Increasingly, amateurs pay attention to the repairing varieties of strawberries. After all, nobody will refuse to enjoy a fragrant berry in summer or autumn. For many years now, a hybrid has been grown - strawberries and, at the same time, strawberries, Mara de Bois.
Grade description
The bush is neat, low, up to 20 cm, erect, has many leaves. They are light green in color, clean, medium in size. Petiole leafless.
Peduncles are below the bush. There are a lot of them. Therefore, strawberry Mara de Bois has a higher than average yield. The weight of one berry is average, from 18 to 26 g. Varieties with a larger berry are now created. This strawberry (variety Mara de Bois) was also used for their selection. The description of the berries suggests that they are conical in shape. The color is light red, typical of strawberries. The berries are brilliant. What is the difference from other varieties of strawberries Mara de Bois? Reviews of gardeners say that it is extremely tasty and fragrant. These qualities do not deteriorate even as a result of heavy rains. And in sunny weather it is even more aromatic. It tastes sweet and sour. The size of the variety resembles strawberries, and the taste and aroma resembles strawberries.
Strawberries Mara de Bois (photo presented in the article) begins to ripen in late May or early summer (depending on the region). Flowering and ripening of berries continues until frost. And in closed ground, strawberries Mara de Bois can grow and bear fruit even in winter. Description of the variety, reviews suggest that in spring and autumn the berries are larger, and in the middle of summer - smaller. This is usually a period of extreme heat.
Create variety
The creation of the Mara de Bois variety is the result of the long and painstaking work of French breeders. It smells of strawberries because varieties of wild berries were used to create it. And the size and density she got from the strawberries.
Mara de Bois in France is considered one of the best and belongs to the varieties of strawberries of standard quality. Berries are consumed fresh.
Can be grown in a greenhouse, greenhouse. The bush is very beautiful, therefore it is used to decorate the yard, garden.
Variety Mara de Bois is not new. On its basis, scientists have already managed to create many subsidiaries. So, for example, the variety Manila was created on the basis of the variety Mara de Bois. It retains the aroma of the ancestor, but has more berries.
Breeding
Usually, repairing strawberry varieties produce few outlets for propagation. On the one hand, this is good because they do not need to be removed. But for breeding, this is bad. After all, getting new bushes will be more difficult.
But the variety Mara de Bois does not suffer from a lack of mustache for breeding. In order to have more new outlets, pinch some peduncles. This will reduce the yield of berries, but increase the amount of planting material. Although why reduce? After all, strawberry sockets give fruit from the first year of life!
Daylight Strawberry
Removable strawberries, or neutral daylight hours, got this name due to the fact that its flower buds are formed at any length of daylight hours. Unlike ordinary varieties, in which this occurs only in a certain range.
Removable strawberries bloom later than the early varieties, so they are not so afraid of spring return frosts.
Removable strawberries and strawberries are very demanding on growing conditions. After all, they bear fruit all season, giving all their energy to the formation and ripening of berries. Therefore, bushes must be constantly fed with potash and nitrogen fertilizers.
Despite these growing problems, repair varieties are becoming more popular. After all, by the end of the spring season, strawberries are a little annoying, I want to quickly try something new. But closer to the fall, everyone will gladly eat its sweet fragrant fruits.
The berries of modern varieties of repair strawberries grow to 50 g or more. But strawberries Mara de Bois is less fruitful.
Fruiting
Repairing varieties are very productive. They bloom and bear fruit in waves, which strawberries may not even have two, but three or four.
Even for the first spring fruiting, a berry crop is obtained, such as that of non-maintenance varieties, about half a kilogram. The same is Mara de Bois's strawberries. The description of the variety indicates that the berries are arranged in a circle in several layers, a fountain.
Site preparation
In one place, strawberries should not be grown for more than 4 years. After the plot needs a change of culture. This will make it possible to get rid of pests and diseases that accumulate in the soil during the growth of strawberries.
In order not to be left completely without berries after four years, you need to constantly change the culture on a quarter of the site. There are various cultivation technologies. For example, sockets are transferred into the aisle between the rows. But still, for a long time, strawberries will not grow in one section.
Soil preparation
In about three weeks, fertilizer is applied to the soil. Usually it is humus or compost at the rate of 1 bucket per square meter and 50 g of complex mineral fertilizers.
On sandy soils, it is necessary to spray once a year with boric acid (weak aqueous solution), and on calcareous soils with the same solution of manganese and Citovit (containing zinc). Then the plants will be able to get the whole complex of nutrients.
Fertilizers are closed into the soil to a depth of 25 cm. Before planting seedlings, the rows are dug up on a bayonet.
Landing
Young plants are planted in spring, in April-May, depending on the climatic zone. In the more northern areas, landing can be made in early June. It is necessary to focus on the temperature at this time and the possibility of watering. After all, often young bushes planted late disappear from a lack of moisture, not having time to root.
Mara de Bois is very fond of sunny places. It is there that she can get enough heat and light so that her fruits acquire the characteristic taste and aroma of wild berries.
The distance between the bushes in the row is 30 cm, and between the rows is not less than 40 cm. Before planting, you need to clearly see the plants, remove broken and damaged roots. Then the place of cut is treated with ash.
Planted so that the growth point does not fall underground.
Planted plants are watered and covered with a thick layer of mulch. This can be straw, mowed grass, sawdust with a layer of at least 7 cm. Often use a black film. But on clay soils its use can lead to a strong compaction of the soil.
Mulch will protect plants from the scorching rays of the sun, retain moisture in the soil. In such circumstances, it is easier to root young outlets. Yes, and weeds break through the mulch much less often.
Growing
Difficult in growing strawberries Mara de Bois. Reviews of many gardeners indicate that they are not able to get a good result.
For successful cultivation, strawberries need warmth, sun (rain does not hurt) and constant fertilizer. If you do not have the opportunity to provide regular feeding, it is better not to plant such varieties, but to grow early, medium and late.
In the Non-Chernozem zone and in the north, Mara de Bois strawberries are grown under a film, otherwise the berries will not have time to ripen and the yield will be minimal.
In a greenhouse or warm regions, Mara de Bois strawberries can be grown on a trellis. After all, the sockets formed this year bear fruit with good care.
Watering
He does not like water falling on berries and in the center of the rosette of strawberries Mara de Bois. Reviews of gardeners say that they water it around the perimeter of the plant or use drip irrigation. Be sure to fall asleep a plot of mulch.
Care
It consists in weeding weeds, watering, feeding plants and spraying from pests and diseases.
Cope with weeds will help mulch, which will not let out the annuals. And for perennial weeds it is not terrible. Therefore, weeds such as sow thistle are best periodically cut off with the Fokine cutter. Do not be afraid that they will begin to branch. If you do this deeply enough and often, then they disappear.
You can use selective herbicides, but in this case, all the chemistry will be on your table. Therefore, with severe clogging, it is better to process the site at least a year before planting strawberries.
Top dressing
They begin to feed the plants after they have begun and began to produce new leaves. Bushes that grow on the site for more than a year are watered with complex fertilizer, dissolving it in water. During this period, he needs more nitrogen.
Strawberry Mara de Bois is very demanding on fertilizers. Reviews of gardeners and gardeners suggest that they water the plants twice a month with a solution of infused mullein (1 liter of solution in a bucket of water).
You can buy ready-made fertilizer of prolonged action (for example, Osmokot). 8-9 granules are buried in a circle at a distance of 8-10 cm from the center of the plant.
During bud formation, spray with fertilizer with equal amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Potash fertilizer affects the quantity and quality of peduncles.
Neutral daylight plants are fairly disease resistant. The same is the strawberry variety Mara de Bois. Reviews gardeners say that they process the beds only twice a year, before and after flowering. For spraying take a mixture of insecticides and fungicides.
Pest and Disease Control
Strawberry Mara de Bois is quite resistant to them. Description, reviews indicate that it is practically not affected by powdery mildew. But brown spotting can significantly reduce the yield. Therefore, when processing strawberries of other varieties, it is nice to grab the Mara de Bois variety.
In the spring, after cleaning the area from old leaves, the plants are treated against brown spotting (Kurzat). Then the use of Bordeaux fluid is useful. It is only necessary to do it until the plants begin to develop. Drops on young leaves can cause burns.
If it often rains in the spring, then the risk of contracting the berries with gray rot increases. The strawberry variety Mara de Bois also suffers from it. Reviews gardeners say that to prevent plants can be treated with "scoop" in the flowering period.
In old areas, spraying is carried out in three stages. The first is when flowering is just beginning, and the last is when up to 80% of all buds bloom. This substance has low toxicity and is rapidly excreted from all parts of the plant.
In summer, it is better to use biological products, such as Trichodermin, Fitoverm. If you have populated a trichogram into the territory, then you can not spray it with chemical preparations until the end of the season.
Wintering
Strawberries Mara de Bois belongs to the frost-resistant varieties. Reviews say that more than 90% of the bushes tolerate winter well with moderate frosts.
Reviews
Not everyone grows well and bears fruit Strawberry Mara de Bois. Reviews say that it does not give a normal result in those central regions where other varieties show themselves well, for example, in the Orenburg region. This is due to the fact that there are early frosts. And the bush at this time is covered with berries. Therefore, the bed needs to be covered. Otherwise, the berries will disappear under the influence of frost.
Many of the gardeners who know the taste of Mara de Bois strawberries, but have not yet planted it at home, plan to start growing these fragrant berries over time.