Berries

Berries
Berries

Berries are a cost-effective and at the same time capital-intensive horticultural industry. Among berry crops, garden strawberries occupy a special place. Industrial plantations of gooseberries, currants, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, lingonberries, blueberries and bilberries are less popular.

Peculiarities

Laying of plantations, a high proportion of manual labor, specific requirements for tillage and fertigation systems characterize berry horticulture. With intensive cultivation of garden strawberries, a film covering of the ridges is used, which retains moisture and leaves the growing berries clean.

 

Varieties of one-time fruiting in intensive plantations are preferred by the so-called remontant and types of long daylight hours, which fruit in waves several times a year. To extend the cycle, remontant types of strawberries and raspberries are covered in tunnel greenhouses.

Seedlings and saplings are prepared in special nurseries, open ground is brought to the required acidity and mulched, since the berry doesn’t like excess organic fertilizers. SatoSoil® improvers protect the soil cover, heals the humus, have moisture and thermoregulatory effect.

 

In other respects, strawberries and other berries respond well to a complex diet of essential macro and micronutrients. Systematic drip nutrition allows to correct the lack of microelements, enhances the growth of generative organs and improves the caliber of berries. Humic and fulvic acids, obtained by extraction of a peat-sapropel mixture, facilitate the synthesis of phytohormones and saturate fruits with sugars (increasing the Brix number). SatoHum® Complex and SatoHum® K formulations are indicated for drip irrigation of strawberries, raspberries, currants, and other garden berries.

Signs of nutrient deficiency in berries
4 Sato® Steps – recommendations for fertilization and top dressing for strawberries, garden strawberries, blueberries, gooseberries, currants, raspberries and other berries
SOILSSEEDLINGSGROWTHHARVEST

SatoSoil® Biome

Top dressing of open and greenhouse soils
0,5 – 1 kg/m²

Single pre-sowing soil fertilization
0,5 – 1 kg/m²

Organic soils feeding
Incorporation to a depth of 16 cm
0,5 – 1 kg/m²

SatoHum® K or
Sato® Turbo NPK

Watering the soil improver
 0,2 – 0,6 ml/m²

SatoHum® K

Seedling treatment

10 ml/10 l water 

Seeds germination

Simultaneous seedlings germination

Sato® Turbo NPK
Starting complex nutrition with minerals

10 – 15 ml/10 l water

SatoHum® Complex

Application via fertigation systems
1,8 – 2,8 ml/10 m²

Sato® Turbo NPK

Correction of macroelements deficiency
1,8 – 2,8 ml/10 m²

SatoHum® K

Foliar system treatment of raspberry and currant shrubs
30 – 40 ml/10 l of water

SatoHum® K /
Sato® Turbo K-B 

Correction of potassium and boron starvation
1,5 – 3 ml/10 m²

SatoHum® Complex

Feeding with amino acids

1,8 – 2,8 ml/10 m²

SatoHum® K

In organic farming, it’s used in any non-root irrigation no more than 3 times per growing cycle
15 – 20 ml/10 l of water

SatoHum® Complex

Berry filling

Increasing caliber and sugars
2 – 3,4 ml/10 m²

WARNING AND GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS: 4 Sato® Steps is a comprehensive crop care system that provides the basic crop needs for the main 12 macro, meso and micronutrients for an optimal growing cycle and unlocking the potential of each crop.

SOILS: In pre-sowing application of SatoSoil® improvers, the minimum rate is introduced; when autumn applying, the maximum rate is recommended. When applying Sato® Turbo organo-mineral fertilizers after SatoSoil® improvers, the minimum rate is applied; if the soil hasn’t been treated, the maximum rate is applied. For irrigation, it’s recommended to activate granulates (soil improvers) with SatoHum® K liquid formulation or Sato® Turbo NPK liquid organo-mineral product.

SEEDS/SEEDLINGS/VEGETATION BEGINNING: Treatment of seeds and seedlings with SatoHum® K formulation is compatible with treatment by classical protectants without reducing the rates of their application, and helps to increase the viability of seedlings, the development of the plant and its fruitfulness.

GROWTH: Our SatoHum® solutions have a guaranteed composition with high content of humic and fulvic acids with amino acids of plant origin. It is not recommended to exceed the total applying dose of SatoHum® liquid formulations over 6 l/ha/season, starting from the germination/seedlings phase. If SatoHum® K is used for prophylactic purposes, it is recommended to apply the minimum dose.

HARVEST: Simultaneous fertilization with several SatoHum® products is not expected, excepting the soil improver’s activation. It’s not recommended to exceed the specified application rates. For single, not systemic application of SatoHum® products, the maximum dosage of the product is recommended.

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