The true queen of the garden, a strawberry, many of us recognize as a favorite berry. But I so want to enjoy sweet and ecologically pure fruits, without harmful nitrates for health! Agree that you can be sure only in the crop, nurtured by your own hands. That is why many owners of summer cottages and homesteads prefer to eat berries from their beds. If you are also inclined to cultivate this culture, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with how to plant a strawberry in the fall.
How to plant strawberries in autumn?
The first thing before planting a plant is to select a suitable site and soil. As for the latter, in general, strawberries grow on almost all types of soil. However, it is quite logical that the yield on chernozem and forest soil is much higher. But the turf land is suitable strawberries to a lesser extent. The best precursors for culture are onions, beans and grains.
With regard to the features of the site for planting, more suitable places with a slight bias, preferably in the southern or south-western parts of the garden. Wetlands, lowlands for strawberries are extremely undesirable. The same applies to areas with groundwater at a depth of more than 1.5 m.
Strawberry planting time in autumn
With regard to the timing of planting and transplanting strawberries in autumn, the best time for this is early autumn: the beginning to the middle of September, the maximum to the 25th. A few weeks before planting, prepare the site - dig up the soil, remove the weeds, process from the larvae (if necessary). Be sure to add fertilizer (chicken manure, humus). For each square meter you need a bucket of fertilizer.
Planting strawberries in autumn
There are several options for landing. So, for example, quite often summer residents, wishing to increase the area of berry culture on the site, decide to start planting strawberries in the fall. But you need to prepare for this in advance: in the spring select the bushes, which in the last season are well-fruited and remove flowers from them. They will not give a harvest, but by the end of the summer they will have a wonderful planting material - antennae with rosettes. After that, gently pruned the scissors with garden scissors and cut them out carefully to prevent damage to the thin and fragile roots. It is better to carry out the transplantation with an earthen lump, so that the young plants survive the redeployment. Place each bush in a separate hole in such a way that its heart (growth point) is located at the ground level. Pour dry earth, compact it a little and pour. Humidified soil from the bush can be covered with straw or peat.
Yes, by the way, before planting, split the selected plot into beds: dig holes 15 cm deep and at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Between the rows should be at least 60-70 cm. This is a one-line method of beds. There is another effective method of planting - two-line. Plants plant ribbons, where each is placed two rows. The distance between the belts should reach 70 cm.
The transplantation of adult plants in a new place is carried out in a similar way. However, the distance between the bushes should be slightly increased.
A little differently you need to do when planting a repair strawberry in the fall. The bushes from the uterine mustache are not cut as usual, but are rooted in disposable cups with a substrate. At the end of the season, all glasses with rosettes rooted in them are cut off with a pruner and put in rows at a distance of 20-25 cm between new bushes. Each plant must be watered, but not excessively, so as not to cause festering, and shrivel with straw or fallen leaves.