Many gardeners know that strawberries have the ability to take all mineral components from the soil composition. And if you plan to plant vegetables in the beds where strawberry bushes previously grew, you should give the land the opportunity to recover, regaining the ability to give good yields.
When to plant something after strawberries
Strawberries need not only self-care, but also certain activities after their removal, since the soil after such plants is severely depleted... Such a berry is considered a plant that can bear fruit in one place for no more than four seasons, and then it must be transplanted.
The right solution is to give the earth time to rest. In such situations, it is arranged steam field... The soil is cultivated from weeds, fertilizing components are introduced, and nothing is planted in these places for a whole season. During this time, humus is mineralized, and nutrients acquire forms that are available for assimilation.
One of the technology options can be sefederal couple... In the spring season, the site is sown with mustard, alfalfa, rapeseed, oats, rye. All these crops are distinguished by a large vegetative mass. As soon as the first month of summer comes to an end, the culture should be plowed.
By this measure you increase the humus content in the soil, solve the problem with the introduction of manure or river silt, because such procedures are always costly in terms of financial resources and free time. The introduced components will saturate the soil composition with organic matter and nitrogen.
It is necessary to transplant strawberry bushes in the country in the fall.
The soil is still warm, but already contains a sufficient amount of moisture. Work should be done on a cloudy day or in the evening. This will increase the percentage of plant survival, transfer stress, it is easier to acclimate, reduce losses among the planting material.
To preserve the roots, the bushes must be planted with an earthen lump.
It is necessary to plant plants by lowering the root system into the hole vertically... It is forbidden to bend or twist it, place it horizontally. The strawberries are sprinkled with earth to the core, the soil is lightly compacted. The hole is watered, mulched with chopped pine bark. Instead, it is allowed to use fertile dry soil.
Old bushes, unsuitable for transplanting, dug up and burned... This measure allows you to destroy harmful parasites and not transfer them to a new place in the strawberry beds. The weed is removed along with the remaining strawberry roots. The soil is dug up onto two bayonets of a shovel, humus and manure are brought in, which they managed to perepil.
You can not dig up a bed of strawberries straight into winter, if you decide to rid the garden of it. Just cover the bushes with thin cardboard or newspapers in several layers, put fallen leaves, thin branches cut off from trees, dried weeds on top. All this spilled abundantly with Baikal EM 1 solution.
Such a heap is covered with a dense dark film. The components will process themselves on their own, leaving no trace of the berry planting. You can make holes right in the film in spring and plant pumpkin, squash, zucchini in them.
These cultures will delight you not only with their size and shape, but also with their taste. You don't even have to waste time digging up the beds, removing old berry bushes and weeds.
What can be planted in the beds after strawberries
An important question for gardeners is what crops are allowed to be planted after strawberries. Experts assure that it is best to sow root crops in such beds. The best option is carrot... Will feel great greens, onions, cabbage or leafy vegetables, legumes.
Carrots do not suffer from strawberry diseases.
She is not afraid of dangerous pests that have a detrimental effect on berry bushes. This is due to the fact that the roots of such crops can assimilate nitrogen from the air.
It turns out that they do not “pull” a component important for their development from the soil. In addition, legumes are involved in soil saturation with useful elements... By planting such plants after strawberries, you will not only get a good harvest on weak soil, but also prepare the garden for growing other plants.
It is believed that they grow well on former strawberry plantings cucumbers, melons, zucchini and other melons and gourds. Such a crop rotation is possible if the land is pre-cultivated and fertilizers are added to it.
Recommended in the first season after planting strawberries garlicwhich has antifungal and antimicrobial properties and repels harmful parasites. The aisles are used for celery and parsley, which scare away slugs - frequent residents of strawberry beds.
It has been proven in practice that the quality of the soil after the predecessor can be improved by planting certain types of flowers on the site. It can be tulips, peonies, garden violetse. And if there are opportunities and a sufficient area of the garden, break flower beds in such a place.
What crops absolutely should not be planted
Not recommended use strawberry beds for planting the following plants:
- raspberries;
- hawthorn;
- rose hips;
- strawberries;
- rowan.
Raspberry is different the same diseases and pestsas strawberries. And the weakened soil will not give the raspberry tree the required amount of nutrients. Suffer from diseases similar to strawberries potatoes and tomatoes... So their landing is also prohibited.
You can return strawberry beds to their old place no earlier than after five to six years. This is exactly the period during which the soil has time to rest, restoring its strength completely.
Knowing all the rules of crop rotation and combined plantings, which grows best after strawberries, you can achieve high yields in your personal plot.
The methods of growing strawberries and caring for them will help in the fight against harmful parasites and plant diseases, the combination of plantings will have a beneficial effect on the growth and development of plants.