All avid gardeners know what a remontant strawberry is. Repaired strawberries are popular small strawberries that grow for almost a whole year - from the beginning of June to the end of November, when the first frosts come. Even a novice gardener can grow such berries in his garden. But it is worth noting that the care and planting of remontant strawberries requires close supervision. This type of strawberry has some features that you should know before planting this wonderful berry in your garden.
Features and benefits of remontant strawberries
One of the main advantages of this type of strawberry can be called its constant flowering, and therefore long-term fruiting and high yield of strawberries.
The long fruiting of remontant strawberries is the merit of many well-known breeders. Gardeners were able to fulfill their dream - to grow strawberries throughout the warm season in their garden.
It is best to plant remontant strawberries in the place where flowers used to grow, such as tulips, crocuses and hyacinths, as well as vegetables in the form of cabbage, cucumbers and various salads.
How to plant remontant strawberries
You can plant remontant strawberries from early spring to early autumn. It is worth noting that if you plant remontant strawberries in early spring, then the amount of harvest will be much higher and better than when planting strawberries in dry or cold seasons.
You can also plant strawberries in the summer, but then you will have a good harvest only by next year. In addition, when planting strawberries in the summer, you will have to pay a lot of attention to them, constantly weeding and fertilizing the bushes. In summer, it is important to constantly water the remontant strawberries.
But when planting remontant strawberries in the fall, it requires a minimum investment of time and your attention.
Planting methods
The most popular and effective technologies for planting remontant strawberries include:
- Planting a perennial or annual crop of strawberries.
- Planting remontant strawberries in a narrow or wide bed.
- Trellis view of planting strawberries.
- Planting remontant strawberries in the form of a bush. This type of landing can be one-line, two-line, or three-line.
At the moment, experienced gardeners consider the planting of remontant strawberries by the bushy two-line method to be the most popular method of planting remontant strawberries. The bed should be from one to one and a half meters, there should be small paths between the beds.
With the help of this method of planting remontant strawberries, you will protect your future harvest from fungal diseases, and you will be able to protect yourself from thickening the seedlings.Using this method of planting, you can plant several different crops in one place without damaging any of them.
For example, you can plant garlic next to remontant strawberries, this will protect against the appearance of hated strawberries on the strawberries. slugs. Important! Do not forget that planting tomatoes next to strawberries is prohibited.
It is worth planting remontant strawberries on a narrow bed, the width of which should be from 90 to 100 ten centimeters. Best of all, remontant strawberries grow in narrow beds, the optimum width for which should be 90-110 cm. The distance between strawberry bushes should be approximately 40-50 centimeters.
Planting process
When planting remontant strawberries, you should be extremely careful. To simplify the subsequent care of strawberries and create favorable conditions for a rich harvest, you should take into account the correct deepening of the apical bud of remontant strawberries in the ground. The deep position of the bud slows down the growth of the bush. With the superficial position of the buds, the roots of the plant quickly freeze and become oversaturated with moisture after rain, which can also negatively affect the growth and maturation of remontant strawberries. Before planting remontant strawberries, it is imperative to fertilize and loosen the soil. After that, you need to dig small holes for the bushes, the depth of which should be equal to 25 centimeters. You should also fertilize the holes with special feeding.
Organic fertilizers are best suited for this, consisting of: one bucket of chernozem soil, two glasses of wood ash and one bucket of compost with the addition of two liters of vermicompost.
To avoid evaporation in the summer and dry period, when planting remontant strawberries, it is necessary to remove all lower leaves and excess sprouts from the bushes - leave only full-fledged leaves that are fully open. Thanks to this, the seedlings will take root much faster and bring a bountiful healthy harvest.
How to care for strawberries after planting
This type of strawberry does not require much effort and time. This is a fairly easy crop to grow. But do not forget that remontant strawberries, like other crops, need proper care after planting. The most important thing after planting is the initial care, which is so necessary for any plant. The main activities include watering the planted seedlings of remontant strawberries to ensure that the roots of the seedlings grow together in a beneficial way with the soil. And also mulching of soil rocks - rotted leaves of trees or needles and small sawdust are used. Do not use coarse sticks and straw, they can interfere with the growth of young bushes.
Further care rules
With proper care of remontant strawberries, this culture gives a pleasant result: the plant takes root well in the garden along with other crops and brings a large harvest. To do this, you should follow the rules of basic care for remontant strawberries in accordance with the characteristics of this culture.
Basic care for remontant strawberries includes:
- Regular watering and feeding of the plant.
- Timely detection and removal of pests and infested bushes.
- Mulching the soil.
- Destruction of pests.
- Timely weeding and soil fertilization.
- Seating separate large bushes, in order to avoid excessive soil density.
Top dressing and fertilizers
It is quite easy to grow repair strawberries in your garden: it propagates by seeds and pleases gardeners with an excellent harvest already in the first year of planting. To get a good harvest of remontant strawberries, gardeners should follow two simple rules: water and fertilize remontant strawberries in a timely manner.
You can start fertilizing remontant strawberries from the beginning of March. You should feed the strawberries with fertilizers with the addition of nitrogen, they can be applied directly to the surface of the snow.The second type of feeding is mulching remontant strawberries with mineral and organic fertilizers. This type of feeding is carried out in mid-April. The third feeding is usually done in September.
Fertilize this crop very carefully, without damaging the roots and leaves of strawberry bushes. Compost is used as an additional fertilizer.
Watering and mulching
In the summer, on dry and warm days, the soil dries out quickly, which negatively affects the quality of the subsequent harvest. With a lack of moisture, the soil is quickly emptied, which leads to a reduction in flowering and fruiting of the plant. That is why in the summer season you need to water the strawberries as often as possible. It is important to water the strawberries during the active growth of the bushes. If there is no rain in the summer and the temperature remains high, it is necessary to water the remontant strawberries every day.
With constant soil mulching, watering of remontant strawberries can be reduced. Mulching ensures the accumulation of moisture in the ground and regular access of the plant roots to fresh cool air.
Preparing remontant strawberries for wintering
Caring for remontant strawberries in the autumn, and the subsequent preparation of this crop for winter is a very important process.
The main components of compulsory care for remontant strawberries in the autumn period:
- A gradual reduction in watering and sanitary procedures for treating bushes (trimming diseased or damaged leaves, as well as trimming a mustache). The yield and quality of remontant strawberries in the next year depend on these actions.
- In winter, part of the leaves of remontant strawberries dies off and falls off. Often, all kinds of pests and pathogens are found in fallen leaves. That is why, with the beginning of spring, it is necessary to remove all dead foliage from the beds. It should be noted that this should be done only after the end of the frost, when the snow is growing.
Diseases and pests
Remnant strawberries are quite sensitive to various pests and diseases. Here are some of the diseases that can be observed in this culture:
- Powdery mildew.
- Gray rot.
- Stem nematode.
- Increased leaf spot.
- Late blight.
For all these pests and diseases, you can buy many effective drugs in the store. All work on the treatment and treatment of bushes must be carried out after a painstaking study of the instructions for the preparations. After the processing steps, you can not eat the berries of remontant strawberries for several more days.
Thus, remontant strawberries are easy to plant and care for, with the correct implementation of which this crop yields a large, high-quality crop throughout the year.
