August - the best time for planting of seedling of wild strawberry and laying of new strawberry beds. What should be known that plants have well taken root and have yielded harvest the next year?
Why it is better to plant wild strawberry in August?
The wild strawberry with open roots is planted in the spring and in aestivo-autumnal time. August - the best biological time for laying of new plantations. The earlier there will take place planting of seedling, the quicker she will take root. And by winter, well developed bushes which will stuff up flower kidneys will be created, and for the next season will yield harvest. Plants will be strengthened and will not die.
Where to plant strawberry seedling?
The wild strawberry does not impose special requirements to soils. Important for plants will be solar arrangement. You should not grow up it on steep slopes and in lowlands. If the place humidified, then is better to plant seedling on ridges.
Sour soils should be limed in advance. There always wild plants grow: plantain, horsetail, wild sorrel. If in the middle of summer season at strawberry bushes the leaves become red color, then the soil has high acidity.
Where it is impossible to plant wild strawberry?
The new plantation cannot be put on lands where solanaceous cultures (potatoes, tomatoes, pepper, eggplants, cape gooseberry), cucumbers, cabbage were grown up. They have related fungal diseases and wreckers.
The best predecessors for wild strawberry will be: onions, bean, carrots, beet, fennel, garlic. The wild strawberry perfectly develops after siderat. Rye, lupine, oats, mustard, colza - excellent predecessors.
The wild strawberry with different terms of maturing of harvest is planted on different beds. It is necessary to be interested in complete description of the grown-up grades. There are strawberry bushes compact, is high, and depends on it at what distance to carry out planting of seedling that plants did not interfere with each other and did not hurt.
Fertilizers
The wild strawberry at active introduction of high doses of fertilizers will increase green material to the detriment of harvest. And at surplus of nitric fertilizing strongly gets sick with gray decay. From fertilizers the wild strawberry loves potash fertilizing. It is potassium sulfate, wood ashes. And here you should not bring chloride potassium. She is negative to chlorine.
Buying seedling, it is always necessary to examine bushes regarding defeat by diseases and wreckers.