The strawberry growing cycle does not end with picking berries, you need to take good care of your favorite garden dweller in order to get a good harvest next year. The mandatory procedure that must be performed before the start of frost is strawberry transplant.
During active fruiting, mustaches form on the bushes, which are removed or rooted in the vicinity of the main bed, forming a rosette at the end. These shoots are transplanted to form a new, young garden. Only young plants can be used to form a new garden; old bushes will be barren.
Transplanting strawberries to a new place requires certain weather conditions. It is advisable to lay a new garden on a cloudy day or in the evening, but before the start of frost. The most favorable days for strawberry transplantation are the last week of summer, if August turned out to be hot, and September is moderately warm. It is very good if it rained before planting garden strawberries , since plants rooted in moist soil take root better.
A strawberry transplant can be carried out in the spring, but in this case, the berries on young bushes will appear no earlier than next year.
First you need to prepare a bed - to loosen the soil and make humus, as well as complex mineral fertilizers. Before landing, make holes, fill with water.
We plant strawberries in the resulting slurry, spread the roots along the width of the hole, sprinkle with earth on top. The size of the pit depends on the size of the root, the depth of planting should be such that the upper kidney - the growth bud, as it is called, is not covered with soil.
To consolidate the soil, water the bush once again, again sprinkle with earth. If you do everything right, then with a slight twitch, the shoot will not move, but will remain in place. The earth around should be mulched with sawdust or straw, and also provide regular watering to the bushes.
An alternative is strawberry transplantation on agrofibre, the use of which provides additional care to young garden plants.
Agrotextile is a special material that allows air and moisture to pass through during irrigation, but prevents the evaporation of liquid from the soil. Using special material will protect plants from weeds, and the root system - from pests.
Transplanting garden strawberries onto agrofibre is done as follows: prepared soil with moistened holes is covered with agrotechnical fabric, which needs to be fixed along the edges of the beds. In places where the recesses are visible, cuts are made. Bushes are planted in the holes obtained using a scoop. We mulch the aisles from above with straw or sawdust, so as not to further damage the agrofibre during harvesting and watering.
The use of ground cover material greatly facilitates the further care of strawberries, in winter agrotextile serves as a reliable insulation, during fruiting it facilitates the collection of berries that are not damaged by the ground and look attractive.