How to prepare strawberries for winter?

Prepare for the arrival of winter should be carefully and very carefully. Cooking for wintering requires not only fruit trees, in preparation for the cold period, and berries, in particular strawberries. Preparing garden strawberries for winter is not a difficult, but compulsory, because your harvest depends on it next year.

Cooking strawberries for the winter

The natural protection of the kidneys from frosts is a healthy leaf device. That is why in the autumn period you should carefully consider all the rules of feeding, eliminate all pests and cure diseases of the plant. Nothing can so prepare the strawberries for the winter, like healthy foliage and the absence of all pests. Here are the basic rules and tips on how to prepare garden strawberries for winter:

1. One of the important stages of preparation is hilling and subsequent mulching. Loose land around the bushes should be still in the summer, on the eve of the cold it can not be done. Roots may not have time to recover, this will have a very bad effect on the plant's resistance during wintering.
2. If weeds have grown on strawberry beds, they should be removed in the spring. Until the cold weather weeds will not give mature seeds and do not carry danger, but weeding can damage the roots of strawberries, which will badly affect it in the frost.
3. The best means of thermal insulation in the cold is snow. What to hide strawberries for the winter, if the snow has not fallen out? For this plant materials are suitable: leaves, straw or hay, spruce lapnik. But these materials have some disadvantages: they can accumulate moisture, which leads to the cutting of the plant. Under the hay, mice can winter, which, most likely, will bite the roots of the strawberry. It is better to use lapnik or needles, dry raspberry branches. Young plants are best sheltered completely, large bushes enough to cover with needles in a circle.
4. You can use artificial materials. Set the autumn arcs over the strawberry bushes, and then cover them with a material called "agrotex." Under such a coating, even in a very cold winter, the plant will not die, moisture will not accumulate there, the material passes sunlight.
5. Prepare strawberries for winter is best during the first established frost. The fact is that hardened plants cope better with winter colds.

Growing strawberries in winter

We very carefully prepare the garden strawberries for the winter, but who said that it is impossible to grow strawberries in winter? To grow a sweet berry to the New Year's table is quite real. To do this, do not need a lot of capital or a lot of effort.

You can just allocate a room in an apartment or a private house. You will not face the problem of pests or precipitation. You can save space and plant strawberries in an upright position. To do this, you can make polyethylene bags (quite enough diameter 16 cm and a length of up to 2 m). If the ceilings allow, the bags are set one on top of another, not more than three tiers. Pour any organic fertilizer into the bags with the earth. In plastic bags, cut at a distance of 20-25 cm and planted seedlings. It is necessary to create conditions for permanent watering. To the container with water, connect the hose and carry it to the bags with seedlings. The other end of the hose is connected with packages, per day for one such packet should account for at least 2 liters of water. This system does not require high costs, and from one square meter you can collect in the first months of growing up to 30 kg of strawberries. Thus, you can not only make a pleasant surprise to the family, but start a fairly profitable business with a small investment in the first stage.