Planting process

Step 1: Reserve seeds

You can pick out the strawberry seeds with a toothpick when eating strawberries, or buy ready-made strawberry seeds. In order to increase the germination rate of seeds, the seeds can be wrapped in gauze before sowing, soaked for 24 hours, and treated at a low temperature of 0°C to 3°C in the refrigerator for about 15 days to break the dormancy of the seeds, and then sow.

Step 2: Sowing

Strawberry seeds are small and must be sown carefully. The simplest method is to fill the flowerpot with sieved fine sandy loam mixed with a part of finer humus soil, and spray water through it. Ceramic pots are generally used because ceramic pots have good permeability and are easy to drain.

Step 3: Emergence

Spray water thoroughly before sowing, and spray the seedling medium thoroughly. Friends who use potted plants directly can put the height of the pot soil one centimeter lower than the upper edge of the flower pot. Spread the seeds evenly, and cover them with about 0.1 cm of sieved fine soil after sowing. Or you don't need to cover them with soil. As long as your seedling substrate is soft enough, cover the pots with plastic film to keep the soil moist. At a temperature of 25°C, seedlings can begin to emerge 15-25 days after sowing.

Step 4: Transplanting

The seedlings can be transplanted after 3 to 4 months of growth. The distance between rows should be controlled at 20 to 30 cm. Trim off the large leaves and plant at the depth shown in the picture above. Plant in soft soil. After planting, water the roots thoroughly and place in a semi-shady place. After a few days of slow seedling growth, the strawberries will grow smoothly.

Step 5: Results

Strawberries are the fastest growing of all fruits and can bloom and bear fruit 3-4 months after being planted from seeds. :

Daily management

1. Light: Strawberries like sufficient light, preferably more than half a day, and should be placed in a sunny and well-ventilated place.

2. Fertilization: Potted strawberries bloom and bear fruit many times a year and consume a lot of nutrients, so nutrient supplementation must be strengthened. You can use animal hooves, fish bones, poultry offal, bean cakes, etc., add water to decompose and ferment, then retting to make liquid fertilizer or topdressing compound fertilizer. Generally, top dressing is done once a week.

3. Watering: Strawberries like moisture but are afraid of waterlogging. Water when the topsoil is almost dry. You can use the soaking pot method and remove the pot when the water reaches the soil surface.

4. Pruning: For potted strawberries, excess stolons, old leaves and diseased leaves should be removed in time to reduce nutrient consumption, so as to improve the fruiting quality of potted strawberries.

5. Yellow leaves: Sometimes you may find yellow leaves on the plant, but don’t worry, just remove them. You can keep the yellow leaves in winter until new leaves grow in the following spring, and then remove the dead yellow leaves.

6. Shaping: You can use iron wire or bamboo sticks to make fruit stands of different shapes, put them in flower pots to stand up the fruit ears, which can promote ventilation and light transmission of the fruit ears, make the fruits evenly colored, and also Prevent soil from contaminating fruits and reduce damage from pests and diseases. Stolons can also be used to shape according to the principles of bonsai art to improve their ornamental value.

Strawberry is a fruit that is suitable for all ages. It is loved by almost everyone and has many benefits for the human body. It is the season to eat strawberries again, but many strawberries are now treated with various pesticides. , which makes people feel uneasy to eat, and strawberries are not easy to preserve. If you want to eat fresh ones, you can plant a few pots at home, and you can pick them and eat them now.