Strawberry Albion is a great variety!
Strawberries are loved by all genders, ages, positions and countries.
Feel the attractive aroma and feel the sweet unique taste delicious strawberry - the highest pleasure. But for experienced gardeners, not only taste is important, but also yield, productivity, and crop sustainability.
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Modern breeders have learned to create fruit varieties that have as many of these qualities as possible. One of these strawberry varieties is Albion.
Features of the variety
Strawberry Albion classified as remontant - capable of repeated fruiting - varieties. It was developed at the University of California in the United States of America and patented there in 2006.
Albion strawberries begin to bear fruit a year after planting. The fruiting peaks for this variety are the end of May, the beginning of July, the end of August and mid-September. Albion is characterized high yield and productivity, resistance to drought and diseases such as anthracosis and gray mold.
However, the variety is not resistant to frost, so it is more suitable for indoor soil.
Video: Strawberry Albion
Depending on climatic conditions and agrotechnical level, one bush can ripen from 400 g to 2 kg of fruit. Due to the characteristics of the vigorous shoots, the berries practically do not touch the ground. The variety is characterized by an oily sheen to the leaves. The large Albion fruits themselves weigh 40-60 g.These cone-shaped berries have a very interesting color: dark red with a glossy shine on the outside and bright pink on the inside.
Growing Albion strawberries
The Albion variety is positioned for the climate of the USA, Canada, Italy, some areas of Europe and the southern regions.
The best time to plant Albion is in early spring after the start of field work or in early autumn after rains.
Before landing Plants should be kept in a cool, damp place for up to 6 days (no more!). The ideal soil for planting Albion is moderately moist. It is extremely important to add humus to the soil before planting, since this variety really “loves” organic matter. During planting, it is recommended to keep the boxes with seedlings in the shade. Watering after planting is required.
Both rooted and non-rooted tendrils can be grown, increasing the number of seedlings. When growing strawberries, new large rosettes immediately take root in a permanent place, at a distance of about 30 cm from the mother bush. In the first year, it is necessary to pluck out the flower stalks, allowing the root system and greenery to grow. So there will be no harvest for the year of planting, but next year there will be plenty of it.
As noted earlier, Albion is resistant to diseases, so there is no need to treat against them. It will be enough just to treat the plant with Fitosporin for prevention. It should also be sprayed with iodine solution to avoid brown spotting.
Albion strawberries do not tolerate heat and may even stop bearing fruit at temperatures above 30 C. When there is drought, it wilts, but when there is excess moisture, it produces watery, not very sweet fruits with reduced taste. This capricious variety does not like frosty weather.Like the vast majority of strawberry varieties, Albion can be subject to spotting.
Strawberries Albion will please the owner only in conditions of the highest degree of care, which means drip watering, growing under cover and fertilizing.
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You can grow this miracle not only in the garden, but also at home. Growing vegetables and decorative flowers on the balcony is no longer a surprising phenomenon, but the same cannot be said about strawberries, which produce sweet fruits all year round. However, Albion, growing at home, requires special care.
The container in which plant is planted, should have a volume of 3 liters per shoot. There should be holes at the bottom of this container. Through which excess water will flow. The bushes should be located at a distance of about 25 cm from each other. Of course, strawberries need to be watered regularly and fed with mineral and manure fertilizers a couple of times a month.
Eating Albion strawberries
Albion can be considered one of the best varieties of strawberries, since its pleasant aroma and divinely sweet taste are worthy of the highest praise.
Berries This variety, of course, is best consumed fresh - this is how all the delights of their great taste are felt, and all the beneficial vitamins enter the body. Strawberry Albion protects the body from viruses and prevents colds. This type of strawberry is also actively used in the confectionery industry. Albion will add piquancy to a variety of sweet baked goods.
Its unique strawberry aroma is also used in perfumery and cosmetology.
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Indeed, Albion strawberries, grown in a favorable climate and proper care, have many excellent properties derived from their best “predecessors”. It’s not for nothing that it is one of the leading varieties in all respects, which can be purchased at an affordable price.
Comments
Everything said about Albion is true! It grows in a dacha in a zone of risky farming in the Klisnsky district of the Moscow region, on the border with the Tver region. In the first year after planting (I planted it in the fall), after winter it produced a wonderful harvest and a lot of runners, I didn’t have time to trim it. If you gape, it’s already a pity to cut it into a pot, it takes root perfectly and quickly, you can separate it from the mother bush in a week, so as not to deplete it. The berry is beautiful, tasty, and smells good. Of the competitors to Albion in my garden, I can only name Ostrara. It is smaller, less beautiful, but sweet and sour, more orange, some family members like it more than Albion. And he doesn’t give a mustache: one per year. I planted Albion and Ostara in the same year on the same day, they grow in the same bed and the same care (as best I can) - so you can compare. Given the abundance of varieties on my farm, I pin my hopes on Albion and Ostara. It's a pity there are not enough bushes. But as I said, Albion is easier to propagate.
I don’t know anything about winter growing.
I have been growing Albion strawberries for several years now. I completely agree, these strawberries are simply magnificent in all respects. The berries are all so large, as if chosen. Even in the first year after planting it gave an excellent harvest.
I first tried to plant Albion strawberries the year before, and to be honest I thought it wouldn’t work.But I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t have to take special care of the strawberries, but nevertheless, the result pleasantly surprised not only me, but also my family, because the berries are delicious and quite large.
The variety is certainly not bad, but somewhat capricious, as it seemed to me. Recently, I have been growing old varieties such as “Rügen” and “Lord” from remontant varieties. Although, of course, they are not as large and tasty as Albion.
I grew ordinary strawberries for many years and their harvest always pleased me. It was enough not only for my family to eat fresh, but also to make jam, puree it with sugar for the winter, make compotes, treat friends. But 3 years ago I planted Albion strawberries. Now our favorite delights us with its fruits until late autumn.