Strawberries in bags - the best varieties, preparatory work and growing rules

Growing garden and garden plants in bags has become a popular method especially for those who have a small area or greenhouse. Grow a garden strawberries in this way, it is also possible, and this method will allow you to give space to the varietal variety of this tasty, aromatic berry.

Content:

• Bagged strawberry varieties
• Preparatory work and timing of planting berries
• Planting strawberries in bags
• Berry plant care
• The advantages of the cultivation method

Bagged strawberry varieties

Strawberries for cultivation in bags, they are selected according to certain qualities: it must be unpretentious to care for, bear fruit for a long time, grow quickly, give a rich harvest.

The following berry varieties have such properties:

• The sweet fruits of the Marshal variety, growing rapidly, do not give room for weedsare not afraid of drought.
• Resistant to cold and disease, Albion will delight with sweet aromatic berries for a long time. The Khonya variety with large, dense fruits also belongs to such persistent ones.
• Geneva is characterized by rich harvests of up to three kilograms per bush.
• Capricious Gigantella loves plentiful watering and careful personal care. For this, she will present the owner with large juicy berries.

Each strawberry variety is good in its own way, you can prepare individual containers for growth for them, and during the summer feast on berries that are different in terms of fruiting times, quality and taste.

Preparatory work and timing of planting berries

This original cultivation method strawberry requires some preparation:

• To begin with, choose a place where the berry will grow. Usually a greenhouse is prepared for this, where the preparation of fasteners for bags will be an especially important point. These include hooks or trellises for hanging improvised strawberry beds. A simple arrangement of such beds vertically or horizontally at some distance from each other is also suitable, trying not to shade them.
• You can choose another room, but so that the temperature and illumination contribute to the growth of the berries. Do not forget about airing the place. landing.
• For outdoor cultivation, this method is also effective.
• The soil for planting is also prepared in advance. They require lightness and low acidity of the soil, and it is also good when it can retain moisture and air for a long time. The ideal composition is sod, humus with the addition of sawdust, sand. After thoroughly mixing everything, you can add a small amount of rotted cow dung.
• At the very bottom of a dense plastic bag, a layer of expanded clay is poured, which acts as a drainage, and then fertile soil. After filling the bags on one and the other side, the slots are made in a checkerboard pattern.
• In addition, it is necessary to consider the creation of an irrigation system for such beds. Above each bag, plastic bottles with a capacity of at least two liters are mixed down with a lid in which holes are made. Tubes used for droppers are taken out of the holes, their ends go deeper, reaching the roots of the plant.
• Planted seedlings strawberries, prepared by the gardeners themselves, in bags at the end of summer, so that they have time to give roots and get stronger, and purchased - in early April under appropriate conditions.

Having thoroughly prepared for planting strawberries, choosing a place for installing or hanging bag beds, you can be sure of a good result of preliminary work.

Planting strawberries in bags

Having placed the bags of soil on the floor or ground, they begin to plant the seedlings in the cut pockets at a distance of 25 centimeters from each other. For seedlings use uterine bushes with rosettes that need to be separated, as well as material with closed and open root system.

When placing the bags horizontally, the seedling hole is made small, trying not to deepen the roots.

With vertical, on the contrary, the holes for the seedlings are dug with a spatula large. After the bushes have adapted to the new conditions, they are fed with leaf fertilizer.

No more than three bags of strawberry seedlings are placed on one square meter. By hanging the bags, the bottom rows of the planted berry bushes will be saved from the attack of slugs and ants.

Berry plant care

Recommendations for proper care:

• For leaving for the berry, you must follow the rules for watering it: you need to make sure that the earth in the bags does not dry out, but the strawberry does not like waterlogging, it will simply rot. Watering carried out according to the dropper method, and a two-liter bottle for a day is quite enough for the plant's drinking regime.
• After the strawberries bloom, they need to be fed. fertilizer high in potassium.
• If the berry is grown in greenhouses, it is necessary to monitor the correct lighting of the seedlings. It should be as natural as possible, with moments of rest (night) and wakefulness.
• The temperature regime for comfortable growth of strawberries is not lower than 20 degrees above zero. When it drops or drafts, the berry may die or grow frail with low fruiting.
• In greenhouses, it is necessary to maintain a normal carbon dioxide content in order to increase yields. For this purpose, candle lighting is used in a room where strawberries grow. With such a time-saving care, you can increase the number of berry seedlings grown and increase yields.

Collect berries grown in bags, it is possible all year round. But after two months, it is advisable to remove the fertile bushes, replacing them with new ones. Although many recommend using one crop of strawberries for 2 years. At the end of autumn, obsolete strawberry leaves are cut off, leaving up to ten centimeters of the stem from the ground.

After the ripe fruit has been harvested, strawberry seedlings can be preserved during the long winter. At the same time, they will retain their vitality, genetic characteristics and taste, and the seedlings planted next year will give a new harvest of fragrant berries. Store bags with seedlings in insulated rooms or cellars.

After wintering, the berry bushes are put in order, breaking off the old antennae, fed and prepared for subsequent growth.

The advantages of the cultivation method

Growing method strawberry came to us from Holland and became quite popular with us. Its advantages include:

• You can harvest berries at least five times a year.
• Strawberries are less amenable to pests and diseases, as well as weeds, there is not enough space in the bags, and they die, not having time to harm the berries.
• The bag beds take up a small amount of space both on the ground and in the greenhouse, which will allow you to expand the planting of other garden plants.
• A variety of varieties can be used when using the bag growing method. repair strawberries and increase the yield of this popular berry. For those who want to start selling berries, they can confidently apply this technique and get a good profit.

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