Weeding Strawberries | Defend Your Strawberries From Harm

Growing Strawberries

Growing strawberry plants that have all the room in the world to stretch out unhindered will no doubt become prides and joy of your harvest. A major threat to this optimum environment is other aggressive plant life.

A farmer wouldn’t leave his chickens in the open if he knew wolves surrounded it. He would take the proper precautions to make sure they are well protected from any potential dangers. Weeding is protecting your succulent fruits from the wolves of the soil.

We know weeding isn’t the most exciting part of gardening, but there is no question that weeding is a necessity that makes a little work go a long way towards positive Waec gce runs results.

Know What You’re Fighting

First of all, you should identify the types of weeds you have to remove. Find a book or look on-line at weeds that are native to your area. There are two different kinds of weeds, annual and perennial. Annual weeds spread by seed, such as dandelions, and perennial weeds spread by roots. Knowing this will help you better devise a plan to get eliminate your nuisances.
Weeding Strawberries

Removing the Invaders


After you know what you’re up against, you can start taking some action. To begin, you need to remove any flowers from the annual weeds to keep them from spreading their seed when being pulled out. After this, use your small shovel to dig below the root and pulling toward you, remove the entire plant.

Perennial plants have longer roots than annual plants. Use the shovel to dig below the root of the weed. Pull the weed toward you. If it does not come out easily, you need to dig deeper to try and remove the whole weed.

A lot of this process can be made easier with gardening gloves, shears, and a small-handled shovel. Another option for discouraging weed growth is placing plastic garden cover over the row and making slices where the plants are coming through at. This makes it much more difficult for any potential threats to interfere with your plants.

Flowering Strawberries

Keep Your Berries Safe with a Watchful Eye

Staying on top of the weeding and removing them every couple of weeks is not only going to keep your strawberries happy, but it will make the job of keeping the weeds under control much easier. By not having to compete for territory with weed, your growing strawberries will have a monopoly on all the resources it needs to repay you in volume and flavor.

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