Proper care of strawberries - a guarantee of a good harvest. One of the challenges for gardeners is the correct formation of the bush. Many summer residents are wondering what to do with a mustache strawberries. To answer this question, you need to decide what takes precedence: an abundant harvest or receiving planting material.
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When strawberry mustache better crop
Most often, this question arises in the early and mid-summer, the period of active vegetation whiskers are formed quickly.
To get a good crop of large berries need to form healthy shrubs that will spend their forces only to fruition. In this case, trimming the mustache is required, it is recommended to trim them 2 times per season. In addition, the fall of the upper part of the autonomic strawberry bushes cut off completely.
Since the beginning of the growing season they begin to form leaves and shoots with a mustache. Whiskers are not removed after mass flowering. If a plantation is small, it makes sense to trim the mustache appearing daily. If this procedure is not carried out, it will fall not only the number of fruits due to infringement of their diet, but deteriorate their taste, as in the thickened planting berries will receive less light and will not be sweet.
After fruiting whisker growth is reactivated. At this time should be planned in the following crop. For the work you need to use a sharp garden tools, so as not to harm the plants.
How to propagate strawberries mustache
it is recommended to update every 3-4 years for sustainable harvest on strawberry bushes plot. To this end, some of the gardeners left mustache, gradually removing the old bushes. In this case, the plants in the garden grow chaotically, and the process of caring for them becomes more difficult.
The ideal embodiment will plantation division into 3 sections. One will be formed to grow plants with abundant fruiting, the second - "teens", who next year will come to replace, and the third - bred new plant material. Reproduction mustache - the easiest way to get a new strawberry seedlings. The process can be carried out experiments to select for breeding young plants with good genetics. This is easy to do, especially if a timely manner to productive bushes make the mark and take the mustache is with them after bush otplodonosivshie. Experienced gardeners have noted that the most sturdy seedlings obtained from mustache 1 order, who were the closest to the mother plant. Them and should be taken as seed. By the way, more often to take away from the mother plant "children", the more the order of the mustache 1 can be obtained. This applies to those plots, which are designed for the reproduction of plants.
For the young bushes are not required to wait until they take root in the soil. They can be cut as soon as the 2-3 leaf is formed, and in containers with rooting nutrient soil by placing in a greenhouse. With this method the socket in the ground do not have to bury much, is only lightly press it. Be sure to maintain moderate soil moisture. Planted young plants from the greenhouse to the open ground in August and September. It is better to choose a cool cloudy weather and water landing, until the plants are not adapted to the new conditions. Trimming the mustache with strawberry bushes is an important agricultural practices, but if not this procedure enough time, you can choose to grow varieties without a mustache, which offer breeders in range.
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