In central Russia, summer is quite short, and the strawberry season is even shorter. It lasts about two to three weeks. All gardeners really want to please their loved ones with a fragrant and sweet berry, which is strawberry. At the same time, it is important to have time to plant a plant in a short time, to grow and harvest several crops.
Repair Strawberry
able to give kidneys in May. And plant development begins in the year of planting.
Small-fruited varieties bear fruit from July to late autumn, and large-fruited can produce up to two crops. It also depends on temperature conditions.
Some types of these delicious berries can bloom and bear fruit several times a season. It happens that they give up to three crops. Here it is - a repair strawberry. Varieties are presented as small-fruited berries, and large-fruited. All of them are good in their own way, but the general characteristic qualities are the same. This is an abundance of harvest; large berries; more than one crop can be harvested per season; Large landing areas are not required.
Small-fruited repair strawberries can have a "mustache" or do without them. It reminds the taste of the forest. Its large-fruited variety produces high yields with large berries. Propagated both by seeds and with the help of a mustache. This allows you to choose the most suitable option. Having sown seeds in February, the first berries can be harvested by early July. It is worth noting that annual and biennial crops have the best fruiting. Such plants always have higher yields.
The disadvantages include the fact that remontant strawberries tolerate frosty weather worse than other species, require careful care, constant feeding and systematic watering. Although, this is rather a feature. Despite the fact that the maintenance of strawberry is very careful, compensation for labor costs will be a generous harvest of fragrant and tasty berries that can be enjoyed almost all summer.
In order to accelerate the first stage of ripening, you need to cover the beds in the spring with a film of polyethylene. Plants should be protected from freezing in the winter, keeping snow in the area.
Removable strawberries are suitable for growing on carefully insulated balconies or in pots on the windowsill. But here we must remember that the key to a crop in such conditions is the correct selection of the variety, optimal air temperature, adequate lighting and regular feeding. The main condition for fertilizing is not to overdo it, otherwise instead of tasty berries you can get only leaves, albeit very high quality.
The most important indicators for strawberry growth are daylight hours. It must be at least sixteen hours. When laying the kidneys, the air temperature should not fall below 21 Celsius. When growing strawberries in room conditions, in addition to the basic requirements, it is necessary to provide plants with additional lighting.
For example, we indicate some varieties:
- Elizabeth P - with good care, the crop for the season can be harvested three times. The variety is quite resistant to frost, high-yielding, berries are large, the pulp is dense.
- Geneva - small bushes, large berries, fruiting twice a season.
- Yellow miracle - the bushes do not have a mustache, it is hardy, not afraid of dry weather. Fruiting - all season. The berries are small, yellowish, resembling wild strawberries.
- Brighton gives fruit with an interval of three weeks. The berries are sweet and large, dark red in color. The plant is not always able to survive very low temperatures.
Since the repairing varieties bear fruit several times during the season, they need careful care. This guarantees high yields.