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Strawberries: Tips for planting, pruning and maintenance

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Knowing the strawberry plant

rose bushes and strawberry plants  is a perennial plant that is used for borders and ground cover to decorate the stains.
Depending on the variety, flowering starts from the month of April, with white flowers, sometimes pink, more or less alive.

The first strawberries grow in the year following planting.
For varieties not re-bloom (Gariguette), making fruit takes place in May-June.
The re-blooming varieties (Charlotte, Mount Everest, Master, Mara des Bois, Reine des Vallées), fruiting later (June-July) and over until frost.

Planting  strawberries

 planting of bare-root strawberries you from September to November, then from February to April. For potted seedlings, the planting is possible from September to May.
September is the ideal month to plant strawberries: the earth is still hot and humid, and there will be a better rooting for the production of the following year. Choose a sunny exposure.

For planting in the ground:
• Digging the earth and for ventilation to remove roots, stones, weeds. Add an organic manure to enrich it. If the soil is calcareous, add peat (strawberries prefer acid soil).
• Take mounds 20 cm high and 60 cm wide (leaving the same space between 2 plants). Planted on these hills, the fruits will not be in direct contact with the earth.
• Dig holes as wide as the roots of the seedling (with a trowel ).
• To fill the hole and compress, the collar must remain at ground level (the part between the base of the leaves and roots).
• The ideal is to use a cover film that retains heat and prevents the growth of weeds. Do any of the holes 35-40 cm then arrange the plants.
• If you do not use the black cover film, you will need to mulch the plants to protect them (with straw, dead leaves, pods of cocoa beans, etc..).

For planting in pots or planters:
• Choose a pot with holes, 25 cm high minimum. At the bottom 3cm add gravel to ensure good drainage.
• Planting strawberries in a mixture of equal parts of garden soil and compost to planting.
• Distance the  plants about 15 cm.

Maintenance of strawberries

strawberries  require some care in order to remain productive.
- Regularly remove the runners, especially in winter, are climbing stems that grow at the foot of Main. Attention, strawberry climbing Mount Everest produces stolons bearing, which must be linked to a support (tutor, grids ...).
- In the fall, after the latest collections, cut the leaves.
- In dry weather, watering the plants regularly outside of periods of frost. Attention to watering excessive, especially in winter, the roots may rot.
- Add a fertilizer for strawberries in early spring, then after the first harvest (June / July). Spread about 2 handfuls per m².

The strawberry plants are robust and durable. However, they can be affected with iodine (treat after flowering, then 2 weeks later), or by aphids.


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