One of the garden crops, pleasing with beautiful and tasty berries, is garden strawberries. A favorite among the variety of species is rightly considered the variety Victoria, the cultivation and care of which is not difficult for experienced gardeners. If you have no experience growing berries of this species, do not despair, you can get a good harvest by following some simple tips.
Our recommendations will help you take proper care of Victoria.
- The key to successful cultivation will be the right place for planting. It is best to stay on sunny slopes or clearings, which are not advisable to obscure, since even a moving shadow can adversely affect the taste and size of the berries.
- It is necessary to transplant strawberries every 4–5 years to a new place to increase fertility and soil renewal. In addition, plant transplants will help get rid of pests.
- Care for Victoria should include thinning the plantation. It is necessary to carefully examine the bushes and remove plants whose berries are small or dry, and peduncles do not bear fruit. This way you will get rid of weed varieties accidentally introduced along with the seed material.
- Proper reproduction is a procedure without which care for Victoria does not do. Root tendrils best during flowering and ovary berries. To do this, choose the first-order sockets. Pay attention to the number and size of berries on the bushes. Even fruits that are not damaged by diseases are the key to a healthy plant suitable for vegetative propagation.
If you have chosen Victoria repairing strawberry , care for it should be more thorough.
This variety differs from ordinary strawberries in continuous flowering and a long fruiting period, which can last until September under favorable weather conditions.
Care for Victoria repair type includes some features:
- A large number of berries and the duration of flowering and fruiting periods create the need for abundant watering and timely enhanced dressing of plants with mineral and organic fertilizers.
- Bushes need to be planted at a sufficient distance from each other. This is necessary to ensure a sufficient amount of nutrients. The minimum distance between the plots should be 80 cm, because over time the plants grow actively. The optimal gap between the bushes is 40 cm in the presence of 3-5 outlets. You can plant them closer by reducing the distance to 20 cm. However, this is only possible if you reduce the number of outlets to 2.
- To preserve soil moisture and protect it from pests and weeds, mulching is used, the covering materials for which may be peat, compost, last year's leaves or a special non-woven material that allows air and moisture to pass through.
- To increase the second and subsequent yields of the repairing Victoria, spring peduncles can be cut.
Remember that, regardless of the variety, any strawberry for successful cultivation needs to pay a lot of attention and enrich the soil with fertilizers. Surround the garden strawberries with attention and care, and the plants will thank you with a good harvest of delicious berries.