How to feed strawberries with yeast

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.
Attention! Yeast is an almost ready-made fertilizer with all the necessary trace elements for the growth and development of strawberries.

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:

  1. Stimulates plant growth and root development. It is especially helpful to feed strawberries when rooting outlets.
  2. Strawberries quickly build up their green mass.
  3. Yeast increases immunity, plants get sick less.
  4. Yeast bacteria are able to suppress harmful counterparts living in the soil, improve its structure.
  5. The number of flower stalks is increasing, which means that one can hope for a rich strawberry harvest.
Important! Once in the ground, yeast bacteria begin to thrive.

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.

Comment! Plants with seeds, as well as white gauze (quinoa), are not recommended.

Starter cultures

  1. 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.
  2. 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!

Attention! Repairing varieties of garden strawberries with multiple fruiting waves can be fed again while the strawberries are resting.

The value of fertilizing:

  1. 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.
  2. The second feeding occurs at the time of flowering. The berries become larger and ripen faster.
    We feed strawberries with yeast during flowering:
  3. 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.

  1. Yeast is a living bacteria that can multiply in warm water.
  2. Water the strawberries when the soil warms up.
  3. No more than 500 ml of the working solution is poured under each plant.
  4. 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.

Testimonials

Ekaterina, 41 years old, Yaroslavskaya oblast
Growing strawberries is a job for me. At the summer cottage, almost the entire area is given to culture. Even in winter, work does not stop, because there are varieties that yield crops all year round. I grow such strawberries in a greenhouse. The first years there were many problems, but as soon as I began to feed my plantings with yeast, the effect was not long in coming. Moreover, it is still an economical and safe way.I recommend it because it is tested in practice.

Evgeniya, 48 years old, Yekaterinburg city
I feed my strawberries in the easiest way. They buy a bag of yeast (10 grams), dissolve it in warm water and water it immediately. Do this three times a season. The strawberry grows large and sweet, does not get sick.

Victoria, 36 years old, Kursk
Mom found the recipe, but I was skeptical about such a top dressing. She didn't even help my mother, she thought it was a waste of time. Top dressing was carried out on one ridge. After a while, the result was shocking: the bushes became more powerful, green, chic. They threw out a lot of peduncles. The crop on this bed was more than on the one that was not fed. So you can safely use yeast. By the way, we also fed other plants with nutritious fertilizer.

Vera, 42 years old, Tambov
I learned about yeast feeding from the Internet. I fed my garden strawberries. In my opinion, it only got worse: the picked berries were tasteless, loose. Maybe I did something wrong, but I will not experiment any more.

Comments (1)
  1. is it possible to feed with yeast during berry ripening?

    05/17/2019 at 01:05
    Helena
    1. 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!

      05/18/2019 at 10:05
      Alena Valerievna
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