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Strawberries are a tasty and healthy berry grown by many gardeners. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to obtain high yields. The fact is that garden strawberries (they are called strawberries) are very demanding on feeding. During fruiting, she selects all possible fertilizers from the soil, which leads to the depletion of the bush.
Okay feed strawberries are needed in early spring, especially for young seedlings. There are a lot of mineral fertilizers in stores, but today gardeners are trying to grow berries without chemicals, they use organic fertilizers, and use old recipes. One of the secrets of our grandmothers is feeding strawberries with yeast. Many beginners wonder what to use a food product for, what effect it has on the harvest. About yeast feeding strawberries and let's talk now.
What is yeast
Yeast is a single-celled fungus that can live in a warm, humid environment. There are many types of yeast, but only those that are used in baking are suitable for plant nutrition. There is raw (live) and dry, pressed yeast. Any of them are suitable for gardeners for feeding strawberries.
The benefits of yeast have been known for a long time; they were used not only for baking various bakery products, making kvass, and other drinks, but also feeding garden and indoor plants.
Yeast contains 1/4 dry matter and 3/4 water, and is also rich in:
- carbohydrates and proteins;
- fats and nitrogen;
- potassium and phosphoric acid.
The role of yeast plant nutrition
Feeding with yeast saturates the strawberries:
- cytoxinin and auxin;
- thiamine and B vitamins;
- copper and calcium;
- iodine and phosphorus;
- potassium, zinc and iron.
If you read on the instructions of store fertilizers that they give strawberries and other plants in the garden, we will see almost the same microelements that are in yeast. Why take chemistry when you can feed strawberries with ecologically healthy "food"?
What does yeast feeding give strawberries:
- Stimulates plant growth and root development. It is especially helpful to feed strawberries when rooting outlets.
- Strawberries quickly build up their green mass.
- Yeast increases immunity, plants get sick less.
- Yeast bacteria are able to suppress harmful counterparts living in the soil, improve its structure.
- The number of flower stalks is increasing, which means that one can hope for a rich strawberry harvest.
They recycle organic matter, while releasing nitrogen and phosphorus, which are easily absorbed by the strawberry root system.
The photo below shows how to carry out spring feeding of overwintered plants.
Popular recipes
Experienced gardeners assign an important role to yeast feeding in the development of strawberries and in obtaining a rich harvest of tasty aromatic berries. There are many recipes that have been proven for centuries. We offer you a small part of the options.
Yeast recipes
Pour 1 liter of warm water into a one and a half liter jar, add a teaspoon of dry yeast and sugar. For fermentation, 2 hours are enough. A quality fertilizer is ready. The composition is brought to five liters and the strawberries are watered.
For 5 liters of warm water, you will need one large spoonful of yeast and an ascorbic tablet. Remove the container in a dark place for 5 days. Before feeding strawberries, the yeast mass is diluted with warm water in a ratio of 1:10.
You will need 100 grams of raw yeast and 10 liters of water. After a day, without diluting, add 0.5 liters of useful fertilizer under each strawberry bush.
In a seventy-liter container, you need to add a bucket of chopped freshly cut grass (nettle, dandelions, wheatgrass, wormwood), dry brown bread or rye crackers (500 grams), raw yeast (0.5 kg). Top up with warm water and leave for three days. Strain and water.
Starter cultures
- Sprout a glass of wheat grains and grind. Add sugar and flour to the resulting mass, 2 large spoons each, mix everything and boil for a third of an hour. After a day and a half, the germinated starter culture is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10.
- Hop cones (1 glass) pour boiling water (1.5 liters) and simmer for 60 minutes. The cooled mass is filtered and set aside to cool. After that, season with sugar and flour, 2 large spoons, put in a dark place for fermentation. After 2 days, grated raw potatoes (2 pieces) are added. After 24 hours, the hop sourdough is diluted 1:10.
Yeast top dressing on bread
You can feed strawberries with yeast bread. Many gardeners find this to be the most effective option. One and a half kilograms of bread are crumbled into two liters of warm water (stale pieces can be used), sugar is poured (40 g). In a couple of days, a useful feed for strawberries is ready. The composition is filtered, poured into a container and 10 liters of water are added. Half a liter of fertilizer is poured under each plant.
Features of feeding
If experienced gardeners have already gotten their hands on feeding strawberries, then beginners have many questions. This applies not only to recipes, but also to the amount of dressings, timing.
As a rule, after yeast feeding, the plants have enough microelements for about two months. It turns out that there are three of them, but no more!
The value of fertilizing:
- After a long winter, strawberries come out weakened. In order for the bushes to quickly start growing, they began to form a green mass and a powerful root system, they are fed with ammonia. At this time, you can shed plants not under the root, but from above. In this way you can fertilize strawberries and get rid of pests that have overwintered in the ground.
- The second feeding occurs at the time of flowering. The berries become larger and ripen faster.
We feed strawberries with yeast during flowering:
- The last time they feed the strawberries after the harvest, so that the plants can restore their strength before wintering.
Despite the fact that garden strawberries are a lover of acidic soil, after feeding with yeast, it is recommended to add a small amount of ash under each bush. Indeed, during fermentation, potassium and calcium are absorbed.
Useful Tips
Every strawberry gardener dreams of a harvest like the one in the photo below. But for this you need to follow the rules of agricultural technology. This also applies to feeding strawberries. We hope you find our tips helpful.
- Yeast is a living bacteria that can multiply in warm water.
- Water the strawberries when the soil warms up.
- No more than 500 ml of the working solution is poured under each plant.
- Once out mother liquor a worker will be prepared, he must be used immediately.
Although yeast is an organic product, you should not overuse strawberry yeast supplements. There should be no more than three of them.
is it possible to feed with yeast during berry ripening?
Good day!
Of course. Feeding strawberries with yeast during the formation and ripening of berries helps to increase the size of the berries and accelerates ripening.
We wish you high yields!