Strawberries are one of the easiest fruits to grow and perfect for beginners! Plus, they’re easy to grow in almost every climate and soil in the U.S. and Canada as long as you plant them in a sunny spot. Read on if you want to grow your delicious strawberries.

1. How to Grow and Care for a Strawberry
Successfully?
Strawberries are one of the easiest fruits to grow and perfect for beginners! Plus,
they’
re easy to grow in almost every climate and soil in the U.S. and Canada as long
as you plant them in a sunny spot. Read on if you want to grow your delicious
strawberries.
About Strawberry
If you want more information about strawberries, please read《 What is a
Strawberry？》
Strawberry Cultivation
Seed Propagation
Seed propagation is mainly used for long-distance introduction or cultivation of
strawberry seedlings to breed new varieties, and can also be used for garden
greening and fresh food planting.

2. During fruit harvesting in May and June, well-developed and fully mature fruits
were selected for seed harvesting. Peel the fruit put it in water, wash off the slurry,
and remove it to dry; Or the peel can be dried directly, then knead, peel, and seeds
can be separated.
Sowing seedlings in the next spring, but also in the collection of seeds in July –
August.
Before sowing, prepare a wide earthen clay basin, fill with fine nutrient soil, press
flat, the seeds soaked in 8-12 hours in advance, to be expanded after sowing on the
surface of the soil, and then sieve evenly on the thickness of 0.2 cm or so fine sand
covered.
To make the soil both contain enough water, and can maintain loose, to facilitate
the seeds to take root and germinate, can be planted after the mud basin in the

3. shallow pool, after the water slowly seeps out of the soil in the basin, and then
covered with plastic film, about 10 days can sprout.
After emergence, the seedlings should be thinned properly, and when the
seedlings grow 3-4 true leaves, they should be transplanted with soil in a small pot.
After getting used to it for some time, bring soil and transplant it to a breeding bed.
Ramet Propagation
Ramet propagation is divided into two kinds, one is rhizome ramet, the other is
new stem ramet.

4. Ramet Propagation
After the fruit is harvested, the management of the mother plant should be
strengthened in time, and fertilization, watering, weeding, and soil loosening
should be carried out in time to promote the new stem axillary bud to send out a
new stem branch.
When some new leaves are extracted from the aboveground part of the mother
plant and new roots grow from the underground root system, dig out the old roots,
cut off the black adventitious roots and aging rhizomes at the lower part, and
separate the new rhizomes one by one.
These rhizomes have 5-8 strong leaves on them and 4-5 vigorous and beige
adventitious roots at the lower part. Isolated rhizomes can be directly planted to
the production garden, after planting to timely watering, strengthen strawberry
planting management, promote growth, the second year can be normal fruit.
New Stem Ramet

5. In addition to the root-like stem division method, new stem seedlings of the
mother plant can also be cultivated to bear fruit.
The method is the first-year fruit plants, after the fruit harvest, with soil dug up,
replanted in a smooth border.
Furrow width 70 cm, can be planted 2 rows, row spacing 30 cm, each 50 cm dug a
hole, each hole planted two seedlings.
After a month, the mother plant will have two or three stolons. When each plant
has two or three stolons, the tips should be removed to make the new stem
thicker. Stolon removal is repeated.

6. The 2-year old seedlings planted in this way can be divided into at least 4-6 new
stems in each hole. Inflorescences on new stolons, combined with inflorescences
on stolons around new stolons, resulted in one-third more inflorescences on new
stolons than on stolons alone, resulting in significantly higher yields and less land
and labor.
After the fruit is harvested, the three-year-old strawberry seedlings can be removed,
and the two-year ones with one-year fruits can still be used.
Strawberry Care
Soil
Strawberry land should choose slightly higher terrain, flat ground, convenient
drainage and irrigation, good light, rich organic matter, strong water retention,
good ventilation, PH value is a weak acid or neutral fertile land.
Engraftment

7. The quality of transplanting has a great influence on the growth and management
of strawberries, so it is necessary to pay attention to transplanting.
1. Strawberry should pay attention to directional transplanting when planting, the
bow of the seedlings to the ditch side, so that the inflorescence born in the same
direction, the number of planting for a hole one plant, planting depth above the
heart is not buried, not dew root is appropriate.
2. Reasonable density planting: the planting density of strawberry has a great
relationship with the planting level, weak seedlings, late planting, lack of fertilizer
field should be dense, on the contrary, strong seedlings, early planting, sufficient
fertilizer and adopt plastic film covering technology should be sparse
planting, plant row spacing 50 cm ×20 cm is appropriate.

8. Watering
After planting to pour a permeable, planted in a week after the general early, late
each pouring water, later to make the soil often maintain wet state, for survival.
Fertilization
Strawberry needs more fertilizer from planting to flowering and fruiting, besides
should apply sufficient base fertilizer, timely complement fertilizer even can be in
fruit puffing period and harvesting beginning period acre applies strawberry
special fertilizer or phosphoric acid 2 ammonia 10 kilograms.

9. Furrow application in the form of 200 times liquid fertilizer combined with watering
has a better effect. Spraying 0.1-0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate only 2-3
times in the field with good growth also has a certain yield increase effect, not
spraying in principle at flowering stage.
The principle of fertilization in the fruiting field is suitable for N weight P and K, and
a reasonable proportion relationship must be maintained to obtain a higher yield
and maximum benefit.
Cover
Plastic film mulching can significantly increase fruit yield, increase fruit quality and
commercial fruit rate. Generally in the middle and late march to begin to cover the
membrane. Be sure to remove dead and old leaves from the plant before covering.
Harvest
The harvesting period is a busy season for strawberry farmers, in addition to doing
a good job of harvesting and listing.

10. Other
Other field management activities need to be carried out simultaneously:
1. Often remove sick leaves, yellow leaves, and sick fruit, take out the strawberry
field for deep burial, reduce diseases and insect pests.
2. Remove new stems often.
3. Combined with harvesting, it is found that there are half red (sunny side) and half
green fruits, which can be turned over to promote their uniform ripening.
4. Reduce the field humidity, do not make water after rain, reduce the sick fruit,
rotten fruit.