Of course, you can and definitely should.
Finely ground branches left over from pruning fruit trees can be successfully used as mulch for strawberries๐Such mulching helps to reduce water loss from the soil due to evaporation, and also significantly prevents weed infestation in our crop. Moreover, a layer of mulch from shredded branches can provide effective protection for the strawberry root system against extremely high temperatures, which sometimes occur.โ๏ธย ๐
Mulching itself is not difficult. Simply grind the branches in a special device called a shredder (available, for example, in hardware stores) and spread it between the rows of strawberries in a layer about 5 to 7 cm thick.
It’s worth hurrying with mulching and doing it before the strawberries bloom, otherwise, we might cover the strawberry flower heads with the spreading mulch, and we wouldn’t want that, right?๐ง
