In May, summer residents usually plant strawberries or garden strawberries, as it is popularly called. Experts of the Rosselkhoznadzor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory gave instructions on how to choose seedlings in order to get healthy and tasty berries.
It is better to give preference to such varieties as Darenka, Zabelinskaya, dawn, Krasnoyar, hope, light, ruby pendant, elephant, torpedo, fireworks, festival, fairy. They grow well in our climate.
Seedlings should be purchased in specialized stores or nurseries. There you can get a guarantee that you will not come across a non -existent variety or sore seedlings. Despite the fact that market merchants may have beautiful bushes in the assortment, this will not protect you from diseases or pests that may be in the roots. The age of seedlings should be no more than 1 year.
Strawberry seedlings are of three types: freshly dotted, “frigo” (there was long -term storage in the controlled conditions of the refrigerator) and seedlings with a closed root system (grown from undeveloped separated sockets in a peat substrate).
When buying a “frigo” seedlings, pay attention to the fact that she should have a well -developed apical kidney (the one from which young leaves grow), a blasphemous root system, without signs of drying, mold and genes.
The same signs are also characteristic of a healthy seedlings with a closed root system. It is necessary that she fills the entire container.
“Before buying, be sure to inspect the cups – there will be unscrupulous sellers who will sell seedlings with an open root system, like seedlings with a closed root system, planting it a few days before sale in plastic containers. The authenticity of the closed root system is evidenced by the ends of the roots sprouted through the drainage holes, ”the department experts said.
In addition, strawberry seedlings should not have signs of illness or pests. Healthy apical kidney is strong, elastic, light green or green.
The leaves of the seedlings should be leathery, shiny, with a characteristic puberty. But a pale color can be a sign of late blight necrosis of horns. It is impossible to cure the disease. Because of it, the plant will die. The wrinkled young leaves can say that the seedling is amazed at a strawberry tick. Dark or white dots on seedlings will be a bad sign. This may indicate the presence of fungal diseases.
