Where strawberries are grown in the Leningrad region

When strawberries ripen and where to find fruitful places

The beneficial properties of this fragrant forest berry, the closest relative of the garden strawberry, make it indispensable in cases where you need to improve appetite, improve digestion, and stop diarrhea in a child. Strawberry is also effective in the treatment of anemia, it is used to normalize metabolism, as a diuretic and choleretic agent.

You can go to the forest for this storehouse of iron, folic acid, vitamin E and calcium from the end of May. The traditional harvest time is June and July. In the northern regions, including the Leningrad region, you can find berries in August and even early September.

Advice. People who have experience in harvesting strawberries on the territory of the Leningrad Region note that they do not give a bountiful harvest here. Do not hope that you will be able to collect several buckets of fragrant berries. But here is 1-2 liters, if you try, it is quite possible to dial. But the forests of the Leningrad region are famous for blueberries.

Strawberry prefers light hills and meadows where it ripens earlier. You can also find it near rivers and lakes, and sometimes near swamps. The wetter the soil, the larger the berries are. From year to year, the following are traditionally the best for picking strawberries in the Leningrad Region:

• Gatchina region - the village of Taitsy;
• Priozersk district - the village of Kommunary and Priozersk itself;
• Kirovsky district - the village of Sinyavino and the Maluksa railway station;
• Kirishsky district - the village of Budogosh, near the lakes Cheryomukhovoe and Svetloye.

Strawberries are hiding in the leaves and are not immediately visible

Find the most "strawberry" places will help specialized societies in social networks and forums dedicated to picking berries and mushrooms. Locals are usually well aware of where and what grows and how to get there. Therefore, if you are visiting near St. Petersburg or in the region, consult with old-timers where it is better to go so as not to return with an empty basket. For example, residents of the Budogosh village will advise you to focus on the Orlyonok health camp. Stock up on a map or navigator to better navigate in unfamiliar terrain.

Advice. Often strawberries "give out" themselves by smell. However, finding delicious berries simply by traveling along forest paths will not work. You need to bend over, kneel and push the leaves with your hands. Only in this case can you find strawberries disguised with greens.

How to properly collect and store strawberries

Even on a large scale, this fragrant berry is harvested exclusively by hand. If you use special scoops, the bushes can be damaged and as a result they will dry out.You only need to pick ripe strawberries: they do not ripen and quickly deteriorate, so green berries should be left on the branches. Fruit stalks and accidentally plucked leaves or blades of grass must be removed immediately: in the jam, all this will give a taste, and during drying it will interfere.

It is better to put dirty strawberries in a separate bowl or not touch them at all. If you are not lazy and initially do everything right, then then you will not have to do double work and re-sort the berries, sorting them. Moreover, there may not be time for this: strawberries quickly deteriorate, they need to be preserved either on the same day or within the next day. In addition, a berry that is touched once again may leak. For the same reason, it is best not to wash visually clean strawberries.

Pick only ripe berries

Strawberry picking rules

There are several collection rules that are suitable for connoisseurs of any berries:

1. The time of day when you go into the forest with a basket plays an important role. It is best to pick strawberries early in the morning, but when the dew has already melted. This will keep the berries whole and dry. Collection in hot and rainy weather should be avoided. Wet strawberries spoil quickly enough and turn into gruel.
2. Overripe berries are also extreme. Having chosen a strawberry meadow, visit there for the harvest every other day, and if it is hot and dry outside, then every day.
3. The most fragrant berries are those harvested in the waxing moon phase. For strawberries to be better preserved in canned form, go for them on the waning moon.
4. Hide the berries that are already in your basket from dust and sun. Warming up, they lose not only presentable appearance, but also taste, and most importantly - useful qualities. Cover the strawberries with leaves or a handkerchief.
   5. Avoid berries that grow near highways, factories, landfills, etc.

Attention! Strawberry leaves also have therapeutic benefits. For example, they help people who suffer from kidney disease or bronchial asthma. But they also need to be collected correctly. The most useful are the leaves plucked during the flowering period of strawberries, and this is for 1-1.5 months. before fruiting.

Strawberries in the Leningrad Region: video

When choosing strawberry varieties, attention is paid to the appearance and resistance to diseases in order to get a better result with less effort. Sellers do their best to advertise their product as the best, which is not true: any strawberry is susceptible to disease in one way or another. If it is resistant to one, then it practically burns out from the other without proper care. And any strawberry, with appropriate care and feeding, looks great.

When choosing a strawberry variety, you should know that the most the best variety is one that takes root well in the climate where it is going to be cultivated.

Climate of the Leningrad region

Taking into account the peculiarities of the region, mid-season strawberry varieties are the most optimal for the Leningrad region.

This area is characterized by unstable weather, always high humidity, the second half of winter is colder than the first. Spring is late, slow with frequent night frosts. Moderately warm summers in the second half are often interrupted by rains. The beginning of autumn begins in September.

Features of the soil of the Leningrad region

Medium decomposed peat horizon of sod-podzolic soil.

• The soil is podzolic, sod-podzolic, bog type. They are poor in humus and are highly acidic;
• It is required to artificially improve;
• More moisture falls out than evaporates;
• Excess moisture goes into the groundwater, i.e. the soil is washed out.

Based on these factors, one should choose frost-resistant and late-ripening varieties that are resistant to fungal diseases, ideally developing at high humidity.

November is outside and you have a harvest. This is great!

Many Dutch and remontant varieties (Rügen, Baron Solemacher, Sweetheart), and varieties bred by Russian breeders specifically for the northwestern region of Russia.

Recommended by the state register

• Recommended by the state register varieties for cultivation in the Leningrad region: Festivalnaya, Junia Smides, Zarya, Generous, Kokinskaya, Sudarushka, Krasavitsa Zagorya, Divnaya, Onega, Tsarskoselskaya, Zenga Zengana, Severnaya productive, Vityaz, Scarlet dawn, Redgontlet.
• Gardeners highlight such varieties as Sudarushka, Tsarskoselskaya, Krasavitsa, Junia Smides Onega, Zenga Zengana, as the most effective. Promising varieties include: Borovitskaya, Grenada, Crown, Polka.
• But also new varieties have been developeddeveloped for the North-West region: Bereginya, Tsaritsa, Alpha.

Festivalnaya

The yield of the variety is very high.

The Festivalnaya variety is called folk strawberries.

The variety is reliable and proven, in the register since 1965... Ripening period is average. The taste is good, rich in vitamin C. Large berries are bright red, rich in color, powerful bush.

Junia Smides

Not a remontant variety, but it can also bear fruit in autumn.

It has immunity to gray rot, which is important in high humidity, but weakly resistant to other diseases.

Be sure to cover for the winter.

Taste with sourness.

Sudarushka

The Sudarushka variety was bred at the Leningrad Fruit and Vegetable Experimental Station.

• It ripens early, is relatively resistant to diseases, and is considered a high-yielding, versatile variety.
• Berries with a sour taste, large.
• Withstands frost well.

Zenga Zengana

Zenga-Zengana strawberry bushes are resistant to fungal diseases.

• Speaks late.
• On tall and strong bushes, the berries are small, dense, juicy, fragrant.
• High yield, but hard to endure frosty winters, high susceptibility to gray rot, the variety is moderately resistant to ticks.

Tsarskoye Selo

The variety showed high winter hardiness and a good level of frost resistance.

• Late variety.
• Taste qualities are estimated at 5 points.
• The berry is large, dark red in color.
• Possesses high productivity.
• Due to its increased resistance to infection with gray mold and verticillium wilting, it has high yield rate.

Beauty of Zagorya

The variety is recommended for the entire northwestern zone and the central non-chernozem zone.

• The first berries are quite large, up to 40 g, the next are much smaller, but there are more of them.
• Withering and gray decay are the first enemies of the crop.
• The beauty's advantage is a very high yield and winter hardiness.

Onega

Highly winter-resistant large-fruited variety, resistant to diseases.

• Taste is average.
• Benefits due to the highest yield, transportability, frost resistance, resistance to diseases and insect pests.

Queen

Requires shelter in snowless winters.

• Very large berry, almost 50 g., at the first collection, has an excellent dessert taste.
• Subsequent berries are much finer, but the taste is preserved.
• The dark red Tsaritsa berry was rated 4.8 for taste.
• The yield is average.
• Ripens late.
• Resistant to fungal diseases, heat.
• High winter hardiness in the presence of snow, but not very hardy in snowless winters.

Bereginya

Strawberry Bereginya is not afraid of drought and the cold is not terrible for her.

• Beregini tastes good.
• Only the first berries are large, then they become significantly smaller.
• They resist well against fungal diseases and ticks.
• Easily adapts to conditions.
• Decent harvest.

Alpha

Alpha berries are suitable for technical processing and are good as a dessert.

• The berries are medium in size - red, sweet and sour.
• Alpha winters well and tolerates drought.
• The harvest is big.
• Cope with gray mold on average, may be affected by spots.

Borovitskaya

The variety is very rarely affected by ticks and quickly recovers after drought.

• Large berries with good taste on powerful tall bushes.
• The variety is universal.
• Differs in outstanding resistance to frost, up to -35 and drought, quickly recovers in case of damage.
• The bush is powerful, the flowers are located above the leaves.
• Weakly affected by diseases.
• It is practically not affected by the tick.
• The berry is bright, sweet and sour, with a pronounced strawberry smell.
• Borovitskaya berries are easy to transport, since they have sufficient keeping quality.

A shelf

This variety of Dutch origin grows well in partial shade, and its berries taste sweet even when not ripe.

• A variety from Holland.
• Differs in taste and portability.
• Loves moisture.
• Resistant to almost all diseases, except root diseases.
• The variety is moderately winter hardy, requires shelter. It tolerates heat well, but without sufficient watering it greatly loses its taste.
• The bright red berries are not hollow or void, dense, firm, shiny and attractive, which increases their market value. Berry Shelf is versatile for use.

Grenada

• The variety ripens early, productive, frost-resistant, good resistance to gray rot.
• The berries are medium, dark red, good taste, but odorless.

Rügen

Rügen consistently bears fruit with medium-sized berries, is generally unpretentious and is guaranteed to overwinter when the snow cover is 10 cm thick.

A remontant variety, bred by German breeders.

• The berries are small, but the bush bears fruit throughout the summer, before the onset of frost.
• Mustacheless variety, preferably seed propagated.
• The berries are bright red, oblong, rich in iron, juicy and tasty.
• Gardeners praise Rügen for its unpretentiousness, frost resistance, low need for lighting, resistance to diseases, and the preservation of its genetic properties during reproduction.

Baron Solemacher

Strawberries Baron Solemacher bloom and bear fruit while it is warm, almost until the autumn frosts.

• The variety is remontant, without whiskers, cold-resistant and very productive.
• The berry is tasty and very attractive, but small.
• It belongs to the early varieties and bears the harvest before the onset of frost.
• Withstands both frost and heat, moderately resistant to diseases.

Sweetheart

Large berry, sweet taste with pleasant aroma.

Bred in the UK and fully justifies the name "Sweetheart". Striking in its beauty, the berries are large, dark red, even cherry, with gloss, the same size with a perfectly balanced taste.

• The pulp is fleshy and juicy.
• The plant is frost-resistant, unpretentious and productive.
• Fights disease in moderation.
• The variety is ideal for commerce, but the nose of the berry ripens last and for a long time, you have to wait for the presentation, which is not very convenient.
• It should be monitored when the berry is fully ripe and immediately removed, if overexposed it even becomes a little soft, too juicy and unsuitable for transportation.
• In the rainy season it loses its density, in the cold summer it does not gain sweetness.

conclusions

Other varieties are grown by gardeners.

The main criteria for choosing a variety of garden strawberries for cultivation in the Leningrad region: frost resistance, resistance to different types of rot, middle and late ripening, plant vigor.

Video about strawberry varieties tested by experienced gardeners

Growing garden crops on your plots is becoming a very popular activity. Garden strawberry (strawberry) is one of the most demanded crops. In order for the bushes to give a good harvest, it is necessary to look after and monitor them.

Choosing a landing site

The yield and size of the berries depend on how well the place for growing them is chosen. Strawberries will thrive in areas with a lot of sunlight. The best soil composition for strawberries is sandy loam or medium loamy with neutral acidity. Acidity can be checked with a special soil litmus test.

It is desirable that the area on which the garden strawberries will grow is well protected from the wind.But the creation of an unventilated environment should not be allowed. After all, this can lead to the appearance of diseases associated with the development of fungal microorganisms.

In order to achieve the maximum effect, there should be no weeds on the site, it will then be quite difficult to deal with them. Strawberries will thrive in areas where root vegetables, leafy vegetables, or legumes were previously grown. The period of active fruiting of strawberries is 3-4 years from the planting of seedlings. After digging up old bushes, it is not recommended to plant seedlings in the same place. Your seedlings will be weak and prone to common strawberry diseases. The best solution is to plant crops that will help the soil "rest".

Site preparation for planting strawberries

Many people think that you can simply buy strawberry seedlings and plant it in the ground. This opinion is fundamentally wrong. In order for strawberries to give a good harvest and have protection against diseases, it is worth performing a number of preparatory operations:

• Removing weeds from the site. This will avoid problems with them in the future. It is not enough to pluck the green part of the weed; it is important to try to remove the rhizome of the weed from the soil as well. For large areas, it is advisable to use herbicides. But be sure to follow all the recommendations on the packaging.
• Cultivation of the site. You can use special cultivators, or dig up the area manually. The earth needs to be fluffed up well enough, you can add ash or sand as needed.
• Adding compost and fertilizer. This will make the site fertile and allow for a good harvest for several years. Please note that if your site has never been planted with cultivated plants, then you do not need to fertilize the soil.

The strawberry planting pattern and the distance between the bites can be seen in this figure.

In order to increase soil protection and its performance, it is worth laying mulching materials. The most popular today are:

• Mulching film for strawberries. This material is made from polyethylene material. This film helps to accelerate the ripening of the fruit. This is due to the fact that heat is retained longer under it. The film prevents light from reaching the soil, which prevents weeds from growing. For watering, a special drip tape is used, it is laid under the film in advance.

• Agrotkan (Spunbond) for strawberries. This material is also sometimes used for soil mulching, but in the Leningrad region, due to high humidity, it contributes to the development of gray rot.

Selection of seedlings in the Leningrad region

In our you can seedlings of garden strawberries. We grow several varieties. The most popular are:

• Honey. This strawberry has fruits the size of a chicken's egg. Strong fruiting plants can easily support the weight of the berries.
• Vima-Ksima. Large dark-scarlet berries have a rich taste. The bushes are strong enough.
• Clery. Elite Italian variety of garden strawberries. Refers to fairly early varieties.
• Zenga-Zengana. A late-ripening variety of German strawberries. The fruits are large enough, with an unusual wine flavor. Perfect for both processing and raw consumption.
• Selva. A variety of remontant strawberries that were brought from America. The berries have the correct shape, which is pleasing to the eye. Excellent taste will make you love her.
• San Andreas. The repair variety is capable of bearing fruit up to five times per season. The berries end up appearing only with the first frost.

We grow strawberry seedlings outdoors using drip irrigation and mulch film. To provide it with all the necessary nutrients, the seedlings are constantly being cared for. The automated drip irrigation system provides the seedlings with the required amount of liquid. Cultivation takes place only in the summer.All varieties of seedlings show excellent survival rate in the North-West region of the Leningrad region.

Profitable strawberry seedling price will allow you to update your garden plot with excellent varieties of strawberries at no special cost, which will appeal to both adults and children.

Even a beginner can grow strawberries. This requires hard work and some basic knowledge. Planting strawberries in the open field must be carried out at a certain time, and the cultivation methods must be selected in accordance with the climatic conditions of the area. You will have to take care of the berry plantation regularly throughout the season. The secrets of growing strawberries are simple, but only by following them methodically, you get a good harvest.

Site selection and site preparation

It is not enough to know how to properly plant strawberries in the open field and what kind of care they need. Growing strawberries should begin by choosing a suitable location on the site that will meet all the requirements of this plant.

What do you need for a berry plantation?

• A place that is illuminated by the sun all day. There should be no buildings or tall trees nearby that cast shadows on the site.
• Strawberries should be protected from drafts and cold winds. For protection, it is advisable to plant low bushes on the leeward side.
• Water after rains and melting snow should not stagnate, otherwise the roots may rot.

Having chosen a suitable site in the country, it must be prepared in advance. The soil must be cleaned of plant debris, dug onto a shovel bayonet, and weed roots must be selected. Growing strawberries in the open field will be high yielding only on loose fertile soils with neutral acidity. Garden land in the country does not always meet these requirements, but it can be improved. If the soil is clay, then you need to add sand, compost and a little peat. A large amount of humus or compost, rotted leaf litter and clay chips are introduced into the sandy soil.

Strawberry cultivation technology implies crop rotation.

• Outdoor garden strawberries grow well after legumes, crucifers and any siderates.
• The place of the berry plantation needs to be changed periodically. When is the best time to plant strawberries in the old place is a moot point. One thing is for sure - if two seasons in a row are planted on the old plot of green manure and embedded in the soil, in the third year the cultivation of strawberries can be resumed.

If the planting of strawberries is carried out in the spring, the site is prepared in the fall. If the strawberry mustache is to be planted at the end of August or September, then the beds must be prepared two weeks before planting.

Planting dates for strawberries

Planting time for strawberries depends on many factors, and primarily on weather conditions. Best of all, strawberry mustache in the open field takes root when planting them in the spring, when the temperature is set above + 10 ° C. The roots begin to grow within 7-10 days. In the southern regions, the mustache is planted in early April, in the middle lane - in late April or early May, and in the Leningrad region, planting can be carried out only at the end of May so that young, fragile strawberries are not damaged by night frosts.

You can plant strawberries in the summer, in the second half of August, or in the fall, until September 15th. You should know that at temperatures from +7 to + 10 ° C, the mustache takes root only after three weeks. Knowing how to plant strawberries so that they have time to settle down before frost, and following the weather forecast, you can easily plan the time and timing of planting.

How to choose a variety

Classic strawberry varieties are early, mid-ripening and late-ripening. The secrets of growing strawberries in the open field with a continuous wave of fruiting lie in the correct selection of the variety. If you choose and plant different varieties in the country that differ in the ripening time of berries, then the harvest can be harvested from the beginning of June to the end of July.If you also plant a remontant strawberry next to it, then the berries will ripen until the beginning of September.

Such a strawberry planting scheme, when varieties with different ripening periods are grown nearby, is used in central Russia. For the Leningrad region, the northern regions of the Urals, where the climate is colder and rainy, this scheme is not suitable. Early-ripening varieties are not grown there due to the fact that the flowering in spring falls under frost and the fruits are not tied. The best option is to plant late-ripening varieties (Gigantella, Bohema, Kubata, Pandora), which bear fruit in late June or July. If there is enough space in the country, then you can plant a remontant variety (Queen Elizabeth) nearby. The main crop of this variety is harvested in late summer, in the second half of August, and in warm autumn until October. In addition, the varieties Gigantella and Elizaveta are winter hardy, which makes them attractive for growing in difficult climatic conditions.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that there are very different varieties, strawberries have not yet been bred for cultivation in such regions as the Far East, Transbaikalia, Karelia. In Transbaikalia, the summer is warm, but the ground freezes in winter so that strawberries are not able to survive in such conditions, no matter what care they provide. There is no warm summer in Karelia, and this prevents the berries from forming and gaining ripeness. Experienced gardeners in Transbaikalia use heated greenhouses, but this method of growing strawberries does not always pay off.

Description of varieties

Garden strawberries are diverse, but two varieties can be distinguished especially:

• Gigantella;
• Elizabeth.

One variety differs from another in the period and period of fruit ripening, and Gigantella and Elizabeth are similar in excellent winter hardiness, large berries and a large bush size. Caring for them is no different from caring for regular strawberries.

Gigantella

Gigantella - This variety is bred in Holland. The bush is unusually large: Gigantella reaches a height of 50 cm, and by the third year it grows up to 60 cm wide. All berries are large - from 80 to 100 grams. They are tasty, sweet, with firm flesh.

Gigantella is winter-hardy, reproduces both by whiskers and seeds. Her mustache is powerful, with large rosettes. Gigantella forms the largest number of rosettes in the first 2 years after planting. Reproduction by dividing the bush is possible, but rarely practiced. The life span of the bush is 8 years, and the older the Gigantella, the more berries on each bush. The variety is mid-season, the first Gigantella berries are tied in the second half of June, and they ripen in early July. This is considered a plus, because the flowers do not fall under frost and there is no loss of berries for this reason.

This giant strawberry is easy to maintain, but it is important to keep the distance between the plants when planting. They are planted at a distance of 50 cm from each other, there should be only 4 plants per 1 m2.

Elizabeth

The Elizaveta variety is remontant. In the first half of summer, few berries are formed, but in August, Elizabeth always pleases with abundant flowering. There are usually no barren flowers. The berries are large enough, 40-60 grams. The Elizaveta variety is distinguished by the taste of berries - they are juicy, sweetness combined with sourness, aromatic.

The Queen Elizabeth variety is high-yielding. When grown in nutritious soil and with a sufficient amount of sun, up to 1.5 kg of berries are harvested from one bush. If the autumn is warm, then the Elizaveta variety can bear fruit until October.

You need to take care of this garden strawberry more carefully than usual. Due to the fact that the berries are tied constantly throughout the summer, and with favorable weather even in spring, nutrients in the soil are consumed quickly. Fertilize remontant strawberries often - every three weeks it is necessary to apply a complex mineral fertilizer or feed it with mullein infusion. This care pays off by the fact that the Elizaveta variety bears fruit without interruption.

Propagate remontant strawberries with a mustache, dividing the bush and seeds.The mustache propagation method is the most effective, because they can be separated constantly, without disturbing the mother plant and without disturbing the fruiting process.

Strawberry propagation

Garden strawberries reproduce in three ways:

• mustache;
• dividing the bush;
• seeds.

Seed propagation is rarely used, since this method is long and laborious. The division of bushes is used if a little mustache is formed or the strawberry plantation needs to be moved to another place. Mustache propagation is the simplest and most effective method. They grow constantly throughout the summer. Separate young rosettes in the spring or late summer. With this reproduction, 3-4 daughter sockets are left on each mother plant. They are slightly dug into the ground so that they can grow roots. When 3-4 leaves are formed on the outlet, they are deposited.

Mustache reproduction is important to carry out on time:

• in spring - from late April to mid-May;
• in autumn - from early to mid-September.

Garden strawberries usually take root well, but this largely depends on the size of the outlet, the number of roots and weather conditions.

Important!

When breeding with a mustache in the spring, the berries are harvested in the next season. When planted in autumn, fruiting begins in a year.

Strawberry planting rules

How to plant strawberries correctly and at what distance the bushes of garden strawberries should be located from each other, depends on the area of ​​the site.

If the site allows, then the best strawberry planting scheme is one-line. At the same time, the bushes are planted in one row, placing them at a distance of 25 cm. Between the rows they maintain a large distance - 80 cm. This opens up access to the strawberries from both sides, thereby making it easier to care for them and pick berries. With a one-line planting, the agricultural technique for growing strawberries allows you to leave a mustache with one outlet. The rosettes take root quickly and thereby increase the width of the beds.

In a small area, garden strawberries are planted in two lines. In this case, the sockets are planted at a distance of 30 cm from each other in the same row, the same distance is observed between the lines. 80 cm is left between the two-row beds. With this method of cultivation, the mustache is removed so that they do not thicken the planting. Care is more laborious, but with regular feeding, the yield in dense plantings, when the bushes are planted next to each other, does not decrease.

The sockets are planted on a pre-prepared bed. The holes are spilled with water, a small mound is poured onto the bottom and the roots are distributed along its sides.

Important!
When planting seedlings, it is necessary to ensure that the roots do not bend, and that the growth point (the middle of the seedling) is strictly at the level of the soil surface.

Until the outlets take root, the soil must be kept moist, but not flooded. Between waterings, the soil is carefully loosened.

Strawberry care

Strawberry care begins in spring after the snow has thawed.

1. The winter shelter is being removed.
2. They clean the plantings from dry foliage. It is more convenient to do this in early spring - the heart has not yet begun to grow and will not be damaged.
3. When the leaves begin to grow, it is necessary to feed with a complex mineral fertilizer, which should include potassium and superphosphate.
4. If the spring is dry, constant watering is required - only when the soil is sufficiently moist, the largest number of fruit buds is laid.
5. When flowers appear, berry bushes must be fed with infusion of mullein or bird droppings. The infusion should not be concentrated, the optimal ratio for mullein is 1:10, for poultry droppings - 1:20. Before making, the infusion is diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 5.
6. When fruiting is over, all foliage from each plant must be cut off. This will provoke the laying of fruit buds for the next season.
7. Further care consists in additional feeding and watering. Organic fertilizers are applied two more times per season, and watered depending on the weather.The soil should not dry out between waterings.
8. In autumn, the foliage from the strawberry is not cut, it will serve as a shelter from winter frosts. Additionally, plantings are covered with coniferous spruce branches, and in regions with severe winters, additional shelter with white agrofibre is recommended, the density of which should be 60g / m2.
9. Every 3-4 years planting should be rejuvenated.

conclusions

Strawberries do not grow by themselves; care for them must be constant. Without trimming the whiskers, the plantation will become thickened, the plants will not have enough nutrients for the formation of berries, the flowering will stop. Without weeding, after some time, the plantings will be overgrown with weeds, the bushes will degenerate, and without shelter in the frosty winter, the growing point will be damaged and the strawberries will die.