How to grow cream strawberries? How many times a year does cream strawberry bear fruit?

Now is the season for strawberries to be on the market. Whether it is a large supermarket, a roadside fruit stall or a strawberry plantation, all kinds of strawberries will feast your eyes and make you want to eat a bite. Such delicious fruit is mainly determined by its planting requirements. To grow cream strawberries, you need to prepare loose, fertile, well-drained and breathable soil. How to grow cream strawberries? Let's learn more about it below.

Contents of this article

1. How to grow cream strawberries

2. How many times a year does cream strawberry bear fruit?

3. Cream Strawberry Fruiting Time

How to grow cream strawberries

1. Seedling selection. Seedling selection is the first step in growing cream strawberries. Generally, you should choose healthy seedlings with more than three leaves for cultivation. The specific operation is to select healthy mother plants in spring, remove old, weak and diseased leaves, and then transplant seedlings at a row spacing of 1 meter x 0.8 meters. In the high temperature of summer, it is necessary to shade the seedlings to avoid strong light burns or water loss, and take measures to promote flower buds.

2. Planting. One month before planting, the strawberry garden needs to be turned over and the soil needs to be dried. An appropriate amount of pesticide can be added to eliminate underground pests. Cream strawberries are usually planted in October. The planting day should be a cloudy or sunny afternoon, and high temperature periods should be avoided as much as possible. The nursery should be watered thoroughly before transplanting. When transplanting, try to bring as much soil as possible to minimize root damage. Planting should be shallowly buried, and the heart should not be buried. Make sure that the heart leaves are still above the ground after watering. After planting, shade should be applied to prevent high temperature burns for a full year.

3. Field management. After planting, pay attention to temperature and diseases. When the temperature is below 16 degrees, cover the greenhouse and try to choose greenhouse film with good light transmittance to meet its light needs. Also pay attention to ventilation to avoid high temperature causing vigorous growth or disease outbreaks. When loosening the soil during planting, pay attention to applying enough base fertilizer. The base fertilizer is generally a mixture of fully decomposed farmyard manure and compound fertilizer. The amount of farmyard manure is about 4,000 kilograms per mu, and the amount of compound fertilizer is about 50 kilograms per mu. Fertilization should be carried out multiple times during the growth period to ensure yield. The fertilizers applied in each growth period are different, so pay attention. During the young fruit expansion period, fruit thinning is required to remove diseased and insect-infested fruits and deformed fruits, and concentrate nutrition to ensure the growth of high-quality fruits.

4. Pests and diseases. Once strawberries are infected with pests and diseases, they will have a huge impact on yield and quality, so we must adhere to the principle of prevention first and comprehensive prevention and control. During the peak period of anthracnose during the seedling stage and transplanting, it is recommended to disinfect the soil, and fungicides such as Baike and Anthrax Fumei can be used for prevention and control. . After the greenhouse is closed, it is recommended to fumigate the greenhouse with sulfur at night to prevent the occurrence of powdery mildew. If powdery mildew has already occurred, it can be treated with Amisida and Cuibei. The main pests are mites such as aphids and red spiders. Aphids can be controlled with insecticides such as anti-aphid and imidacloprid, and mites can be controlled with miticides.

How many times a year does cream strawberry bear fruit?

The fruiting period of cream strawberry is very long. As long as a certain sunshine condition is maintained, it can bloom and bear fruit all year round, for 6-8 months. The planting time of cream strawberry seedlings is different in different places due to different climates.

In the southern subtropical regions, it is usually planted in late September and early October. The fruits mature after 50 days and are harvested until March of the following year when heavy rains arrive. Two to three batches of fruits can be harvested.

The central region uses greenhouses for cultivation, usually from late August to early September. The fruits mature in about 90 days and can be harvested until May of the following year. 3-4 batches of fruits can be harvested.

In the northern region, it is generally planted in mid to late August. The fruit matures in about 100 days and can be harvested until June of the following year. 4-5 batches of fruit can be harvested.

Cream Strawberry Fruiting Time

Strawberries mature in approximately February and March, and the real big harvest is in April and May.

Strawberry is a fruit that likes light, moisture, waterlogging, drought, and fertile, well-ventilated sandy loam. Strawberries are generally harvested in April and May. Depending on the region, there are slight differences in when they are put on the market. Generally, when the temperature rises above 5 degrees in spring, the plant begins to germinate, and the optimal growth temperature is 20-26 degrees. In Jiangsu Province, it germinates in late February, blooms in early to mid-April, and the fruit matures in mid-to-late May. The temperature in autumn is below 17 degrees, and flower buds differentiate under short-day conditions of 10-12 hours, and there is a short-term dormancy in winter.

According to the fruit market, strawberries are generally available in February and March. In fact, December to January is the peak season for picking strawberries, but some people say that strawberries during this period are basically ripened prematurely, so the real ripening time for strawberries is from February to March!