Along with new varieties of strawberries , new progressive cultivation and care technologies appear that allow you to get the maximum yield. These methods include planting strawberries on agrofibre or under the film. The use of agricultural tissue has been practiced for more than 10 years, but many gardeners did not have time to appreciate this method.
What is spunbond for?
Agrotextile (spanbond) is a special polymer material designed to care for plants. The main properties of agrofabric are the ability to pass and retain air and moisture in the soil. Mulching material protects plants from pests, reduces the number of weeds, in a few years of use it destroys them almost completely. If you want to get a good harvest of large, clean berries without land and litter, then planting strawberries on agrofiber is the best choice.
Which spanbond to choose?
Agrotextile material is of two types - white and black. White agrofibre is intended for covering seedlings, creating greenhouses and greenhouses in order to obtain an earlier harvest. Black material is used to mulch the soil, destroy pests and weeds. For cultivated plants, holes are made in the protective material, the rest of the space is pressed to the ground as much as possible, enhancing the effect. When choosing agrotextile, you should pay attention to the density of the fabric. The lower this indicator, the lower the conductivity of the tissue to sunlight.
Planting strawberries on agrofibre in spring is carried out using black spunbond, and for accelerated ripening of berries, plants are covered with white material on top. This technology will allow you to get the first crop a week earlier than expected. Planting strawberries in the autumn on agrofibre is carried out by transplanting mustaches, rooted in summer, into prepared holes, in the places of which cuts are made in the spunbond. If young shoots are rooted at the end of July, then in September you can separate and plant the plants in a new garden. In this case, spanbond is a reliable insulation material for the winter.
How to plant strawberries on agrofiber?
For planting, you need to prepare the soil, loosen it and add organic fertilizers - a diluted mullein or bird droppings. The planting pattern of strawberries on agrofibre depends on the size of the future beds and the selected material, the width of which varies from 1.5 to 4.2 m. It is more convenient to plant bushes in 2 rows on a longitudinal bed, leave a path between the rows. The minimum distance between the holes is 30 cm. Calculate the row spacing in such a way that it is convenient to harvest in the future. Planted strawberries need to be abundantly watered.
Agrofibre should fit snugly to the ground, for this aisle additionally mulch sawdust. On sale there is a special tile for laying tracks, but sawdust is preferable, since it retains moisture well and is used to press a mustache with sockets. At the edges of the beds, the canvas can be fixed with stones, bricks or hairpins twisted from wire.
Planting strawberries on agrofibre, in addition to all of the above, allows you to get an environmentally friendly crop, since pesticides are not used for care and pest control.