Planting and caring for strawberries in June: features and tips of experienced gardeners

Strawberry berries are tasty and beautiful in appearance. Invariably, there is a desire to quickly eat them.But to get a good harvest, you will have to carefully work on the beds in the first summer month.

Speaking about the care of strawberry plantings in June, we must first note that at this moment the plant forms buds and actively blooms. It is very important to protect it from frost, which are the greatest danger for planting in the lowlands. Worst of all, mostly flowers that could produce ideal berries come under attack. The strength of the defeat depends on how quickly and together a certain variety blooms.

If the plant can produce a plentiful harvest of late fruits, this often compensates for the return of frost. But to care for strawberries in June is necessary not only by sheltering her. Against the backdrop of normal weather, proper watering is of particular importance. It is held twice: when flowering and when the berries are poured, they are sown. It is necessary to divide the standard rate of watering into several treatments.

Violation of this rule will lead to the fact that the water will simply spread throughout the garden.

because it is unacceptable to immediately take to irrigate the water just raised from a well or well. The layer populated by the roots is irrigated 250-300 mm deep. Drip irrigation - perhaps the best strategy.

Watering strawberry beds in the first two summer months, you should avoid frequent wetting of the surface. They only create the illusion that the earth is really saturated with moisture. In reality, the water infiltrates a layer of air near the ground and provokes infection by fungi. It is also required to pour water strictly in the morning. If you do this later, the strawberries will not have time to dry, and at night it can become infected with gray mold.

When the ovaries are folded, everything must be done so that this disease does not hit the fruit. To prevent this from happening, use:

• rye straw;
• boards;
• layers of sawdust;
• needles;
• wooden slats;
• plastic wrap.

The planting of strawberries with a mustache is held in June just because then their first wave is formed. It is the early antennae that are the most valuable and allow you to get healthy, strong seedlings. It should be moved to a stable place in the last days of July or in the first days of August. Often special uterine bushes do not start at all, preferring to plant material obtained directly from the fruit-bearing beds. Farmers who do just that, achieve quite attractive results.

The seedlings of the highest quality is formed in the second year of strawberry development. But even then all sick and atypical specimens must be rejected. Ruthlessly get rid of very weak and overly thin antennae. The thickest ones are left to get sockets with 2 or 3 leaves. If uterine plants develop slowly, it is possible to force this process, eliminating completely left flower stalks.

Now, having chosen enough free space, they loosen the ground and bury the socket there. Together with it, the adjacent share of the whisker goes underground. But the foliage should not be buried in principle. Tips experienced gardeners say that the cultivation of a developed bush, giving a solid crop, is only possible when using the closest to the parent bush outlet. The second account is left only in one case - when there is an acute shortage of planting material.

The advantage of the “first outlet” is that it will grow a month earlier than taking root on its own. Seedlings after dropping shed water until the final engraftment. Tearing it off from the base bush is necessary only before moving to a stable place. As practice shows, it is possible to plant strawberries in the summer without any fear. But we must take care of moisturizing and loosening the earth.

If these requirements are not met, the rooting of the seedlings will be bad. In many cases, even by August 15, she is not ready for transplanting.Attempts to wait for spring are meaningless, it will only lead to the exhaustion of the forces of the base plant. Recruit the necessary condition seedlings should be in special conditions. To do this, breeding grounds.

Forming a breeding ground is not too complicated - no more than 2 square meters will be required. However, the land in the selected location should be as loose and containing a large amount of fertilizer. Recommended placement in areas with intense insolation, with a little shaded from the south. The ridge for the future hotbed is intensively covered with mulch (for this purpose, humus or crushed peat is used). In the breeding grounds move sockets that have 2 leaves each and have developed a root with a length of 10-15 mm.

Sockets need to land at a distance of 80-100 mm, while making several lanes for planting. The newly planted material is watered and covered with a shadow.

Most often, polyethylene film is fastened over the rosettes with the help of squat arcs of wire. When the heat comes, from the side of the sun the film cover is raised.

The presentation of the third sheet shows that the seedling has already developed a separate root complex. Then seedlings should be fed with ashes. When it will be 3 or 4 days, you need to use nitrophoska. The end result (between 20 and 25 days of cultivation) becomes a developed seedling with strong roots. This strawberry has 4 or 5 leaves located on shortened petioles of great thickness.

Growth bud ready to use seedlings is very large. If there is an urgent need, the content of strawberries in the nurseries until the beginning of spring is allowed. Important: if you use bushes grown from secondary and tertiary rosettes, they will produce few fruits, but they will be able to form abundant seedlings. When the year goes by, the difference will be difficult to notice. For the distillation of berry culture under the cover of the film will only be useful plants of the first 12 months of life.

From recent landings, the mustache is cut with shears. But after the final rooting is allowed separation of the whiskers by hand. In the first summer month, strawberries growing under the film also need care, which includes:

• ventilation;
• humidity control;
• weeding.

On how to care for garden strawberries (strawberries) in early summer, see below.