HOW TO GET A STRAWBERRY HARVEST IN A YEAR - A BED FOR ANNUAL STRAWBERRY

I have been gardening strawberries for many years.

He practiced different ways of growing: on a continuous perennial bed, on shavings, pine needles, roofing material. Each of these methods has some disadvantages. Finally, I tested on my site the easiest and most effective way to grow garden strawberries in an annual crop, which I called the "walking bed." It will take only one year to form such a fruitful bed.

To obtain a large number of seedlings, I lay a mother liquor: I plant quite freely in rows of several plants of each variety. In the spring, I cut off the flower stalks formed on the bushes, water it, and pin the growing mustache to the ground. To do this, I use aluminum wire studs.

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Mother bed with drip irrigation. On the sides of the mother liquor are rows of replacements. I pin my mustache to the ground with metal pins

In advance, I begin to prepare a place for planting sockets. I free it from weeds, dig up and select the larvae of the May beetle. To make it easier to get rid of them, I sow phacelia in rows - every 50-70 cm. Khrushchev larvae usually concentrate in the roots of adult plants. Therefore, I uproot the plants and lay them in the compost, and dig up the larvae and destroy them.

In late July - early August, I begin to plant seedlings from the mother liquor to the garden. I dig up the plants, trying to keep the earthen clod, and immediately plant them in rows at a distance of 15 cm in a row and row spacing of 75-80 cm. When a row is planted, I bring drip irrigation, because by this time the soil is usually dry.

Next year, when the strawberry harvest is already harvested, I begin to form replacement rows. I pin the mustaches formed on the bushes to the ground at a distance of about 35 cm from the fruiting bushes. To speed up the appearance of a mustache, I often turn on drip irrigation. When a replacement row is formed, I carefully dig out the fruiting bushes, choosing the larvae of the beetle that come across. I transfer drip irrigation to new rows. Mustaches as soon as they appear. I definitely remove it so as not to deplete young plants.

The yield of strawberries of the first year is simply fantastic. And no pests!

Reference by topic: Strawberries: crop rotation and long-term "one-year" way of growing

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