The best varieties of alpine strawberries

Renovation strawberry varieties attract gardeners with a number of advantages. In fact, their "progenitor" is the common forest strawberry, which is known for its characteristics: active fruiting, unpretentiousness and disease resistance.

You don't have to go to the mountains to feel the fresh breath of the Alps. It is enough to grow "alpine" berries on your plot. In recent decades, thanks to the achievements of breeders, varieties of strawberries with neat bushes and small berries have been bred, collectively called "alpine strawberries". Its main features:

• compact size;
• long fruiting period;
• strong and tart aroma;
• the possibility of propagation by seeds.

What varieties of alpine strawberries are recognized as the best for the middle lane?

Alexandria

The bushes of this remontant variety grow very neat, they practically do not form a mustache. Plants are resistant to drought, frost, pests and diseases. The berries are usually medium in size, slightly elongated, with a strong aroma and excellent taste. Alexandria bears fruit for 3-4 years. Bushes can be grown in pots (including indoor) all year round.

Berry color	Berry weight (g)	Maturation (period)	Bush height (cm)
Bright scarlet	6-8	End of May - mid-October	17-20

Alpine giant

This is the earliest and most "long-lasting" variety - compact bushes bear fruit all season. The berries are quite large for a remontant strawberry. The peculiarities of the variety include: stable and high yield of berries already in the first year of sowing, frost resistance, resistance to major diseases and adverse environmental conditions. This strawberry can be grown in a home or office as an ornamental potted plant.

Berry color	Berry weight (g)	Maturation (period)	Bush height (cm)
Red	15-20	End of May - end of October	20-25

White Lotus

This is a gift from Japanese breeders. These strawberries can be grown both in the apartment and on the site. In indoor conditions, the berries appear on the airy mustache and stretch up the trellis, and on the site they form a solid white carpet of flowering rosettes, which quickly begin to bear fruit. The variety is resistant to powdery mildew, gray rot, spotting and is powerless only against the attacks of hordes of ants. The berry jam of this variety resembles linden honey.

Berry color	Berry weight (g)	Maturation (period)	Bush height (cm)
White with yellow seeds	8-10	End of May - November	15-20

Seasons

Perennial, very beautiful and ornamental plants of this variety actively bear fruit throughout the season. Often they are used in ampel compositions and to decorate the site. The berries are bright, very aromatic and tasty. They are suitable for fresh consumption, as well as for making jams, compotes and preserves. In terms of the content of nutrients and appearance, this strawberry is very similar to forest strawberry.

Berry color	Berry weight (g)	Maturation (period)	Bush height (cm)
Deep red	4-7	End of May - end of October	15-17

Zolotinka

Unusual coloration is not the only thing that distinguishes this variety from others. The bright and rich taste of berries is much superior to that of red berries. Berries are medium in size, ovoid, bushes do not form a mustache. The first shoots appear already 2-3 weeks after sowing the seeds.

Berry color	Berry weight (g)	Maturation (period)	Bush height (cm)
Creamy yellow	8-11	Early June - late October	15-20

Forest fairy tale

Cultivated wild strawberries. Differs in high productivity and similarity of bushes and berries with forest "brothers". The berries ripen large, with a sugary-sweet aroma, dense pulp and an unsurpassed sugar flavor. The plant looks very compact and decorative, blooms profusely and bears fruit. Strawberry resistance to typical diseases is good, as well as frost resistance.

Berry color	Berry weight (g)	Maturation (period)	Bush height (cm)
Bright red	4-6	End of May - beginning of October	15-17

Ruyana

It is impossible to indifferently pass by these neat compact bushes, strewn with large fragrant berries with juicy pink pulp. To form a strong bush in the first season, you need to remove the resulting flowers. The plant tolerates winter (even prolonged) relatively easily and at the same time feels great even in the shade of garden trees and tree trunks.

Berry color	Berry weight (g)	Maturation (period)	Bush height (cm)
Bright red	5-7	Mid June - end of September	15-17

September surprise

The variety is derived from the famous Baron Solemacher variety. This strawberry is distinguished by high yields: the berries ripen on the bushes for almost the entire season. They are large, regular in shape, fragrant, with a dessert taste. Almost the only thing that the bushes need is timely watering. Plants tolerate frost and drought equally well.

Berry color	Berry weight (g)	Maturation (period)	Bush height (cm)
Red	12-16	Early June - late September	17-23

Repaired (alpine) strawberries will definitely become your favorite, because what could be more pleasant than fresh berries, which strawberry bushes will pamper you with until the first frost. And given that it is relatively easy to care for these plants, you will not regret planting them in your area.

Alpine strawberries are famous for their taste, aroma and long-term fruiting. In the article, we will tell you about the best varieties of berries that belong to the Alpine, and also share the gardeners' reviews about this varietal group.

Alpine strawberries - characteristic of fruits

When breeding varieties of alpine garden strawberries (lat. F.vesca var.alpina), breeders used wild forest berries growing in alpine forests as a mother crop.

Alpine strawberries: characteristics of the varietal group

Alpine strawberry bushes are undersized, spherical in shape. The peduncle is erect, rises above the leaf rosette and does not bend under the weight of the berries, which makes harvesting easier.

Alpine strawberry is small-fruited. The berry of the canonical form, the weight of one is 3-7 g. The pulp is dense and retains its juiciness for a long time after harvest. The traditional color of the fruit is red, but there are varieties with white and yellow berries. The taste is sweet, without acid. The aroma is pronounced.

Alpine strawberries during flowering

All representatives of alpine strawberries are remontant. They begin bearing fruit in the second year after planting.Flowering begins in May, and the first ripe berries are harvested in June. Fruiting is continuous throughout the season.

With the onset of the first frost, alpine strawberries can be transplanted into a pot and grown on a windowsill as a homemade one. The high productivity of the bushes lasts for three years, after which new seedlings are planted.

Growing alpine strawberries in a pot

Most varieties of this strawberry are mustacheless. They reproduce by seeds or vegetatively (by dividing the bush). The plants are resistant to common strawberry diseases. They easily tolerate non-prolonged drought and low temperatures. In winter, under a layer of snow, the bushes can withstand up to 35 degrees Celsius.

The best varieties of alpine strawberries

There are many varieties of alpine strawberries. Consider the most popular varieties recommended for growing in the middle zone of the Russian Federation.

Dream

Alpine Strawberry Dream is suitable for growing in the open field and on the windowsill. The berries are relatively large (3-5 g), aromatic, sugary, red. The variety is frost and drought resistant.

Alpine strawberry variety Dream

Alexandria

The variety is beardless, compact. The berries are elongated, dark red, weighing 2-4 g. The pulp is juicy, sweet, very aromatic. Resistant to disease. Produces well in shade.

Alpine strawberry variety - Alexandria

Snow White

High-yielding mustacheless variety. Dense-leaved bushes. Berries weighing up to 4 g are white. The taste and aroma of the pulp is reminiscent of pineapple. The variety is resistant to many diseases, tolerates frost well.

Alpine strawberry Snow White is distinguished by its white fruits with pineapple flavor

September surprise

Alpine strawberry September surprise is the largest-fruited variety from the group. The berries weigh up to 7 g. The pulp is red, dense, with a tart aroma. Fruiting profusely until frost.

Alpine strawberries - September surprise

Zolotinka

Mustacheless variety with yellow fruits. The flavoring qualities of the berries deserve the highest marks among gardeners. The weight of the berries is 3-4 g.

Yellow-fruited variety of alpine strawberries - Zolotinka Alpine strawberries - gardeners' reviews about popular varieties

When grown in the Moscow region, alpine strawberries - Dream, deserved only positive reviews. Here are some of them:

“Alpine strawberries are great. I constantly experiment with different varieties, growing on the windowsill, my favorite is Snow White. During flowering and fruiting, it fills the room with magnificent aromas. Growing seedlings from seeds on a windowsill is not difficult, and such an activity is a joy in the winter. The germination rate of strawberry seedlings is good. Bushes develop quickly. "

Denisov Alexey, gardener

“What I like about alpine strawberries is that once planted in the ground, the crop does not require much attention. For abundant fruiting, timely watering is enough for her. In rainy summers, bushes can infect slugs and pest control measures must be taken. "

Anastasia Sviridova, gardener

“I've been growing September surprise strawberries for three years already. This variety is simply amazing in productivity and bears fruit in the Moscow region until the frost. "

Valentin Poyarkov, gardener

Autumn harvest of alpine strawberries

Outcome

Gardeners fell in love with Alpine strawberries for their unpretentiousness, endurance, continuous fruiting throughout the season. The sweet taste of berries and aroma deserve special attention.

Strawberries are a famous wild berry that can be recognized by their characteristic sweet and sour taste and unique aroma. Several centuries have passed since this berry migrated to cultivated gardens, and became larger and less aromatic. Only in recent decades have breeders made attempts to return the glory of the most fragrant berry to garden strawberries, and created unique remontant varieties with small fruits. Such a berry is called alpine.

Features of alpine strawberries

Despite the small size of the fruit, this variety of berries has an incredibly strong aroma, as well as long-term fruiting. Juicy fragrant fruits can be harvested from it starting from the first decade of June and ending in late autumn. For the normal setting and ripening of fruits, remontant raspberries need a lot of light and nutrients, because fruiting in waves without them can cause depletion of the bush.

Another feature of alpine strawberries is the possibility of seed propagation. By the way, non-remontant varieties, during seed propagation, lose the qualities inherent in their predecessors. You don't have to buy them in stores. You can leave a couple of the best berries from the harvest and collect seeds from them in order to get your own seedlings grown next year.

The best varieties of alpine strawberries

Currently, there are many varieties of alpine strawberries, which differ from each other not only in the structure of the bushes and the size of the berries, but also in their color. Lovers of everything unusual can grow white or yellow berries, which will look great in jams along with the classic red. In addition, alpine strawberries can be mustachioed or beardless, early and late.

When choosing a variety, summer residents often pay close attention to the appearance of the berries, but with remontant alpine strawberries, it is better to sharpen it on characteristics such as winter hardiness and demand for light and heat. Not every variety can take root in Russian dachas, but the following have proven to be the best:

Also read: The best varieties of remontant raspberries for the Moscow region

Almost all types of alpine strawberry varieties are small-fruited. Only two of them are distinguished by their large berry size - "September Surprise" and "Alpine Giant". Nevertheless, even these varieties have such a characteristic as a strong aroma. Despite the large size of the fruits, their taste and smell is very much reminiscent of small forest strawberries.

Strawberries: description of varieties (video)

Features of growing strawberries from seeds

To start seed propagation of alpine strawberries, it is enough to acquire seeds and patience. In fact, growing this crop with seeds does not imply much effort, nevertheless, there are some subtleties in this matter:

1. The first thing to decide on is the sowing time. If it is possible to supplement the seedlings with phytolamps, you can start sowing from the beginning of February. If this is not possible, this process will have to be postponed until mid-March.
2. Next, you need to decide on the preparation of the seeds. Some sources mention seed soaking, while others categorically reject this point. In fact, only old seeds need soaking. Fresh (harvested last season) will sprout without pretreatment.
3. The third step is preparing the soil, planting containers and sowing directly. The soil for strawberry seedlings should contain 3 parts of sand (not silted and coarse) and one part of garden soil and humus. Peat tablets are a good alternative to soil. The container for alpine strawberry seedlings must be plastic, with transparent walls. In such dishes, the fungus will not multiply, which will have a positive effect on the seedlings. They are filled with prepared soil mixture or peat tablets, previously saturated with moisture, are placed in them.
4. For good germination of seeds, it is recommended to prepare them by stratification, that is, by temporary cooling. Moistened containers with crops are placed on the lower shelf of the refrigerator for 2-3 days, after which they are transferred to a bright and warm place. All this time, boxes with seedlings should be kept closed with glass and foil.

If all these points are observed, the seeds of alpine strawberries germinate after 1-4 weeks.

Important! Alpine strawberry seeds are spread on the soil surface.It is not recommended to bury and even sprinkle them with a thin layer of sand. Due to their size, the seedlings simply do not have enough strength to break through the soil layer to the outside.

Seedlings: care rules

At the initial stage of development, alpine strawberry seedlings only need regular watering, heat and light. It is better to moisten the seedlings from a sprayer, so as not to erode the soil at the roots of the strawberries. Temperature indicators in the first two weeks after mass shoots should not fall below 25 degrees. It is also recommended to light up the seedlings from 11 pm to 6 am. Under these conditions, the seedlings will turn out to be healthy.

When two true leaves are formed on plants, it is recommended to plant it in pots. The soil mixture this time is made more fertile, replacing 2 parts of sand with leafy soil and humus in equal proportions. At this time, plants can be sprayed with growth stimulants (Epin, for example) to increase their resistance to stress.

Also, before the seedlings are planted in the ground, it is recommended to arrange small "training" for alpine strawberries - to expose them to fresh air at a temperature of no more than 20 degrees for an hour, and then bring them back into the room. Thus, the seedlings will get used to both the sun and temperature extremes.

After reading the corresponding article on our resource, you can also learn about the technology of growing strawberries in barrels.

Care of strawberries after planting in the ground

The time for landing in the ground differs depending on the region. So, in the middle lane this is the beginning or middle of June. The main thing is that there is no risk of recurrent frosts. After planting seedlings in open ground, care also consists of regular watering. In addition, they are periodically combined with organic fertilizing or complex fertilizers for berry crops.

For the first 1-2 weeks, it is recommended to shade the planting with a covering material, and protect it from the cold with a film at night (or, again, leave the covering material on the garden bed). To avoid drying out the soil and the formation of a crust on it, you should think about mulching. It is recommended to use crushed peat or well-rotted manure, better sifted, for this. It will also serve as a fertilizer.

It is often necessary to feed a young plantation:

• Before the appearance of the first inflorescences, alpine strawberries are fed with mullein infusion (1 to 8) and ash at the rate of 250 g per 10 liters of water. It is necessary to spend this amount of top dressing for 5 running meters of the bed.
• With the beginning of the laying of flower buds, the plantings are fed with micronutrient fertilizers containing boron, zinc and manganese. It is diluted at a ratio of 2 g per bucket of water. Planting is sprayed with the solution after sunset.

Watering and feeding must be accompanied by loosening the topsoil and a little hilling of bushes (it is important not to fill up the central kidney). With the onset of the first cold weather, the beds with alpine strawberries are mulched with a thick layer (at least 5 cm) of humus and peat, or with dry sawdust.

Pest control

Alpine strawberries are affected by the same pests as other varieties. The most common on young plantings are nematodes, weevils, leaf beetles and ticks. Fighting them will determine how good yields will be planted in the coming years.

Pest	How to fight	Prevention of the appearance
Nematode	It is impossible to fight this microscopic worm. The only way to save the planting is to destroy the infected plants.	Warming up the soil before planting with boiling water (at least holes), planting healthy seedlings and crop rotation
Leaf beetle	Treatment of plantings with infusions of bitter herbs (wormwood or tobacco) three times with an interval of a week	Regular weeding and loosening of the beds, especially closer to autumn
Weevils	Processing with infusion of mustard, wood ash or tansy, manual collection of adults	Deep digging of soil, removal of plant residues and weeds
Mites	Warming up seedlings in hot water, chemical treatment	Cleaning of beds from weeds, autumn mowing of tops and its burning

In addition to these folk remedies for controlling insect pests, you can use a variety of chemicals, but only before the flowering of strawberries. For example, Aktellik not only kills pests on plantings, but also scares them away from young plants.

Secrets of growing strawberries (video)

Alpine strawberries, despite their exotic name, are actually familiar to Russian gardeners for a long time. Growing it from seeds is a great way to get absolutely healthy seedlings while maintaining varietal qualities.

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Everyone wants to have a large, sweet berry at the dacha so that it ripens continuously from May to early October. Such varieties and hybrids exist.

Which is better: variety or hybrid

When choosing seedlings or strawberry seeds, it is important to guess with the variety. You shouldn't give up on hybrids either.

If you do not go into the specifics of biology, but only compare varieties and hybrids according to criteria important for the summer resident, then the picture is as follows:

• Taste. Both varieties and hybrids have both excellent taste and are suitable only for jam.
• The size. In varieties, either the berries are not too large, up to 30 g, or the first 2-3 berries per bush are large, and the rest are small, 10-15 g. In hybrids, from the beginning to the end of the fruiting season, the berries are uniform in size.
• Productivity. In hybrids both from a bush and from a meter of planting area, the yield is much higher.
• Keeping quality. Both hybrids and varieties are suitable for storage and long-distance transportation.
• Resistant to weather surprises. In varieties, it is much higher than in hybrids.
• Susceptibility to disease. There are no varieties or hybrids that are resistant to all diseases. Strawberry mite resistance is common in many varieties with small berries.
• Durability. Hybrids of the latest generations bear fruit for 1–2 seasons, after which the bushes are dug up and young are planted in their place. However, in 2 years, the collection from hybrids is about the same as from varietals in 4 seasons.

Among the varieties and hybrids of strawberries, you can choose the best option, based on your own preferences and taking into account the local climate

Seeds of hybrids are not cheap, the price of 5–10 seeds is from 45 to 180 rubles. Seedlings may appear in a month.

Rarely, but there is a re-grading, some of the seedlings may not correspond to the declared one.

When buying seedlings in cups, it is worth looking at both varieties and hybrids. If these are not seedlings with flowers, but rooted whisker rosettes, hybrid plants are available for the price.

Rooted strawberry rosette is quite affordable

Young plants grown from hybrid seeds and sold already with flowers are very convenient if the volume of the pot is not less than a liter. They are expensive, but they begin to bear fruit almost immediately after purchase.

Repair strawberry

All varieties and hybrids of cultivated strawberries are divided into groups according to ripening periods. In addition to the early, middle and late ones, there are those that give two harvests per season, and even bear fruit continuously. Repaired varieties grow in many, but not everyone understands the meaning of the name itself. Repairability is the property of plants to tie fruits on the shoots of the current year.

The strawberry bush forms three types of shoots:

1. The first is the stem, the horn. It grows upward and branches out annually at the end. Annual increments are the same shoots of the current year on which flower stalks appear in remontant varieties.
2. The peduncles themselves are also shoots.
3. The third type is a mustache.

The strawberry bush forms three types of shoots

In varieties with single fruiting, a new horn grows in summer, on which the rudiments of fruit buds are laid in September. In remontant plants, flower buds are set during the growth of shoots.

Repaired varieties and hybrids are conventionally divided into laying flower buds with long daylight hours, that is, in summer, and forming them regardless of the duration of illumination. The first ones bear fruit twice, in early summer and in autumn. Strawberry plants of neutral daylight hours lay flower stalks during the entire vegetative period, therefore they bloom continuously from spring to autumn, or have several waves of flowering and ovary formation.

Ampel strawberry

Among the remontants there are those who have a peduncle on the mustache after the formation of several leaves. Such varieties are sometimes called curly, which is not entirely accurate. It is more correct to attribute them to ampelous forms. Such whiskers are essentially peduncles, but if the flower arrow is removed, the shoot will give roots on moist loose soil.

The word "ampel" means a lamp, a chandelier.

Berries on a young mustache are tied small. The best ampelous selection masterpieces are the Cardinal variety and the Garland F1 hybrid.

Cardinal

The variety was bred in the USA. The bushes are large, with dark green shiny leaves. Berries up to 80 g in weight, cherry-colored, spindle-shaped. Not everyone likes the taste - it is very dense, almost hard. But in terms of the ratio of sugar and acid, it is an excellent mark (4.8 points out of 5). Fully ripe berries do not crumple. The cardinal bears fruit three times a season: the second crop gives on young mustaches, the third on new flower stalks of the bush. There are few whiskers, no more than 10 on three-year-old bushes, even less on young ones. They take root with difficulty, and those mustaches that have already faded will not give roots. The variety is resistant to diseases of strawberries, but does not tolerate thickening.

Cardinal strawberries can produce three harvests per season

Garland F1 - the achievement of Russian breeders

The bush has a decorative appearance from the moment of regrowth of young leaves - bright, rich emerald green color. Before the appearance of the whiskers, compact, almost spherical in shape. The mustache is light, with pinkish blurred spots. The berries are not very large, from 25 to 32 g, but uniform in size and regular shape. The taste is good, almost independent of the weather.

Fruiting continuously from June until frost. The variety is grown either in high beds, or in boxes or pots, since the hybrid does not tolerate waterlogging. Responsive to feeding. Productivity from one plant - up to 1 kg per season. Winter hardiness and heat resistance at an average level.

Strawberry Garland - one-dimensional, regular shape

Alpine strawberry varieties

If seeds are purchased, then it is better for novice gardeners to stop at varieties of small-fruited beardless strawberries belonging to the species "alpine strawberries". Seeds in a bag from 50 pieces, more often - 0.04 g, this is about 120 seeds. Germination rate is about 80%, the price is from 15 to 35 rubles. The main plus is high winter hardiness, you do not need to cover. Suitable for open ground throughout Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.

The berries of alpine strawberries are red, white, light yellow (depending on the variety) This variety is similar to wild strawberries - the size of the leaves, the appearance of the bush and fruits, and some of the red-fruited varieties also have a typical forest berry aroma.

Alpine strawberry is similar to forest strawberry in size of leaves, appearance of bush and fruits

The compactness of plants and the possibility of compact planting is another advantage of varieties with small berries. Solid rugs with a width of about 60 cm leave no chance for weeds. All work is reduced to feeding and picking berries. Fruits can be harvested all summer, in the south until mid-October.

An important advantage is that the bushes do not get sick. Winter hardiness and tolerance to drought and heat are typical for all varieties of alpine strawberries. There is a possibility - watered, fed. But even with one top dressing per season, the plants will bear fruit continuously from spring to late autumn. On loose, fertile soil with a slightly acidic reaction and mulching the surface of the beds in early spring and autumn with straw, the yield of the bush reaches 600 g.

Alpine strawberries are grown by sowing seeds for seedlings in the spring, and after a year the bushes bloom. Plants give a full harvest for 3 years, then they age, the leaves become smaller. Attempts to divide three-year-old bushes into separate horns and plant them, as is done with large-fruited strawberries, are useless. To renew the plantings, seeds are taken from berries ripened on the bushes. Fresh seeds can be sown before winter in a greenhouse, superficially, but covered with non-woven material until shoots appear in May.

Alpine varieties, in comparison with large-fruited remontant ones, are less demanding in care, and the yield from 1 square meter (due to a denser planting) is often higher than that of strawberries.

White strawberry

Light varieties (white and light yellow) are more resistant to frost than red ones, do not require shelter, of course, with the obligatory mulching of the soil with straw. The taste is honey-sweet, the aroma is weak.

Popular varieties:

• Yellow miracle. The largest-fruited variety. With good care, the berry weighs 6–7 g.
• Pineapple has a small bush and a bright aroma. The berries are small, 3-4 g, but the yield is up to 600 g per plant.
• White Lotus. Bred in Japan. Delightful, melting taste. The bush transferred to the room from the garden in the fall bears fruit until mid-January! Productivity is modest, 250-300 g per bush.
• Other mustacheless varieties with a similar color of berries from this group:
  • Zolotinka,
  • Weiss Solemacher,
  • White soul
  • Snow White,
  • White Swan.
    The diameter of the bush is 20 cm. Suitable for a dense planting, in the shade they bear little fruit. The taste is honey.

White and yellow varieties do not cause allergies, birds are not interested in light berries.

Photo gallery: varieties of light strawberries

Alpine red strawberries

Red alpine strawberry varieties:

• Dream is the earliest of the Alpine varieties. Small berries ripen together and continuously until September.
• The September miracle is the largest of the red varieties, berries are 6–7 g each, do not shrink, do not lose their taste on rainy September days.
• Renaissance. The bushes are huge, 40 cm in diameter and 30 cm in height, so the berries are collected in a well-lit place in baskets. Dessert taste. Fruits up to 5 g.
• Ali Baba. Small, 3–3.5 g berries, located above the leaves. One of the few varieties that bears fruit well both in the shade and in the sun. Bright aroma of wild berries. They differ from the Ali Baba variety only in the shades of the leaves and the shape of the fruits of the variety:
  • The scent of summer
  • Forest fairy tale
  • Seasons.

Photo gallery: varieties of red small-fruited strawberries

Large strawberry (strawberry)

All varieties and hybrids with a berry mass of 16 g or more are considered large, even if there are 2-3 large berries on the peduncle, and the rest are trifles. From the point of view of biology, large-fruited strawberries, or Victoria, which are usually called garden strawberries, are a kind of “pineapple strawberries”. And strawberries are a different plant.

Early maturing varieties and hybrids

Russian summer residents should pay attention to the early varieties of domestic selection. After all, they were bred specifically for our difficult weather conditions. Early varieties are especially vulnerable to spring frosts, which often occur while the plants are growing, and sometimes have already released flower stalks.

For the middle lane and the Moscow region, varieties bred by breeders of Bryansk, for example, Kokinskaya Zarya, are suitable. It is characterized by resistance to strawberry mites, leaf diseases, snowless winters, spring frosts. Berries in Bryansk ripen in early June, to the south - from mid-May, depending on the weather. First fruits - 30 g. Dessert taste.

The Kokinskaya Zarya variety is suitable for growing in central Russia and the Moscow region

Chokeberry

The berries, of course, are not black, but dark cherry with a purple hue. So if you get a seedling "black", it is worth the risk. Moreover, the varieties and hybrids with dark-colored berries are tasty and lying, they winter well in central Russia. Berries of the Italian variety Black Prince weighing 40-50 g.The Dutch Black Swan has smaller fruits, 30–40 g. A characteristic feature of the variety is a bluish tint of flowers.

Like any strawberry, black-fruited varieties do not tolerate either excess or lack of moisture, in agricultural technology they are no different from red varieties.

When fully ripe, black chokeberries appear almost black.

Dutch varieties and hybrids

Breeders in the Netherlands develop varieties with high yields, long-term fruiting, good taste.

But there is no opportunity to test their new products in the open field in Holland. Therefore, the weather surprises typical for the Russian climate are not for the Dutch sissies. Even if the variety or hybrid is intended for open ground, it is rash to plant the entire garden bed with foreign novelties. It's another matter if you need a variety for a greenhouse - here the choice is clearly in favor of the Dutch. But in the garden they will have to be covered for the winter.

Mainly remontant varieties are popular in Russia. Therefore, damage to the first buds by frost is not critical; after removing these peduncles, the bush will release new ones. Experienced gardeners always remove the first flower stalks immediately after they appear - so that the strawberries gain strength after the cold weather. Of course, in those bushes that are classified as neutral day hybrids. Varieties and hybrids with one or two harvests per year will take a long time to discard new flower stalks.

There is no need to be afraid of genetically modified plants. In Holland, as in Russia, GMOs are prohibited by law, which means that large producers will not do this.

Known non-remontant varieties:

• Vima Ksima. The variety is late ripening. The bush is powerful, spreading. Berries of dessert taste, round, dark red. Weight 20-30 g. Diseases and pests are damaged at an average level. Good winter hardiness. Resistant to heat. Drought does not tolerate well. The advantages of the variety are unsurpassed taste and bright aroma, the berries are uniform in size, the yield is very high, up to 150 c / ha. The disadvantage is a very large number of mustaches.

  The advantages of the Vima Ksima variety are unsurpassed taste and bright aroma, the berries are uniform in size, the yield is very high

• Wima Kimberly. Leaves are light, dull. The berries are light. The mustache is red and there are few of them. The variety is drought tolerant. Otherwise, everything is the same as that of the Vima Ksima variety - both the taste, and the shape of the berries, and the yield.
• Elvira. Medium-sized bush. Fruits are red, glossy, with a strawberry aroma, firm pulp, sweet. The average weight is 40–60 g. Up to 0.5 kg of berries are harvested from one plant, and with good care this figure increases. The variety is resistant to root rot and fungal diseases, and can tolerate cold down to -22 ° C.

  Elvira strawberries are resistant to root rot and fungal diseases

Repaired varieties:

• Vima Rina. The berries are large (up to 45 g), dense, conical, and have a good taste. The fruits are transported without loss. The variety is resistant to common diseases and pests of strawberries.

  Wim Rin strawberries are well transported due to their density

• Florina (Florin). A variety that adapts well to outdoor conditions, but is also grown in greenhouses and even apartments. The bushes are compact, the flower stalks are powerful. The fruits are cone-shaped, bright scarlet, with a glossy sheen. Forms a little mustache.

  Florin's strawberries can be grown even in an apartment

Zemklunika

Zemklunica is a hybrid obtained by crossing a European strawberry and a large-fruited garden strawberry. In the State Register of Breeding Achievements of Russia, so far there is only one variety of Zemluniki - Kupchikha. The bush is small, the peduncles are located at the same level with the leaves. The berries are cylindrical, dark red. Fruit weight varies from 3 to 17 g. The pulp is juicy, dense. Merchant's wife is a non-repaired medium-ripening variety. It is weakly affected by diseases and pests.

Zemklunica is a hybrid obtained by crossing European strawberries and large-fruited garden strawberries.

Choosing a variety according to the region

Each region has its own climatic characteristics - winters with little snow or 40-degree frosts; damp, short summers or hot and sunny.

If a variety is zoned for a certain region, this means that long-term tests in the conditions of the regions included in it have been successful.

In addition, in the State Register of Breeding Achievements, some varieties are recommended for all regions of Russia. Here they are:

• Vima Rina,
• Garland,
• Yoke,
• Elizabeth 2,
• Crimean remontant,
• Lyubava,
• Lyubasha,
• Moscow delicacy,
• all varieties of small-fruited alpine strawberries.

It is clear that after the breeding of a new variety and obtaining a patent for it, several years will pass before it is included in the list of recommended varieties. Therefore, many nurseries try new products themselves. Of course, these experiments are not officially valid. But if the nursery successfully breeds and sells this variety or hybrid, you can safely take it.

Buying new products from foreign breeding that have not yet been tested for a lot of money is already a risk. But the buyer only risks money, because strawberries take up little space, and the result will be visible in 2 years.

Strawberries for the Leningrad region

The State Register for the North-West region of Russia recommends:

• early varieties:
  • Zarya,
  • Kokinskaya early,
  • Ruslan;
• from mid-early:
  • Kalinka,
  • Beauty of Zagorya;
• mid-season:
  • Hope,
  • Orlets,
  • Sudarushka,
  • Knight,
  • Marvelous,
  • Festivalnaya;
• late and mid-late varieties:
  • Anastasia,
  • Zenga Zengana,
  • Cinderella,
  • Red Gauntlet,
  • Troitskaya,
  • Generous.

In addition to them, there are remontant varieties that are recommended for cultivation in all regions of Russia.

The sweetest of the varieties capable of producing crops in cold and rainy summers, which is not uncommon for this region, will be:

• Kokinskaya early,
• Moscow delicacy,
• Alexandria,
• Yellow miracle.

The variety of the Latvian selection of Junia Smides will also be a good choice. The berries, bright red with shine, taste good, the pulp is tender, juicy, sweet and sour. The bush is powerful, spreading. The number of whiskers is average. Junia Smides is disease resistant. The yield is high, up to 140 kg / ha.

The variety of the Latvian selection, Junia Smides, bears excellent fruit in the Leningrad region

Varieties for growing in Ukraine

The main problem in the southern regions of the country is the baking of berries in the sun. Therefore, varieties are preferred in which the berries are hidden under the leaves, and not carried out on long peduncles outside the bush. More than 20 varieties of strawberries can be found in the State Register of Plant Varieties suitable for distribution in Ukraine. Among them:

• Crimson,
• Bereginya,
• Source,
• Lviv early,
• Rusanovka,
• Torch,
• Festival chamomile,
• Elsanta,
• Elvira,
• Crown.

Photo gallery: varieties of strawberries for growing in Ukraine

The main rules for successful strawberry cultivation

Features of growing strawberries:

• Regardless of the variety, you need to choose a suitable place - without stagnant melt water in the spring. The soil needs fertile, slightly acidic. It is easy to acidify the earth by introducing manure humus, fertilizing with fermented herbal infusion, mulching with semi-ripe coniferous sawdust.
  

  Fresh sawdust cannot be taken, they absorb nitrogen from the soil and, moreover, are compressed during irrigation and rain, forming a crust.

• Strawberry bushes should be well ventilated. It is better to plant in a garden in 2 rows, and only for alpine varieties a three-line planting is permissible.
• The soil under the bushes should be mulched. Do not take dry or fresh grass as mulch. Straw, small pine shavings, fallen dry leaves, and non-woven coverings will do.
• Agrofibre can be taken in both white and black. It is important to make the holes correctly. Most often, it is recommended to make a cruciform incision for planting, but it is better to cut out circles with a diameter of 8-10 cm.
• You need to feed the sweet berry at least three times per season. Early in spring - with mineral complex fertilizer with microelements, before flowering - with organic infusions - fermented mullein or green fertilizer.
  

  You can't take bird droppings for strawberries - there are too many weed seeds in it.

• The most important thing is the right shelter for the winter. Although slightly frozen plants bear fruit worse, they do not die. The film is not suitable for sheltering strawberries - if you cover the bed with a film even before the onset of frost, the core of the bushes will rot during the winter.
• In autumn, the space between the bushes is covered with straw or dry leaves of birch, linden. Until the moment when the air temperature is above -6 ° C during the day, there is no need to cover the top with anything. Even freezing rain is not terrible. But to prepare pieces of agrofibre already cut to the size of the beds and to think over how and how to fix the edges, it is necessary in advance. The thickness of the material is 25–30 g / m2, no more. The film is generally not suitable for covering strawberries.
• The best cover for the above-ground part of the bush is snow. If he has already covered the strawberry bushes, it is not necessary to additionally insulate (except for heat-loving varieties of southern selection).

The most productive strawberry varieties for planting in the garden are Dutch. The most cold-resistant are the achievements of Russian breeders. And everyone can choose a variety to their taste and color.

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