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Every gardener would like strawberries on his site to bear fruit as long as possible. As if listening to their desires, tireless breeders bred remontant strawberries. What are the features of these varieties, and which ones are the best? Consider in the article.

Strawberry repair and its features

Remontant strawberry varieties bear fruit several times in one season. The first harvest ripens as usual - in July. The second is expected in August, the third - in the fall. This last crop will only be harvested if there is no frost or if the strawberry is growing in greenhouses. Flower buds, from which the crop will later be formed, remontant varieties are laid during daylight or neutral daylight hours.

The second crop is more plentiful - it accounts for 70-80% of the total fruiting. And this can lead to the fact that the bush will die. The harvest takes place on both maternal and young plants formed at the beginning of the season after the rooting of the antennae. If the peduncles are removed in the spring, then the volume of the second crop can be increased.

Renovated strawberries are a great choice for gardeners looking for a big harvest.

Repairing strawberries participate in an accelerated development cycle, which is why they are rapidly aging, therefore, next year, even large-fruited varieties will give birth to small berries.

To avoid these disadvantages, you need to follow these rules:

• planting seedlings should take place on a new bed from July to September;
• after planting seedlings, all flowers must be cut off;
• instead of seedlings, you can use antennae-offshoots from mother bushes, or use seeds;
• when fruiting ends - in the fall, before the first frost, the bushes must be removed from the garden;
• the beds must be mulched - with straw, sawdust, hay, dry leaves, weeds cut down. Read also the article: → "Mulching strawberries with sawdust."

The place for the growth of remontant strawberries should be spacious, well-lit. The soil is fertile. The distance between the bushes is at least 40 centimeters; between the rows - 60. Between two adjacent rows, it is good to plant garlic, which will drive slugs away from the bushes.

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★ The best varieties of remontant strawberries

These varieties can be small-fruited, large-fruited. Each of these species can represent their best varieties.

Small-fruited, with small berries

Large-fruited varieties bear fruit before the onset of frost

They are often called strawberries. Small-fruited strawberries do not develop whiskers. It reproduces only by seeds. But its main advantage is that it bears fruit continuously, until the very frost. The best varieties of small-fruited strawberries:

1. Ali Baba. A plant with semi-spreading powerful bushes 15 centimeters high, on each of which many inflorescences are formed. Conical fruits of red color with white pulp have a pleasant forest aroma. Berry mass - 3-5 grams. It is a high-yielding variety that is resistant to diseases and pests. Winters well.
2. "Alexandria". The weight of the berries is 7 grams. High-yielding variety. Unpretentious care.
3. "Forest Fairy Tale". A large number of flower bearers are formed on compact, medium-sized bushes. Flowering occurs continuously. The fruits are conical in shape. Their taste is sweet and sour. Weight - 5 grams. High-yielding variety.
4. Ruyana. The bushes are compact. The bright red fruits are rather large, juicy, with a rich aroma of wild strawberries. They ripen two weeks earlier than other varieties. The variety is high-yielding, resistant to pests, diseases, drought. Well tolerates winter.
5. "Rugen". It also begins to bloom and bear fruit earlier than others. The bright red conical berries are very aromatic and tasty. The variety is considered dessert.
6. "Baron Solemacher". Bright red fruits with convex blotches weigh up to 4 grams. They are sweet, without sourness, very tasty. The variety is resistant to disease.

Large-fruited, high-yielding varieties

The mass of these varieties of berries varies from 20 to 70 grams, and sometimes reaches 100. They form a small number of tendrils. Unlike small-fruited, these varieties bear fruit only two to three times in one growing season. Read also the article: → "The best varieties of strawberries."

This is how the fruits of remontant strawberries look close-up.

1. "Queen Elizabeth". Bushes are powerful, light-leaved. The berry weighs 50-125 grams with medium density pulp. The variety is renewed annually. It is used for vertical gardening, cultivation on hills.
2. "Temptation". This is a hybrid variety. Fruiting occurs from May to autumn frosts. Fruits with a nutmeg flavor, with a dense, juicy pulp weigh 30 grams. This variety is used in ornamental gardening.
3. "Dynamite". American variety. Berries with light pulp weigh 20 grams. During the growing season, it forms many antennae. Very resistant to pests and diseases.
4. "Evie 2". English variety. The fruits are juicy and sweet, weighing 20 grams. Differs in drought resistance.
5. "Moscow delicacy". The variety is distinguished by vigorous, strong bushes and abundant fruiting. The weight of the berries is 15-35 grams. Smooth fruits have a cherry aftertaste. Resistant to disease and frost.
6. "Albion". This variety is characterized by excellent transportability. The dark red dense berries have a sweet taste and strong aroma. Resistant to weather conditions.
7. San Andreas. Bushes are powerful.Fruit weight is about 30 grams or more. Their taste is harmonious. They are of medium density.
8. Monterey. American variety. Strong bushes. The cone-shaped berries, juicy and sweet, weigh 20 grams. High-yielding variety. It grows poorly in a continental climate.
9. Capri. High-yielding variety. Conical fruits weigh 35 grams.

Repair strawberries differ from common varieties:

• several waves of fruiting;
• large-fruited;
• early maturity.

It also has its disadvantages:

• plants age quickly;
• from year to year the fruits become smaller;
• its berries are less tasty than the berries of ordinary garden strawberries;
• bushes and leaves are weaker.

Fertilizing and feeding remontant strawberries

An original way to grow remontant strawberries, which will bring an excellent harvest of fruits

In the soil for growing remontant strawberries, melt water should not stagnate, but it should absorb moisture well. Therefore, organic fertilizers must be added to it. Especially a lot of them are needed on heavy clay substrates. For this, wood ash, humus, bird droppings are used.

Strawberries are in dire need of feeding during the growing season. Therefore, during this period, organic fertilizers must be added to the irrigation water once a week. But even with regular feeding, remontant strawberries do not have enough nutrition. Due to its ultra-high yield and high activity, it so badly needs additional portions of micro- and macroelements.

Tip # 1. It is necessary to feed the plant roots with liquid complex fertilizers for berries every month.

If it is not possible to use organic substances every week, it is necessary to increase the amount of the working solution of complex fertilizers for each bush with monthly feeding. In this case, the concentration of the mixture is prepared strictly according to the instructions.

• They feed remontant strawberries at least 3 times a year, and just in time. Until the foliage grows rapidly, it can be fed from a solution of manure and ammonium sulfate. Read also the article: → “How to feed strawberries in the fall. The experience of gardeners ”.To do this, 1 tablespoon of sulfate is mixed with 2 cups of cow dung and diluted in 10 liters of water. 1 liter of solution is poured under each bush.
• In the first year of planting, plants are watered with a mullein solution (1 glass per 5 liters of water) at the rate of one glass of the mixture for each bush. Nettle infusion works well: a bucket of freshly picked herbs is poured with water and left to infuse for 3 days. You can spray the bushes with this infusion for the first time even before the strawberries bloom. The second is when the crop is harvested.
• At the end of May, before flowering, it is also fertilized with a mixture of 10 liters of water, 2 tablespoons of nitrophoska and 1 teaspoon of potassium sulfate. 0.5 liters of this fertilizer are poured under each bush.
• It is advisable to carry out top dressing in the spring, before the leaves bloom. This can be done simultaneously with the removal of old whiskers and leaves, as well as transplantation.

How to feed a berry during flowering

You can feed strawberries with chicken droppings and humus very carefully, because when you fall asleep a bush, you risk ruining the entire future harvest.

• Strawberries need a lot of potassium to form fruit. Therefore, as a top dressing, you can take an infusion of chicken manure, ash or potassium nitrate.
• During the flowering period, strawberries are sprayed with 0.02% zinc sulfate solution. At the very beginning of flowering, it can be fertilized with a mullein solution. In order to increase the yield, strawberry bushes are sprayed with microelements during flowering and the formation of ovaries: add a pinch of boric acid to 10 liters of water. You can also use ready-made fertilizers created specifically for strawberries.
• The yield of berries can be increased by 30% using a complex fertilizer, which contains all the necessary trace elements.
• However, feeding remontant strawberries is needed not only during flowering. Secondary fertilizers should be added to the soil immediately after the main crop is harvested - in mid or late July. Leaves and whiskers are cut at the same time. Then the bushes are treated with a solution of 2% Bordeaux liquid to destroy parasites and insects living in plants.
• The last time young plants, which are one year old, are fed in mid-September in dry weather.

Feeding remontant strawberries with yeast

Feeding strawberries in spring with boric acid

More recently, gardeners and gardeners began to use yeast to feed strawberries. This improves the yield. Yeast can be used as fertilizer for other berries and vegetables. Plants are fed 2 times per season. A 5 liter bucket is usually enough for 10 bushes. A 1-kilogram pack of yeast is diluted in 5 liters of water.

Tip # 2. For feeding, 0.5 liters of the mixture is diluted in 10 liters of water. Pour 0.5 liters of the mixture under each strawberry bush.

In addition to the usual, you can use fast yeast. 1 bag of dry yeast and 2 tablespoons of sugar are diluted in a small amount of warm water and left to infuse for 2 hours. When watering, add 0.5 liters of solution to the watering can.

Typical diseases and pests of strawberries

This picture perfectly shows what a big harvest a remontant strawberry gives with proper care.

The most dangerous diseases:

• gray rot (see → how to treat gray rot on strawberries),
• powdery mildew (how to treat powdery mildew),
• late blight wilting,
• brown spot
• brown, white, angular spotting.

Agrotechnology of remontant strawberries provides for the prevention and control of pests and diseases. The main preventive measure is the selection of resistant varieties. The reason for the total spread of fungal infections can be high humidity, dense plantings. Mulching does not allow strawberries to come into contact with waterlogged soil, and this saves them from rot. Read in more detail: → "6 diseases and 5 main pests of strawberries: how to treat and how to fight."

Strawberries cannot be planted in a place where tomatoes, peppers, potatoes used to grow, from which they can inherit verticillary and fusarium wilting. At the first symptoms of the disease, the bushes must be immediately treated with 2% Bordeaux liquid, potassium permanganate or phytosporin.

To suppress the dangerous pest of strawberries - the strawberry mite, insecticides are used. But they can only be applied after harvest. If there are aphids in the leaves and shoots of strawberries, it can be scared off with a solution of laundry soap with the addition of wood ash.

Rating of the best remontant varieties

Vima Zanta ripens in early summer:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
Late May - early June	40	0,6-0,8	High permeation

Gigantella has large berries and high yields:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
June	60-125	1-3	Good transportability

Strawberry variety Diamant is resistant to various diseases:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
From late May to early June	20-40	1-2	Resistant to viruses and diseases

The Dukat variety is considered frost-resistant, not afraid of cold weather:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
From late May to early June	20-40	1-2	Frost resistant

Kent begins to ripen in the first month of summer:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
In the first half of June	40	0,7-1	Frost resistance. Resistant to gray mold and powdery mildew

Clery is not afraid of gray rot and frost:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
At the beginning of June	20-40	0,7-1	Resistant to fungal diseases and diseases of the root system

Queen Elizabeth II is popular for its large and sweet berries:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity(kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
May to October	Up to 110	1-2	Resistant to viruses and diseases

Olbia is not afraid of drought and rare watering:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
Mid May to Mid June	30-40	0,6-0,7	Frost-resistant, drought-resistant

Honey bears fruit for more than a month, tolerates long transportation well:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
Mid May to Mid June	30-40	0,5-0,7	Frost resistance, well transported

Elsanta is a high-yielding variety, but does not like drought:

Ripening time	Berry weight (g)	Productivity (kg per bush)	Distinctive properties
June	40-50	1,5	Needs regular watering

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Berries of remontant strawberries close-up, the fruits of this variety are quite voluminous and in large quantities, with simple care

How to care for remontant strawberries?

Experienced summer residents argue that large-fruited remontant strawberries (popularly called rem. Strawberries) need not only regular feeding, a high level of agricultural technology, but also a significant frequent replacement of fruiting bushes. Of course, the bush will bear fruit the next year, and in a year, however, the yield may significantly decrease, compared to that which will give a young plant.

Therefore, in late spring or early summer, you need to leave a little mustache from young (at the age of 1 and a little over a year) well-bearing plants. As soon as the whiskers take root, they should be separated and planted for growing in containers, or immediately in the place of their permanent cultivation in the next season. The young plant is grown, the bush is allowed to develop, and fruiting is allowed in the second half of summer. The main work of the remontant strawberries is in the next season.

Thus, remontant strawberries are grown for 1.5 seasons, then the aged plant is removed. To make the most of the opportunities, accelerate the onset of fruiting and extend it in the fall, it is better to cover the remontant strawberries with a non-woven cloth, with periodic access of pollinating insects.

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Foreword

Nowadays, there are hundreds of strawberry varieties, but only 73 varieties have been registered and recommended for reproduction. Is it worth stopping at officially recognized brands or taking risks and ordering foreign or homemade hybrids?

Parameters and requirements for the best varieties of strawberries

From the point of view of industrial horticulture, strawberries are a profitable berry. It multiplies quickly and well, does not require significant investments, as in fruit growing, for example, cultivation of cherry and apple orchards, berry bushes. But every summer resident who grows this wonderful berry in two or three beds knows that in order to get a harvest at least for a bowl of jam, it is necessary to faithfully look after each bush. And the level and amount of June bliss depends on how correctly the strawberry varieties are chosen.

Consider what properties the best strawberry varieties for home gardens should have.

1. Productivity and size. Up to a kilogram of berries are harvested from a good bush, and in the first harvest they should weigh 50-70 grams.
2. Taste and aroma. For a balanced taste, strawberries must contain a sufficient amount of sugars and acids and have a recognizable aroma not only in smell, but also in taste.
3. Consistency, that is, the density of the fruit and the tenderness of the skin. The keeping quality of strawberries and the ability to protect themselves from slugs and rot depend on these parameters.
4. Resistance to disease, pests, freezing and not exactingness to natural factors - the composition and fertility of the soil, acid-base balance, etc.

For industrial strawberry cultivation, two more factors are important:

• one-dimensionality and roundness (without "white bottom");
• simultaneity of ripening.

The gardener is more interested in other characteristics:

• exceptional ripening periods - very early and late;
• originality - remontant species and ampel type plants with mustache berries are welcome. The latter varieties bear fruit all year round; they are grown right at home, in pots.

Of course, all the excellent parameters cannot be combined in one strawberry variety. According to practicing gardeners, the best strawberry varieties gain no more than 90% in terms of the sum of qualities on a 100-point scale. However, they should be taken into account when choosing the most suitable seedlings.

The most reliable strawberry for a summer resident near Moscow

Let's start with the tested varieties, which may not have the excellent qualities of the latest breeding samples, but are not afraid of the climatic tricks of central Russia and guarantee a harvest in any conditions. Timeless classics, tested on their own experience. A childhood ruined on a strawberry plot gives me the right to judge the value and correlation of time and results.

Advice from Zoya Bukhteeva: In the Moscow region, you should not choose early varieties for planting in the open field, since traditional frosts at the end of May fall at the very time of flowering and can completely deprive you of your harvest.

Beauty Zagorya is an old, proven variety of domestic selection, the result of crossing the varieties Mysovka and Komsomolskaya Pravda. It conquers with its high winter hardiness and good yield, slugs and powdery mildew are indifferent to it, but the traditional rains during the harvest period turn into gray rot. The berries ripen at the end of June, in the first harvest they are medium-large, 35-40 g, oblong-oval, slightly ribbed with a shiny dark red skin. The pulp is dense, very juicy, with a dessert taste and a pleasant aroma.

Disadvantage: "Demanding on growing conditions" - the sellers write in the description. Truly! And the mustache forms in large numbers.

Festivalnaya is a very stable and winter-hardy variety, bred, as the name implies, at the end of the 50s of the last century. Mid-season. The berries are dark red, they are huge, flattened, with grooves, for my taste they are somewhat dry inside. After the first wave, the harvest becomes shallow. They are not afraid of gray rot and calmly endure rainy seasons. Can be planted in lace shade.

Pineapple is an amazingly pleasant berry for light fruit lovers. It does not have a bright pronounced taste, cloying sweetness, or sourness, but it is very aromatic. The berries are soft, light pink, with a delicate skin. Growing pineapple strawberries in the shade means harvesting slugs and gray rot. Only in open areas and without special crop types. Exclusively to feast on.

Zanga-Zengana is a late ripening variety. The berries are dark red, round, slightly flattened on top, like the cap of a young mushroom, shiny, very juicy. Small - the largest berries do not exceed a walnut. It begins to bear fruit after the main stream, but it is valuable not only for this, but also for its amazing taste that combines all the colors of late summer: you can feel in it the taste of raspberries, and blackberries, and, of course, the sun. Sweet. Slugs hardly touch, gray rot too. There are few whiskers, the leaves are dark green.

Modern varieties of garden strawberries, from early to late - we can't recommend anything bad!

I am writing this section based on the recommendations of strawberry growers who are simultaneously testing modern varieties in Meshchera.

In our time, we have not heard of the varieties that some farms and distributors are strenuously selling by mail, such as strawberries Moscow delicacy, Black Prince, Marshal, Japanese Chamora Turusi or mythical Victoria. The State Register of Breeding Achievements includes 73 varieties of garden strawberries that are allowed for propagation in Russia according to the test results, and the names listed above do not appear there. This does not mean anything: for example, quite recently, a remontant strawberry variety Yoshkarolinka, created at the Volga Technological University in the early 2000s, was included in the register.

For clarity: the presence of a plant of a certain variety in the State Register of Breeding Achievements means that seeds and seedlings are allowed to be imported and sold on the territory of Russia. Otherwise, the seizure of illegal goods may follow, and the transaction (for example, with an online store) may fail.

In the Moscow region, sweet varieties of strawberries with a "caramel" flavor are especially appreciated, but you should not give up the "sweet and sour" varieties, which are very suitable for jam and other cooking.In addition, some people consider sweet varieties without sourness to be not saturated enough in taste and "empty".

Here is a selection of the most popular and productive varieties according to experienced strawberry and seedling growers.

Kimberly is considered the best very early maturing variety of Dutch origin. Very large and sweet berries with a "caramel" flavor, up to 50 g, cone-shaped. Winter-hardy, resistant to powdery mildew, not picky about fertile soil.

Maryshka is a well-known mid-early domestic variety, one of the sweetest. The berries are large, about 50 g, but with an insufficient level of refreshing acid and have no "strength of taste". The fruits are soft, with a delicate skin. Differs in unsurpassed natural and climatic stability and disease resistance. It multiplies rapidly due to the abundantly growing whiskers.

Shelf - a variety with very large sweet rounded dark red dense berries. Not all young seedlings survive the winter, but those who remain will reward a hundredfold. It grows into a large spreading bush, for which you need to allocate a lot of space, bears fruit for a long time, you can harvest several times in July. Little mustache, grows in lace shade.

Maxim or Gigantella Maxim is the largest medium-late ripening variety. Dutch breeders have created a plant with powerful bushes, whiskers and stems as thick as a pencil. Very large, up to 110-125 g berries, slightly flattened on the sides, dense, dryish. Prefers bright places, not very winter hardy, like most Dutch species. Throws out numerous mustaches, which must be removed to obtain a good harvest. An adult Gigantella bush requires about 50 cm of free space, but it does not yield less than a kilogram.

Black Swan is also a large-fruited variety, up to 70 g, late ripening. Famous for its aromatic taste, sweet. The berry is loose and dry, because it is large, but without voids. Fruiting until mid-August, can be planted in the shade.

Advice from Zoya Bukhteeva: Light strawberries should be planted in the sun, red strawberries can be planted in the shade.

Original strawberry varieties - remontant, ampelous, curly

Gardeners are drawn to grow something special on their site. White strawberries, beardless or, conversely, ampelous, with berries on a mustache - all this exotic pleases the soul, but not the stomach or wallet. However, such varieties cannot be ignored.

I am wary of remontant strawberries. It is not enough for me to take care of the plot in June-July, so if you please, from May to September, you can spin around the conscripts! In addition, without supervision, remontant varieties quickly interbreed with strawberries, shrink, degenerate and fill the best places with their mustaches, displacing decent inhabitants of the strawberry plot. Nevertheless, "advanced" gardeners love curiosities, so it makes sense to follow the advice of experienced professionals.

Queen Elizabeth 2 is a remontant variety with very large conical, slightly flattened berries, some of them with a medium apple - 100-110 g, bright red, firm flesh. A very original type of "winter" strawberry, in which already formed buds overwinter - hence the very early fruiting. The much-touted "hit of the 2010 season" does not tolerate drought and cannot boast of exquisite taste.

The Russian size is a very popular variety in mailing lists, but experienced and gardeners are rated at C grade. The taste is not sweet enough, the berries are not much larger than ordinary remontant strawberries. Usually it is not kept for more than 3 years, preferring foreign varieties.

Merlan - could be called an ampel type ornamental plant for growing in hanging baskets, but has a surprisingly pleasant taste. The original compact bushes with pink inflorescences bear fruit 10 months a year in an apartment or from May to October in the country. It seems to be unpretentious to care.I don't understand why city apartments are not hung with pots with these types of strawberries?

The garland is a curly variety, an intermediate variety between ampelous and remontant strawberries: it gives berries on a mustache, bears fruit all summer, but the berries are large, rather tasty, juicy. It is grown both on the ground, in the beds, and suspended.

Let's hope that, guided by this article, you will find for yourself the very variety that is simply intended for growing on your site and will bring you a lot of joy in the summer and little hassle in the spring and autumn.