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Extra Care Now
for Strawberry Crop
Blacksburg -- Backyard gardeners can assure themselves of a good crop of strawberries next summer by giving the plants some extra care now.
According to Charles R. O’Dell, a Virginia Tech instructor in horticulture and an extension specialist in small fruits and vegetable production, a good way to start the late summer and early fall care of strawberry plants is to fertilize them. He recommends about a quart jar of 10-10-10 dry fertilizer for each 100 feet of row in the berry patch.
To property fertilize a strawberry bed, one should scatter the material lightly over the foliage on a dry day, such as a sunny afternoon. And, once scatetered, the fertilizer should be brushed off of the leaves with gentle strokes of a broom or a burlap sack. If left on the leaves the fertilizer would burn them. When it is brushed off, it is placed right with the crown and is much more efficient than it would be applied to the row middles. There, it would stimulate weed and grass growth and be out of range for most of the strawberry plants.
Another fall-time chore is the application of Dacthal or Tenoran of other herbicide recommended by the county extension agent, over the plants and row middles to control late summer and fall weeds. A herbicide application now will help to control chickweed this winter. The extension specialist said, “To remove all the existing weeds and grasses, apply the herbicide immediately after
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