It’s worth saying right away that each plant should have its own care, only with proper strawberry care you can get large and sweet berries, but what are the features of this plant, how to care for it, what qualities ripe fruits have, and also in what soil it is recommended to grow this type of strawberry.
Description of this strawberry plant
This type of artisanal plant was bred many years ago, the breeders of the city of Petropavlovsk were able to create an excellent strawberry, which was distinguished by large fruits with excellent taste. This type of plant is considered universal, and the bushes themselves are quite tall, foliage is formed quite thick, but does not interfere with fruit ripening. Fruits can form only in the lowest part of shrubs, this is how large flowers form, and in their place large peduncles.
But in some cases, you can notice their formation above the foliage, although the inflorescences themselves are large, but quite compact. This variety does not need pollination, since male and female flowers are formed on plants, they independently produce pollen, which pollinates inflorescences to obtain fruits.
According to the photo and reviews, the Festival Strawberry Festival, according to the description of the variety, has an average ripening period for fruits, it can produce the first berries like other types of shrubs, but if you properly care for this plant using a special system, you can get the crop a little later than usual, which makes it possible to grow shrubs late in bearing. Moreover, the period of fruit bearing in this shrub is quite long, which is a rather big advantage of this type of berry.
Due to the fact that the Strawberry Festival according to the description of the variety and the photo with reviews can bear berries for a rather long period, this plant will be able to show a rather high yield by the end of the fruiting period, this plant can bear fruit until the first autumn colds, but the berries will not have the largest sizes .
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Each strawberry bush has the peculiarity of producing fruits of rather large sizes, it’s worth mentioning right away that at the first fruiting the bushes will be able to produce berries that have an average size of about forty-five grams, but next year the size of the fruit will decrease significantly, but each berry will weigh no less ten grams, which is also not a bad result for a strawberry plant. In addition, ten grams noted are the smallest fruits that can be found on the plantation.
The berries have a bright shade of red, while this color is very saturated and bright, the shape of the fruit is slightly oblong, some fruits have a slight sheen, juicy flesh is located inside, which is distinguished by a bright pink color, but the fruit density is considered average, which makes the berry excellent for use in food purposes. The fruits themselves have a very pleasant sweet taste, but sometimes you can find more acidic fruits, in this case, the taste of the finished berries will depend on the rules of cultivation, proper care and plenty of sunlight.
According to the description of the variety with photos and reviews, each berry of the Strawberry Festival contains about seven percent sugar, vitamin C, which can be contained in each fruit up to ninety milligrams, and various types of acids occupy only 1.4% of the entire fruit. The plant has a fairly high resistance to various types of diseases, this is due to the rather high bush, which may well protect itself. Also for this reason, the berry plant is almost not susceptible to attack by pests, which makes the plant ideal for growing in a summer cottage.Quite weakly, this shrub tolerates powdery mildew attacks, very often it can become a victim of various infections, which leads to complete wilting of the shrub, for this reason the plant needs constant care.
How to properly care for these plants?
According to the description of the variety, strawberries Festival with photos and reviews should receive proper care, only in this case the bush itself will perfectly withstand a large number of diseases, the summer resident will be able to get an excellent harvest of berries, the fruits themselves will acquire large sizes and a unique sweet taste. This bush feels best only when growing in a temperate climate, so when choosing strawberry plants, you should pay attention to the climate of your region, as it may not be suitable for the plant. Most often, this type of berry grows only in Russia, or rather the middle and central parts of it, can also be found in the Urals, in some cases, gardeners grow this variety even in Siberia. We also recommend paying attention to the variety. strawberries gigantella.
If the summer resident decides to use the variety for propagation on the site, then he can very well use three methods of propagation at once, for the first they use tendrils, for the second seeds, and for the third outlet. If a gardener wants to prepare seeds to plant them in the ground next year, he should start harvesting future seedlings at the very end of November. When all the plants are ready for transplantation into the ground, it is necessary to move them to a dark place, and store there throughout the winter period.
In the spring, it is recommended to plant this plant with the onset of warm days, when the air temperature is already sufficiently established at around ten degrees at night. If the summer resident missed the time for planting this shrub, then the next time for transplanting into the open ground can be set exclusively at the earlier time of autumn, the approximate planting period can be set for mid-August, but they are planted even before the fifteenth of September.
Before planting the strawberries of the Festival “Daisy” according to the variety description with photos and reviews of summer residents, it is simply necessary to use additional soil fertilizer, in this case the shrubs will give a pretty good crop that will have a pleasant taste of the fruit. But it is very important to plant exclusively in a well-lit place so that the berries receive plenty of sunlight, only then the berries turn out to be sweet and very bright, if the sun is not enough, then you should not wait for a too sweet crop, and the berries will ripen for quite some time.
Also, to get a better harvest, gardeners recommend removing flowers from the plant at the first flowering, young seedlings should gain strength for growth, and the first fruiting after planting will greatly weaken them. But it is very important to leave the antennae of the plant in place, since they can not be removed during the flowering period. It is also worthwhile to actively care for the plant, since strawberries need frequent watering, especially in dry weather.
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At their site, near Irkutsk, they tried to grow this sort of wild strawberry - friends gave several outlets. Care provided her appropriate: with watering, fertilizing and spraying from pests. But the fruits were both small in 1.5-2 cm., And remained. But with relatives on Lake Baikal, she each time gives large, the size of a children's fist, berries. Apparently, this variety loves a special microclimate.