When to transplant strawberries in the fall to a new location

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-18 00:05

It is easy for experienced gardeners to determine when to transplant strawberries in the fall to a new place for the purpose of reproduction. But those who are just starting to get involved in gardening work should know all the nuances of this important event.

How to tell if a strawberry needs relocation

There are simple wisdom on which the harvest of delicious and aromatic berries depends. Their number depends on three important components - watering, bait and timely transplantation. If there is a certain time frame for fertilizing, and a certain time and frequency for quenching the thirst of a plant, then the third condition can only be dealt with with experience and knowledge.

Practice will show that it makes no sense to grow strawberries in one place for more than 4 years - the berries become smaller and deformed. The bushes grow in diameter and grow, and the fruit becomes less and less.

Depletion of the soil and overgrowth of the plant negatively affect its fruiting. The distance between previously removed plants is reduced to such an extent that they are deficient in nutrients, water, give abundant vegetative mass, but almost do not bear berries.

You can easily determine when to transplant strawberries in the fall to a new place: in the second year of germination, the bushes are propagated. There are two methods for this - mustache or bush division. In the third year, if reproduction has not been performed in the past, there are two ways left: dividing the old bush or simply removing it.

The most significant harvest is obtained in the second year of life, the third will show a decrease in fruiting (some gardeners begin transplanting during this period). In the 4th year, the transfer process becomes urgent, since the land is completely depleted and the negative changes to the plant are more than obvious.

The main reasons for transplanting strawberries

It is impossible to do without transplanting this culture, there are important reasons for this:

• total crushing of the once large berries and the loss of their attractive qualities (size, juiciness, taste and aroma);
• depletion of the soil, leaving it of previously available microelements necessary for the full development of strawberries;
• reproduction of pathogenic bacteria and microorganisms in the soil layer, the activation of which will certainly begin in spring;
• plant aging caused by the lifting of the cuttings up the stem - a lot of resources are spent on them, this prevents flowering, berry ovary; freezing in cold weather, they additionally age the bush.

The need for a transplant may also be caused by other reasons: an initially incorrectly chosen place, a change in the relief or an accumulation of groundwater approaching the surface. In any case, the success of the step taken depends on the correct time frame.

Optimal deadlines - how to determine them

There are several options used in gardening practice. Each of them may have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Experienced gardeners prefer the autumn period for transplanting, but this can be done at other times of the year.

What you need to know:

1. Spring transplants are optimal if you just need to achieve effective engraftment of seedlings. But in this case, you cannot count on a spring-summer harvest - flowering and ovaries will appear only next year.
2. Summer movement of bushes is carried out at the end of the second - beginning of the third month (depending on the region of residence and its climatic conditions). But, despite the widespread recommendations in specialized journals, it is not worth transplanting at this time. The result will please only under certain natural conditions and careful care.
3. In the fall, knowing when to transplant strawberries to a new place, the gardener receives significant bonuses - the necessary soil moisture, uncooled soil, but the optimal air temperature, vegetative mass, which the plants have time to build up and hide under it for the winter.

The advantages of an autumn transplant also consist in the potential to get a crop in the new season.

Dates of autumn transplant

Some inexperienced gardeners find it difficult to decide on the choice of a favorable time. Most sources indicate only streamlined, vague terms, but do not write exactly in which month it should be done.

There are exact instructions, which depend on the region of residence of the farmer. They are indicated in the table:

Region of residence	Process start	Maximum possible date
Moscow suburbs and the capital region (except for the northern regions)	August 15	September 25
Siberia and Altai	July 20	August 20
Ural	August 15	10 September
Northwest region	August 15	September 15th
Southern regions	September 15th	15 october

The average dates are indicated. You need to focus not only on the recommendations, but also on the weather forecast compiled by the local meteorological center.

In any case, the main guideline for maximum opportunities is the period of 1 month from the first frost. Hence, the days shifted to summer for the northern regions and deep autumn time for the southern ones.

In each climatic zone there are unexpected surprises of nature, therefore, it is said about the need to adjust the data on the weather conditions of a particular year.

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Conditions for success

No matter what time the culture is transplanted, the success of the event largely depends on the knowledge, skills and abilities of the plant breeder. Knowing how to correctly transplant strawberries in the fall, you can achieve almost 100% result.

7 rules of the gardener busy with growing your favorite berries:

1. Choosing a suitable place. Strawberries grow especially well in even, ventilated and lit beds. A slight slope is not a hindrance to plantings, but low illumination, a transparent shadow inevitably lead to a loss of sweetness and aroma, a deterioration in taste.
2. Correct predecessors. Strawberry beds should not be planted after plants that consume similar components from the soil and are susceptible to the same diseases. Banned cabbage, potato beds, planting nightshade cucumbers and bulbous crops. If you plant strawberries after cereals, herbs, legumes and root vegetables, the result will please.
3. Thorough preparation of the soil. Fertilization 10 days before the start of perturbations (humus, ash and a little superphosphate). Sand, sandy loam and black earth are introduced into clay soil. The ideal options are loose, moisture-consuming and fertile soils for strawberries.
4. Good seedlings are the first rosette with a mustache, grown without separation from the mother plant. Ideally, when it has good roots, there are a couple of leaves, and the stem is short and strong.
5. The most suitable time for a transfer is selected taking into account the region of residence and the long-term weather forecast.
6. Skillfully carried out transfer to the hole - together with a lump of earth, slightly compacted soil above the roots, a free growing point with a completely sprinkled root system.
7. The distance between the bushes is no more than 40 cm and no less than 25.

In winter without snow or early onset of cold weather, the possibility of the death of weak plants is not excluded. But the gaps made by nature in the rows of young bushes are easy to fill with new seedlings.

Outcomes

Autumn is considered a great time to move strawberries to a new location or propagate them:

1. Only with this method next spring can you expect a new harvest.
2. It is necessary to choose the right time, which is determined by climatic conditions.
3. The rules for preparing the soil, choosing a planting site and growing seedlings are strictly observed.
4. For an experienced gardener, the transplanting process is carried out permanently - this rejuvenates the plantation and increases the yield of berries.