Strawberries - growing, feeding and care (Tula region)
MY SECRETS OF GROWING STRAWBERRY IN A GARDEN
For a quarter of a century, the author of the article has been engaged in gardening. What just does not grow on her site! But every year she replenishes her garden family with new crops and varieties.
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In one place, strawberries have been growing for me for four years, since then it becomes small and the yield is noticeably reduced. I have been preparing the soil for seedlings since autumn. Somewhere in the middle of September I sow white mustard. Before frost, it has time to grow up, you just need to water it regularly if the autumn is dry. Then I lightly embed it in the soil with a hoe, and so it goes into winter.
I have to say: you should not plant strawberries after potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers... Yes, the type of soil is also important: do not wait for a heavy, acidic harvest. Strawberries love slightly acidic.
In the spring, I spill the area where mustard was sown with a solution biofungicide two weeks before disembarkation of seedlings. I put humus or vermicompost, ash into the soil for seedlings, add garden diatomite, which noticeably improves the soil: it works up to five years, and soil pests do not like it.
I also add organomineral fertilizer for strawberries (20 g) and sapropel... I have been using sapropel recently, but I have already rated it five points! It is a long-lasting fertilizer suitable for all crops. In addition to the function of nutrition, it neutralizes the soil from pesticides and heavy metals, increases the immunity of plants.
Further in each I lower the hole with a tablet of biological fungicide from fungal diseases... No deeper than 5 cm: if you bury it deeply, it will not work. The pill works for a month, then it must be used again throughout the season, and two pieces should be applied under the grown bushes. The drug is absolutely safe, it is created on the basis of beneficial bacteria. By the way, I also bring it under other crops - tomatoes, cucumbers, roses, indoor flowers ...
Very convenient to plant seedlings with a closed root system... If the roots are open, I make a mound in the hole and, spreading the roots along it, I cover it with soil (I shorten the roots, leaving about 5-7 cm). It is important not to deepen the heart of the plant!
My strawberries are constantly under mulch... I use coniferous litter, thuja, juniper, cut grass, straw. I spread the grass in a layer of no more than 5 cm, then I put it in when it dries.
FEEDING STRAWBERRY
And, of course, I don’t forget to feed my darling.
Throughout the season, every two weeks I use a different organic fertilizing - potassium humate, chlorella suspension and others. And I also cook them myself. For example, here's a cocktail: boil 0,5 kg of nettle leaves in 2 liters of water for 15 minutes. Cool down. Meanwhile, dissolve a bag of dry yeast in warm water (half a glass) and add 1 tbsp. l. Sahara. Insist 30 minutes.
I pour 8 liters of warm water into a bucket, pour the yeast solution into it, add a glass of ash, nettle infusion and 1 liter of vermicompost infusion. Stir the solution thoroughly before use in order to raise the ash from the bottom. I put 0,5 liters of infusion under the bush, watering it with clean water before.
I plant garlic, calendula, marigolds next to the strawberry bushes - they scare away pests, disinfect the soil. I prepare an infusion from marigolds: I cut off the upper part (I leave the roots in the soil to feed beneficial bacteria), grind it, fill it with warm water. I insist for a day, filter. I do not dilute with water. For 1 liter I add 1 tsp. tar soap and spray in the evenings.
Of I also prepare an infusion of garlic: I put 100 g (all parts) of the plant in a liter jar and pour boiling water for a day. I dilute the resulting infusion in 10 liters of water and water it against all pests.
Of horseradish cooking broth... I take 10 leaves in 3 liters of water, cook for 20 minutes, pour into a bucket with 7 liters of water. I water both the plants and the soil. I use the leaves as mulch.
All of these methods work great - tested. The main thing is to apply them regularly, and not once.
See also: Growing strawberries with seedlings - my technology and advice
STRAWBERRY SEED
And now I'll tell you how I grow strawberries from seeds. Sow in the period from late January to mid-February. I use ready-made soil based on peat and vermicompost. I keep the seeds for 3-4 hours in a strong solution of manganese, then rinse them.
I definitely use stratification... I take a plastic container with a drainage hole and a transparent lid (I don't make holes in it). Sprinkle the bottom with vermiculite and spread the soil with a layer of 3-4 cm.
I throw snow on top (about 2 cm) and spread the seeds on it. I close it with a lid and bury it in a snowdrift deeper (you can take it to the balcony if there is a temperature of 3-5 °). After two weeks I take it out of the snow and bring it home for germination.
Required supplementary lighting with agrolamp within 12-14 hours (turn off at night). The temperature before germination is 20-24 °, and when they appear - about 20 °. I do not remove the lid, I ventilate it only if condensation forms in large quantities. I water it first with a solution of zircon: one drop per 0,5 l of water - from a pipette, very carefully, under the plants.
Picking I do it when two or four real leaves appear.
I use ready-made cassettes, close them with a transparent lid and put them in a bright place. The first days I do not open the lid, only after 7-10 days, and even then for 20-30 minutes. 10 days after the pick, I feed it with vermicompost infusion: 1 liter of dry vermicompost per 1 liter of water, I insist for a day. I feed gently, from a pipette or syringe. Two weeks before planting, I harden the seedlings: I take them out onto the balcony, first for a few minutes, then up to several hours a day.
RџSЂRё reproduction of strawberries with a mustache, I remove all flower stalks... I choose two or three of the strongest mustache and the first two sockets on it, I delete the rest.
For the winter I cover the strawberries thenwhen a negative temperature is established for several days: -2 ... -4 °. Around the bushes I spread a layer of dry humus, on top - trimmings of marigolds, thuja, juniper. I cover everything with white agrofibre with a density of at least 50-60 g / mXNUMX2.
And in conclusion, two words about varieties of strawberries, which I am very pleased with: Lizonka, Zephyr, Freska, World delicacy, Mashenka, Festivalnaya.
Health to all of us and good luck in the country!
See also: Reconstruction strawberries from seeds - by seedlings, by stratification. (Moscow region)
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© Author: Elena Nikolaevna SIMONOVA, Tula
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