How to care for Victoria in spring: feeding and planting

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Victoria is one of the varieties of garden strawberries, which is distinguished by its sweet taste and wonderful aroma. Like any other berry, strawberries need good care, especially after winter, because it is at this time of year that their intensive growth begins. And right now you can lay the foundation for a large harvest of this delicious berry.

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Spring berry care

Spring is the most wonderful time of the year. But, despite the warm and warming sun, which so relaxes many people, gardeners are entering a crucial stage. After all, it is in the spring that it is necessary to do many things, thanks to which the plants will get stronger and recover from the cold winter.
Strawberries are no exception. This berry is very whimsical and requires a careful approach. The spring period is the most crucial, since the harvest in the summer will depend on how well the strawberries were looked after in the spring. So, with the onset of spring you need to:
  1. Remove frozen bushes. This process is inevitable, since not all plants can withstand winter.
  2. Dry and yellowed leaves need to be removed from the bushes so that the remaining good ones receive as much nutrition and water as possible.
  3. Clear the garden bed of dirt and old grass. This must be done because strawberries love cleanliness.
  4. It is good to loosen the soil and make beds to make it more convenient to water and feed it.
  5. Feed to make up for the lack of all the necessary nutrients that were used up over the winter.
  6. Water. This should be done approximately once a week. But if the weather is very hot, then you need to look at how dry the soil is.
Spring care – this is the most important stage, since the plants after winter are very weak and require increased attention. And, as a rule, if everything was done well in the spring, the soil was fed, watering was timely, and the cleanliness of the bed was always at its best, then in the summer you can expect a good harvest.

Planting in spring

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Most often, strawberries are planted in the spring. In order to plant bushes you need to perform several steps:
  1. First of all, prepare the ground. You cannot plant strawberries in plain and unfertilized soil. This needs to be done in the fall, since if you fertilize the soil in the spring, immediately before planting, it is unlikely to be saturated with the amount of minerals that is needed.
  2. Dig a bed, to which approximately 6 kilograms of humus and mineral fertilizers should be added.
  3. After the bed has been dug and fertilizers have been added, it is necessary to make several ridges to make planting more convenient.
  4. Then they take one cat at a time and place it in these ridges. In this case, it is necessary to maintain a certain distance, about 30 centimeters, between the bushes themselves. As for the rows, the distance between them should not be less than 60 cm.
After planting, especially when it was done in the spring, it is necessary to take good care of the strawberries. As mentioned above, this is a very whimsical plant.In order for the bushes to take root, you need to constantly loosen the soil so that it is saturated with oxygen, water so that the plant always has water, and also weed the bed, that is, remove all the weeds.
Many people believe that since strawberries grow in the forest and produce berries, then there is no need to take care of the garden ones. Quite the contrary, garden strawberries require special attention.
Also, due to the fact that strawberries are considered very whimsical and capricious plant, it is recommended to change the location of the bed every 3 years. Many gardeners note that in the third year the bushes produce a smaller harvest, despite the fact that the care was excellent. But after the location of the bed changed, the harvest doubled. This indicates. That the plant used all the nutrients that were available in this area of ​​​​the garden.
It is best to plant strawberries in the spring, because our winters can be very cold, and bushes that have not yet matured may not take root.

Feeding Victoria: rules and features

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As mentioned above, proper fertilizing of the soil plays a huge role. After winter, strawberries need as much minerals and water as possible, which, unfortunately, cannot just appear in the soil.
That is why fertilizer plays an important role. And it needs to be carried out until the plant begins to grow intensively:
  1. You need to take one tablespoon of ammonium sulfate, mix it with two glasses of manure (cow manure) and add the resulting mass to ten liters of water. After this, you need to stir well and pour about three glasses of the resulting mass under each bush.
  2. In May, shortly before the strawberries begin to bloom, you need to feed them again.To do this you will need a teaspoon of potassium sulfate and two tablespoons of nitrophoska. Dilute the resulting mass with ten liters of water and pour 2.5 cups under each bush.
On how well it was produced spring care for strawberries, there will be envy of their yield. Don’t be lazy, because the plant will appreciate your efforts and give a wonderful and tasty harvest.
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