Blink of an eye into the year strawberry season, Taizhou native winter strawberries also gradually into maturity, and become the darling of the fruit market.This time, many parents also began to inquire where to pick strawberries, plan the whole family picking a weekend tour.
Strawberry most of the time is planted on the ground, suffer one by one, although the strawberry garden looked lovely, but picking there are some inconveniences, the waist a long time will be tired, but also be careful not to step on the strawberry plants.
In recent years, in Taizhou gradually emerging a new way of growing strawberries, put up shelves, let strawberries live in the air, clean, easy to pick strawberries.
Taizhou people to explore the air kinds of strawberries
Strawberry plants in neat rows in a row of about a meter high shelf, a bright red strawberry fruit hanging down in Sanmen County, Gao Han fruit and vegetable cooperatives in Sanmen County, , Waiting to be taken away.Walking in them, one hand will be able to pick your favorite strawberry.The Strawberry roots are not soil, is the use of renewable resources cocoa as a substrate.
Reporter interviewed learned that the strawberry is not on the ground species, not even planted in the soil, the soilless cultivation of species planted on the shelf, this new strawberry cultivation methods, is emerging in Taizhou in recent years, Jiaojiang, Huangyan, Linhai, Yuhuan, three Doors and other places, there are 'aerial strawberry' appear.
In addition to generously investing large-scale modern agricultural complexes such as Green Woochuan and Lanmei Manor located in Huangyan to build a large-scale strawberry soilless culture base, some small-scale agricultural units such as Taichung Fruit and Vegetable Cooperatives and Family Farms also plotted small Experimental field, to try this new planting methods.
In 2016, Jinli Ping, a professional cooperative of black-skinned fruits and vegetables in Linhai City, learned about this new technology from the agricultural technology department. Under the guidance of experts, two-mu of strawberries were erected to cultivate experimental fields to replace the soil with nutrient matrices.
Despite the lack of technology in the first year of planting, the freezing cold caused the freezing of the 'Aerial Strawberries', but after the management was up, 'Aerial Strawberries' brought many benefits to him and he was very optimistic about this Planting way. 'Now there is a little touch to the door, try a variety of next year more.' Jin Li Ping said that agriculture must go in front of others.
Do not soil, aerosol cultivation of strawberries
In Taizhou City, in addition to the way that the substrate replaces soil, 'strawberries in the air' have also been planted by farmers to grow strawberries aerosol-grown.
Zijin Village, Zhang'an District, Jiaojiang District, this year's 51-year-old Chen Feng Hua and her husband covered six greenhouse greenhouse cultivation of aerosol strawberries.
Into the greenhouse, a plant has been the result of the strawberry plant species in the vacant cultivation bed, opened the shelves next to the black off the cloth, you can see a strain of strawberry bare roots, the edge is a row of nozzles.
Chen Feng Hua told reporters: 'Aerosol plant without the need for soil, water and nutrient solution deployment, 24 hours to the roots of strawberry spray to provide nutrients necessary for growth, but also observe the growth of strawberry roots and leaves at any time.
Stand cultivation to enhance strawberry quality
The development of traditional agriculture is closely related to the quality of the land. Only if there is a good land, will there be a good harvest.
But in 2012, Chen Gaohan of Linhai Duqiao picked up a shizuitan beach in the cross town of Sanmen County to develop agriculture, which is not traditionally planted well.
However, Chen Gaohan told reporters, it is the substrate soilless cultivation, air cultivation methods, breaking the land for agriculture restrictions.
'Some of the abandoned land can be utilized, at the same time, it can be removed from the soil, and pesticide residues in the soil as well as micro-organisms and heavy metal pollution can be avoided, which is also helpful for the development of safe agriculture,' said Chen Gaohan.
Linhai City, near the Children's Palace there is a tall sheds, which is the pickup company Ling Lake in the new aerosol cultivation base after they have been in Linhai City, Shaojiatu street has been exploring fruit and vegetable aerosol cultivation for many years and built more than 20 Mu base.
Ma Xiaoqin, one of the directors of the base, told reporters that their team has been focusing on aerosol cultivation since 2008 and their team members also have agricultural professional background.
Ma Xiaoqin introduced aerosol rack cultivation so that the straw far away from the ground, soil, reducing the occurrence of strawberry pests and diseases. 'Before nursery, shelves and beds can be cleaned and disinfected, the production process, the greenhouse to take a closed state, gas Fog cultivation can make plant roots in the most suitable environment for growth.
Away from the soil, can significantly reduce the hazards of soil-borne pathogens and other pests and diseases, which means that the natural reduction of pesticide residues, creating conditions for the production of green pollution-free agricultural products.
Stand picking strawberries, relaxed and elegant
'Now, we are still the primary version of the water and fertilizer integration, in addition to occasional weather changes require manual adjustment, the usual water and fertilizer systems can automatically sprinkle water, increase nutrient solution, management a lot easier.' Ma Xiao Qin said.
Move the strawberries from the ground to a height of about one meter shelf, leaving enough room for traffic between each row of shelves, the ground inside the greenhouse after laying flat mulch, even on a rainy day, walk in the shed is dry Clean stand cultivation compared to the traditional cultivation on the ground to reduce the labor intensity and time and reduce costs.
'Leaves, fruit thinning, picking, do not bend like squatting before, standing can operate .Not dirty, can do agriculture without bending.' Because there is no soil infiltration, water and fertilizer use On the more accurate, agricultural production toward industrialization direction.
In the sales, picking tours, traveling by car is the main consumer group of 'Strawberry in the Sky' because of its high investment in facilities and equipment, as well as its quality control in the production process, but also destined to grow strawberries worth than ordinary strawberries High, not dominant in traditional market sales.
The reporter interviewed learned that the cost of cultivating 'strawberry in the air' was about 60,000 yuan per mu, including greenhouses, steel stands, pipes for water, fertilizer and rubber.
Chen Feng Hua told reporters that since the planting of 'aerial strawberry' has basically been sold through picking tours out. 'Our strawberries high prices, get on the market, you say you do not fight pesticides, others do not believe, but by Picking tour, consumers came to the shed, after seeing the growing environment of strawberries, they are more willing to pay for quality.
Linhai City, Black Fruit and Vegetable Professional cooperatives only two acres of strawberries, and before picking reception customers picking process, Jin Li Ping found that even if the price is 5-10 yuan more expensive than the above ground cultivation, we still prefer the air strawberries. Elevated cultivation does not stick to the ground, to avoid dust pollution, this planting more attractive.