How to plant strawberries

Choose a time for laying plantations of strawberries in April or in cool cloudy days of August and September. A good harvest from the beds it is possible to collect not more than 5 years.

Prepare the soil. The best strawberries grow in the fertile soil of loamy type. Do not plant strawberries after tomatoes, potatoes, raspberries, cucumbers. Choose a site where indigenous legumes, radish, mustard, garlic, parsley. The site should be unshaded and neperevershenymy. Recommended to plant strawberries on a flat surface or a slope facing South-West.

Pre-dig the soil deeply and make mineral and organic fertilizers: 20 g/m2 of potassium, 4 to 6 kg/m2 manure, 40-60 g/m2 superphosphate. A month before planting disinfect the area, watering it with a weak solution of chlorine bleach. Dig holes with a depth of about 20 cm, keeping the distance between rows should be 70-80 cm and Then flower beds align and tamp that after the deposition of the soil had no depressions or mounds.

Dip the roots of seedlings before planting in water or liquid clay-dung mash for 1-2 hours. Pour the beds and planted sockets at a distance of 25-30 cm from each other. Don't bury bushes deeply, but don't strip the base of the root. Ensure that the ends of the roots are not wrapped up. Then again pour my freshly planted plants. The first days watering strawberries 2-3 times a day for 2 liters of water per 1 m2. When the bushes get stronger, will be enough 1 watering a week. Between the rows of strawberries the first 2 years you can plant onions and garlic.

Remove regularly during the season weeds, trim mustache, vzryhlite. After flowering is over mulch the soil with paper, shavings, straw berries will remain clean and dry. Systematically fertilize the soil with ash at the rate of 1 tablespoon per Bush or fertilizer for berry plants. In the fall, cut the foliage and treat strawberry drugs from fungal diseases and pests.