Strawberry – very tasty and useful berry, it is loved by both adults and children. In the modern market this berry - very expensive pleasure, not to everyone on pocket. But there is a wish to enjoy incredible taste of strawberry everything. Therefore many make the decision to part strawberry on the personal plot. It turns out not at all. Often bushes dry up or peremerzat during the wintering, happens that berries too small and not rather sweet on taste.
How it is correct to land strawberry and to look after it to receive big harvest of these excellent berries? Here five main components of success.
Right choice of bed. One of the most important decisions of the gardener is not that he wants to grow up strawberry and where it is going to do it. The site for planting of bushes of strawberry should not be on the southern slope, there snow will descend earlier, than in other places of the site, leaving plants without protection in spring frosts. Also it is not necessary to have bed in lowlands, because of excessive cool or on strongly subject wind the place, for the same reason. The bed needs to be leveled and made small bias on the southwest. The location of the site for strawberry in several years needs to be replaced. Than more often to plant bushes – the harvest will be that more small. Optimum distance between saplings – the 40-50th.
Choice of seedling. When choosing saplings it is necessary to pay attention to externally attractive, with well developed root system, quite large plants. At disembarkation it is necessary to truncate roots to centimeter and to arrange them vertically in the soil.
Preparation of the site and planting of plants. For preparation of bed it is necessary to remove carefully weeds, to dig over the soil several times, to process ammonia solution to destroy larvae of insects. It is necessary to make mulching of the site compost in the spring, from above to spread agrofibre or roofing material. In material to make openings, through them to the soil to plant strawberry bushes. It becomes in order that on bed only berries, any weeds grew. With the same purpose it is possible to land strawberry to the soil, and then to mulch dried needles.
Fertilizing and watering. It is not necessary to flood strongly the site with strawberry saplings, but also it is also not necessary to allow dryings of the soil. It is necessary to fertilize special complex and nitric fertilizing several times during the season.
Preparation for winter. As the best protection for berries during the winter period the snow cap will serve. But until snow has dropped out yet, it is necessary to make mulching of the soil around bushes late fall and to cover strawberry with small layer of straw. To remove excess covering in the spring.