Unusual Strawberry Cultivation

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Both adults and children love strawberries. This is one of the most delicious berries that delights experienced and novice summer residents. However, the cultivation of this crop has a lot of peculiarities, especially if the gardener wants to get a high yield of these berries

Few people know that there is one unusual way of growing strawberries, thanks to which, with a minimum area for cultivation, you can end up with a stable and large harvest, as well as increase the fruiting period within one period.

How to prepare the beds?

Very often, a gardener faces a difficult problem in the form of a lack of space for growing strawberries, since all the beds are occupied by other crops, and the remaining soil is simply not suitable for plants. But it is surprising that this factor can be used in a positive way for yourself. To do this, it is necessary to grow strawberries in closed bulk beds. In other words, the strawberries will have to be planted in prepared wooden boxes outdoors.

To prepare such a bed, you can use the most inexpensive lumber as old boards or slabs. The length of the beds must be selected depending on your wishes. Their height should be about thirty-five centimeters, and their width should not be more than seventy. The berries will be placed in one row here. Thus, the strawberries will feel quite free and will receive the necessary amount of sunlight. In addition, the plant will be warm in this case. As a result, the summer resident will receive very good harvest indicators. In addition, such freedom of space will ensure that strawberry bushes receive the maximum amount of useful components and that there is no competition with other crops. It is also clear that strawberries planted in this way are very convenient and easy to care for. It is especially easy to carry out procedures in the form of watering, fertilizing, weeding. It is also important that this method of growing strawberries in the open air will allow you to update the material for planting once every two years, without making any special efforts.

All experienced gardeners know that strawberry yields begin to decline from the third year of cultivation. Therefore, at this time it is necessary to transplant it to a new place.

After creating a box for growing berries, you need to pour fertile soil there. Sod is best suited for this, as it is most suitable for the crop. True, to give it fertility, some processing will need to be done.

Especially for this, in early spring, it is necessary to cut down whole layers of soil on a forest edge or clearing, the thickness of which should be no more than eight centimeters. The operation can be performed only when the soil thaws to a depth of twenty centimeters. After that, the sod should be folded into a pile with a meter wide and seventy centimeters high. In such a situation, each of the layers of the pile must be saturated with moisture. Also, all the material after laying will also need to be watered. Next, you need to cover the pile with a transparent film, and small gaps (usually from five to ten centimeters) should extend from the soil itself. This is necessary so that oxygen gets into the soil.

The first biological processes in such a land will begin to occur in two to three weeks. They are also called combustion.

By the way, everything that is there will burn - plant roots, weed seeds, insects, viruses and so on. As a result, the summer resident will be able to disinfect the soil for planting strawberries and make its composition excellent for growing berries. Then it is necessary, after a couple of months, to remove the film and sift the ground from the remnants of roots and plants. At the same time, the soil itself will become light and airy, as well as provided with oxygen.

Cultivation and reproduction

Growing strawberries outdoors is not that difficult. It is enough to water, fertilize and weed on time. As for reproduction, there are three main methods: dividing the mother bush, sowing seeds and creating seedlings. Each of them has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. Watering the newly planted strawberries is not necessary from a watering can, but better with a spray bottle. After the appearance of the first leaves, you will need to make the first pick of the plant.