Garden strawberries, or removable strawberries, in recent years, is increasingly grown on the balcony or loggia. Such cultivation can be carried out all year round, but in order to grow a productive plant, it is necessary to properly determine the choice of variety and strictly observe the technology of growing taking into account the botanical and varietal features of the berry culture.
Features of year-round cultivation
Homemade gardening is becoming increasingly popular and in demand. Compared to the cultivation of such vegetable crops such as cucumbers and tomatoes, strawberry bushes have an indisputable advantage in the form of compactness and relative unpretentiousness. Berry culture does not need a lot of soilThat allows you to exercise on a balcony or loggia using a long-term location.
Balcony growing strawberries all year round does not require too large financial costs. The main costs are associated with the acquisition of high-quality seed or ramp material, nutrient soil mixture, special fertilizers and planting containers. It is allowed to use independently made soil. To grow a berry culture from seeds or seedlings, it is necessary to adhere to the recommendations for the choice of the variety.
The best removable varieties
If in the late spring and summer periods for growing strawberries, you can use balconies and loggias without glazing, then grow a berry in the cool time of the year it is possible if you organize a mini-garden in a closed room. Classic varieties of garden strawberries are inappropriate to grow in balconies, because fruiting is formed only once a year. The optimal alternative option for balcony gardening is the cultivation of removable strawberries.
| Sort name | Description of the bush | Description of Yagoda | Advantages and disadvantages | Varietal features |
| "Clery" | Small compact bushes with dark green leaves | Large and beautiful, conical shape, rich red color with glitter | Indicators of resistance to the diseases of the root system are good, and resistance to white and drone spotting moderate | The earliest grade among the varieties of the CDD |
| "Florence" | Powerful, slightly splashing bushes with a large number of dark green shiny leaves | Large size, aligned, cone-shaped, dark red | It has good winter hardiness and forms a minor amount of mustache | High yield, suitability for long-term storage |
| "Geneva" | Ampel grade with fairly compact bushes | Large or medium size, with a pleasant sour sweet taste | High resistance to sulfur rot, fruiting before frost | High-yielding grade, very popular in the middle lane |
| Zenga Zengan | High-graded bushes, high, semi-science, with a slight formation of sockets | Wide conical, angular shape, dark red, shiny | Average winter hardiness and tick-borne damage resistance. High risk of lesion with gray rot | High yield and universal use of crop |
| "Home Delicates" | Blades spherical, with good leveling levels, compact | Very large and dense, beautiful berries with excellent taste | Abundant fruiting from June and before the onset of strong frosts | Early repairing grade widely used in decorative gardening |
Growing from seeds
Surface sowing of seed material on a moisture soil mixture is made in early February. With this method of growing fruiting comes in mid-August. It is allowed to use under sowing and growing both the finished soil mixture and the soil cooked independently:
- stir the riding peat, turf and sand in a ratio of 6: 3: 1;
- mix horse peat, turf land and humus in a ratio of 1: 1: 1;
- to mix the rigid peat and wood sawdust in the ratio of 1: 2 with the addition of a small amount of biohumus.
Sowing must be covered with a film to create a greenhouse effect. When complying with the temperature mode, sections appear approximately three weeks, after which the film coating is removed, and in the formation of three to four properties, picking into separate flower pots.
Strawberry on the balcony: landing features (video)
Seedling landmark
Growing a berry culture must be produced on balconies located on the south side of the house or in the presence of sufficient lighting over the time of day. Optimal is growing on the glazed balcony. When planting a shot, you should give preference to floral pots. Use and special balcony boxes is allowed. In such landing capacitances, strawberry seedlings should be planted with a distance of at least 20-25 cm from each other. Any planting capacitance must have drainage holes to remove excess moisture from the soil.
Strawberry bushes do not like drafts, which should be considered when preparing racks on the balcony or loggia. When growing garden strawberries in the conditions of a glazed balcony, it is possible to plant seedlings into separate seating containers in the middle of March. If the berry plant is cultured on an open loggia or balcony, the landing is made slightly later, about mid-April. When implementing landing it is very important to trace the heart seedlings at one level with the soil. Landing is made in abundantly moistened soil.
Balcony cultivation of a berry culture does not imply particularly difficult care. Cultivation technology involves the implementation of the following events:
- timely and relatively abundant watering at least twice a week, in the evening, in the way "through the pallet";
- neat and shallow loosening of the soil at least once a week;
- removal of the first coloring, which guarantees obtaining the most abundant and qualitative subsequent harvest;
- depending on the varietal features, it is allowed to leave a minor part of the mustache with side sockets, on which the harvest is also formed;
- in order to conduct artificial pollination, it is recommended to use the usual artistic brush with a soft pile.
The first feeding of a berry culture should be carried out after the appearance of the fifth or sixth leaf on the plant. Busty should be picked up at least twice a month. For feeding, special fertilizers are most often used, but independently prepared compositions can be applied. A good result gives the following type of feeding of a berry culture:
- fill on a third of a three-liter jar of a thoroughly crushed egg shell;
- add about 200 g of wood ash and pour out water with water;
- insist fertilizer at least five days in a dark and cool room;
- obtained by infusion dissolve water room temperature at the rate of 1: 3.
Replace ready-made mineral fertilizers can be underwater, diluted with water in a ratio of 1:20. If cultivation is carried out on an open balcony, on the winter it is recommended to warm the berry bushes with wood sawdust. In the glazed balcony conditions at a temperature mode, not lower than 2 ° C, the plants can not be covered. Experienced gardeners carry the containers with the bushes of garden strawberries in the cellar or garage room. As a balcony culture, strawberries can be grown not more than three years, after which it is necessary to replace the soil and plants themselves.
Prevention of diseases
When growing a berry culture on balconies and loggias, plants less need to use strong preventive chemicals. Nevertheless, the garden strawberries need to conduct protective events.
Strawberry: Selection of varieties (video)
It is allowed to carry out the processing of berry bushes insectofungsides or more gentle means in the form of the infusion of bitter pods, horse sorrel and elderberry. Standard three processing per month should be supplemented with prophylactic inspections and immediately removal of all diseases affected by diseases or pests of the above-ground parts of the plant.
The opinion is common that there are some certain varieties of strawberries for growing in an apartment and for open soil. This statement is incorrect, because plants of this type can not be divided into groups, so there is no hard separation.
Growing in a pot.
It should be noted that strawberries on the balcony can be grown with a little hard work but only with a responsible approach.
These plants react rather sharply to the wrong conditions of cultivation, pollination, therefore, some people are dying and without fruits.
A warm and glazed balcony is great for growing strawberries, and it is possible to do this all year, because it needs a room with good ventilation. In addition, the plant needs a lot of space for roots and natural fertilizers.
Soil preparation and seedlings
It is very important to create the most optimal conditions for growing berry plants, as it will be possible to grow strawberries on the balcony only when forming for its suitable microclimate.
So that the Earth breathe, foam balls are added sometimes.
Find a good soil and focus it is only half of the case.
It will also be necessary to carry out the following work:
- Installing drainage. With the help of the drainage system, all excess moisture from that container, which was chosen to grow strawberries will be quickly removed. To arrange a kind of drainage, you need to take a prepared container, to make 3-4 holes in it so that the excess water can calmly go beyond its limits. In addition, it is recommended to pour out some large-scale materials on the bottom of the capacity (for example, crushed stone, gravel, small pebbles). It is not necessary to pour too much - it is enough that the material covers completely the bottom of the tank. Due to the use of gravel or rubble, the excess water will be removed as quickly and efficiently as possible, so the bushes will not cause malicious effects from the convergence.
- Create the most fertile soil. The following components are required here: sand, peat, chernozem, fertilizer and loam. We take everything in the necessary proportions (the amount of each part is better to clarify from specialists), we thoroughly mix with the help of girlfriend and fall asleep to drainage.
- Also, it is also necessary to support the prepared soil with active elements acting as quickly as possible. They are necessary so that the plant takes place in the container, and this perfectly contributes to a quick start. Here you can choose a variety of growth stimulants that are sold in specialized stores. You can limit their use with the first 10-14 days after landing, then they become not needed.
- Determine the appropriate place to locate the container with the seedle. The place should be warm and light, so that the strawberries can perform photosynthesis and form all sorts of substances.
Seedlings can only be planted in properly prepared soil.
It is desirable that the earth and the soil are warm, because It contributes to the fact that the roots take care of the most well. In addition, before planning seedlings on the pots, it is recommended to cut the roots to the bottom a little, because they die from the ends (2-3 cm). Before planing in a pot, you need to stir soil and make it free. This will allow strawberry roots to quickly grow in all directions. As soon as the plants are planted in the pots, they need to pour and leave on a well-ventilated place, where the temperature does not fall below 20 degrees (there are further temperatures reduced to 15 degrees).
Care of growing strawberry bushes
Growing any berry plants requires a responsible approach, because it is possible to grow strawberries on the balcony only subject to certain rules of care. If the tank under the bush is small, and the room will not be systematically and efficiently ventilated, then the growth of bushes will be very slow. Despite this, in any case will have to use special sheets.
Here the choice of funds is quite wide, so it is quite possible to purchase a universal agent. This is usually a powder that needs to be diluted in a certain proportion with water and spraying on the leaves of strawberries every few days. With the help of conducting such events, you can somewhat compensate for the shortcomings of the conditions for the cultivation of strawberries.
As strawberry grows, the plant care will only become more complicated. For example, you need to delete all the mustache on time, which will take almost all energy and useful substances in the plant. It is necessary to remove the mustache immediately after detection, because otherwise, with a large number of long mustows, it will be possible to say that the bush simply will not remain forces and trace elements for ripening berries. As a rule, it is possible to start turning the mustache in a couple of weeks after landing.
At the same time, you need to take into account the features of some varieties. For example, certain varieties of strawberries are known in that it is formed during germination a lot of colors, of which approximately half, and then and 2/3 will need to be removed, because The bush will not be able to cope in balcony conditions with such a large load. Of course, the berries will appear, but they will be small in size. In this case, it is recommended to take quality - leaving a limited number of flowers, you can get pretty large and juicy berries.
Methods of pollination
Flowers pollination is probably the most difficult thing than the growing of berry plants. Strawberry on the balcony is not at optimal conditions that are far from the outdoor generated. Flowing pollination can be made using the following ways:
- Wind. It should be understood that in the flowering process, a sufficiently large amount of pollen will begin to stand out, which for fertilization should be found on the flower falling. After entering pollen on the generative bodies begins to get tied a berry. In natural conditions, pollen falls into the right place at the expense of the wind. On the balcony you can create such conditions by making a small draft. It is very important to ensure that the room temperature in the room fell below 15 degrees. If it is impossible to warn it, then the wind should be done warm with the fan - quite enough of the weakest speed. We direct the fan on the plants and keep so for a few days;
- Insects. For the conditions of the loggia and balcony, this method is hardly suitable, as well as if you grow strawberries all year round. If, for example, cultivation takes place on the street and on large areas, then for the rapid and most efficient pollination, hive is installed with bees. Of course, put the hive or to start other insects capable of pollination of flowers, it is categorically recommended on the balcony, because This will lead to very unexpected and negative consequences;
- Manually. A fairly effective method that is characterized by maximum efficiency. To solve all problems with pollination, even if the strawberries are grown all year, we take a silent, wetting it a little in the water and drive through all the flowes. As a rule, for high-quality pollination of all bushes requires 30-40 minutes. The option is not the easiest to use, however, if you plan to plant strawberries all year on the balcony or loggia, then this method is worth all efforts.
Opportunities and general rules
Of course, grown strawberries on the balcony for the whole year. To do this, it is enough to create optimal climatic conditions, to maintain the bushes and be able to pollinate the plants with one of the proposed methods. If it is planned to grow strawberries all year, then you need to choose the most convenient option for planting plants. The most common are: pendant pots, shelves, solid rectangular containers and vertical beds.
Extremely effective vertical beds. Video below.
It is worth noting that strawberries on the balcony can grow all year round. Moreover, the possibility of growing a whole year weakly depends on the variety of the plant (you can choose absolutely anyone in the store, but preferably removed and enjoy delicious berries all year).
Some subtleties of homemade cultivation. Video below.
The main thing is the right care and pollination.
If you have a minimum growing experience on the windowsill, at least greens for your table, then a great temptation to swalls on something much more interesting, for example, get juicy and fragrant berries of strawberries in the midst of winter. We try!
Is it possible to grow strawberries on the windowsill and balcony
Nothing prevents the cultivation of strawberries from seeds at home. This will require not so much expenses and effort. If winter is chosen for the season for harvesting, it will be needed to provide artificial illumination. For this purpose, phytolamba is well suited, which can be purchased today in the same stores where pots and soil are sold for landings.
The secret of producing strawberry harvest on the balcony in the right choice of sowing material, which should be undemanding to growing conditions. Our tips will help you get a guaranteed excellent result.
Strawberry grade for growing on the window at home
A common mistake is to buy for growing strawberries from seeds at home varieties designed for greenhouses. Only the repairful varieties are suitable, insensitive to the duration of the daylight and temperature fluctuations in the apartment. Affective varieties that sow in suspended containers and porridge are perfectly suitable.
To make a year round to please the family balcony strawberries, it is worth paying attention to the following excellent proven removable varieties:
How to care after landing and before harvesting, step by step
Thoroughly consider every step of cultivation - this is exactly what will increase the chances of fruitful growing strawberries in winter at home. Properly selected varieties are well transferring the lack of illumination, but they show the demanding to the temperature regime, as well as feeding, the quality of the soil. Our strawberry growing tips will help you avoid common mistakes and get excellent harvest from the first time.
A place
The best place for landings will be the southern windows, but the eastern and western apartments will also fit. Only the northern people are not suitable, since natural lighting still plays an important role in growing bushes. Artificial readiness solves this problem when growing strawberries at home only partly. Also, the plant is extremely sensitive to drafts, so it is better not to use a laptile loggia.
In addition to the windowsill and suspended containers, Kashpo can try to use multi-tiered floor pyro. They have only one disadvantage - for approach to such a bed, there is a lot of space on all sides.
Strawberry in Kashpo on the balcony Fast ripening of berries directly depends on the duration of the light day. Ideally, it should be 12 hours. In the summer it is not difficult to ensure, but I will need phytolampa in the winter. It is not necessary to include it for all day, but only in the morning hours from 8 to 11, and in the evening from 16 to 19. Set this mode is more convenient with a special timer with which such lamps are sold.
Temperature regime is selected rather loyal. It is important not to fall below the permissible minimum. For strawberries, it is + 18 0 C. Optimal humidity - in the range of 50-75%. In the heating season, the air in the apartments is very dry. It helps to solve this problem. Morning spraying of bushes made of clean water spray temperature.
In which container to plant
Considering that the bush in one pot lives from 2 to 5 years, it is best to use not plastic, and clay tanks with a size of 3 liters. There should be a sufficient number of holes for drainage, and the pallet is not too small. If, for growing strawberries on the windowsill, suspended boxes are used, it is optimal to take 10-15 liters, in which 4 bustle can be planted. On the bottom of the boxes and pots are minor stones, crumples, crushed eggshell.
Potted Pot However, it is important to take into account the type of planting material. Only bushes with several leaves can be planted into large pots. If you exhibit seeds, then they are first sowed on small cups. This approach is fully justified, since a weak root shootout system is not able to pull out enough moisture from the ground to prevent its stagnation and the appearance of mold.
Which soil put home strawberry
If you go to a specialized store for the soil, you can search a special substrate, or purchase universal for vegetables or flowering indoor plants. However, the soil for growing strawberries in boxes can be prepared independently. For this take sand, coniferous ground, humus in equal proportion. The second option is to prepare a mixture of biohumus and peat. As a result, an air and a slightly wet mixture should be obtained, into which phosphoric fertilizer immediately contributes.
Tip: To take the land from the garden is impossible. It may have pests and fungal diseases. If there is no other way out, then the entire soil volume is carefully packed in the oven at least half an hour at a temperature of 180 0 C.
Preparation of planting material
Planting material can be purchased on specialized markets and stores. You can buy seeds, but with them much more work, because you need not just to sow, but also a very long one to dream of young strawberry rapts in Cachepo, until they gain enough power for fruiting. Of all bushes, choose the strongest, which are thoroughly washed in the disinfection solution (for example, phytoosporin). This will not be afraid of the root rot.
If the seed method is selected, then stratification is required for all varieties. Seeds are put on a wet gauze, roll and stick into a hermetic package. He is put on the top shelf of the refrigerator, where they need to lie 2-4 weeks.
Direct landing
Shed in pots Eating bushes for growing strawberries on the balcony should be very neat, carefully placing the root so that they occupy the position in full growth. If the root turns out to be too long, it can be shortened.
Stratified seeds are planted into a common box, where they are close to minimal depth. Then the drawer is wrapped in a film and put in a warm place. There it stands until shoots appear. Only after that the film is removed, and the drawer is transferred to a bright place. Change in pots can be performed in the stage of 2 real leaves. Ideal time for growing seedlings - the beginning of spring or the end of summer.
Do not forget about feeding:
Comprehensive mineral fertilizer is recommended to fertilize the soil with a periodicity of 2 times a month.
Diseases and pests
In natural conditions, the strawberries can tester a wide variety of diseases and pests. And on the windowsill in the apartment she threaten the gray rot, and the cobweb tick. Rota often appears due to the thickening of planting or supercooling of bushes. Compliance with the recommendations on landing density and temperature control in the room will avoid the appearance of the disease.
But the web tick is a frequent guest on the window plantations. A tincture of garlic will help to get rid of it. Two teeth spread out and pour the glass of water. Two days you need to insist the mixture, and then pour the enclosed fluid into the sprayer and spray all the bushes.
Terms of appearing and harvesting
Exact rates of aging depend on the variety. The peculiarities of growing strawberries are that many factors affect the duration of flowering and the appearance of berries: the frequency of feeding, the duration of the daylight, temperature indoors.
Ideally, there should be 2 months from planting seedlings in a pot and before the appearance of the first berries.
Next, it all depends on the variety, because many bloom and fruit continuously, and others take a month for rest between fruiting. If you see that there are no colors and berries on the plant, it means that the time of rest has come. It is necessary to stop the enhanced watering and feeding until the strawberry rests and will not resume the growing season.
Pollination at home strawberry winter
Knowing how to grow strawberries on the balcony, it is impossible to forget about her pollination. In natural conditions, the bees are engaged. And now instead you have to work for you.
We take a brush for watercolor and carefully spend the pile of flowers, not forgetting none. If this is not done, then the berries will not be at all, or they will be deformed and tasteless.
How to grow strawberries at home, video
Now you see that the cultivation of strawberries all year round is not such a difficult matter. It is quite possible to try, especially if you have the opportunity to buy seedlings.
In the absence of dacha, the rod to gardening can be replenished with the cultivation of berries, greenery and some vegetables in the city apartment. In the spring plants will lame a place on the balcony, in winter on the windowsill. For example, strawberries will bring both berries on the balcony and decorates the place. To get a crop, efforts will be required, the right conditions and care.
What kind of grade to choose
It is better for growing this berry a glazed balcony facing the south side. It is there that there is enough light so that the plant felt comfortable. In this case, you will have to take care of additional lighting. For this, LED and fitoluminescent lamps will fit.
Before directly planting, choose strawberry grade. Not all types of strawberries are suitable for home conditions. You need to pay attention to such characteristics:
- the ability to be fruit with weak lighting;
- the duration of fruiting;
- the possibility of self-pollution.
If the balcony is on the north side, then you should give preference to such varieties as "Elvira" or "temptation". They adapt well to unfavorable conditions. "Festival", "Desnahanka", "Home Delicates", "World Debut" have been perfectly proven. The latter is valued not only for delicious berries. He has beautiful dark pink flowers that make. You can also try to grow varieties that do not give a mustache, for example, "bolero". It is easier to care for such bushes, however, it will have to use seeds for breeding.
Building Plants and Strawberry / Strawberries
Another successful option is the removable varieties, among which the "Queen of Elizabeth" stands out. She grows in one place for several years, gives a mustache, so it is easy to grow. The main advantage of such strawberries on the windowsill - all year round can be trapped with berries, as the crop gives both in spring and autumn.
Also at home, strawberries are growing, for example, Tuscany variety. It gives fragrant berries. In addition, it almost constantly blooms, so it will be an ornament.
Strawberry - Methods of Growing
Grow strawberries on the balcony in different ways. Comfortable containers are often obtained from the remedies. Depending on the size of the room, the containers are placed horizontally or vertically, which allows the maximum to use the place.
Variations of strawberry growing in Kashpo
Pots, boxes and plastic bottles
Strawberry on the windowsill grows well in pots. The main condition is their volume must be at least 2.5 liters. For each bustle, it will take a separate container. Pots set up rows. Or you can proceed originally and place them vertically, thus obtaining interesting beds.
To save strawberries in winter, you will need two boxes. The largest foam foams in a thin layer. Then they put a smaller in it, in which plants are located.
For the first method, you will need several pots of different sizes. They need to pour the soil and put one on another, starting from the largest. The second method provides for the use of a metal rod. It is fixed in the ground and the prepared containers prepared on it. It looks like the design is very unusual.
Suitable for growing and wooden boxes. The distance between the bushes should be at least 15 cm. It is important that in the bottom of the container there were holes for water drain.
If the pots or boxes are missing, and growing strawberry growing, you can use conventional plastic bottles. You need to choose a large volume container, two-liter containers are suitable. And you can place them horizontally and vertically. In the first case, they are cut in half, both parts apply for planting plants. In the second, there is a small hole in the wall, in which the bustice will grow. They put them simply on the floor, fix on the wall or pyramid-based basis.
Pipes and bags
An interesting way to grow strawberries - in pipes. It allows you to significantly save a place in a balcony, which is usually limited area. Two plastic plumbing pipes of different sizes are used for this. In the main, diameter of about 20 cm, bushes will be placed. The second, thin, with a diameter of 1.5 cm, is designed for watering. Narrow must be longer than 10 cm.
In a thin pipe, a lot of holes should be done, not reaching the lower edge of 15 cm. Then it must be wrapped in a burlap and secure the rope. In the second pipe, the holes should also be done, a diameter of about 10 cm. The distance between the wells must be withstanding 20 cm. After that, the plugs are inserted into the pipes and placed one to another. Next, they fall asleep some amount of clay and slightly moistened land. It is necessary to ensure that there are no empty seats.
The design must be carefully fixed. It is very easy to use it. Strawberry bushes planted in the wells. When the time of watering comes, with a narrow tube remove the cap and poured water. It impresses the fabric and falls into the ground. To make sure that the soil got enough moisturizing, you can just try her finger in one of the wells. The advantages of this method can be considered compactness of landings and affordable prices for materials.
It is also allowed to use bags of polyethylene. They are filled with soil, in the side they make holes for strawberries, and the tank with water is placed on top.
Suitable soil
To get a harvest, you need to know how to grow strawberries on the balcony of seeds or seedlings. It follows from the preparation of the soil, because this plant is quite demanding to the composition of the soil. It must be a sublinous. The mixture is better to purchase in specialized stores or make yourself. For this, the black soil is used as well:
- peat - well kept water;
- humus - increases soil fertility;
- sawdust - before use they should be withstanding in urea;
- sand - you need to take the coarse-grained clay impurities.
Strawberry landing scheme
Proportions for mixing: 10 parts of the earth, peat and humus, 3 pieces of sawdust, 1 part of sand. When the soil is ready, it is poured into prepared containers. Now it should be fired. This solution is prepared for this: 1 glass of cowboy and half of a small spoon of copper sulfate are prepared for 3 liters of water.
Features of growing seeds
From seeds you can get strawberries on the balcony, but the cultivation will thus demand a lot of effort. The beginning of the sowing is February-March. Strawberry seeds germinate very slowly, so it is recommended to soak them. To do this, take a transparent plastic container, in the lid of which they make holes in order to provide air access. Wash two rags with water. One is placed on the bottom, seeds poured on it, then cover the second. The container is placed in the refrigerator. At this time, you need to follow the rags not dried.
For growing strawberries from seeds, the use of peat tablets is allowed.
Two weeks later, the seeds should be sown into the container filled with soil. They are slightly pressed to the ground with a tweezers or a match, then covered with a lid. Holes should also be done in it. After a while they will start germinate. No need to rush to remove the cover, it must be done gradually. After the appearance of three leaves, they need to be transplanted into small cups of 5 to 5 cm. Here, bushes will grow, and in May they are transplanted to a permanent place.
Necessary care
To strawberries on the balcony, it is well fruitful, it is necessary to create suitable conditions for it. Special attention should be paid to the care:
Growing on the balcony or windowsill is not such a complex process as it may seem. Strawberries can grow in pots, plastic bottles and other tanks. The main thing is to ensure the correct care. And then even in the urban apartment will be able to enjoy their own grown berries.
In fact, growing strawberries on the balcony - the case is simple. It is very convenient to grown so much, because the containers with strawberries will not take a lot of space. Another strawberry will always be at hand, and freshly plated berries can be immediately placed on the table. But the balcony must be solar. This is the condition for the success of growing. Strawberry should be covered with the sun at least 6 hours a day.
Strawberry on the balcony - this is not only berries, but also decoration
Most varieties can only give 1 crop per season. To improve the result from growing strawberries on the balcony during the choice, you need to pay attention to the removable varieties. If you grow this grade in a 15 l container, then with 1 container you can grow up to 1.5 kg of berries for the first season. An ordinary grade will give less harvest. The transplant is best to transfer young plants. Old plants are better not to replant.
What to grow strawberries on the balcony?
First there will be enough capacity by 3 liters. In the balcony boxes you need to plant plants in the interval from 20 cm from each other.
When landing seedlings in 10 l boxes can be placed 3-4 plants in each.
They must be evenly distributed, and at the bottom there should be holes to flow excess moisture.
For arrangement, the shelf must be placed a large pot, then insert the cylinder. It will be possible to place a smaller container. So you can equip up to 5 floors. At the first one can fit to 6 plants, and at the very top - only 1 plant. But this device will have a very beautiful view.
Planting seedlings
The main thing is to take care of the soil. So that the soil is high quality, you need to do the following. Drainage is installed. Thanks to him, it will be possible to get rid of excess moisture. To do this, the capacitations are drilled by holes through which the extra moisture will be held. From the bottom of the container or the pot, you need to put claympsit or gravel, as you can see in the photo.
The soil must be fertile. To make high-quality soil, you need to mix peat, sand, chernozem, fertilizer in proportion 1: 1: 3: 1, respectively. Also, you can add Suglink there. Everything is mixed and poured over the drainage. Now you can plant seedlings.
It is important that seedlings settled in a warm soil so that the roots are better to take root.
Landing seedlings need to be planted also into the fluffy earth so that the roots can grow freely to the sides. Then the soil is watering with water and put in a well-ventilated place, where the temperature is from 20 ° C, then the temperature can be reduced to 14 ° C.
To grow strong seedlings, it is important to observe the temperature regime
Feelable to strawberries or strawberries need active high-speed elements. For better suggestion, the seedlings should be provided with a quick start. For these purposes, growth stimulants are applied.
For good growth, seedlings need to be located in a sunny and warm place. It is necessary that the light day will stimulate the plant to the photosynthesis and the formation of organic substances.
Care for seedy
To grow a berry on the balcony, she needs to provide special care. If the container is very close or a balcony with poor ventilation, then the seedlings will grow slowly. For this reason, it is sometimes necessary to apply leaf feeding.
Special care must be provided to the mustache. They will take a lot of strength at the plant, so they need to be removed.
And the earlier it will be done, the more power will be at the busta formation. You need to delete them 2-3 weeks after the landing of strawberries. The smaller the mustache, the greater the size of the berries.
It is very important to remove the mustache in the strawberry
Shelter in winter
In order for strawberries on the balcony survived the winter, you need to do the following. It is pulled out of the container and bury into the ground over the surface level, then it should be ridiched. Through time, it will be necessary to compact the soil around the bushs of the plant. For additional protection, different shelters apply.
On the balcony, the plant is better to cover sawdust after the soil freezes. It is necessary that there is no decrease in temperature below 5 ° C. At the occurrence of thaw strawberries, you need to ensure good ventilation, because it can smoke due to warm temperatures.
Pollination
Since such culture at home is devoid of natural pollination, it will be necessary to provide during flowering, which can last a few weeks, artificial pollination. Make artificial pollination of flowerons on the balcony can be 2 methods:
- direct the fan in the morning (under the influence of the wind, the plant will be polled in open soil);
- pulling every flower manually, spending on each daily soft brush for drawing.
To strawberries grow well, you need to poll it properly
To grow strawberry at home is accessible even inexperienced gardeners, and this does not require significant financial costs. Difficulties may occur only with pollination, especially if you decide to breed extensive berry plantations, because it's not so easy to drive a tassel for each small flower daily, and with a fan successful pollination is difficult to guarantee.