Among the many fruit crops much love from my family enjoys the strawberry. I have for several years growing varieties of strawberries, "Festival", which has not changed going. Delicious, flavorful, helpful, gives good yields - what else does! I also have many other varieties, but the "Festival" is probably the most beloved. And now the main thing. How to achieve large and generous strawberry harvests without spending on care for the beds all their time and energy.
For strawberries on your site, I took a sunny site. This is a very photophilous plant. To berries are big and sweet, they should be "fed" by the sun. In the spring, when there had melted all the snow, I put the wire arc on a sunny flower bed berry and clothespins are fixed on their film. So the land warms faster and the first berries appear for a week or even two earlier than usual (in the first half of June).
At one point strawberries good fruit for three years, then the berries begin to grow shallow and yields are reduced. To avoid the degeneracy of varieties and, as a consequence of the reduction and the quantity and quality of the crop, I always update my planting strawberries. But not over the entire area at once, and at a quarter of the beds.
This procedure is spend time in a year, and the rejuvenation of the bushes happens all the time. It's very simple - new planting material I grow myself. Yes, yes, I grow a new generation of strawberries from seed. As I do, you can see here.
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Of course, you will ask, and what are the varieties of strawberries grow in my garden beds. Cultivation of strawberries I have been doing for several years. I have many favorite varieties. On the high-yielding varieties of strawberry, who deservedly enjoyed my popularity, I wrote here and here. But if you will be interested to try the delicious berries beloplodnoy strawberries with honey flavor or pineapple, then you need to look here.
I transplant strawberries in August. Although this can be done from May to October. Bushes grow strongly over time, so I choose to plant only the strongest outlet from the bed. I am planting in the wells at a distance of 20 cm. The gaps between the rows make 50 centimeters. Clumps may eventually occupy the entire space, so the available space for the growth they need. At the end of each season, crop the antennae at the very root of the bush.
About what kind of care is needed to plants in the fall, how to prepare them for the winter, to count on the excellent harvest season, the future, you can find in my article here.
When I prepare a transplant portion of the royal berries in August, then Q1. meter of land I bring a bucket of compost, scatter a handful of superphosphate and potassium salt. I fertilize the soil with ash and compost own cooking. For those who are wondering how I get super-useful compost for their rastishek, and with a very fast maturation a reference to an article about it.
In the spring, after the snow melts, cleans the bed of the old leaves, twigs and debris "feed" awakened bushes ammonium nitrate or urea. Both fertilizer in its composition contain nitrogen, which is a must strawberries.
At the beginning of flowering fertilize strawberries, too, but the ash mixed with chicken manure. Without nitrogen fertilizing plants are inhibited in growth. To retain moisture in the soil, I constantly loose earth.
At a time when the ovaries appear berries, strawberries I water more than usual. Under every bush pour a liter of water. This is done in the evening after the gathering of berries. I want to tell you that mulching strawberries can significantly raise its productivity while reducing your labor costs by as her care. Their secrets how to raise productivity by using mulching strawberry I shared here.