Tasty and healthy strawberries - a favorite treat for adults and children, grows in almost every garden area. Of course, gardeners tend to ensure that the yield is stable, and the berries - large, juicy and fragrant. To achieve such results, planting a plant in one place from year to year, without the help of fertilizers is almost impossible. And here the gardeners are faced with the choice of how to feed the plant in order to improve the performance without resorting to chemistry and preserve the benefits of the final product.
It turns out that everything is provided by nature itself, and there are plants that are able to come to the rescue. Let's see what siderats are and how to use them properly in the garden plot.
Why do we need and how are siderats useful
Siderates are plants that can replace unnatural fertilizers. They are planted in the garden plot, and then plowed into the soil. This is done in order to:
- improve soil quality;
- prevent the leaching of nutrients from the soil in winter;
- loosen and protect the earth from pests, avoid the appearance of nematode worms;
- saturate the soil with nitrogen;
- prevent the occurrence of weeds on the site.
Did you know? Strawberries are not only very tasty, but also very useful - they contain a large amount of vitamins and minerals. In composition, this berry is very close to salicylic acid, so if you eat it with headache and joint pain, as well as at the first signs of a cold, all the symptoms will disappear without all sorts of medications.
Accordingly, the benefits of these organic fertilizers for crops are as follows:- The soil is saturated with nutrients and loosened.
- Weeds have no chance to break through such plantings.
- The chances of pests and diseases are reduced to zero.
- The earth is saturated with nitrogen.
- Yield and quality of berries increases.
What siderata fit strawberries
The benefits of green manure for strawberries are very clear, and if you go deeper and study information about these organic fertilizers, it becomes clear that there are a great many of them, and it is of great importance which of them is best planted for a particular crop.
For strawberries, suitable root vegetables such as radishes, carrots and radish. Flowers, such as marigolds, tulips, daffodils and marigolds, can become good forerunners for planting berries. In order to enrich the soil, greens such as fennel, dill and stem celery are perfect. Also planted for these purposes are peas, oats, buckwheat, canola, mustard, vetch and garlic. All these plants have different beneficial properties. 
For example, legumes are needed to saturate the soil with nitrogen, oats will get rid of harmful nematode worms, buckwheat will balance the amount of potassium in the soil, and marigolds and marigolds will disinfect the soil.
Important! Despite the fact that ryegrass and rye are also considered to be suitable siderata for strawberries, they can provoke the appearance of nematodes, therefore it is necessary to relate all the pros and cons before planting these plants.
What should not be used as sideratov
Among the useful plants that perfectly saturate the soil with organic matter, loosen and disinfect it, there are also those that are absolutely not suitable for strawberries. Therefore, when you decide to use the green manure to fertilize the site, it should be noted that in front of the garden strawberries in no case should you plant eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and potatoes. 
These plants often suffer from Fusarial Wilts, a fungal disease that affects the root system of plants, leading to its rotting. The worst thing is that this ailment can persist in the ground for a very long time and infect new plants that are unstable to it, namely, strawberries.
Learn about the features of the use of lupine, rye, mustard, oats, buckwheat, phacelia as sideratov.
Features of landing: time and methods
It is possible to sow green manure under strawberries at any convenient time, both in spring and summer, and in autumn. It all depends on what goals are set and how much time you are ready to devote to enrich the soil. The most effective way is to plant vegetable fertilizers in the spring and supplement or change them throughout the season, and in the fall to plant them in the soil and plant strawberries.
Important! During the spring planting, you can use the seeds of several siderats, this will significantly speed up and improve the process of saturation and disinfection of the soil.It is also allowed, but it is considered not so successful planting of useful plants immediately after harvesting, so that the green manure grows before the autumn planting of strawberry bushes. This method should be used in the event that it is not possible to select a new plot for planting berries, and the land on the old one has already completely exhausted. Of course, in such a short time it is not worth waiting for supernatural results, but still it is much better than just planting strawberries in its former place without any additional feeding. Another way of using these plants is planting siderats between the rows. This is done in order to protect the strawberries from direct sunlight and, accordingly, to avoid burns on the foliage and berries. For these purposes, it is best to use cosme and phacelia: it is they who will create a shady protection, and will also prevent the emergence of weeds on strawberry beds.
Did you know? The fruits of strawberries, which we all used to call berries, are in fact an overgrown receptacle, and the real fruits of the plant are those very small brown seeds that are on the surface of the "berries".A good harvest of strawberries can be obtained if properly establish a crop rotation on your plot. Landing sideratov - this is a real find for gardeners, because the process does not require much labor, and does not harm the final product. Try this method of feeding, and the result will certainly please you.
