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The greatest reward for all labor for a gardener is a large harvest of strawberries. Experienced gardeners know that abundant fruiting of a berry occurs in the second and third years after it has been transplanted, and a good harvest is a sure sign for transplanting strawberries. If this is not done, the berries will become smaller, then they will become smaller. In fact, this is how the culture will degenerate in a few years.
To maintain the yield of strawberries, they need to be rejuvenated once every 3-4 years. This article will discuss how transplant strawberries correctly in the fall... You will also find out when you can transplant a berry, and when it is better not to do it. The article will look at the benefits of an autumn transplant, and a video will be selected that will further reveal the topic of transplanting strawberries to a new place.
Benefits of an autumn transplant
Many gardeners claim that autumn is the best time to transplant Rosaceae plants. Why? Due to the frequent autumn rains, crop care during this period can be minimized. In addition, rains will help young seedlings to take root better, since the soil at this time has a high level of moisture. But the question arises: when to transplant strawberries in the fall, in what month?
In September, you can already transplant strawberries. In warm regions, these manipulations can be performed in October. In this case, young seedlings will have time to build up a sufficient leaf mass for their safe wintering. Everything, as they say, must be done in a timely manner, then you can expect a worthy reward - a bountiful harvest.
Thanks to the autumn transplantation of berries, in the spring the bushes will already bloom, and you can indulge in a small harvest. With a spring transplant, it is not necessary to expect fruiting in principle.
How to choose strawberry seedlings
After harvesting in August, when it comes to remontant varieties, strawberries begin to throw out a mustache with young rosettes. This period is considered the most suitable for the selection of seedlings. You can also propagate the plant by dividing the bush. But this option can only be used if you choose young bushes that have grown in the beds in the summer.
The whiskers can be left for rooting directly in the beds, however, some gardeners root them in separate, previously prepared containers. So, transplanting strawberries in the fall will be performed better, and there will also be an opportunity to grow seedlings in winter.
If 4–5 leaves have appeared on a new outlet, then it can already be considered a full-fledged bush, which should already be planted from the mother bush. Before replanting a young bush, you need to remove all the leaves from it, leaving only 3-4 young leaves. Thanks to this, the root system will consume less energy to feed the green mass, and as a result, the strawberry bush will develop more harmoniously.
It is important that only the first 2 whiskers take root from each bush. All others must be removed. Otherwise, all seedlings will be small and weak. If, before replanting strawberries in a new place in the fall, water it abundantly, then the young seedlings will have time to develop a good root system and quickly take root in the planted area.
Choosing a planting site for seedlings
Before you start planting seedlings, you must choose a piece of land. The soil should be well fertilized, the soil should be loose and light, preferably clayey or sandy-loamy.
Before transplanting strawberries in spring or autumn, you should feed the ground.This can be done with mineral fertilizers, making, for example, a mixture of peat and wood ash or peat and mullein. In this case, the strawberry harvest, as well as strawberries (since the crops need the same care), will be stable and abundant.
Strawberries grow well after onions, lettuce, parsley, legumes, beets, garlic, radishes, and carrots. The transplanted bushes need to continue to be looked after. First, they need to be watered daily if the fall is dry. In addition, you need to delete all weedsso that they do not weaken the soil, and the strawberries can take root faster and more painlessly. It is impossible to plant plants from the Rosaceae family, which include strawberries, after cabbage and plants from the nightshade family.
Formation of a strawberry plantation
If you have already grown seedlings and prepared the necessary plot of land, and the transplantation time has already come, then it's time to start forming new strawberry beds. There are several ways to plant bushes:
- carpet;
- beds;
- staggered.
It is better to choose a cloudy day for transplanting, so that later you do not have to shade the beds. After digging the holes, they should be thoroughly filled with water, and then the seedlings with a lump of earth should be placed in them. Then the young bushes are covered with earth and watered again abundantly. With good follow-up care, all the seedlings will take root and will give the first harvest in the next season.
It is best to choose transplanted bushes from glasses or dig them out of the garden just before planting. If you do this, then the transplanted bush will quickly adapt to a new place, without even stopping the development process.
A few hours after transplanting, the soil will settle. Then the bushes can be sprinkled with dry peat or fertile soil. Roots develop better under a layer of mulch made from needles, straw or sawdust.
Basic transplant rules
Now to summarize, it is up to you to transplant strawberries in spring or autumn. However, it is important to adhere to some general rules:
- Strawberries should be transplanted by dividing a young bush, which is no more than six months old, or from young shoots of the mother bush, which is no more than 3 years old.
- When is the best time to transplant strawberries? In order for it to give its first crop in spring, you need to transplant it in early fall, although you can do this in the spring before flowering.
- Young antennae rosettes can be detached from the mother bush after they take root and form 3-4 adult leaves.
- Strawberries like moderately lit areas of land with slightly acidic, loamy soil. A swampy area of land can be drained, and lime should be used to lower the acidity.
- The culture will take root perfectly in the place of the previous planting of legumes. But it does not grow well after tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers.
- The preparation of the garden for planting strawberries should be started in 8 weeks. For this, the site is dug up, weeds are removed from it. The soil is fertilized, and on the eve of transplanting it is moistened.
- A young plant will better take root in a new place if the roots are dipped into a solution of water, clay and manure before planting.
- There should be a distance of at least 25 cm between the bushes, and 55–70 cm between the beds.
Before the onset of cold weather, the soil around the bushes must be mulched. If you live in a harsh climate, then the strawberry bushes should be covered, or even better, an arched frame should be built over each garden bed, which can be sheathed with oilcloth or polycarbonate.
So, from this article, you learned how to transplant strawberries in the fall, why this time is considered the best for carrying out these manipulations, and how to select and prepare the soil and seedlings for transplanting strawberries.
We also invite you to watch a video from which you will learn about several secrets of growing strawberries from one of our experienced gardeners:
