is ideal. But this number is absolutely not important - it is important that a young, green bush that has managed to grow during the fall goes to winter. You can simply remove those leaves that are already limp and have a lifeless and painful appearance.
Another common method of pruning is to carry out the procedure in early or mid-August, when the entire crop has already been harvested and the plant is no longer bearing fruit. It will be just great if the weather is dry on this day - both without rain and without bright sun. The procedure itself must be carried out at the most gentle time of summer - in the morning or evening.
The procedure for trimming strawberry leaves is carried out with very sharp objects, such as scissors, pruners or any other garden tool. So you reduce possible risk causing harm to a still living bush. It is only necessary to remove the leaf blades themselves so that the bush, after pruning, looks about ten centimeters above the ground. This guarantees the preservation of the growth point of your strawberry bush, which means that next season you will definitely get a beautiful bush of berries full of fruit.
How to treat and feed strawberries after pruning?
After pruning, it is recommended to loosen the soil, and then provide it with constant watering and spraying. The peak of the growing season for strawberry tendrils is undoubtedly spring, which is why during this period it is necessary to build up the mass, so to speak, and process it for further efficient growth and fruiting.
How to treat strawberries after pruning to prevent possible infections diseases and pests? To do this, you can use both improvised and chemical preparations.
It is recommended to immediately treat the strawberries with warm water with the addition of potassium permanganate. The solution must have a weak pink. Then it is useful to spray finely sifted wood ash or crushed wood over the damp bushes. charcoal. After 2 - 3 days, re-treatment is necessary.
How to treat strawberries after pruning if weevils and other types of pests are noticed? In this case, immediately after harvesting, it is necessary to treat all plantings twice with a solution of the drug Intavir.
How to feed strawberries after pruning to enhance growth and the formation of flower buds? Can be used universal fertilizers, which can be found in any specialized store, in the proportion of 10 grams of product per 10 liters of water. Or you can feed it with a combination of nitrogen compounds and ammonium nitrate.
Experienced gardeners use the method of feeding three times after fruiting. First, basic pruning is carried out, after which an increased dose of nitrogen fertilizers in liquid form is given. During this procedure, it is useful to add chicken to the soil in the amount of 1 matchbox dry mixture for each bush. After this, deep loosening is carried out, approximately 10 cm deep into the soil.
The second feeding includes organic matter with the addition of phosphorus and potassium. It is carried out 2 weeks after the first. This procedure stimulates the formation of flower buds.
The last feeding is done in mid-September with mullein solutions or compost infusion.
Caring for strawberries after harvest
Strawberries need to be looked after all year round. Immediately after picking the berries, the plantings require special attention. Proper care during this period leads to an increase in fruiting by 30%. Self-grown berries with proper care of the plantings are noticeably different from store-bought ones: they are larger and more fragrant.
Caring for strawberries after harvest in July
July is the time for leaf growth, horn formation, mustache development, and bud formation.
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Strawberries require careful care after harvest.
What to do:
- Trim the tendrils so that the plant does not waste energy on their growth.
- Remove dried, yellowed leaves.
- Remove old mulch.
- Weed the bed.
- Introduce fertilizing with minerals - per 1 sq. m 30 g of fertilizers 6 cm deep.
- Loosen the soil 10 cm deep and hill up the bushes.
Use sharp scissors or pruning shears for pruning. Do not pick off leaves and tendrils - you will harm the plant. Remove old, dry, reddened, curled young leaves immediately, otherwise pests will appear and multiply. To prevent the appearance of mites, treat the plant with acaricidal agents.
Yellow leaves and thick short petioles are a sign of nematode infection. Dig up the plant, treat it with boiling water, and remove it from the site.
To fertilize, use humus and scatter it over the surface of the soil. Its quality will improve and fertility will increase.
In dry, hot weather, water the beds until the end of the season, 1 bucket per 1 square meter. m.
Cover the soil with mulch of grass, straw, and peat.
How to care for strawberries in August
For a fruitful next year, take proper care of the plant in late summer.
What to do in August:
- Trim off old leaves.
- Replant your mustache. Stepping back 10 cm from the base of the bush, cut off the tendrils. New foliage and horns will remain. Plant strong shoots with new rosettes and fresh roots to form new bushes, and remove weak ones. After harvesting, leave a strong tendril from which a new plant will emerge. This procedure is carried out once every 3 years.
- Prepare your strawberries for winter. To prevent pests, stains and fungal diseases, spray it with “Karbofos”, “Azotsen”, a solution of lime, and copper sulfate. Feed the plant with humus, cover the surface with mulch to increase frost resistance and the possibility of bud formation.
Strawberries need constant care, especially after picking the berries. Plants are worn out, branched, and susceptible to disease. Careful care will help increase the yield and improve the quality of the berries.
When to prune strawberries after harvest
In mid-August, the last remontant varieties of strawberries and wild strawberries, growing in open ground. Many gardeners miss the fact that after harvesting it is necessary to continue to care for the plant, otherwise next year the fruits may become smaller, and the bushes may be infected with pests and diseases.
Strawberries after harvesting what to do with the bush
Knowing when to prune strawberries after harvest is fairly simple as there is a second wave of fresh foliage growth. Old greenery fades. Sometimes redness of the cuttings is observed, which indicates the bush’s desire to get rid of the leaves on its own. To help the plant, gardeners remove them. Typically, strawberries are pruned no later than July 20th. Otherwise possible negative consequences for buds (damage during plant care, disease).
Strawberries begin to actively produce whiskers in August. The first two rosettes (the shoots with which it reproduces) can be left, the rest can be cut off. The remaining rosettes are buried in drops without cutting the tendrils that connect them to the mother bush.
At the moment when all the strawberries are harvested, trimming the leaves and tendrils is done using pruners or scissors. This is necessary to prepare the plant for winter: it will not waste its energy on feeding the foliage and will provide itself with a supply of microelements to survive the cold.
Beginning gardeners often ask about when to prune strawberries after fruiting. It would be right to start cleaning on the second or third day, especially if the plant is sick. This tactic will help reduce the risk of infection occurring or spreading in healthy plants. various diseases.
It is considered correct to prune as close to the base of the bush as possible, since disease spores can persist even on cuttings. The tool must have sharp and clean blades so as not to cause the spread of infections. Do not tear off the tendrils and leaves with your hands - this can damage the roots.
How to mow strawberries in summer and why you need to do it
If novice gardeners doubt whether they need to prune strawberries after harvesting, then experienced gardeners are confident in the need for the procedure.
Pruning strawberries after fruiting is a special mowing method, which has its own characteristics:
- a high increase in yield is possible if you mow the foliage on the second or third day after harvesting in order to prevent the spread of possible diseases throughout the area;
- mowing and cleaning up the removed leaves will help protect the plant and the entire plantation from pests and diseases;
- Immediately after mowing, the bushes are fertilized and watered.
Young plants do better with special attention carry out individual pruning with scissors or pruning shears. Bushes from three years old can be treated with a scythe or a trimmer with a fishing line (you need to work at low speed), especially if you do not intend to get new shoots from them for propagation. Mown three- and four-year-old strawberries after harvest will certainly delight you with healthy fruits in the next season.
Processing strawberries after harvest
Both during the period of ripening of berries and after harvesting, it is important that the soil in the garden bed is constantly moist - this will ensure rapid growth young foliage. Knowing what to do with your strawberries after harvest will help increase the plant's fruit production the following season.
After cutting, to irrigate the bushes you need to use warm water. Watering should be done at sunset or in the morning to avoid sunburn. After irrigation, the soil is loosened and mulched. If you constantly water strawberries, despite the lack of fruits, then by spring they will produce much more flower buds.
What to do with strawberries after fruiting: protection from insects
Every experienced gardener knows how to treat strawberries after trimming the leaves to protect them from insects. The first plant prevention is carried out during the growing season before flowering. When all the strawberries have been harvested, processing after fruiting is carried out again, no later than mid-August.
Usually, the drug "Aktelikom" is used to protect plants (15-20 ml per 10 liters of water, if there are a lot of pests, the procedure can be repeated after 8-10 days). The product will effectively cope with the strawberry transparent mite that eats young leaves. Spraying with iodine solution (5-10 drops per 10 liters of water) will protect you from weevils.
Treatment of strawberries after harvest against pests includes complex fertilizer with urea in the proportion of 30 g per 10 liters of liquid or infusion: 2 tbsp. l. nitroammophoska, 10 liters of water and 1 cup of ash.
Many people are interested in how to feed strawberries after trimming the leaves without using expensive products. Nettle is used for this. It is poured into a bucket of water and left for a week. Water the bushes after harvesting, mowing and during the formation of the bush to protect it from pests.
Processing strawberries after fruiting: disease prevention
After harvesting, as well as to reduce disease incidence, it is better to use Fitosporin (against fungal diseases in the proportion of 1 tablespoon of liquid solution per 10 liters of water per 2 sq.m. area) or Fitop (prepared similarly).
How to feed strawberries after harvest
Complex fertilizer is considered universal minerals(“Shungite”, “Elegy”, Bui fertilizers “For strawberries”, etc.). However, feeding with organic matter also gives good result. Therefore, having chosen how to fertilize strawberries after harvesting: manure or legume siderites, start cultivating the land.
How to process strawberries after fruiting and pruning:
- remove weeds and loosen the soil;
- water the beds with organic matter dissolved in water (mullein, horse manure);
- mulch the area with peat or pine needles;
- water through mulch.
How to treat strawberries after pruning to set flower buds
You can use universal fertilizers (for example, Ammofoska, Nutriflex S), which are available in an assortment in any specialized store. Usually the solution is made in the proportion of 10 grams of product to 10 liters of water. But you can feed the berries with a mixture of nitrogen substances and ammonium nitrate.
Strawberry leaves live for about two months. When they wither, various spots appear on them: faded white, red and even scarlet. These are signs of foliage aging, the development of the most various diseases.
There is no point in thinking about whether it is necessary to cut strawberries after fruiting, since it is the cutting of strawberry (strawberry) leaves that helps protect future fruits from diseases.
Pruning and processing strawberries after fruiting
Knowing how strawberries are processed after harvest is very important. After 3-4 years of growing berries in one place, it is necessary to fertilize the soil with compost, rotted manure, and mulch the soil with sawdust and ash. This will help cover the strawberry roots visible from the soil. For those who are interested in how to care for strawberries after harvesting, it is worth noting that mulching and hilling will ensure good development roots.
Bottom line
Using tips on how to properly process strawberries after harvest will help you protect the plant from infections and prepare it for winter. Keep an eye on the bushes, provide them with proper care and trim them after fruiting has finished, as a result, you will have a large and abundant harvest next year.
