Fertilize strawberries at the end of the harvest season

After the first strawberries could be picked already at the end of May, the main harvest is now due in June. By the way, the strawberry season can be extended many times over by planting suitable varieties: Monthly strawberries or remontant varieties such as 'Mara des Bois', for example, bear until the first frost.

Since the size of the fruit and yield of strawberries decrease with each year, after three to four years at the latest, the crop should be completely renewed and a new strawberry bed should be planted in a different place in the garden. August is the ideal time for this.

When fertilizing strawberries, the rule of thumb is: one third before flowering, two thirds after harvest. So in August (at the end of the month) is the main annual fertilizing in the strawberry bed, so that the plants still grow vigorously until autumn and form new flower buds for the next year.