The wild strawberry can quite be grown up from seeds. They can be got in specialized garden shop or to collect own. It is fine opportunity to receive large number of saplings.
Choice and preparation of seeds of wild strawberry for landing
On counters in shops big variety of seeds of wild strawberry (in the people it is called most often strawberry) different grades, including white and yellow is on sale. Bag cost inexpensive therefore it is possible to land several grades at once and to choose the most suitable for themselves.
To collect seeds garden wild strawberrytheof hands, it is necessary to work. Choose the ripe berry of suitable grade which is most pleasant to you, but it is better not to collect seeds from berries of hybrids F1 as from them the small probability to receive posterity with similar characteristics.
From ripe berry carefully cut off britvochka top layer with seeds and dry up it in shadow. After it dries up, choose seeds. They are ready to landing at once, for storage put them in paper bag.
Landing of seeds of wild strawberry
Take container for cultivation of seedling with low sides. Fill in it universal soil for seedling. Condense it and humidify. Make small grooves.
The wild strawberry can be planted 2 times a year: in the winter and in the summer. Landing terms during the winter period — from February to March. In the summer — in June.
Plant in them seeds on 1 through each 2 cm. As they very small, do it by means of tweezers or the wooden toothpick, the wetted in water. Slightly powder grooves with the soil. Cover box with polyethylene film. For the best viability the seeds of wild strawberry need to be stratified, that is to create them conditions as though they were in the winter under snow. Put container with landings in the fridge to the lower shelf approximately for 5 days. Daily remove film and erase the formed condensate from its return surface. Then transfer boxes to the warm solar place and seeds will sprout soon. During the summer period plant seeds in boxes and their prikopayta in garden. By August the seedlings will grow up and they can be put on the constant place.
You receive the first harvest only the next year.
Care for seedlings
Water wild strawberry in process of drying of top soil very carefully. So far seedlings very small and weak, do it by means of spray. After there are 2-3 real leaflets, their raspikiruyta in separate glasses on one plant in everyone or in box at distance of 6-8 cm from each other. At change you prishchipnit backs. Water them very carefully. In 2 months after landing it is possible to begin to temper seedling. You take out it in garden in the afternoon or expose on balcony. At the end of May the seedlings of wild strawberry can already be put and grown up on the constant place. The wild strawberry planted by seeds grows strong, it is less subject to diseases.