How to grow bagged strawberries at home?

Delicious strawberries will grow in your country house if you master the technology of growing strawberries in bags. It is necessary to prepare a place for seedlings, correctly plant strawberries in bags, provide watering, lighting and the required temperature. Let's take a closer look at how to organize everything correctly and get an excellent result!

How to grow bagged strawberries

There are many different tricks and wisdom that are used by experienced gardeners in their plots to achieve the highest quality and largest harvest. Gradually, these methods led to the emergence of a new technology for growing strawberries.

Almost everyone who has tried this method of growing strawberries does not return to traditional methods, but only experiments with different types of a unique method:

• bags installed on the floor;
• bags on racks;
• bags suspended above the ground.

But the technology is the same for all these species.

To get a good harvest of strawberries, it is better to grow them in greenhouses, although in summer, in good weather, the harvest will delight you in the open air.

And of course, which becomes clear already from the name of the technology, you need to prepare bags for seedlings, as well as the seedlings themselves and the soil.

We list everything you need to harvest strawberries in bags:

1. Greenhouse... If you want to get a really good strawberry harvest, then it should be placed in the greenhouse. For the hot season, it will be enough to select the most ordinary summer greenhouse with good ventilation. And if you want to get a harvest all year round, then you need to use capital greenhouses with forced heating. To grow strawberries in a greenhouse in bags, it is necessary to additionally equip the greenhouse with racks and supports with bag fasteners.
2. Bags. You can buy ready-made bags for growing strawberries, which are sold in a large assortment in specialized stores for summer cottages or vegetable gardens. Or you can make them yourself. To do this, you need to take large bags, you can make flour or sugar, made of nylon, and cut holes in them for seedlings yourself. You can also grow strawberries in plastic bags, only then they must be strong enough.For the rational use of the area, the bags should be high and small in diameter, then more seedlings can be placed on them.
3. The soil. Strawberries prefer slightly acidic or neutral soil. The soil is ideal for strawberries if you mix peat and perlite. But such a composition is quite expensive, so it is mainly used only for single bushes. With large plantations of strawberries, it will be more profitable to prepare the substrate yourself. This will require sod land, river sand, fine sawdust and humus.
4. Saplings. You can take seedlings from your own, old bushes, but only if you are completely satisfied with their taste and yield. Otherwise, it is better to purchase new seedlings in a specialized store. It is desirable that the variety is self-pollinating, and the seedlings have a good root system.

Planting strawberries in bags

We take pre-prepared bags, fill them to the top with a special substrate. But unforgettable before that, to the bottom, pour expanded clay. This is necessary to ensure good drainage, as strawberries do not like excess moisture. Further, in the bags, on four sides, we make cuts, placing them in a checkerboard pattern. We cut vertically, the length of the slot is approximately 8 cm, and the distance between the slots should be 20-25 cm.

We plant one strawberry bush in the holes. You can also place several bushes on the upper, open part of the bag. We place bags with seedlings in certain places: on the floor, on special racks, or hang them on hooks. No more than three bags can be placed on one square meter. This completes the planting, then you just need to water, ventilate and wait for the harvest.

Watering system for strawberries in bags

For growing strawberries in bags, it is better to use drip irrigation technology. Such a system will make your work easier, and will also be most useful for strawberries that do not like a lot of moisture. A drip irrigation system looks like a pipeline that supplies water. From it to all the bags, tubes are supplied, at the ends of which droppers are installed. For making such a system at home, an ordinary hospital dropper is suitable.

The pipeline itself is attached over the rows of bags, their number depends on the height of the bag and can vary from two to four pieces. One is installed at the very top, and the rest are located at a distance of half a meter down to the end. The amount of water supplied by the system should be such that about 2 liters of water per day per 30 liter bag. Fertilizers and other top dressing can also be added to the water.

Strawberries on the table all year round

This method of growing strawberries is able to organize the harvest of strawberries all year round. In the summer season, strawberries will grow in the open field, and on the balcony, and even on the window. But the rest of the time you need to make sure that the strawberries receive enough heat and light. For this, greenhouses with heating are used. But the seedlings must also be prepared in advance so that they are hardened and available in stock, so that they can replace the old one every time after harvesting.

To create spare bushes, young bushes are placed in a special microclimate, where they are preserved, but do not develop.

For such storage, an ordinary cellar or basement can be suitable, as well as a refrigerator, the main thing is that the temperature is always 0 + 2 degrees, and the humidity is around 90%. For such storage of seedlings, it is better to place them in plastic bags.

Growing strawberries all year round - video

Most often, garden strawberries are obtained by conventional planting in the ground, however, innovative and more convenient cultivation methods have been developed.

For example, growing strawberries in bags according to Dutch technology, thanks to which you will get a much larger yield of fragrant ripe berries.We will learn how to get strawberry crops in this way in any conditions - in a garage, garden, greenhouse, other premises and even an apartment.

Advantages of the bag method

Why is it better to grow strawberries in bags

The bag method of cultivating garden strawberries has a lot of advantages:

• The bags do not take up much space - both indoors and outdoors, allowing crops to cover more crops than usual.
• In one year, you can get a fivefold or more harvest of ripe sweet berries.
• Strawberries in bags are less likely to be overcome by diseases and harmful insects: viruses, fungi and pests in them do not have time to harm plants due to their rapid death.

Growing strawberries with a bag method, you can plant several of the most fertile varieties at once and get much larger yields. This is especially beneficial for farmers or aspiring entrepreneurs - gardeners, because allows you to earn a lot more money.

Bagged strawberry varieties

For bag technology, we choose varieties that do not require special care, have long-term and abundant fruiting and the ability to grow rapidly.

These varieties include the following:

• Gigantella... A variety that gives a large berry with excellent taste and a weight of about 120 grams - in the first harvest: the subsequent ones will be smaller. From 1 bush "Gigantella" collect about a kilogram of fruit.
• Marshal... A sweet-fruited variety that bears fruit with large berries with a barely noticeable acidity. Not afraid of temperature changes and most diseases, gives up to a kilogram of berries from a bush.
• Geneva... Repaired strawberry with elongated large berries, pleasant to the taste, long-term storage and easy to carry. The crop is harvested every 2-2.5 weeks.
• Albion... Repaired plant with large oblong sweet berries with firm pulp. Needs frequent watering and feeding. One bush gives about 2 kilograms of selected fruits.

When cultivating garden strawberries in a garage, apartment or other closed room, we choose self-pollinating varieties.

Bagged strawberry cultivation technology

How to prepare for Victoria cultivation

The cultivation of garden strawberries by the bag method involves the knowledge of some of the nuances.

Selection of bags

Strawberries are grown in white plastic bags 0.25 - 0.35 mm thick: containers made of flour or granulated sugar will do.

It is better to purchase special bag containers with a length of no more than 2 meters and a thickness of 13-16 mm in gardening stores.

Special bag containers for growing strawberries

Preparing the land for planting

Growing strawberries using bag technology requires light, slightly acidic or neutral soils. Thoroughly mix in equal proportions river sand, turf soil, humus and medium-sized sawdust.

The addition of humus will enrich the soil with nutrients necessary for the normal growth and fruiting of strawberry plantings.

We put expanded clay, pebbles, broken shards or other material for drainage purposes on the bottom of the bags, otherwise the moisture will stagnate at the bottom and lead to rotting of the root system and the aboveground part of the bushes.

On top of the drainage, pour the prepared soil mixture and sew, seal, or close the container in any other way.

How to plant strawberries in a bag

Victoria is planted in standing or recumbent bags, that is, by a vertical or horizontal method.

Vertical cultivation of strawberries

For vertical landings, free space and hooks for hanging containers are required. We plant strawberry seedlings as follows:

• We pull the bags filled with the prepared potting mix, a strong cord or rope and hang them on hooks. It is better to arrange them in 2 tiers - several in each, this saves more space.
• We cut holes 7-9 centimeters wide in the containers.
• We plant strawberry seedlings in the holes. There should be 25-40 cm of free space between the plants.
• We install the irrigation system and fix the lighting fixtures.

Growing Victoria vertically is a real godsend for a small room, and two-tier placement allows you to get more harvest.

Planting strawberries horizontally

If you have a lot of space (there is a large greenhouse, a spacious garage or a room), the recumbent method will do, the main thing is to buy shelving. It is much more convenient to grow strawberries in them than on the floor or on the ground.

We plant strawberry seedlings in the same way as in the previous method, placing bags of soil on racks, preferably two-tiered: both space is saved and maintenance is simplified.

Bagged strawberries: horizontal planting

How to care for bagged strawberries

Wanting to grow garden strawberries by the bag method all year round, it is important to provide them with the necessary care and climatic conditions. We will learn how to care for Victoria in a bag.

How to water bagged strawberries

For the cultivation of strawberries, competent watering is important: the soil should be evenly moistened, but not flooded, otherwise the roots will rot, and then the aboveground parts.

The ideal option for Victoria bag cultivation is drip irrigation, in which water is supplied from a common pipe and flows through tubes with droppers at the ends to the seedlings.

The drip system allows you to water the plants evenly, without waterlogging.

To organize such a system, we use plastic or metal pipes, the diameter of which is 16-20 cm, we bring thin pipes to them and install them over containers with berry bushes.

Instead, you can use 2L plastic bottles with 4-5 tubes inserted. Do not forget to regularly add water to bottles: every day, one 30-liter bag with plantings needs 2 liters of moisture.

Strawberry bag lighting

Do you want bountiful harvests of fragrant victoria? Provide it with good and long-term illumination using powerful red spectrum lamps (HPS bulbs or metal halide devices).

Daylight hours for garden strawberries should last 12 hours.

We turn on and off lamps or other lighting devices strictly at the same time. When cultivating bagged strawberries in greenhouses, we turn on additional lighting as needed.

In the absence or insufficient illumination, strawberry seedlings stretch and weaken, which has a bad effect on the future harvest.

Temperature and humidity levels

In order for the strawberry to constantly bear fruit and produce large sweet berries, we cultivate it at a temperature of 20-26 degrees, no less: at lower temperatures, the ripening of fruits slows down. There should be no draft in the room.

We use special automatic systems or an ordinary thermometer to control the temperature.

To warm a garage, greenhouse or other room, we use an automatic heater that turns on when it gets cold. And if you need to get rid of excess heat, we just ventilate the room or greenhouse.

The humidity level should be 70-75 percent. If the room is dry, we spray the air and the lower part of the containers with Victoria.

Caring for planting strawberries in bags

Fertilizers and pruning

To make the berries grow large, fill with sweetness and aroma, we regularly feed and cut the bushes.

Fertilizing Victoria

Every week we feed the soil in bags with potash fertilizers, for example, chicken manure (1 part to 20 parts of water), mullein (1 part to 10 parts of water) or wood ash. Feeding with liquid complex fertilizers is also good.

It is especially important to add nutritional supplements when the strawberry bushes are just blooming.

Pruning

When you harvest, cut off the dried leaves and stems so that they do not interfere with the lighting of the bushes and the growth of fresh leaves.

To obtain a year-round harvest, we keep strong rosettes on the antennae - future seedlings.When they develop their own root system, cut them off from the mustache, place them in plastic bags in a cool place and store them at 0- + 2 degrees until they are planted in bags with new fertile soil.

Attention: to improve fruiting, we increase the level of carbon dioxide - it should be 0.15-0.22 percent. To ensure this level, we light a simple candle and leave it to burn out until the end.

Protection against diseases and pests

To prevent the development of diseases and pest attacks, as soon as the leaves begin to grow, we spray the bushes by mixing 1% Bordeaux liquid and 1% colloidal sulfur. Treatment of strawberries with "Fitosporin" is just as effective.

As soon as you notice the initial symptoms of diseases, immediately treat the plants with insectofungicides.

As you can see, growing strawberries in bags is a convenient and uncomplicated technology that allows you to get large yields with significant space savings. The main thing is to provide a compact strawberry with good lighting, timely watering, a sufficient level of humidity, an optimal temperature, and do not forget to season it with nutrients every week.

The cultivation of strawberries in bags is carried out according to the Dutch technology, in a vertical and horizontal arrangement of unusual beds. For such methods of planting strawberries, open ground, greenhouses, home conditions using garages and premises for subsidiary farming are suitable.

What is the advantage of the method?

The cultivation of strawberries in bags has recently become widespread for a reason. This method has several advantages:

• During the year, the berry bears fruit up to five times or more.
• Strawberry bushes are much less likely to suffer from various diseases and damage from pests.
• Growing strawberries in bags takes up little space regardless of where they are grown. But this is especially true for greenhouses, where every square meter is painted up to a centimeter.
• With this method of cultivating strawberries, there are no weeds.
• Growing strawberries in bags all year round is very beneficial, as fresh berries provide seven vitamins. With a good harvest, there is always a surplus that can be sold.
• A business built on growing berry crops in this way always makes a profit.

Landing bags

To grow berries, you need to stock up on bags. You can buy them or make them yourself. This will require a polyethylene reinforced canvas. Usually the diameter of the bags is 20 cm, the length is no more than two meters. The side long seam and one short one, which will be the bottom, are soldered. The bags are filled with soil and pulled together with a rope from above. Throughout their area, cross-shaped holes are made up to 10 cm, the distance between them should be at least 20 cm. Then drain holes are made through which excess water will drain. Prepared bags are a kind of plant beds. They are located in the allotted area vertically or horizontally.

Priming

How successful bagged strawberries will be depends a lot on the soil. In order for the seedlings of the culture to grow and develop fully, the soil mixture must be of high quality. Strawberries prefer neutral or slightly acidic soil. You can fill the bags with purchased soil, or you can prepare it yourself. This will require garden soil, to which you need to add humus, sand and sawdust in equal amounts. Before filling the bags, the soil should be treated (that is, well spilled) with a weak solution of potassium permanganate to destroy pathogenic microbes and insects.

Seedling selection

The survival rate of plants in a new place and their further development and fruiting depends on the planting material. Therefore, you should consider some recommendations:

• You should not choose tall bushes, otherwise they will shade other plants.
• Better to buy seedlings of different varieties of strawberries, which will ripen at different times. This will significantly prolong fruiting in time.
• If bagged strawberries are grown in greenhouse conditions, self-pollinated plants should be planted so that later the flowers are not artificially pollinated.

Bagged strawberry cultivation technology

This method is especially relevant in the absence of significant areas. The technological process of growing berries using such a growing place does not cause difficulties, but, on the contrary, makes it easier for the gardener to care for the crop, thereby increasing the yield. It is very important to consider the following recommendations:

• If the bags are placed vertically, expanded clay is first poured onto their bottom. The holes through which the seedlings are planted in the ground, with this arrangement, are made over the entire area of ​​the bag according to the principle of the chessboard arrangement. Bags with soil are stacked on top of each other (up to about three) or hung on stable supports or hooks.
• If the cultivation of strawberries in bags in a greenhouse is carried out using them vertically, then lighting is a very important indicator for normal growth. To do this, from time to time, the bags should be turned towards the sun so that the plants are evenly illuminated. Strawberries need air. In order for its access to be free, you need to place three bags on one square meter of the greenhouse, no more.
• According to the recommendations of specialists, the lower bags should be placed at a short distance from the floor surface in order to avoid damage to seedlings by slugs.
• When the bags are placed horizontally, the plants are watered in the same way as in conventional cultivation. If they are suspended on hooks or stand one on top of the other, you cannot do without drip irrigation.
• In regions with cold climates, growing bagged strawberries outdoors is a hassle. For the winter, peculiar beds should be moved indoors. They can, of course, be left outside if they are protected from frost.
• When caring for strawberries, there is no need to mulch, since the soil is in a bag, the surface of which copes well with this. There is also no need for weeding and loosening.
• During planting of seedlings, the growth point does not deepen, it should be located at the same level with the ground.
• When the ripening period of the berries begins, the soil should be enriched with fertilizer once every seven days. Potassium supplements or chicken manure can be used.
• For new plants to thrive, old foliage should be removed after harvest.
• The soil in bags and the plants in them are used for two years, then everything changes.

How to plant seedlings correctly?

Sacks are an unusual growing environment for plants. Therefore, it is important that the strawberries feel comfortable. To do this, the following rules should be observed:

• Before planting, the seedlings are dipped first in hot water for 15 minutes, and then in cold water for the same time. This is necessary in order to exclude the entry of pathogenic microbes and pests into the bag along with the strawberry bushes.
• Holes are made in the slots on the bags. Their size should be such that the roots can fit freely. For ease of planting, the vertical bags are tilted. As a garden tool, you can take a regular spoon or a small scoop.
• The roots should not curl up when planting. First you need to straighten them, and then sprinkle them with soil on top and tamp them.

Landing features

Depending on how the soil bags are placed, the planting of the strawberries is different. If their arrangement is vertical, the roots of the plants are well buried, and if they are horizontal, to a shallow depth. Strawberry roots should not be left open for more than 10 minutes, so the seedlings should be kept in moist soil before planting.Depending on the size of the bag, the planting density can be from 9 to 25 plants. After planting, the bag beds should be watered. After about a week, the strawberries are ready. During this period, she needs foliar feeding.

The Dutch method of growing bagged strawberries

A distinctive feature of this berry cultivation technology is the frequent planting of seedlings (after two months), due to which strawberries bear fruit all year round. The bags are filled with weed-free soil, enriched with nutrients. Peat and perlite are introduced into it. The Dutch system is used when growing strawberries only in a greenhouse or on a loggia. Strawberry seedlings for mass cultivation are bought in the store. In order for the bushes to start quickly, they should be soaked in water for a couple of hours. It is not difficult to grow berries using this system, it is important to follow some recommendations:

• Strawberries are a light-loving crop, so daylight hours can be extended by using fluorescent lamps that are installed above each bag.
• To maintain the optimum temperature, the greenhouse needs to be heated during the winter.
• Plants must be regularly ventilated, therefore strong ventilation should be installed.
• To obtain a good harvest, strawberries are planted in portions all year round.
• In a greenhouse or other adapted room, compliance with the temperature regime is a prerequisite. Strawberries develop normally at 21-23 ° C.
• It is necessary to provide proper care, which consists in watering and harvesting. The irrigation system must be equipped in advance. To do this, five to six tubes are removed from a large plastic bottle, each of them is lowered into a bag after 50 cm. Water must be constantly poured into the bottle. For one bag of seedlings, two liters of liquid per day are enough.

Horizontal placement of strawberries

It is possible to grow berries in bags according to this principle on the street, and not only in a greenhouse. This method is suitable for large rooms or open ground. The bags are placed directly on the ground or in racks arranged in several rows horizontally. As for open ground, if the area of ​​the site allows, many long rows can be made, leaving the aisles for the width of a person's passage. During rain in open ground, the plants are covered with a film so that excess moisture does not get into the bags and root rotting does not begin. The horizontal method is very convenient, since the bushes in polyethylene do not need to be mulched, but to weed and loosen the earth.

Vertical growing method

The vertical cultivation of strawberries in bags significantly saves space both in the greenhouse and in the beds in the garden. When growing strawberries in the open air, the bags can be placed near the fence, which will serve as a reliable support. Only in this case, unusual beds will have to be periodically rotated to provide the plants with uniform illumination. If you equip special supports in the middle of the garden, you do not need to do this. Vertical planting in open ground is not always convenient, since it can only be used in the summer. In the greenhouse, this method is used all year round.

An example of growing strawberries in bags step by step:

1. First, you need to prepare the bags and fill them with soil enriched with fertilizers.
2. Then the containers should be pulled with a rope and placed vertically or hung on hooks. The bags can be installed in two or three tiers.
3. After that, you need to make holes for planting strawberry bushes at a distance of 20 cm from each other.
4. The final stage is the arrangement of the irrigation system, heating and additional lighting, if strawberries grow in a greenhouse.

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growing strawberries in bags

There are many ways to grow strawberries. But there is one unusual way - growing strawberries in polyethylene bags.

To do this, you do not need to build greenhouses, you can use any room in which a positive temperature is constantly maintained. The room should also have artificial lighting.

This method of growing strawberries is becoming more and more popular. There are several reasons for this.

• Firstly, plastic bags are inexpensive material, which means that costs are significantly reduced.
• Secondly, the premises are used rationally.

Anyone who does not even know gardening can use this method. It is enough to know the simple foundations of agricultural technology. Sometimes you want fresh strawberries, especially if it's winter outside.

Using this method, you can grow strawberries all year round, which will delight the whole family, friends and loved ones with fresh fragrant strawberries, without any nitrates.

To have vitamins in winter, you can also grow garlic and green onions at home.

Growing strawberries in plastic bags

So, let's consider the method of growing strawberries in bags in more detail, for example, in a room with an area of ​​20 square meters. If the area of ​​the room is larger, then you will have to use special equipment, which is not cheap. In addition, this area will allow you to do without significant material costs.

Preparation of the necessary components

1. The container for the substrate is made of bags, which, in turn, are made of plastic wrap. The thickness of such a film must be at least 0.3 mm. The width of the bag itself, as a rule, is about 20 cm, and the length is determined depending on the height of the room, but not more than 200 cm.
2. Now let's look at the composition of the substrate, which is very complex. It should be said that each component of the substrate must be prepared independently before mixing with other parts.
3. One of the main components is sod land. It is not used in its pure form, since it is quite heavy due to the rich content of organic substances. To lighten the sod land, it must be loosened, and sawdust also added. 10 parts of land requires 3 parts of sawdust. An important point is that you should not use land from the garden, since there is a high probability of contamination of strawberries with various diseases.
4. Next, you should prepare peat, which is the most sterile component. To prepare it, you need one bucket of peat and one glass of wood ash, which must be mixed with each other. Then the mass must be transferred to a bag and soaked in a special solution. To make the solution, you need to mix 3 liters of water, a glass of mullein, and 0.5 teaspoon of copper sulfate.
5. Due to the content of organic residues, which begin the decomposition process, the earth is saturated with organic matter.
6. Sawdust also needs to be prepared before mixing with soil. They should be soaked in a urea solution. To prepare this solution, you need to mix three liters of water with two tablespoons of urea. Then 10 kg of sawdust should be poured with this solution. The sawdust must be soaked for at least two hours. After this time, add 1 cup of chalk, sand or wood ash to the sawdust, then mix thoroughly.
7. Ash, chalk or sand must be clean, coarse, and the sand must be free of clay. These components should be added to the ground at the rate of 1 part to 10 parts of the substrate.

Substate preparation and placement of seedling bags

After preparing all the components, it is necessary make up a substrate... For this, peat, humus, sod land, sawdust in equal parts are mixed with each other. One bucket of rotted manure, 100 grams of superphosphate, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of urea and 2 cups of wood ash.All components should be thoroughly mixed with each other, and the strawberry substrate is ready.

Plastic bags with seedlings should be placed correctly. The optimal distance between them in a row is 25 cm, and the width between the rows should be 80 cm. It is also necessary to leave some distance from the wall so that it does not shade the outer row. Seedling bags should be staggered.

System equipment

strawberries in plastic bags

Next, you need to build a system that will supply nutrient solution to the ground... This system consists of a nylon container, which must be installed slightly above the plastic bags.

Height is required to build up fluid pressure. The central tube should be brought to the container. Further, this pipe must be connected to the bags using other tubes.

You can use dropper tubes. To avoid leakage, all parts should be connected using adapters. Three tubes are used to feed one bag from bottom to top. The system delivers solution to the substrate, two liters per day.

Lighting

Also in the room you need to create a suitable lighting... You can use gas discharge lamps, and those that create artificial sunlight, that is, lamps that give off yellow light. The power of the lamps should vary from 50 to 80 watts.

The length of the lamps also plays a role. So, to illuminate an area of ​​5 meters, you need a meter lamp. It is advisable to create an even light with reflectors. You can also whitewash or paint the walls. Light for strawberries must be supplied 14 hours a day.

Pollination

An important point in the cultivation of strawberries in bags is pollination... If the area is small, you can manually pollinate using a soft squirrel brush, or turn on the fan. As a rule, this process is carried out in the morning. Flowering period from 1 to 4 days. The flowering period can take up to several weeks. To grow good quality strawberries, it is recommended to grow 2-3 varieties at the same time.

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