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Delicious strawberries will grow at your cottage if you learn the technology of growing strawberries, you will not find the culture, you will need to grow a strawberry in your cottage, you will learn how to grow strawberries in the summer cottage..It is necessary to prepare a place for seedlings, properly plant strawberries in bags, provide watering, lighting and the necessary temperature. Let's take a closer look at how to organize everything correctly and get a great result!
How to grow strawberries in bags
There is a huge variety of different tricks and intricacies that are used by experienced gardeners on their plots to achieve the highest quality and greatest yield. Gradually, these methods led to the emergence of a new technology for growing strawberries.
Practically everyone who has tried this method of growing strawberries does not return to traditional methods, but only experiments with various kinds of unique ways:
- bags installed on the floor;
- bags on the shelves;
- bags suspended above the ground.
But the technology in all these species is the same.
For a good harvest of strawberries, it is better to grow it in greenhouses, although in summer, with good weather, the harvest will delight you in the open.
And of course, what becomes clear already from the name of the technology, you need to prepare bags for seedlings, as well as the seedlings and the soil.
We list all that is needed for the harvest of strawberries in bags:
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Greenhouse .If you want to get a really good harvest of strawberries, then it should be located in the greenhouse. For the hot season, it will be enough to single out the most ordinary summer greenhouse with good ventilation. And if you want to get the harvest all year round, then you need to use capital greenhouses with forced heating. In order to grow strawberries in greenhouses in bags, it is necessary to additionally equip the greenhouse with racks and supports with attachments for bags. -
Bags. You can buy ready-made bags for growing strawberries, which are sold in a large assortment in specialized stores for summer cottage or garden. And you can make them yourself. To do this, you need to take large bags, you can from under the flour or sugar, made from nylon, and cut holes in them for seedlings yourself. You can also grow strawberries in plastic bags, only in this case, they should be strong enough. For rational use of space, the bags must be high and small in diameter, then the seedlings on them can be placed more. - Soil. Strawberry prefers slightly acidic or neutral soil. Ideal for strawberries will turn out the soil, if you mix peat and perlite. But this composition is quite expensive, so it is used mainly only for individual bushes. For large strawberry plantations, it will be more profitable to prepare the substrate by yourself. For this we need turfy ground, river sand, fine sawdust and humus.
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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 specialty store. It is desirable that the variety was self-pollinating, and the seedlings had a good root system.
Planting strawberries in bags
We take pre-prepared bags, fill them up to the top with a special substrate. But unforgettable before this, at the bottom, pour claydite. This is necessary to ensure good drainage, because strawberries do not like excess moisture. Next, in the bags, on four sides, we make the slots, placing them in a checkerboard pattern. We cut vertically, the slot length is approximately 8 cm, and the distance between the slots should be 20-25 cm.
In the holes we plant strawberries one by one. You can also place several bushes on the upper, open part of the bag. Bags with seedlings are placed in certain places: on the floor, on special racks, or hung on hooks. On one square meter you can have no more than three bags. At this landing ends, then you only need to water, air and wait for the harvest.
Strawberry irrigation system in
bags. It is better to use drip irrigation technology to grow strawberries in bags. Such a system will facilitate your work, and will also be most useful for strawberries, which do not like a lot of moisture. Drip irrigation system looks like a pipeline that supplies water. From it to all the bags are fed tubes, at the ends of which are installed droppers. For the manufacture of such a system at home suitable ordinary hospital drip.
The pipeline itself is mounted above 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 a 30 liter bag has about 2 liters of water per day. Fertilizer and other supplements can also be added to the water.
Strawberries on the table all year round
This method of growing strawberries is able to organize a strawberry harvest 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 a sufficient amount of heat and light. For this are used greenhouses with heating. But the seedlings also need to be prepared in advance so that it is hardened and in stock, so that it 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 not developed.
An ordinary cellar or basement, as well as a refrigerator, can be suitable for such storage, the main thing is that the temperature should always be 0 + 2 degrees Celsius, and the humidity should be around 90%.For similar storage of seedlings, it is better to place it in plastic bags.
