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  1. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    My grandmother started growing strawberries, then my mother, and from them I learned various tricks. We collect ripe berries in buckets, because we know: August is the time for planting and transplanting strawberries.
    The most important thing is not to plant this berry in the place where potatoes used to grow. Many years ago, my grandmother made this mistake, and the strawberries immediately began to hurt and almost all died. Then they found out from knowledgeable people that it turned out to be wilt - parasitic fungi. Then, also from our own experience, we learned that strawberries do not grow well after cucumbers and tomatoes. That's how trial and error gradually gained knowledge.
    3a two weeks before planting strawberries, I remove the entire crop from the beds on which I am going to plant them. I dig up the earth and level it, if this place turns out to be in a lowland, then I make high ridges, otherwise the berries will begin to rot first, and then the whole plant.
    It is very good if it is possible to enclose the ridges with boards - then the earth does not crumble and the view turns out to be “civilized”.
    In autumn, I don’t fertilize the beds with manure, but I add wood ash or dolomite flour. And I sprinkle coarse sand on top so that slugs and snails do not breed in the ground. I choose a cloudy day for transplants and plantings, because if the sun is bright, strawberry bushes and mustaches quickly wither and may not take root. After planting, be sure to water well.

    If everything is done correctly, by the winter you will already have a good bush, and next year, in the summer, you will reap a wonderful harvest from these young bushes.

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