To ensure that on your site from year to year it was possible to collect a large crop of juicy and fragrant strawberries it is required to know how to transplant it in autumn to a new place. Do this at least 3-4 years at a time so that the bushes do not overflow and the berries are not crushed.
Autumn is the most suitable for transplanting strawberries. Thus, in the coming season you will already be with the harvest, which is not guaranteed when it was engaged in sitting in the spring.
How to choose the time?
It is very important to choose the right period for work in the berry. If you do not know how long it is possible to replant strawberries in the fall, then it is best to follow the forecasts of weather forecasters. Best if before the onset of frost on the ground will take at least two or three weeks. By this time the transplanted bushes manage to take root and are well wintered.
In different regions, the transplant time is different. But on average, it falls at the end of September - early October. In some places these terms may move closer to August, if the summer ends at about this time.
The question of the temperature at which strawberries can be transplanted in the autumn is very relevant. Sometimes it's quite cold days. There is nothing to worry about, if it's not frost. Therefore, it is best to transplant when the temperature has dropped below 10 ° C but has not reached 0 ° C.
How to prepare the soil?
Before correctly replanting the strawberries in another place, you should prepare a suitable site for this. It is undesirable that potatoes and tomatoes grow here, which exhaust the soil very much. The best predecessors are onions, garlic, cucumbers and parsley.
Before digging up the ground, it is generously fertilized with humus or manure, and then digged up. You can scatter on the site a little wood ash or sprinkle it individually for each bush already after the transplant.
To water or not?
An important condition for good adhesion of the bush is a good soil moisture. If there was rain before the start of work, then additional watering will not be required. But if
How to choose a planting material?
The bushes are replaced by bushes not older than two years, but more often this year's rosettes, which were formed from summer mustaches. Old plants have already outlived their own and do not use them.
Fovea for planting should not be deep, because the root neck does not need to be buried. Having lowered roots in a hole, they are carefully poured with soil, and then they are lightly compacted with palms from all sides. If necessary, each well is pre-watered.