Strawberries are one of the most popular berries in our country. Its berries are tasty, beautiful, fragrant and healthy. Any beginner gardener, first of all, seeks to grow this particular berry on his plot. Many are faced with the problem of finding good seedlings, but you can grow strawberries from seeds. Using this method, any kind of these berries can be grown, including ampel strawberries.
Before growing strawberries from seeds, it is necessary to prepare the necessary containers for sowing. It is best to use small flat bowls with a height of not more than 5-7 cm with small drainage holes in the bottom. The containers are filled with a small layer of drainage and soil, consisting of sand and light sheet soil, taken in a ratio of 1: 1.5. Before sowing, the soil is well moistened with warm water. Strawberry seeds are very small, so they are sown directly on the surface of the soil. Seeds need to be slightly pressed with your fingers into the soil surface, after which the plates are covered with glass or a transparent film.
After sowing, you need to periodically, as it dries, moisten the soil with a spray gun, ventilate the sowing and wipe the inner surface of the glass from condensation that forms. Do not water with a jet of water, as the seeds will float to the surface of the water. For good seed germination , a temperature of not more than 18 degrees is required. Holding seeds before sowing at a temperature of 3-7 degrees for one week allows you to increase germination.
Sprouts of strawberries appear in no less than three to four weeks. All this time the containers can be kept in the dark, but with the appearance of seedlings they need a sufficient amount of light. If sowing is done in February-March, artificial illumination of young plants will be required, in April the length of the day is already sufficient for the normal development of seedlings. With insufficient lighting, the seedlings are very elongated, their normal development is disturbed.
Strawberry seedlings need to be regularly moistened, but do not allow excessive moisture, which, like drying out the soil, can destroy plants. Too thick seedlings gently thin out. Seedlings are grown to the stage of three true leaves and then dive. During the dive, it is necessary to ensure that the seedlings are planted in the soil at the same depth as before the dive.
After this, the seedlings should take root for a while, then they begin to grow vigorously. At this time, plants should be gradually hardened, gradually accustoming to sunlight and fresh air.
The final step in the methodology that answers the question of how to grow strawberries from seeds is planting plants in the ground. Planting seedlings on the beds is usually carried out in the second half of May, when the risk of morning frost disappears. At this time, young plants usually already have six to eight true leaves. The plot for wild strawberries needs sunny with fertile soil, but not containing a large amount of nitrogen. Excess nitrogen leads to intensive leaf growth, but low fruiting. Before planting seedlings, thorough preparation of the soil is carried out - possible weeds are completely removed, the soil is leveled and ground. Young bushes are planted from each other at a distance of 30 cm. When planting seedlings, they again make sure that the plants are planted no deeper and not smaller than when growing after a dive. After planting, seedlings are regularly watered, loosen the soil, weeds are weed.
The first berries on young plants appear in two to three months. For the winter, strawberries need to be well covered with fallen leaves or sawdust. The next year, the plants grow well and bear fruit well.
In this article, we talked about how to grow strawberries from seeds. This is a simple and affordable method. Knowing how to grow strawberries from seeds, you can always get excellent seedlings of strawberries, which later bear good fruit and are more resistant to disease damage than seedlings obtained from layering or dividing the bush.