Plant and care for strawberries
Strawberries are part of summer. But the strawberries that you can buy in the supermarket all too often only taste like water. It is completely different with fruits from your own garden. They're fragrant - and it's not all that difficult to plant and care for strawberries and get a good harvest.
What you need:
- Strawberry plants
- hoe
- fertilizer
- Sapwood
- water
- peat
- straw
- Potting soil
When planting strawberries, make sure to keep the correct spacing
- Plant new strawberry plants in summer, preferably in August. To do this, chop through the soil and fertilize it. There are both biological and chemical fertilizer in a large selection.
- Using a set of wood, make holes in the ground so that each strawberry 30 to 40 centimeters away from the neighboring plant and 50 centimeters from the next row.
- Pour water into the holes, then put the strawberry plants in them and press them down well. Surround the plants with peat.
- In the beginning, the strawberries must be kept moist, so they must always be sufficiently watered when it is dry.
- When the strawberries have grown, they can be chopped through again. The ground should also be dug up again before winter. In the spring, remove all the old leaves and chop and fertilize the soil again.
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Soil care for the strawberries and offshoots
- Always make sure that the soil is nicely loosened, no weed grow there and also cut off tendrils.
- To prevent gray rot, you can spray the strawberries. The product is sprayed directly into the flower at the beginning of the flowering period and when the plants are blooming properly.
- Shortly before harvest, you can put straw around the plants so that the strawberries do not get wet or dirty from the soil and can be picked better.
- After the harvest, you can take offshoots from the strawberries. Let the tendrils grow now and look for particularly strong specimens. Take the first plant from the top, cut off the rest.
- Put the cuttings in potting soil so that they get roots. Then you can plant it.
- After taking an offshoot, prune the annual strawberry plants and chop and fertilize them again. You shouldn't use strawberry plants for more than two years and then buy or grow new ones.
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