Mulch is a necessary care for growing vegetables and fruits.
In this article, you will find out whether you need to remove old mulch from strawberries.
Why do you need mulch for strawberries
Gardeners place a layer of straw around the plants to keep the berries clean and dry.
Mulching the soil surface helps control weeds, retain moisture, and protect fruit from wet soil.
Therefore, the crop remains clean, dry and less likely to rot.
You can use wood chip mulch between the strawberries.
Apply compost directly over the wood chip mulch and water it into the soil.
Do I need to remove old mulch from strawberries
In the spring, the soil is mulched after the first berries appear. So that they do not touch the ground and ripen well.
Depending on weather conditions, this period usually falls in May.
After harvesting, the beds can be cleared briefly.
The soil is mulched again in October to cover the plant for the winter.
If you want to get an early harvest of strawberries, in the spring, as soon as the snow melts, the mulch must be removed from the garden bed.
You can remove them altogether or place them between rows.
A small layer of mulch can be worked into the top layer of soil when it dries out.
Strawberries should grow without mulch before flower stalks begin to emerge.
There is no need to remove the mulch at the end of the season; you should leave it on the beds until next spring.
With the arrival of warmth, it is also not removed, but only lightly raked to make furrows for sowing or holes for seedlings.
Previously, we told you how to grow indoor daffodils.
