STRAWBERRY Want to feast all year round? Learn the secrets of growing favorite berries Bashny.Net

This technique of growing strawberries overpower even novice gardeners who do not have a greenhouse or a suburban area.

Planting strawberries in the area, we always look forward to the summer harvest. But you can gather this berry every 1, 5-2 months, when to grow it in sacks of polyethylene. Interestingly, this does not necessarily have a strawberry "plantation" quite a small room.

For the cultivation of strawberries in bags suitable uninhabited room, garage or balcony. The main condition - the ability to maintain the room temperature

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Bags for growing strawberries

Tara for planting can be purchased in a specialty store, and can be done by hand - in the form of vertical beds. To do this, take the polyethylene (preferably reinforced), produce "elongated" bag a diameter of about 20 cm, the edges are sealed. As the material at hand, you can also use a white greenhouse film (about 0, 3 mm thick).



What make the substrate?

The nutritional augmentation of yield for growing strawberries in bags should consist of several components:

sod land (with the addition of sawdust),
peat (pre-cooked),
humus,
sawdust,
sand.

Please note that the garden land is not suitable, because it can live for a variety of bacteria, because of which the strawberry seedlings risks ill.

Preparation of "beds»

Now fill the bag obtained substrate overtighten it with twine and plumbing (or suspended). In each of these "houses" We perform a series of holes (7-8 cm length) in a checkerboard pattern. If the bags are on pallets or shelves, it is necessary to observe the "density" of accommodation - no more than 3 bags per 1 sq.m.



The distance between the windows - 18-20 cm

How watering strawberries in bags?

A major problem in the care of strawberries in bags is watering. To make your life easier, it is necessary to build a "watering" the construction of a two-liter plastic bottle (do it in small holes) with water, hung over the bags. From this tank exit tubes 4-5, the other end of which is inserted in the polyethylene. The main thing - do not forget to regularly add water to the bottle. With this irrigation system strawberries in bags will get enough moisture.

Lighting

crops It is known that during the winter daylight is short and strawberry seedlings are not getting enough light. Therefore it is necessary to create artificial light by means of discharge lamps (50-80 W power).

In order to light uniformly incident on all the bushes, you must purchase a long lamp or periodically rotate bags of seedlings. The rate of daily artificial lighting for growing strawberries in bags - about 14 hours

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Growing strawberries in batches and can be converted into a commercial activity

At what temperature does contain strawberries?
As the room temperature controller may be a fan or heater to turn on when needed. However, if you grow strawberries for sale and "beds" occupy a large area, you need to "stock up" steam generator and external ventilation system (exhaust).

Pollination strawberries
Pollinate strawberries have to manually with a soft brush (available from proteins), or simply turning on the fan. This activity is best done in the morning.

Growing strawberries in plastic bags has several advantages: the relative cheapness of the project and no need for large areas

. Author: Antonin Shelestnaya