Strawberry spinach – unique plant. From it it is possible to collect not only useful leaflets, but also tasty berries. Besides spinach strawberry – very decorative will also become original decoration of bed.
This plant can be planted three times during the season. To receive early greens, plant seeds on seedling. If you do not want to potter with it, you can seed them to the open ground at once. Besides, strawberry spinach is planted also towards the winter. Further about terms of landing is slightly more detailed.
On seedling the seeds sow in the third decade of March. Prepare the light nutritious substrate consisting their two parts of the cespitose earth and peat, humus, sand taken by one part. If there is no desire to prepare the seedling earth, get ready in shop.
Seed seeds in flat dish with damp soil, powder them on 5 mm with the soil. Put capacity in transparent package, remove to the warm place. When there are shoots, place flat dish on light windowsill, here they will grow. It is not necessary to dive strawberry spinach, in this capacity it will develop approximately till May 10. By this time the soil on kitchen garden will get warm, plant plants at distance of 30 cm from each other, attract to survival.
If you have more to liking the second sowing time of seeds of spinach, then you carry out works on May 5-10. Put them on previously dug up bed in rows of 7 mm in depth, with distance between them 25 cm. When plants reach height of 3 cm replace them according to the scheme 30 x 30 cm.
Subwinter crops are carried out in previously prepared rows too, but when the earth slightly is chilled. Usually in midland - it is the beginning of October. With approach of warm spring days spinach will turn green and will soon prove to be in all beauty.
If leaflets at it pale, feed up shoots solution, having added 1 tablespoons of urea to 9 l of water. During budding stir 1 glass of ashes in 10 l of warm water, let's infuse day, spill spinach strawberry this fertilizer at the roots.
In response to care – a lot of greens will give waterings, infrequent fertilizers, plant and will please with scarlet berries sparks. You will be able to make jam, compote, juice of them or to regale on them fresh.