How strawberries multiply in their summer cottage
Strawberries are one of the most beloved berry plants that are planted in the garden of their summer cottage. A bountiful harvest of juicy, aromatic berries, rich in vitamins and microelements, is the result of painstaking work, caring attitude to plants and proper care. Over the years, each experienced summer resident has his own secrets and wisdom that help to grow the largest and sweetest strawberries, but novice gardeners have many questions, for example, how to propagate strawberries, in the desire to achieve quick success, so that the efforts spent bring good results from the first summer cottage season.
Strawberry breeding methods
Garden strawberry is a perennial berry crop that grows in open field beds. Summer residents achieve early harvests by growing strawberry varieties in greenhouses. In the garden where the berry grows, it seems that small bushes are growing, without a stem, although its presence is still there, albeit a small one, only a few cm.It grows very slowly and adds a maximum of 1 cm per year, and forms from the axillary buds new shoots.
The branching of the stem is called a shoot, which contains:
- outlet;
- leaves;
- mustache.
Depending on the variety, breeding characteristics, soil, and other nuances, experienced gardeners choose how to propagate strawberries.
Among the methods of breeding strawberries are distinguished:
- mustache;
- seeds;
- bushes.
Most varieties are easily propagated by a mustache, and for mustacheless varieties, which include varieties of large-fruited crops, the seed method or bush division is used. This is how the remontant strawberry multiplies.
Features of propagation of strawberries with a mustache
This is the easiest way to propagate strawberry bushes. During fruiting, the most berry plants are noted. After picking the berries, when the mustache begins to actively grow, the soil is weeded, watering and loosening. The mustache, on which the sockets have formed, are straightened, the sockets themselves are slightly pressed into the garden bed and sprinkled with earth, leaving the hearts free. This allows the new bush to take root. This is done with several outlets closest to the mother plant, and the rest are cut off. In late summer or early September, new bushes with a developed root system are planted in a permanent place. All these manipulations allow you to choose the most productive bushes, the rosettes of which form their root system faster and easier.
The second way to propagate strawberries with a mustache is to remove the mustache with rosettes after the end of fruiting, which are planted on special bedswhere they grow. At the same time, up to 4 leaves are set aside on rosettes with roots, and 2 leaves on unrooted shoots, long roots are shortened to 5 cm. Young shoots are planted at a distance of 15 cm from each other.Such beds require especially careful care:
- daily watering;
- weeding and loosening of the soil;
- shelter from the sun in the heat.
Landing on a permanent bed takes place at the end of summer.
Propagation of strawberries by seeds
When buying strawberry seedlings, each gardener expects to receive the declared variety and the corresponding harvest. However, many amateurs know from experience that expectations are disappointed. To prevent this from happening, summer residents buy seeds and spend propagation of strawberries by seeds... To do this, they are sown at the beginning of March in special boxes on a compacted and well-watered special mixture of soil, which consists of peat, sand and turf. A box covered with plastic wrap is left for several days in a cold, dark place, for example, in refrigerators, and then moved to a bright place where there are no drafts. With proper care, seedlings appear in a month. Seedlings with 2-3 leaves are dived into peat pots, with an increase in the number of leaves to 6 pieces, in early May, they are planted in open ground.
Reproduction of remontant strawberries
Repair strawberries differ from conventional varieties by the ability to produce several harvests per season. Immediately after the first fruiting, it lays buds, in which new berries are set. Therefore, the plant requires particularly fertile soil and frequent watering. She doesn't tendril, reproduction repair strawberries occurs by seeds or by dividing bushes.
To propagate strawberries with a bush, you need to dig out the most productive, strong and well-developed bushes from the garden in early spring or after picking the first berries, carefully release the roots from the ground and carefully divide with a knife. In this case, on each separated shoot there should be:
- 3-4 leaves;
- intact heart (horn);
- young roots.
Old brown roots are pruned and new roots are left, white, no more than 5 cm long. Delenki are planted on a permanent bed.
Strawberry is a perennial plant, but after 4 years of fruiting, its yield drops, as the demanding berry severely depletes the soil and lacks nutrients. Therefore, the best option is the annual breeding of a new bed, and the elimination of the one where the plant has been bearing fruit for more than 4 years. Thus, on the site it will always be possible to harvest rich crops and delight yourself, your family and guests. delicious and aromatic berry in the summer season.