Home growing strawberries
It's cold, it's the strawberry season. Everyone loves a big red strawberry, and it's good that it's not so big as a fruit, and it's perfect for a row on their balcony. Today, the leaves show you how to grow strawberries on the balcony。
Selection
In order to maintain sexual stability, most of the strawberry varieties are grown through group breeding, which can be purchased directly. Some species, such as alpine strawberries, forest strawberries, etc., can sow. Strawberries can be selected according to their own preferences, depending on maturity times, colours, scents, etc., as well as flower-looking strawberrys, and just mentioned alpine strawberries, forest strawberries, etc。
Plantation
Strawberry
Strawberry seedlings can be grown in the autumn and are not too late to be harvested in the winter. The northern region could also grow in march-may and harvest in the summer. Seeding can take place during the spring and autumn seasons (i. E. March-may and september-november). Strawberry seeds are small, pressurized into the soil and germinate for about 10-15 days, pending the development of 3-4 leafs for replanting。
In order for strawberries to produce more results and improve the quality of fruit, strawberry soil needs to be rich in sufficient nutrients and requires ablaze and insect-free eggs. Sand, pearl rock, organic fattening or slow decomposition may be added to the corrosive soil and, if conditions so permit, to the soil, where the ratio of soil to particulate media is 6:4 to 5:5. In addition to monoculture, many are often planted in long-baskets or stereo shelves to facilitate harvesting and increase space utilization. The flower basin is 18-25 cm deep, with 15-20 cm space reserved for each。
Light
Sufficient light allows strawberries to grow healthy and evenly colour the fruit, which is about 6 to 10 hours long daily, but in the summer it is recommended to hide the light from the leaves in case of sunburn。
Temperature
Strawberry maturity normally occurs in the summer, and greenhouses are commonly used in the south to adjust the harvest season to winter due to excessive summer temperatures. Therefore, when planting strawberries at home, care should be taken not to keep the temperature too low to be around 10-15 degrees celsius, and to put strawberries into hibernation, thereby delaying the maturity of the fruit. It is usually indoors or small greenhouses。
Pollination
Winter insects are less common and cannot be pollinated by insects; indoor cultivation is poorly ventilated and cannot be pollinated by wind. Therefore, the family needs to rely on artificial pollination for the cultivation of strawberries, and it is simple to use a quill or a cotton sticker to come up and brush them. Spraying evenly makes strawberry shapes better. When pollination is successful, it can be used as a strawberries kit to prevent birds from eating or soiling and watering away from strawberries to prevent pollen being washed or strawberry from decaying。
Other management points
Strawberries are grown through runners under natural conditions, but due to the accumulation of viruses and the degradation of varieties, they are not normally produced in this way, resulting in reduced yields and quality. And since strawberries are not suitable for replanting, the soil is replaced with seedlings every year. There are, of course, few requirements for family farming, and attempts can be made to reproduce with a runner and continue to grow. Of course, if there is no demand for reproduction, it would be preferable to cut off the shrubs in order to prevent the dispersion of plant energy. Dead leaves arising from natural metabolism during plant growth also need to be removed in a timely manner to prevent contamination of pests and diseases. At the same time, in order to ensure the quality of the fruit, flowers can be screened during the flowering of strawberries, with only robust strawberries retained。
