What is the method of planting strawberry seeds? When is the right month to sow?

In strawberry planting, most growers choose to buy direct seeding seedlings to plant strawberries, but few use strawberry seeds to plant strawberries, so can strawberry seeds be sown directly? What is the method of planting strawberry seeds? When is the right month to sow?

Can strawberry seeds be sown directly?

In fact, strawberry seeds can be sown directly, but it will be more troublesome than using direct seeding strawberry seedlings, and strawberry seeds need to be treated before sowing.

The specific operation methods are as follows:

1. Soak the strawberry seeds in warm water of about 60 ℃ and stir until the water temperature drops 20 ℃, then soak at rest for 3 hours, drain the strawberry seeds, rub them brightly with hands, put them in moist gauze to accelerate germination, and then sow the seeds after they are exposed to white. Just sow the seed directly, but cover it with a thin layer of soil.

2. In order to promote seed germination, you can cover the area where strawberries are planted with a thin layer of straw and remove them after finishing the seedlings.

When will strawberry seeds be sown?

At present, many strawberries are grown in greenhouses, so they can be sown all the year round, but keep the temperature around 25-28 ℃.

Because there is such a temperature requirement for strawberry seed germination, if it is planted in the open air, it is best to choose to sow between early September and mid-October, so that it can bear fruit in the spring of the second year, but the number of strawberry fruits borrowed in the first year is generally small, and strawberries do not flourish until the second year.

Third, how to plant strawberry seeds? What are the methods?

1. Management of strawberries after sowing

There is no need to apply fertilizer before planting, just bask the strawberries in the sun regularly and water the soil once when the surface of the soil becomes dry.

2. Transplanting seedlings

Strawberries planted with seeds are generally planted in spring, that is, they are transplanted and planted in the middle and last ten days of March every year. The row spacing should be kept at 30 to 40 years, and about 10,000 strawberry seedlings could be planted per mu.

3. Field management

Strawberries can blossom and bear fruit after transplanting for 2 months. During this period, in order to provide sufficient nutrients for strawberries, weeds need to be removed and topdressing should be carried out in time. On the one hand, nitrogen fertilizer and compound fertilizer should be applied to the soil, on the other hand, foliar fertilizer should be applied on the leaves of strawberry seedlings, and be careful not to spread fertilizer on the heart of strawberries so as not to burn the seedlings.

4. Flower thinning, fruit thinning and pruning

Don't be reluctant to give up at this time, this is a necessary measure to make strawberries of high quality and high yield. During the flowering period, each plant retains about 5 large flowers, each plant can retain about 4 large fruits, and other small fruits and abnormal fruits are removed to avoid waste of nutrients. Pruning is the same thing, those old leaves, withered leaves and rotten leaves should be removed in time.

5. Strawberry winter measures

Strawberries are not very hardy, so warm measures such as buckling sheds should be taken in winter. Strawberries are usually covered with film around the end of October.