Properly organized land for the cultivation of a particular berry crop is a guarantee of a stable and huge yield, protection from weeds, diseases, and pests. Strawberries require special growing conditions. There are several technologies for creating garden beds for strawberries.
Varieties of beds for planting strawberries
Consider each view separately.
Standard horizontal technology and soil preparation
They are low beds that are not fenced. This is the most common way of arranging the beds. Training:
- Clean the area of large debris.
- Then the whole plot need to dig.
- Next you need to fertilize the soil. One square meter will need humus bucket.
- Markup for beds and tracks.
Make them easy:
- First you need to select the desired area.
- Dig the patch on the spade bayonet.
- Make the separation of the tracks and beds. Convenient width - 80 cm. To independently determine the width you need, squat down, stretch your arm, then multiply the resulting value by two.
- Young plants (seedlings) are planted in the fossa with the presence of humus. Landing takes place at length 30 cm between the rows as well 20 cm between plants that are in the same row.
This technology of arrangement of beds has its significant disadvantage, which lies in the complexity of care. Need to seven times per season carry out weeding and beds, and tracks. There is a risk of carrying a disease that may be on your shoes.
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- Markup can be done on agrofibre and poke dig holes.
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- And you can plant in the ground, but will have to remove weeds more often
Vertical ridges
Many gardeners consider this type of garden to be exotic. However, as practice shows, this technology has many advantages:
- You can save space for growing other crops.
- Plant care is greatly simplified, because you do not need to constantly tilt your body.
- Contact with ground cover has limitations, therefore the roots do not rotand the plant will not be affected by fungal diseases.
- Vertical give aesthetics to the whole garden.
There are downsides:
- Culture not resistant to low temperaturesrequires a warm climate or room. In elevated containers, the earth freezes over much faster.
- Plant it is necessary to water often. Every week it is necessary to conduct dressing.
Varieties of vertical beds
Vertical beds can be made of a wooden box for the garden, tires of different sizes, bottles, hanging for the balcony, with a sophisticated smart watering device. Let us consider in more detail the most popular species.
The pyramid of the boards do it yourself
This type is a structure that is made of soil and boards. You can choose the shape of the pyramid yourself. The form must be such that upper parts of the building did not close the bottom from the sun's rays.
The ridges, which are located in the form of a high pyramid, are differently called steps. The planting of young plants occurs over each other. Although the design occupies a small area, a large number of strawberries can be planted on it.
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- The pyramid of the boards
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- The pyramid of the boards
How to make construction of tires
Unlike a horizontal bed, you will need to spend a little effort to build. You need truck tire - this is the base of the pyramid. To build a second floor you will need a tire that has smaller diameter.
The top of the design will be a car tire. They need to prepare holes, and the base is filled with soil. Tires must be stacked on top of each other. Next is the backfilling of the land you need before good to fertilize. Due to its own mass structure will be sustainable. Holes are made from the side of the car tires.
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- Tires are poured over the ground and holes are made in the ground for planting.
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- Bed of tires after landing
The device of the pyramid of plastic pipes
Vertical can be built from scraps of plastic pipes of various diameters. Landing will get an aesthetic look. Weed plants in this case will be absent, and strawberries will be better sunshine.
The finished design is a kind of pot, where several plants will be grown. On the side of the pipes, holes are drilled from where strawberry bushes will appear. A pipe with a small diameter is needed for watering bushes.It also makes holes, and then placed in a pipe with a large diameter.
The gap that remains between the two pipes should be filled with claydite. This design simplifies the care and harvest in the future.
The method of growing strawberries in bags
This technology is gaining popularity because allows you to harvest a huge crop from a large plot. Care also becomes much easier. You do not have to carry out weeding and loosening the soil.
The main thing - this technology makes it possible to grow berries throughout the year. This can be done thanks to the heated room (greenhouse). Now online stores sell specially designed bags for growing. You can make your bags from polyethylene.
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- For private growing strawberries use small bags.
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- On an industrial scale - large bags
Using wire mesh
The grid must be rolled in the shape of a pipe. The diameter of the pipe should be 50 cm. From the outside, the structure must be wrapped with a plastic film. In the central part it is recommended to install the pipe in order to water the plant.
Bushes are planted in the holes. You can make holes with an ordinary knife.
According to reviews of many experienced gardeners, planting and growing strawberries is best done on vertical beds. This technology is effective. You can save space on the site, it will be easier to maintain, the risk of plant disease is reduced, the bed gets an aesthetic appearance.
You can organize this yourself with your own hands. Thanks to this, you and your family will be able to enjoy tasty fruits in the future.