Rarely, what garden plot does without beds, designed for growing strawberries , because this berry is very popular in children and adults. They are different, it depends on the variety, the weather conditions in your area, the availability of space and soil in the garden. We will get acquainted with their main varieties in our article.
How can you grow strawberries?
To increase the yield and to facilitate the work of the horticulturist, the following types of beds can be selected for the cultivation of strawberries:
- mitaylder;
- vertical or longline;
- suspended.
Let's look at how to make such beds for strawberries.
Strawberry technology Mitlajdera can be grown in two ways:
- on narrow beds, the width of which should be 45 cm, and the row spacing - 75-90 cm;
- in wooden boxes without a bottom, their width should be 120-150 cm.
In the first case, landing is made in the existing soil with the addition of fertilizers, and in the second - you can use the purchased soil or a mixture of it with the top layer of land from the site.
Vertical (or tiered) beds are several containers for planting plants, located one above the other. They can be the same diameter or decreasing upwards (the design will resemble a pyramid). This method is best suited if you have little space on the site to plant strawberries. You can buy ready-made designs or make them yourself from tires, barrels, flower pots, etc.
Suspended beds are designed to grow curly strawberry varieties. The principle of their use is that the container where the plants are planted is suspended on ropes stretched between the posts. Roots are inside, and the leaves and fruits are outside. It is most convenient to use a specially designed bag for 6 plants.
Of course, you can grow strawberries and on simple beds, but then you will have to regularly fight with weeds, watering and fertilizing more often. These problems can be solved by mulching the soil around the bushes and guarding the bed itself. Also, such beds can not be made on the territory with a slope and in close proximity to groundwater.
Any garden, before you prepare a place for strawberries, it is necessary to determine what kind of beds in the conditions of its site will be the most effective, that is, it will be possible to harvest the largest harvest. After all, all the listed technologies of cultivation of this culture are aimed at this.