Many other types of strawberries differ, first of all, by a large number of diseases and pests that can significantly reduce the expected crop or completely destroy the plant. In order to protect strawberry bushes from attacks by pests, fungi, infections and save them with the fact of the occurrence of the disease, it is necessary to use a number of methods that will be described in detail in this article. But in order to minimize the possibility of the disease of the berry bush, it is worthwhile, first of all, to pay attention to high -quality seedlings. You can plant only perfectly healthy strawberries without uniform signs of pests.
The most common pests
If you work to bloom and spray the strawberries in your area to the flowering of the bushes, then you can thus give less chance of insects and infections to damage plants on your beds. Do not forget to conduct spraying after the last harvest. This will help get a good harvest next year. This must be done around the middle of the last summer month.
Strawberry tick
This insect is the most common strawberry enemy. It is a creation of white (sometimes yellow) with an oval body of 0.2mm. It is not easy to see them, since they are incredibly tiny. But, despite this, the harm from them is very noticeable. And, first of all, it manifests itself in the form of the destruction of the leaves — they wrinkle, become oily. Berries also suffer, which eventually do not get seriously in their size. If the disease is not stopped on time, strawberries will die.
Not only high -quality seedlings, but also heating procedures about fifteen minutes before direct landing will help to avoid the occurrence of this pest. After hot water, the seedlings must be carefully rinsed and dried a little away from direct sunlight. It is also recommended to treat strawberries with infusion of onions, neoron or colloidal gray. All this should be done before flowering.
The weevils are raspberry
This pest is slightly larger than the previous one, since the length of his body is equal to two millimeters. It can also be determined by the characteristic gray-black color. The main sphere of its activity is the leaves. He gnaws holes in them, and leaves larvae in buds that continue the work of his parents. To eliminate this pest, it is necessary about five days before flowering to process carbophos. This event should be repeated at the end of August. Do not forget about the destruction of all plant residues in which insects can be preserved.
Other insects
All the listed strawberries can often be found on plantations that are located mainly in places of raw and shaded. You can get rid of them with metallidegide, which need to be treated with strawberries before the flowering period. Repeat this procedure will be needed after collecting the last crop.
The main methods of combating diseases of this plant
It is worth paying attention to the fact that a number of agrotechnical errors can be the cause of the fungus. These include:
shaded place with a lot of moisture;
Errors in watering;
high density of plants;
Busting with fertilizers.
Gray rot
Brown spots with velvety gray raid — this is a clear sign of the presence of this very dangerous disease. Such spots can be seen on the leaves, but the disease also affects both buds and fruits. As a result of such a large -scale infection, the bush may completely die. But all this can be prevented by competent and timely actions: crop rotation, elimination of weeds, collection of ripe berries, destruction of infected parts. It is also important to spray the Bordeaux liquid before the growing season.
Fitophthrose wilting
This disease is capable of destroying the upper roots, which occurs most often after seasonal rains. The appearance of this disease is accompanied by a slowdown in growth and a noticeable deterioration in the appearance of the plant. If you do not take measures, then in a year the plant will stop fruiting, and after two — it will finally die. The fact that late blighting can simply be avoided can be interesting. For this, you do not need to treat the Earth and the plant with chemicals. The competent maintenance of the optimal level of land humidity is the most important factor in preventing the onset of the disease. But if it arose, then at the first manifestations it is necessary to remove the damaged parts of strawberries.
Powder
This disease spreads in a very unusual way — through the air. Muchniya dew can penetrate the company with infected landing materials into the territory of the site. Therefore, you need to be as careful as possible and attentive with what you purchase and land on your land territory.
So, what are the manifestations of powdery mildew? First of all, this is a gray raid that is difficult not to notice. We are also talking about a deterioration in the appearance of the berries — their usual color is replaced by a more silage, in addition to everything, an unpleasant smell of mold also appears.
Before planting strawberries, you need to choose a well -lit place. And at the first signs of the disease, it is necessary to remove infected areas. Before the start of the flowering period, it is recommended to spray the plantation. As an option, you can use «topaz» or special calcified salt. The same procedure should be repeated after collecting the last crop.
Brown spotting
The middle of July can be marked by the appearance of a dark purple shade on the leaves of stains, as well as black pillows, which contains the spores of the fungus (by the way, they burst if it begins to rain). The result of such formations is the complete elimination of leaves, which negatively affects subsequent crops.
Whatever the pest becomes an uninvited guest in your garden, you can fight it, first of all, by cleaning old leaves and spraying with a nitras. By the way, the last remedy is recommended to process bushes during the growing season, then eleven days after flowering and the last time — after harvesting. As a prevention, it is recommended to transplant strawberries to another place every four years. Competent care, attentiveness and timely reaction to emerging problems — these are the basic rules for caring for all plant species.