Of course, you can and definitely should.
Finely ground branches left over from pruning fruit trees can be successfully used as mulch for strawberries🍓Such 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.☀️ 🙂
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?🧐
