Strawberry seedlings: the rules for growing it

Spring is the time when gardeners lay the foundation of the future harvest, growing seedlings. This way many berries and other fruit plants reproduce. But it's worth talking about strawberries separately. This berry is popular with garden owners because of its fragrance and great taste. In addition, it has many vitamins and nutrients. It is propagated, usually from a mustache or by dividing a bush, but there are other ways. For example, seedlings of strawberries can grow from plant seeds.

To get a good seedling, just go to any store for gardeners, where you can buy strawberry seeds at affordable prices. And a rich assortment allows you to choose exactly the sort that you need. On sale there are large and small-fruited plants, remontant, which can bear fruit all summer long. It is easiest to cultivate seedlings of small-fruited strawberries, which belongs to the repair varieties. It has greater germination than the variety that produces large fruits.

Planting seeds on seedlings in boxes with earth, it must be covered with a film and make sure that the soil is moistened. You can grow seeds for seedlings in berry blocks, based on a polyethylene bag filled with a mixture of perlite and peat. Along the bag you need to make holes for the seeds.

At home, the seeds sprout after thirty to forty days. When seedlings appear, seedlings of strawberries should be transferred to a lighter place. If a fungus appears in your mini-greenhouse, the ground needs to be treated with an antifungal agent. The film can be removed only after the appearance of leaves on the seedlings, and it should be done gradually, opening the plants for an hour or two. Watering plants should be done with care, to avoid waterlogging the earthy coma and the disease of the berries with a black stem.

Like many other plants, strawberry seedlings require repeated picks. Transplanting plants for the third time, they must be placed in separate containers. You can plant seedlings on individual peat tablets.

As a fertilizer for seedlings, it is best to use water-soluble drugs. To the question, when planting seedlings, gardeners are suitable individually. Some consider January to be the right month, others plant strawberry seeds in March. Plants that were planted in winter, already in the open ground are already fully developed bushes. But in this case, seedlings of strawberries require a constant supply of light. To this end, plants can be provided with artificial lighting and, if necessary, heating.

Plants before planting in the ground (in May-June) should be hardened, for which they are recommended to take out to open air first in the afternoon, and then at night. Seedlings can be put on the balcony or loggia. At the same time, it is necessary to monitor the night temperatures in order to avoid frosts. Choosing for transplanting plants into the earth is better than cool, cloudy weather.

Gardens have their own varietal preferences - varieties Gigantella, Festival chamomile, Lord, Moscow Jubilee (Mashenka). Very popular are early strawberries, which allow me to enjoy a delicious, fragrant berry in the middle of summer. These include early Chisinau varieties, Scarlet dawn with large fruits of twenty grams, Alpha, Beauty Zagorje and others. The earliest varieties are best grown in a closed ground, in specially arranged greenhouses, where the berries ripen quickly enough.