Year-round fresh berries: how to grow strawberries at home

With the beautiful leaves and delicate flowers, strawberries on the windowsill will look better than ornamental plants, and its fragrant juicy berries will please you in winter

Strawberries cultivated mainly due tasty berries. And few know that this plant - a real storehouse of nutrients. Tea and infusion of its leaves improves heart function, helps to overcome fatigue and drowsiness winter, treats hypertension, insomnia, atherosclerosis, anemia and other diseases. From the roots of the plants do facials and lotions, a decoction of the flowers caressed his throat during inflammation. This also means drink with acne and other rashes to normalize metabolism. But perhaps the most amazing strawberries that it is quite taxing on (with the exception of forest berries), and its possible grow at home.

Sorts

The house can take root and conventional strawberries, but a better yield, and several times a year, give remontant varieties. The first berries can be harvested from bushes within six to eight weeks after planting the plants in the pot. For large berries prized cultivar "Elizabeth II». Good yields are different: South, Clear, Red Richie (berries grow up to 6 cm in diameter), Roshchinskaya, Mount Everest, Maherauh. For small-fruited include: Alpine, Rügen, Alexandria, curly, and others. Feels good homes strawberries Baron Solemaher, Shpanka, Rugiya Rhine and Vale de Roulet. last berries smell like a forest plants, but much larger than him.

Planting, care

For growing strawberries at home suitable pots of not less than 3 liters. The balcony boxes plants are planted at a distance of 20-25 cm from each other. The best soil - a mixture of semi-decomposed peat with mineral fertilizers. At the bottom of the container is poured drainage. Berries are planted on the sunny side.

Gameday take seedlings directly from the country. In the autumn, before the first frost, choosing the healthiest specimens with large leaves no stains and other damage. Carefully break, separating from neighboring plants. In order not to disturb the root system with a lump of land, transplanted into a pot, watered abundantly, and enter the house.

Strawberries are planted directly into the pot in which it will grow. Older plants can not tolerate "relocation" to a new residence.

Most often, strawberries, as well as strawberries, propagated mustache. However, there are varieties remontant strawberries which do not form tendrils. Such plants are propagated by dividing the bushes and seeds (for them leave the biggest berries). Seeds sown into pots in January - early February, the seedlings are planted in balcony containers in April-May.

Strawberries watered sparingly. Fed once or twice a month with cow or horse manure, twice a year - in trace elements, watered with a solution of copper sulfate. To plant bear fruit throughout the year, in the autumn and winter it is illuminated by fluorescent lamps.

Strawberries in the closet: the experience of Member FORUMHOUSE

Member of our portal, with the nickname Vernik91 growing strawberries in the closet. In several pots, size 32h32h28 mm forumchanin dropped remontant varieties Cinderella, Alexandria, Aleksandrina, Rujana, Onex Time, Baron Solemaher.

Plants dosvechivayutsya six lamps 18W. The average temperature in the closet - about +30 C. strawberries Vernik91 watered with plain water, leaves from a spray moisturizes. The first berries were small, but very sweet and fragrant.

In the process of cultivation Vernik91 faced with such problems: in one of the bush bottom began to turn yellow leaves, there were black gnats. Gameday advised him to fertilize plants, dry earth and watered moderately in the future: fungus gnats start up when there is an excess of water.

Most often room strawberries attacking pests such as the strawberry mite and sawfly. On berries can appear gray mold. If the soil pereuvlazhnyat - powdery mildew.

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