Strawberry is the most tasty delicacy both for children, and for adults at all seasons of the year. Today gardeners often land the so-called curling strawberry which has also decorative character, decorating garden with bright green escapes. It can be grown up in the greenhouse, without using chemistry – however what for this purpose is necessary?
Features of cultivation of the curling strawberry
The curling strawberry is not so much grade, how many kind of normal strawberry which mustache are capable to fructify. For receiving year-round good harvest of berries these versions need to learn to be combined correctly. So, the grade of neutral day will give tasty strawberry in summertime and in early autumn whereas the grade of short day brings June harvest. In the presence of the greenhouse berries of strawberry can be picked for all year, and to look after the curling escapes in hothouse conditions – as easy as shelling pears.
The curling strawberry can be grown up also in cold season, having put it on windowsill in normal flowerpot.
Carefully it is necessary to look after the curling strawberry only if it needs to be replaced – for several years strawberry seedling deprives the soil of all useful substances. Therefore plant it is necessary to sit down periodically in other soil, otherwise it will regenerate in simple wild-growing wild strawberry. For replacing from the curling strawberry it is necessary to pinch off several strong powerful mustache and to replace them to the new site. It is also possible to dry up 1-2 large berries which will be suitable for landing next year.
Hothouse cultivation without chemistry
The curling strawberry can be grown up in the greenhouse without use of chemical additives at observance of certain conditions. However in the greenhouse it will be hourly and hard labor therefore hothouse strawberry commercially can be grown up only with application of chemistry and special techniques. The small harvest of the curling strawberry for house use can be grown up in hothouse conditions, using the compost earth for eco-friendly fertilizing, watering it with river or rain water.
The tasty and clean curling strawberry should be grown up under direct sunshine that it has ripened in the natural way.
For cultivation of the curling strawberry in the greenhouse it is not necessary to take old mustache or small bushes. The grown-up seedling needs to be watered at the roots, but not from above. If large number of the sun does not get into the greenhouse – you should not be upset, the curling strawberry quite will be content with its small doses. It is necessary to watch for lack of weeds which deprive seedling of microelements and additional moisture from the soil. It is also necessary to tear off excess short moustaches and bushes which do not bring benefit.