Good strawberry! With pleasure, everyone eats it, both children and adults. Such tasty, such sweet berries, sometimes with a slight sourness, besides their charming taste, are also extraordinarily useful - they contain a lot of vitamins and minerals, iron, potassium, copper, magnesium, manganese. Lemon is inferior in content of vitamin C.
Strawberries can and should be eaten by people with digestive tract problems; it increases their appetite. It is recommended to use more often hypertensive patients with atherosclerosis.
There are a lot of different types of strawberry nutmeg. For example, those from which you need to collect the fruit once a year, others - twice, and there is a variety where you can eat berries all year round. How not to get lost here and choose the best variety of strawberries: smelling, tasty, and bringing the best collection.
Variety of strawberry varieties
Varieties can be divided into the following categories:
Early varieties:
- Darenka - strawberries, one of the early varieties, which grows in the greenhouse. It has the shape of fruits - in the form of a cone, the flesh is dark red, dense. The harvest of this variety is the best.
- Alba - will be bigger, the shape of the fruit is also in the form of a cone, the fruit is bright red. Not afraid of pests and disease resistance. "Alba" - great for transportation.
- Variety Octave bred from Ukraine. Harvest time - the end of May. The yield of this variety is great. The mass of berries that are sown first is about 40 grams, the rest is 12 grams. The berries are juicy, durable, the flesh is dense, dark red in color, and the aroma will fill your home instantly.
- Clery - this variety, which is bred by breeders from Italy, is well transported over long distances. The leaves on the bushes grow dark green, and the bush itself is tall and dense. The berry resembles an oval, the color is dark cherry.
- Roseanna - this variety is also bred in Ukraine. The bush has an average height. Inflorescences are flush with the leaves. The shape of the strawberry fruit is similar to a drop, or they are conical. It is red in color, sour-sweet. The maximum yield, the berries are ripened almost simultaneously.
- Kama. And, here it is already a Polish grade. The berries are ordinary, have a classic shape, endowed with a persistent aroma and taste very much like strawberries. The color of the berries is dark. Sort "Kama" has a small secret: unripe fruit - this is the usual strawberry with a sweet and sour flavor. But the berries that are fully ripe, smell of strawberries and taste very much like her.
- Kokinsky dawn has a markedly high yield, the fruit ripens very early, perfectly tolerates frost. Its main characteristics include: huge juicy berries of dark red color, leaves on the bushes are dark green, rounded conical shape. Strawberry thick. It keeps its shape when transporting long distances.
- Stolichnaya. It is great for planting in regions where there is insufficient moisture. Variety of berries "Stolichnaya" rarely exposed to disease. Sweet strawberries with a deep aroma, in shape closer to the oval. The fruits are huge.
- Honey is an American guest. It has quite a few rather big fruits, the weight of a strawberry is 45 grams. The color of the berries varies between bright red and dark red. Honey is the leader in sales.
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The best varieties of strawberry ripening:
- Webenil. English variety. Its bushes are tall with bright red fruits with a sharp tip. The grade "Veben" is allocated with high resistance to transportation. The crops are large, and the appearance to the last berry is preserved.
- Masha. Homeland is considered to be Moscow. The grade "Masha" is allocated with high productivity, seldom is exposed to diseases. The leaves on the bushes are large with thick peduncles. One strawberry weighs an average of 120 grams. They taste sour-sweet, with a taste of strawberries, fragrant.
- Rusich. The taste of berries is sweet and sour. It belongs to frost-resistant varieties and tolerates drought quite easily.
- Symphony. Homeland of this variety is Scotland. Strawberry fruits are large, conical in shape, and have impeccable taste. "Symphony" is rarely exposed to gray rot. Great for giving, since the fruits ripen in almost a week.
- Chosen One. Strawberries start to sing from the tip and gradually reach the top of the fruit.
Late varieties:
- Chamora Turusi is a very juicy and sweet variety. With regular watering, she will give birth for quite a long time. Bushes are planted at a distance of 60 cm from each other.
- Retired Chelsea. Homeland - England. It is considered the best variety of strawberries, its fruits are very juicy and tasty. In the first year after planting, the harvest is small. Great on the road.
- Vicoda is a late Dutch variety. The strawberries themselves are delicious and juicy. They are quite huge, have a dark red color. Resistant to white mold, and almost never stains on the leaves.
- Queen Elizabeth-2 is a type of strawberry, which is not afraid of disease and various pests. High-yielding, berries are dense and sweet, the shape is truncated-cone-shaped.
Remontny grades
Remontny varieties of strawberries today occupy the first place, because they bear fruit twice a year. This type is suitable for growth on small plots of land, it is sometimes planted in boxes. The advantages include high yields and large fruits.
The most famous varieties of strawberry remontant are:
- Ada Harvests of this variety are beginning to be harvested when the usual mid-season strawberries are sown, the second - already in August, and before frost. The shape of the berries is slightly elongated, bright red. With 1 hundredth grade "Ada" you can collect about 130 kg.
- "Dawn" is considered an early variety. The bush is quite tall. Slightly sour taste, bright red. This variety tolerates cold, and requires additional watering.
- Strawberry variety "Festival", with the right approach to the cultivation of crops, will bring high yields. The fruits of the Festival Strawberry are large and sweet.
- Queen Elizabeth. This is one of the sweetest varieties with large fruits. The advantages of this variety are high yields, resistance of berries to frost, easily tolerates the disease. The downside of the Queen Elizabeth variety is that she rarely grows a mustache, and has to grow it with the help of seeds.
What criteria to use when choosing a grade
Strawberry is a perennial plant. When choosing a strawberry variety, it is necessary to take into account the climate conditions where it will grow. Then you should pay attention to the place where you plan to grow strawberries. Despite the fact that it grows on any soil, dark gray soil and black soil will be more comfortable for it. Also should not be planted berries, where a high level of groundwater. She does not need excessive moisture.
On the site it is advised to plant several different varieties, and with a different period of harvest.
So, choosing strawberries for home or business should pay attention:
- For the period of ripening and harvesting strawberries.
- The type of fruit and its size.
- On the transportability of berries and their compaction.
- For reliable protection from diseases and pests.
- On the flavor of strawberries and its nutritional characteristics.
- On the quality of seedlings.
- Resistance to drought and cold.
Popular strawberry varieties: short descriptions
The most popular strawberry varieties on the market include:
- Zenga Zengan. Berries of this variety are used for freezing. Fruits of rather big sizes. Brought this variety in Germany.
- Queen Elizabeth is the best kind of remontant strawberry. Fruits twice a year. Grows on any soil.
- An early type is the Clery strawberry variety, which is easily transported.
- Strawberry Miracle Likhonosova. The sort name of the variety speaks for itself. Yes, this is a real miracle, this berry can be collected constantly.
