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6 Main Rules for Planting Strawberries in August to Have a Good Harvest Next Year
19.02.2023 02:30
Updated: 14.04.2023 04:01
In order to have a good harvest of garden strawberries every year, you need to replant them regularly.
Usually this needs to be done in August, and for this you should know the 6 main rules for updating it.
1. The best seedlings
During the strawberry harvest season, mark the best, healthiest, and fruit-bearing seedlings with a bright ribbon. This should be done once every two years.
2. Selection of seedlings
On a long strawberry tendril, cut off the first rosette from the bush with scissors, which is the most developed and strong. Remove all other seedlings together with tendrils so that they do not take all the nutrients from the mother bush.
3. Rooting rosettes
Use small pots or plastic cups for this. Dig a cup near the bush, which is already filled with prepared soil and transplant the bush from the rosette into it and fasten it well with a metal hook or paper clip and water well. When propagating a remontant variety, you will not get a second harvest, because the plants will not be able to feed the berries at the same time as the runners. Therefore, the flowers will have to be plucked.
4. Preparing for landing
Within 2-3 weeks the young plants will take root. Before transplanting to a permanent place in the garden bed, water them well and cut off the runners.
5. Planting in the garden
Carefully remove the seedling from the cup together with the clod of earth. Then plant it in prepared and watered planting holes. Plant the seedlings at a distance of 40 cm from each other and water. Leave the core of the plant above the surface of the earth.
6. Regular feeding
To get a harvest of sweet, aromatic and large strawberries, you need to feed them regularly. This can be an infusion of a mixture of different herbs. Grind the leaves of plantain, coltsfoot, dandelion, nettle and woodlice and put them in water in a ratio of 1:5 and let it brew for a week. Then dilute 2 liters of infusion in 12 liters of water. Sprinkle the aisles with wood ash and loosen the soil.
Apply fertilizer several times: before flowering, during berry formation, and immediately after fruiting. To get a good harvest of juicy berries, apply this fertilizer weekly.
In early spring, after the snow melts, add urea to the strawberry plot. To do this, dissolve a matchbox of fertilizer mixed with 1 tbsp. of potassium sulfate in a bucket of water.
Before flowering, feed the plants with complex mineral fertilizer. To do this, dissolve 2 matchboxes of azophoska in 10 liters of water. When the plants begin to actively bear fruit, use a solution of chicken manure in a ratio of 1:30 for feeding.
