After making the decision to put on his garden, the repair strawberries, you provide yourself and your seven delicious berries from the summer to winter. After all, unlike usually strawberries, the removable brings a rich harvest throughout the vegetative period. With all these advantages, the plant requires special attention in the process of cultivation. If you belong to those of the amateur gardeners who are willing to devote time and scrupulous attention strawberries, then you can safely take for its reproduction on its site. About how to do it right, we will tell you in this article.
What is the strawberry repairing?
The name of the plant speaks for itself. The word "repair" means the possibility of multiple flowering and fruiting. That is, such a strawberry can bring fruits more than once in the summer, and several times since June and ending with the first frosts. Some gardeners, despite the obvious advantages of this strawberries, before ordinary, argue that it is not so tasty as the garden, besides very whimping.
Repairing strawberries: varieties and varieties
Strawberry garden repairing has many varieties and varieties. Based on the size of the fruits, the repair strawberries can be divided into two groups:
- Small-forming varieties of repair strawberries, which in turn are divided into:
- becid - varieties that multiply only seeds. These include varieties of "Alexandria", "Snow White" and "Ali-Baba";
- the sucked are varieties that can multiply and seeds, and Baron Solemacher, "Forest Tale", "Ruyana", "Yellow Miracle", "Yellow Cream", "Seasons", "White Month".
- The repair strawberry is large (compared to fine-grade varieties - this strawberry is less productive). The best varieties of removable strawberries include:
- "Vima Rina" - one berry of such strawberries can reach 75 g in weight;
- "Elizabeth II" - the weight of one strawberry berry can be equal to 110 g;
- "Albion" - the best removable strawberry grows exactly from this variety. As a rule, from it in the middle of July it is possible to get 50% harvest;
- "Irma" - the weight of one berries of this variety can reach 58 g.
Features of growing repair strawberries
Experienced gardeners are recommended to grow strawberries by removable seedlings. For this, it is necessary in February to sow in special containers into fertile and fertilized soil strawberry seeds repairing. While germs will germinate, you need to follow the temperature regime in the room where the seedlings will be. Temperature should not be reduced below 18 heat degrees and be higher than 22 degrees.
When you find full-fledged sprouts with 5-6 leaves, it means that it's time to transplant seedlings to open soil. Usually the landing of removable strawberries is carried out in spring (in early May), but you can do it throughout the summer. But if you need a big harvest, then plan the plant in the spring.
Special attention is paid to the soil in which the strawberries will grow, it needs to be prepared a year before you cross the strawberries. Gardeners recommend choosing those areas where bully flowers (tulips, crocuses, hyacinths) or vegetables were growing - early cabbage, salad and cucumbers. What basic rules must be observed:
- the plot should be well lit;
- the soil must be advocated in advance manure (at the rate of 10 kg per 1 m 2), wood ash (200 g) and potash fertilizers - sulfurish potassium, double superphosphate;
- groans for planting strawberries should be narrow - no more than 1 m wide;
- between bushes it is necessary to observe a distance of 50 cm;
- the size of each well should be 25 per 25 cm;
- every well need to pour well with water, since the repair strawberries loves moisture;
- roots of remote strawberries when landing should not be bent, they must be vertically enter the soil;
- after planting seedlings, each bush must be filled with mulch.
CARE FOR READOR STEEL
After the seedlings are planted into the ground, it will be necessary to closely monitor its further development and ensure the culture of proper care:
- Strawberries repairing oblivion and pretty need to regularly water and feed the fertilizers of nitrogen type, organic origin.
- For the summer period, strawberries need to be well meditated so that the soil retains the moisture longer and did not drive. In addition, the closed soil will not need to be frequent from weeds and herbs.
- Repairing strawberries in the fall need to be prepared for the winter. This process includes two main stages - a decrease in the volume of watering of plants and processing with special means. It is no less important for the winter to break all the rotting and dried leaflets, as well as crop bonds.
- Strawberry repairing - a plant that is very vulnerable to different diseases. In the process of its active growth and fruiting, it is necessary to carefully monitor the fact that the culture did not overcome the powdery dew, gray rot, stem nematodes, spottedness of leaves, phytoofluorosis. If you see the first signs of one of the listed diseases, you need to urgently acquire pesticides and process plants. A strawberry tick is especially dangerous, which is impossible to see without a magnifying glass. It hides in the folds of plants. It is possible to notice its livelihoods when the leaves of strawberries twisted, and the fruits rose to half the size. If you have found on your site of the strawberry tick, then after you collect the harvest, burn all the leaves of strawberries and carefully process the site with a special chemical agent so that next year the strawberries did not suffer from this pest.
- If the strawberry grows on the same bed for more than 5 years, then it must be rejected, cutting off the shovel of the top of the plant, but it is better to simply transplant strawberries to another place, otherwise it will not bring the desired harvest.