Festival strawberries and other varieties of strawberries

One of the most favorite berries grown in the garden is strawberries. In nature there are a huge number of its varieties, differing in different characteristics: the color and weight of the berries, growing conditions, fruiting time. Each of its varieties is healthy, since strawberries contain folic acid, vitamins A, K, PP, B2 and B9.

Content:

• Classification of strawberry varieties
• Benefits of remontant strawberry varieties
• Strawberry Elizabeth II
• Strawberry Festival
• Strawberry Brighton
• Strawberry Lyubava

Classification of strawberry varieties

• They bear fruit once per season. This kind of strawberry most often happens large-fruited, due to one-time fruiting.
• They bear fruit several times per season. This variety of strawberry is more popular than others due to its multiple harvests, frost resistance, and resistance to various diseases and drought.
• Small-fruited varieties.

Any variety of strawberry is additionally divided according to ripening time:

• early ripening;
• mid-season;
• late ripening.

Benefits of remontant strawberry varieties

Strawberries that bear fruit most of the year in the garden, and in greenhouses all year round, are called all-season or remontant.

In recent years, this particular variety has been gaining worldwide popularity due to the fact that it produces a bountiful harvest many times a year. However, the quality of fruiting decreases after the first flowering. The main popular varieties of strawberries among remontant varieties are Festival strawberries, Elizabeth II, Brighton and Lyubava.

Strawberry Elizabeth II

A popular early-ripening remontant strawberry, producing sweet-sour fruits weighing up to 100 grams, sweet-sour, with the smell of wild berries. It bears fruit evenly throughout the summer with bright red berries. Its bushes are powerful, winter-hardy, do not produce excess leaves and tendrils, but in rainy season they can be affected by gray rot.

Strawberry Festival

Mid-season strawberry Festival one of high-yielding varieties of strawberries. Its berries are large, up to 45 grams at the first harvest, oblong and bright red. The pulp is pink, medium-dense, tasty. This variety is resistant to various diseases and pests, but is prone to infection (withering).

Strawberry Brighton

Brighton strawberries are one of the vigorous flowering varieties. Its berries are shiny, large, red and cone-shaped. They can reach 50 grams each. The taste is sweet and sour, with a slight aftertaste of pineapple. This variety produces fairly dense berries, so it is suitable for transportation over long distances. The process of growing these strawberries is easier because as a result selection it was instilled with natural resistance to various pests.

Strawberry Lyubava

Early ripe strawberry Lyubava is one of the new varieties of remontant strawberries. Its berries are medium-sized, weighing up to 30 grams and have a peculiar oval-rhombic shape. Reminds me of the taste strawberries. This strawberry is very resistant to frost and long-term transportation. Its advantage is its resistance to fungi, drought and frost. And the peculiarity of Lyubava is that it belongs to the beardless types of strawberries. Thanks to this, all the beneficial substances obtained by the plant from the soil are used to produce a large harvest.

Summer residents are very pleased with remontant varieties of strawberries, since in addition to a rich harvest, they can also be grown for decorative purposes, on a trellis.

But in order for strawberries to constantly bear fruit, they must be monitored and cared for, fed with nitrogen and potassium, and protected from diseases and temperature changes. As a result of careful care, you can harvest up to 10 harvests per year.