Planting And Growing Strawberries

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

How to get a high yield of strawberries

Ruzilya Zyakievna Maksyutova is a process engineer and gardener with over 25 years of experience. On her five hundred square meters, she grows tomatoes, cucumbers, berries, apple trees, pears, Japanese quince, grapes, flowers - more than 40 species of plants. There is a greenhouse. And the harvest pleases every year.

Ruzilya Zyakievna uses only methods of ecological organic live farming in her garden.

The harvest of garden strawberries grown by me in 2014 will be remembered for a long time! I have never tasted such an amount of fragrant, saturated with solar energy and vitamins, extremely sweet berries in a season. The rest was spent on preparations and all winter delighted us with homemade jam, berry fruit drinks and pies. I collected more than three kilograms of berries from one square meter. You, dear readers, can also get the same, or even a larger harvest, if you carefully consider the selection of planting material and use my advice.

Selection of planting material (seedlings) of strawberries

When choosing planting material, you should pay special attention to the diameter of the rosettes (not more than 1.5 cm) and the length of the roots (not less than 5 cm). The best seedlings are annuals with 3-5 leaves per socket. It is advisable to choose plants without peduncles, if any, they must be removed in order to facilitate the plant's survival. The sooner you plant the strawberries, the better they will take root and the faster the mustache will appear.

IMPORTANT! Know that plucked strawberries will endow you with many vitamins (A, B1, B2, B5, B6, C, E, B9) and 6 minerals. Ice cream, which has lain on store shelves for two days or more, loses its "life-giving" properties. So, you'd better hurry out of town to the strawberry glades, beds!

OZhZ technology for growing garden strawberries

There is a practice from time to time to change the planting site due to the accumulation of pathogenic fungi and pests. I propose to heal the soil with the preparations of

Organic Living Agriculture, in particular

Fitosporin-M ReanimatorR, which negates fungal and bacterial infections: leaf spot, fusarium and verticillary wilting, late blight rot, late blight of roots, anthracnose and powdery mildew.

Excellent results when growing strawberries are obtained by using

Fitosporin-M Seedlings, Vegetables, Berries, Fruits, which fights pathogens due to friendly bacteria, as well as

Olympic Fitosporin-K, enriched with a full complex of essential macro- and microelements.

Treatment with Fitosporin should be carried out several times per season, starting with the melting of snow. The first time strawberries get acquainted with Fitosporin when planting. The roots are immersed in a bio-solution (50 drops of Fitosporin and 10 drops of Gumi per 1 liter of water) or in a solution of KorneSil.

A solution of Fitosporin-M Seedling, Vegetables, Berries, Fruit at the rate of 110 ml of the drug per 30 liters of water, we use it to irrigate last year's strawberry beds - enough for 300 plants. During the growing season, we use Olympic Fitosporin-K at the rate of 200 g per 1 hundred square meters, or Fitosporin-M Seedlings, Vegetables, Berries - 110 ml per 70 liters of water (10 liters of working solution per hundred square meters).

Before the spring planting of strawberries, we add Gumi-Omi Azot (0.5 kg per 10 m2) or Gumi-Omi Berry (0.7 kg to the holes for 60 seedlings) into the soil. Nitrogen is necessary for plant growth, increasing their mass, as it is part of many organic compounds synthesized by plants. Immediately before budding begins, we spray with a solution of Borogum-M + 11 microelements (50 ml per 3 liters of water per 1 hundred square meters) to increase the number of ovaries and get more berries.

Types of planting materials

There are several types of planting materials for spring planting of garden strawberries:

1. Use of seedlings planted in autumn (at the end of August) from mother plants. They need to be dug out as early as possible, otherwise there is a possibility of being late with the landing.

2. Seedlings of strawberries in containers (pots), grown in greenhouses. In such seedlings, the roots are almost not damaged and the bulk of the root hairs is preserved. It is convenient that such planting material can be planted the whole summer, avoiding especially hot days.

3. Seedlings "frigo" (from the Latin frigo - cold, that is, chilled seedlings).

Recently, seedlings have become popular, which are grown using the latest technologies. They are dug out of the mother liquor (usually in November) and then stored at low temperatures (-1.5 ºC) in plastic bags.

Advantages of frigo seedlings:

- can be used for planting strawberries in spring and summer, from April to July;

- Frigo plants take root very well compared to ordinary seedlings;

- Plants develop rapidly due to the supply of nutrients in their rhizomes.

INTERESTING! Strawberries and garlic planted together have a beneficial effect on each other. The specific smell of garlic repels some strawberry pests. The heads of garlic are usually larger in such a neighborhood, the nutrients in the strawberry bed are well absorbed by the garlic.

Parsley planted in the aisles of strawberries saves from slugs.

Application of covering material Agrotex

Garden strawberries are renewed, as a rule, once every 3 years to obtain maximum yields. Therefore, it is especially convenient to use Agrotex mulching material in black color, since its service life is from three seasons. The first step is to determine the size of the ridge: it is important to know that the distance between the strawberry bushes should be at least 30 cm, and between the rows - 50-60 cm.

Seedlings are planted in holes with a diameter of 4-5 cm, made in the covering tissue. It is advisable to press the material along the perimeter with weighting materials or sprinkle it with earth. The advantages of this method: weeds are almost completely eliminated, the soil retains moisture better, the berries, being on the material, are much less exposed to rotting and damage by pests. Watering is carried out in the usual way - Agrotex easily permits moisture. And it is important that the use of such material reduces labor costs, more time and effort remains for other matters.

Strawberry pest control by folk methods

Raspberry-strawberry weevil

Control methods:

1. Constant weeding, destruction of dried strawberry leaves and debris.

2. It is strongly not recommended to combine planting of strawberries and raspberries.

3. Spraying with mustard infusion (200 g per 10 liters of water), repeat after 10-12 days.

4. Mechanical collection of damaged buds and their destruction.

5. Folk remedy: put onion peel + celandine herb in a 3-liter jar in a ratio of 2: 1 per 1/3 of the volume of dishes and pour boiling water. After cooling, strain and sprinkle the plants. The first time at blooming, the second time after two weeks.

6. Planting onions and garlic around the strawberry bushes repels bugs.

Strawberry mite Control methods:

1. Disinfection of planting material: the bushes are kept for 10-15 minutes in water with a temperature of 45-47 ºС, then cooled in cold water and planted in a permanent place.

2. In spring, when young leaves are blooming, spraying with decoctions of insecticidal plants: tomato, tobacco, bitter pepper, etc.

Spider mite Control methods:

1. At the first appearance of the pest, spraying the leaves from the underside with Gumi + BTB from the Gumi + BTB + LPTs set.

2. Destruction of weeds, especially quinoa and nettle.

3. With a large number of pests, spraying with chemicals.

Aphids Control methods:

Peel several heads of garlic and, pouring 3 liters of water (as cold as possible) over them, leave for about a week. With a prepared garlic solution, using a spray bottle, you need to treat the bushes of garden strawberries that have been attacked by pests.

Snails and slugs Control methods:

1. Dust the soil with Gumi-OMI Phosphorus (60-80 g per 1m2), Lime Gumi (60g), a mixture of Gumi Lime with tobacco (20-25g) or sprinkle with a solution of Gumi-OMI Potassium 2 kg per 10 liters of water, the consumption rate is 1 liter per 1 m2.

2. With a small number, catch slugs under shelters, which are placed on the soil surface. As a shelter, use large leaves of plants, boards, slate, etc., using the recipe of item 1.

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