Strawberries - one of the most popular with us berries.Its berries are tasty, beautiful, fragrant and healthy. Any novice gardener, in the first place, seeks to grow on this site exactly this berry. Many are faced with the problem of finding good seedlings, but you can grow strawberries from seeds. This method can be used to grow any kind of these berries, including ampelous strawberries.
Before you grow strawberries from seeds,necessary to prepare the necessary capacity for planting. It is best to use small flat dishes with a height of no more than 5-7 cm with small drainage holes in the bottom. Tanks are filled with a small layer of drainage and soil consisting of sand and light leafy ground, taken in a ratio of 1: 1.5. Before sowing, the soil is well moistened with warm water. Strawberry seeds are very small, so they are sown directly on the surface of the soil. Seeds need to be slightly pressed with fingers into the surface of the soil, after which the plates should be covered with glass or transparent film.
After sowing, periodically, as neededdrying, moisten the soil with a spray gun, air the sowing and wipe the inner surface of the glass from the resulting condensate. You can not water the stream, as the seeds will float to the surface of the water. For good seed germination requires a temperature of not more than 18 degrees. Keeping seeds before sowing at a temperature of 3-7 degrees for one week allows you to increase germination.
Strawberry sprouts appear no less thanthree to four weeks. All this time the capacity can be kept in the dark, but with the appearance of shoots they need a sufficient amount of light. If sowing is done in February-March, artificial lighting of young plants will be required, in April the length of the day is already sufficient for the normal development of seedlings. In case of insufficient lighting, the seedlings are strongly drawn out, their normal development is disturbed.
Strawberry shoots should be moistened regularly, but notallow excessive moisture, which, like drying out the soil, can destroy plants. Too dense shoots gently thin out. Seedlings are grown to the stage of three true leaves and then dive. During a dive, care must be taken that the seedlings are planted in the soil at the same depth as before the pick.
After that, the seedlings for some time must take root, then they begin to grow vigorously. At this time, the plants need to gradually harden, gradually accustomed to sunlight and fresh air.
The final stage of the method responsible forThe question of how to grow strawberries from seeds is planting plants in the ground. Planting seedlings on the bed is usually carried out in the second half of May, when the risk of morning frost disappears. At this time, young plants usually have six or eight true leaves. Plot for strawberries need sunny with fertile soil, but not containing a large amount of nitrogen. Excess nitrogen leads to intensive leaf growth, but low fruiting. Before planting, seedlings conduct thorough soil preparation - completely remove possible weeds, level and grind the soil. Young bushes are planted from each other at a distance of 30 cm. When planting, seedlings again make sure that the plants are planted no deeper or smaller than when grown after picking. After planting, seedlings are watered regularly, loosen the soil, weed weed.
The first berries on young plants appearin two or three months. For winter, strawberries should be well covered with fallen leaves or sawdust. The following year, the plants grow well and bear fruit well.
In this article we told how to growstrawberries from seeds. This is a simple and affordable method. Knowing how to grow strawberries from seeds, you can always get excellent strawberry seedlings, which later bear fruit well and are more resistant to disease damage than seedlings obtained from cuttings or dividing the bush.
