The best way to treat strawberries to get rid of weeds, a description of herbicides
What is the best way to treat weeds on strawberries? This problem can be dealt with with herbicides. These are chemicals that help get rid of unwanted vegetation in the strawberry garden. There are a number of selective herbicides that do not cause any harm to strawberries, but they get rid of weeds in a few days, and also retain their protective effect throughout the growing season.
Can strawberries be protected from weeds?
Weeds are common in strawberry beds. There are three ways to cope with this problem: mulching the soil, weeding, processing with herbicide solutions.
In households, it is customary to fight weeds with an ordinary hoe. Weeding only helps to get rid of weeds for a few days. A longer protection period provides the strawberries with soil mulching. True, this method is too expensive over a large area, and it also requires drip irrigation systems.
It is much easier to treat strawberries with a herbicide solution. Various herbicides are available with contact or systemic, continuous or selective action. All of these chemicals are capable of protecting strawberry beds for the entire growing season. True, each type of herbicide has its own rules of application.
Given the fact that strawberries are a perennial crop that has been growing in the same place for several years, it is better to use selective systemic herbicides for processing and protecting against weeds.
Such drugs are sold in the form of a powder or concentrated emulsion, suspension, and before use they must be diluted with water.
Freshly appeared weeds are sprayed with a herbicide solution in early spring, before strawberry flowering, or plantings are treated in autumn, after harvest. If the beds are heavily littered with various herbs that take nutrients and water from strawberries, then selective herbicide treatment can be carried out in the summer.
Strawberry Herbicide Review
Throughout the growing season, strawberries have many enemies. Weed grasses take up nutrients and water, collect dew on the leaves and promote fungal infections. Insects eat leaves and berries. Fungi attack foliage, roots and lead to the appearance of mold, rot on the fruit.
You can fight all these problems with the help of chemicals: fungicides (from fungi), insecticides (from insects) and herbicides (from weeds).
Tiovit Jet
It is a sulfur-based fungicidal powder that protects strawberries from powdery mildew and other fungal diseases. The drug is used as a remedy against ticks. In addition, sulfur itself is one of the components necessary for the normal growth of strawberries.
The powder is dissolved in water, after which the strawberry leaves dry from dew are treated with the working solution. The released sulfur disrupts the vital processes of pathogenic cells. True, the drug only works for 1-2 weeks. The sediments wash away the sulfur from the leaves. This drug does not affect weeds.
Nuclear mixture
It is a mixture of different drugs that can be bought at any pharmacy. All substances are dissolved in water, and strawberry beds are sprayed with a ready-made solution before or after flowering. The nuclear mixture helps protect strawberries from fungal diseases and insects (weevil, ants, aphids). True, such a remedy does not work on weeds.
Mix recipe:
- 40 liters of water;
- 80 milliliters (1 bottle) of birch tar;
- 25 milliliters of iodine (1 bottle);
- 10 grams of boric acid (1 sachet);
- 40 milliliters of 10% ammonia solution (1 bottle);
- 30 milliliters of fir oil (1 bottle).
A glass of the resulting mixture is diluted in a bucket of water and sprayed on the strawberry beds. This solution can be used to treat the entire vegetable garden and garden. A nuclear or hellish mixture will improve the quality of the fruits, increase the yield of all crops.
Other means
Weeds on strawberries need to be controlled with herbicides. Lontrel 300 will protect you from wheatgrass, highlander, sow thistle, dandelion, chamomile, plantain. You can get rid of annual and perennial weeds with the help of herbicides Goltix and Betanal. Strawberry beds are sprayed with these substances at the very beginning of weed growth.
Trifluralin is used for a month for planting seedlings. Tornado, Roundup, Glyphosate are used during the period of active growth of weeds. Young strawberry plantings can be treated with herbicides Daktal, Fenmedifan, Desmedifam. In summer, PAB, Prism will help get rid of weeds.
Which one is better to choose?
Herbicides are chemicals that are used to get rid of unwanted vegetation, that is, weeds. Before planting strawberries, you can use the following products: Goltix, Betanal, Venzar, Glyphosate, Trifluralin. Freshly planted seedlings can be treated with Dactal, Fenmedipham, Fluazifop-P-butyl preparations.
In summer, the following herbicidal agents can be used to protect strawberry beds: PAB, Prism, Lontrel 300, Select, Fuzilad. For autumn processing, Sinbar and Devrinol preparations are suitable. After removing the strawberry leaves, Lenacil is used.
How to apply herbicides
Selective herbicides can be used in early spring, before strawberry blossoms, in summer, when weeds are actively growing, or in autumn, after picking berries. There are a number of chemicals that are best applied to the soil prior to planting strawberry seedlings.
Usually, one type of herbicide is used for treatment. The chemical is dissolved in water according to the instructions, after which fresh weeds are irrigated with a working solution. It is advisable to sprinkle weeds with water before processing or use a herbicidal agent immediately after rain.
For one growing season, 1-2 treatments with herbicidal agents are done.
Weeds die in 1-3 weeks, and the protective effect of the herbicide lasts throughout the summer.
How to do chemical weeding
The herbicide is diluted with water before use. The exact dosage is indicated on the instructions on the label or on the package. Do not exceed the concentration of the solution. Weeds are irrigated with a herbicide composition at the very beginning of their development.If there are a lot of cereals in the garden, first use drugs for this weed, then use herbicides for annual and perennial dicotyledonous weeds.
Folk remedies
You can use safe folk remedies to protect strawberries. For example, a soda mixture is irrigated with a crop to get rid of fungi. Spraying with mustard, ash, tobacco, garlic solution is saved from insects.
For better adhesion, a little soapy liquid is added to such mixtures. Weeds can be dealt with with an acetic-salt solution.
