In this article recommendations on the care of strawberry beds are made at adverse weather conditions. In particular, at threat of frosts, it is necessary to carry out a continuous mulchirovaniye of a bed a thick layer of compost, peat, wood shhepy, sawdust or simply leaves.
Late autumn or in nachale winters the strawberry bed can appear under ugyorozy as during the snowless period at temperature to 10 ° a plant frost, especially their fruit kidneys, freeze slightly, and at 15-20 degrees of a frost, perish. Root sistema this thermophilic kultury (and her ancestors, between proyochy, it it come from Southern Ameriyoka) perishes already at a minus 8 °.
Therefore, after last hard frosts, we need to give only to gardeners an instruction on the future. The best option – a continuous mulchirovaniye of a strawberry bed a thick layer komposta, peat, wood shhepy, sawdust or simply leaves. It, kstati, will be also protection against vesenyone-year weeds. And it, interfood we designate, almost osnovyony "headache" at cultivation of the seductive sadoyovy mollycoddle. It is necessary to weaken to it attention – entirely zarastet a dandelion and a sow-thistle, and can be lost at all. Mnoyogim it simply unable to resist to weeds biologicheski.
Recently fans of berries quite successfully mulch the strawberry beds thick nonwoven mayoterialy black color, kotoyory stack on the earth pered sprouts landing (plants land in a cut). Under it and weeds are muffled, don’t sprout, and the earth keeps heat and moisture more long. The put thick cardboard will descend for this purpose and old linoleum (it is more dense and more reliable), and even in some layers. Similar zashhita very much it "is pleasant" to wild strawberry. Sometimes are surprised, why it can’t resist to weeds. Not only because the rasteyony it is insignificant, first of all, because this culture still the young – it only three with poloyoviny centuries, whereas sornyakam millions years. And they davyono adapted to ekstreyomalny conditions of a survival.
(On Hozyain newspaper materials).