Strawberry. Garden Strawberries. Cultivation, Care, Reproduction, Planting. Diseases, Pests. Berries. A Photo

2023 Author: Ava Durham | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 11:58

Often the usual varieties of this berry are mistakenly called strawberries. And strawberries are actually small berries, less juicy and with a strong expressive nutmeg aroma. Large-fruited strawberries are grown in the gardens.

You need to start a strawberry plot not with choosing a variety and planting in a given area, but with testing varieties, and at the same time, continue to use the planting material that you have. Purchase those varieties that will attract your attention in small quantities - 3-5 pcs are enough.

© Enochlau

Landing features

We recommend placing the planting on a plowed and leveled surface in rows with a distance of 80 cm, and in a row a bush from a bush - 35-40 cm. Good ventilation of the bushes prevents and reduces the disease of gray rot. Having marked the planting row, we add a quarter of a bucket of humus, a handful (or half a glass) of ash into a hole with a volume of 4-5 liters. The complex fertilizer "Kemir" -1 tbsp will not hurt. a spoon.

We mix all this with the ground and plant a rooted mustache (future bush). Water and mulch with humus. The best time to plant is from June 20 to August 30. The mustache will take root well until late autumn. And next season will give the first harvest.

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Care features

Watering is necessary after flowering and during dry times. After the last collection of berries, you need to select strong rosettes of the mustache and plant them for growing for 2-3 weeks on the freed ridges of garlic or onions.

After that, the bushes of the second and third years need to be cut with a sharp knife, leaving 3-4 cm, you should not mow with an oblique - there is a high probability of cutting the base of the bush. We dig up with a shovel or loosen with a motor-cultivator between the rows and, if possible, mulch with humus. Under such a shelter, a bush that has grown by autumn will overwinter perfectly. And in spring, when loosening, this humus is stocked to a depth, giving new nutrition to the plants.

© Forest & Kim Starr

Shelter for beds

Strawberry is a tender, aromatic berry. There are many who would like to taste it before the harvest. These are slugs and microscopic parasites - fungi, due to which the berries rot. To save most of the harvest, strawberries must be mulched so that the berries lie not on the ground, but on some material.

For this purpose, modern gardeners often use black film. It can be either polyethylene or non-woven, soft, breathable, but preventing the spread of slugs, diseases and weeds. The black film is cut to the size of the ridges, holes are made in it of the appropriate size and in the spring they are laid under the strawberries. Ripening berries will be clean even after rain. You can remove the covering material after complete harvesting. At this time, the plants are loosened and fed with ammonium nitrate.

© Forest & Kim Starr

Possible problems

White leaf spot affects the leaves, flowers, fruits. Round white spots with a reddish-brown border appear primarily on the leaves. (The fungus hibernates in fallen and green leaves.) Control measures are as follows: at the beginning of regrowth, in the spring and after harvesting, spraying the plants with fungicides permitted on home gardens.

Another misfortune - brown leaf spot - is manifested in the fact that irregular brown spots appear on all parts of the plant. The same control measures are recommended as for white spotting.

It happens that the leaves and fruits are covered with a mealy bloom. The leaves stop growing, bend upward, and the entire strawberry plantation takes on a whitish hue. To combat powdery mildew, spraying with approved fungicides can be used in three terms - at the beginning of regrowth, in spring; before flowering; after harvest.

Tips

• When picking berries, we recommend removing poorly developed bushes and not taking a mustache from them.
• When laying a plot of several varieties, do not mix them in one row.

© Joe Decruyenaere

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