How to grow garden strawberries on the film
Mulching with a film.
Garden strawberries are often called strawberries.
To be precise, strawberry is the name of only two kinds of garden strawberries - green and musk. However, the colloquial name - strawberry - has become so closely associated with this plant that it has almost supplanted the real one.
Now that we have defined the basic terms let's see how to achieve success in growing this crop. Simply put, how to get enough of the juicy, luscious berries without standing up from morning till night in the famous "gardener's pose".
Basic rules for growing strawberries
- Choose a sunny place to grow
- Renew plantings and growing space every 4-5 years
- Remove feral or diseased plants
- Remove whiskers before and during fruiting for more berries
- For propagation, mark the best bushes - by the number and size of berries, and leave whiskers on them
- Do not use insecticides during flowering so as not to harm pollinating insects
- Plant fragrant flowers between strawberry bushes to attract insect pollinators
- Treat the bushes after fruiting
- Try new varieties
One of the best ways to grow garden strawberries is on the film
- Prepare the garden bed beforehand - loosen the soil and fertilize
- Cover the garden bed with a special agro-technical film for mulching Svetlitsa GROUND
- Make crisscross slits in the film and plant strawberry bushes in them
- Check the diagram for the distance between bushes
Advantages of growing garden strawberries on mulch film:
- The garden beds do not need to be weeded
- Soil is protected from overwatering during prolonged rainfall, as the water simply flows down the film
- Soil is protected from drying out because moisture from under the film evaporates 2-3 times slower than from the open area
- The berries lie on the foil, which makes harvesting much easier
- Berries are 80% less susceptible to gray rot
- Fertilizer is not washed out by rain
- No soil crust is formed after rain or watering, enough air reaches the roots
- In winter, the roots are protected from freezing by a layer of frost on the inside of the film
The film for mulching Svetlitsa GROUND will serve you for 5 years without removing it for the winter.
A great addition to this method of growing strawberries will be drip irrigation.
If you have a low area with wet soil, make a high garden bed for strawberries. The roots will not suffer from overwatering, and it is easier to care for such a bed.
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