Sowing strawberries in vermiculite in February

Strawberries can bear fruit from May until frost. In the first two years of receiving the highest yield. On the third or fourth year of culture is required update. Reproduction strawberries produced by dividing the bushes or by sowing the seeds. To use the latter method, require loose and fertile land, because this culture is quite capricious in growing seedlings.

And improve the soil structure and its porosity river sand or vermiculite. In the latter substrate shoots very good feeling, because it is moisture capacity and vozduhoemky. Let's try to grow seedlings of strawberries directly in vermiculite, with further podsypaniem land. Sowing of strawberries is carried out in the third week of February.

What you need

vermiculite;

Seeds of strawberries;

cover from the cake;

1 liter of boiling water;

polyethylene film;

vermicompost;

pear;

river sand;

ash;

priming.

Step-by-step instruction

1. Mark the small cover from the cake.

2. Pour in container vermiculite layer at least 5-7 cm.

3. Pour into vermicompost cap and dissolve it in a liter of boiling water at room temperature. By this means, a substrate enriched with nutrients.

4. With pears gently shed vermiculite to become wet.

5. Take a package of seeds pour strawberries on a saucer.

6. Fingers are uniformly dispersed on the surface of the wetted substrate.

7. Cover with plastic wrap.

8. Put in a warm and bright place germination.

9. Every day you need to remove the film for 10 minutes, until sprouts appear. Simultaneous sprouts appear within a week.

10. With the growth of the seedling pour the sifted all-purpose primer for food, as well as to plants are not stretched.

11. As an additional fertilizing is necessary to shed a solution of vermicompost every 2 weeks.

12., Pour calcined river sand mixed with the sifted ash on to the substrate surface is not formed mold.

13. As soon as the 3-4 true leaf implement picks in the cups.

In May, the seedlings can be transplanted to a permanent place.

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