It is unlikely that it is worth listing the advantages of this wonderful culture, everyone from childhood is familiar with the taste and berries with beds, and compotes, and jam, and much more. It is also important for us to get a rich harvest of these amazing berries, because there are various difficulties here.
Not all varieties
"Strawberry - emptyweed. What to do?" - According to my observations, many beginners are facing such a problem. As usual? Bought a plot, swore and let's plant everything that neighbors and acquaintances will give - it is at best. At worst: they saw a good-quality on the market, without a single spot, seedlings, and also the seller praises, they say, the crop collects such that the berries are nowhere to do! And then through the fence they saw a bed whisching from flowers and screamed from the owners of "at least a bush".
Let's look at the problem from different sides and will figure it out.
First, there is a strawberry doublome - blooms abundantly, the blooms are high (above the leaves), red-purple berries, small with a strong nutmeg. Her yield is low. For 10 women's bushes need 2-3 male, and it is also desirable to carry out additional pollination themselves, i.e. shake.
Secondly, there are grades Weeders: Zhmurka, Dubnyak, Bakhmutka, Suspension.
Thirdly, perhaps the varieties are "walking" from the bed to bed of your cottage for a long time, and degeneracy began. Signs of degeneration are different:
1. Good-quality bushes, give a lot of strong healthy mustache, but do not bloom (such can well offer on the market).
2. The bushes are healthy, the mustache grow well, bloom abundantly, but the berries do not start (they saw them through the fence).
3. The bushes are green, the mustache is given, blooming as it should, but some "unshaven" berries are not poured, do not ripen (the neighbors Dali: "Give you God, that we are not god").
Such "gifts" must be tracked throughout the season and delete ruthlessly, not allowing to form a mustache. From these bushes, in no case cannot take outlets on the fresh ridges.
Degeneration can occur and because of the infection of the Wilt, if the strawberry predecessors were grated or cucumbers, and also if the neighbors were given, were listed
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Nematodes that are difficult to eradicate. Bushes affected by this pest need to dig and burn, and not compost.
During flowering, you can handle strawberries with informs garlic, wormwood, pine needles that will not harm insect pollinators. You can decompose sins with a bark from pine or ate, sprinkle between the bushes with a small amount of kerosene (for smell). From the autumn, I usually plant garlic in strawberry ridges, and in the summer I cut a foliage or arrows from time to time and immediately throwing a bed.
Have a good strawberry plantation of several varieties that differ in the timing of ripening, taste quality, yield, sizes and shape, the color of the berries is interesting, but very troublesome. The ridge in 3-4 years old must be updated, preserving the varieties and pondering over the year or two of the predecessors.
Berries, I usually collect myself, at the same time noting healthy and yields, from which then take the mustache. If the variety does not give a sufficient amount of mustache, then we cut all berries and flowers from 2-3 bushes, it is imperative to feed them so that all the power goes to the formation of new sockets.
And it's better to spring 2-3 bushs, remove the flowers from them, give a space with fresh soil to root the sockets. Outlets need to take only the first from the bush, the rest to fill. Also, I do with newly purchased bushes of new varieties: repenting the bloomons, all the same in the first year they will not show their true berry value.
And another advice: do not mix different varieties on one ridge, and you will see that you need every variety from you, and they will understand the faster that you need from them.
Everyone knows the healing properties of raspberry jam, especially indispensable in winter, and all because raspberries are one of those few berries that retain the healing properties even after heat treatment. The decoction of it has a light diuretic property: removes swelling and improves the work of the kidneys.
Each Berry is your care
I believe that many inexperienced gardeners will take it for an immutable truth and make mistakes in care of both the gooseberry and different types of currant.
When growing red, white currant and gooseberry there are some identical requirements, which you can not say about black currant.
Each hostess knows the value of the berries of these shrubs, as it also knows what they are used unequal.
Black currant is valued for the large content of vitamin C, as well as thiamine, carotene, citrine, nicotine and folic acids, sugars and mineral salts.
Berries of red and white currant also contain
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Vitamin C, rich in mineral salts and pectin substances.
The gooseberry contains vitamin C, but in a lesser share. It is valuable for the content of sugars, mineral salts. Contains many pectic substances.
The difference in the content of substances in berries is dictated by nature and different conditions of growth.
So, this difference should consider when caring for plants and we.
Our summer cottages are small, each of us has already had to face a lack of space for landing the next novelty.
And it is better to plant a small amount of healthy varietal plants, competently care for them than to plant the floor as the bushes fell and hope that you always collect something with a big plantation, without applying special efforts to care. Selection of varieties is an important thing.
It is necessary to approach the choice of any plants for your garden, competently and tastefully. Competently care for them and they will give up with their beauty, aroma, taste.