Strawberry belongs to the Rosaceae family. Strawberry can bear different climates and even extreme temperatures, although it requires to accumulate hours of cold temperatures. Optimum values for a good production are those around 15-20ºC annual average temperature. Water management in strawberry crops is of vital importance, as the production is worst with salt concentrations in water superior to 0.8 mmhos.cm, although on the other hand, strawberry demands water. This is why, through sprinkling, we avoid the salinization of the wet bulb commonly due to the localized irrigation.
Sprinkling irrigation in strawberry is similar to the same natural rain if we consider application conditions. Sprinkling irrigation also shows multiple advantages, such as: the possibility to clean the surface of leaves thanks to the irrigation water, improving this way the efficiency of strawberry plants. Sprinkling irrigation also allows us to fight against frosts as well as to reduce the temperature of strawberry plants, to fight against pests simply by the application of irrigation or even by adding to the water from sprinkling irrigation the phitosanitaries that the crop demands.
Sprinkling irrigation systems show many advantages against other irrigation systems, such as the durability and fiability, easiness to maintain, independence on specialized manpower, facility to storage, cost/ha of sprinkling irrigation, residual sale value and so on.
Strawberry needs for its correct growing equilibrated sandy or loamy-sandy soils, rich in organic material, ventilated, with good drainage but with a certain capacity to keep water and with a pH level around 6.5. Strawberry is sensitive to the presence of active limestone in values superior to 5% as they may suffer from ferric chlorosis.
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