Strawberry Temptation

Strawberries or garden strawberries have been grown for centuries. If earlier the harvest was received only once per season, today, thanks to the hard work of breeders, there are varieties that bear fruit several times.

Strawberry cascading remontant Temptation is just from such a line. The description of the variety, cultivation features, reviews of gardeners, as well as the photos presented in the article will help gardeners with the choice of garden strawberries for their site.

Description of the plant

Strawberry Temptation refers to remontant large-fruited varieties of early fruiting. Its authors are breeders from Italy. You can collect fruits all summer, and the last berries ripen before frost.

The berries of the variety ripen one and a half months after the start of flowering. You can grow cascading strawberries not only in open ground, greenhouses or greenhouses, but also in a pot. Pots and flowerpots can be kept on the window in the apartment or in limbo. Remontant strawberry Temptation in the photo in a pot culture.

Garden Strawberry Temptation is a first generation hybrid with an F1 badge on the seed bag. The remontant strawberry variety is represented by a low, compact bush with medium-sized dark green leaves. Each strawberry bush produces up to 20 tall peduncles with amazingly beautiful pale pink flowers.

The berries of the strawberry variety Temptation F1 are large, shiny, in the shape of an oblong cone. The mass of fruits is on average 30 grams. In biological ripeness, the berries become a rich red color. The fruits are dense, the pulp is juicy, fleshy, without inclusions on the cut.

Each berry contains a large number of slightly sunken seeds, yellow in color. This gives the appearance of strawberries a special originality. But when eaten, the seeds are not noticed. According to gardeners and consumers, there is a nutmeg flavor in the taste of sweet-sour berries.

Characteristics

Already in the description of the strawberry variety Temptation, important signs of the plant are indicated. But gardeners also need characteristics that indicate the pros and cons of the culture. Only in this case, you can decide to plant a hybrid of garden strawberries on the site.

Advantages

Consider first the advantages of the remontant variety Temptation:

1. Early maturity and long fruiting. Harvesting is carried out as strawberries ripen in several stages. According to gardeners, autumn berries are even tastier and more fragrant than summer ones.
2. Taste characteristics are excellent.
3. The crop is laid immediately after planting remontant strawberries in the ground, and the length of daylight hours for the plant does not matter, just like the time of year. Harvest can be harvested, under favorable conditions, all year round. This was the reason for the high interest of farmers in the hybrid form of remontant strawberries Temptation.
4. High yields are confirmed by the description, reviews of gardeners and photos that they send. From a bush of garden strawberries, varieties are harvested per season up to 1,5 kg of sweet and fragrant fruits.

   

5. Weed formation is satisfactory, there is always enough planting material. Even on unrooted rosettes of the Temptation variety of the first order, flowers appear, and later berries.
6. The ability to grow remontant cascading garden strawberries not only in the ground, but also in pots. This feature is widely used by landscape designers. Hanging long peduncles with flowers and berries look original when growing the Temptation variety in the ampelous way.

   

7. Hybrid Temptation of medium frost resistance, they hibernate without shelter at temperatures up to -17 degrees only under snow. In more severe climatic conditions, reliable shelter should be provided.
8. In one place, remontant strawberries of the Temptation variety are grown for no more than three years.
9. Resistance to strawberry diseases is high, but preventive measures should not be neglected.

Cons

Strawberry Italian selection Temptation has clear advantages, but the disadvantages must also be said. There are few of them, they are not so obvious, but still there are:

1. A large amount of mustache depletes the mother bush, so during the season they need to be constantly removed. Otherwise, the yield is reduced.
2. Seed propagation of the remontant variety Temptation is not always possible even for experienced gardeners.
3. Unstable watering, leading to the drying of the soil, leads to a sharp decrease in fruiting.

Reproduction of strawberries

Remontant strawberry variety Temptation breeds:

• seeds;
• sockets;
• division of the bush.

As you can see, the methods of reproduction are traditional. For those who have been engaged in culture for more than one year, they are not difficult. But from the characteristics it follows that obtaining new seedlings from seeds is not always possible. Let’s consider the process in more detail.

Where to get the seeds

The choice of seeds is of great importance:

1. Seed material remains viable for only three years. Therefore, when buying seeds of the remontant variety Temptation, you need to pay attention to this moment.
2. You need to purchase seeds in specialized stores.
3. It is better to use the services of agricultural firms that have gained popularity in the market. In these seed companies, the seeds are thoroughly tested and comply with state standards.

Companies such as Aelita, Becker, Altai Gardens, Siberian Garden and others are very popular. You can order garden strawberries Temptation by mail or online, as today all companies have an official website.

Soil for seedlings

They have been growing strawberries from seed since February in order to get high-quality seedlings by spring. Remontant garden strawberry varieties are demanding on nutrient soil with good air permeability. When self-compiling the soil mixture, the following ratio is taken into account: five parts of compost or humus must be added to three parts of sand.

Three days before sowing seeds, the soil is disinfected. You can warm it in the oven or pour boiling water over it. Potassium permanganate is added to it. The fact is that in the soil there may be spores of all varieties of blackleg disease that are dangerous for strawberries. Under the influence of heat treatment, they die.

Features of sowing and care

As already noted, the seeds of remontant strawberries of the Temptation variety germinate for a long time. They are sown on well-spilled warm water soil. It is not necessary to close up the seed, since microscopic seedlings cannot break through even a small layer of earth. The containers are covered with glass.

In a room with a temperature of at least 25 degrees, seedlings of garden strawberries appear within a month. The shelter is not removed, just slightly opened to keep warm and high humidity.

In the future, remontant strawberries will need good lighting. Gardeners in the reviews note that seedlings of the Temptation variety are demanding of light for 12 hours a day. If there is not enough light, the seedlings are pulled out. Therefore, it is necessary to install lamps to highlight strawberries.

Dive seedlings of garden strawberries (if they are grown in common containers) begin after the appearance of 2-3 true leaves.

In the future, care for remontant strawberries of the Temptation variety comes down to watering and top dressing.

Seedlings of the variety respond well to watering with wood ash extract, which contains a large number of trace elements necessary for the plant to develop successfully.

Before planting in open ground, bushes of remontant strawberries Temptation are hardened so that adaptation is successful.

Picking seedlings of remontant garden strawberries of the Temptation variety from peat tablets:

Other methods of reproduction

Since the formation of mustaches on the hybrid is continuous, and unrooted rosettes are already in buds, you can propagate remontant strawberries all summer and autumn. And not only rosettes, but also the division of the bush.

Growing in soil

Before planting in open ground, seedlings should have at least six leaves. The best place is a sunny bed with fertile soil. Since the Temptation variety has been grown in one place for 3 years, the soil must be well seasoned with organic matter so that there is enough food for the whole time. Of course, top dressing will be required, but in smaller quantities.

Seedlings are planted in May or June, depending on the climatic conditions of the region. The main thing is that the average daily temperatures are positive.

Despite the fact that, according to the description of the variety and reviews of gardeners, strawberries are a compact bush, holes are dug at a distance of 45-50 cm. In this case, onions, garlic, herbs or fragrant flowers can be planted between plants to repel pests.

Required Activities

1. Remove weeds and loosen the soil. Working with garden strawberries can be facilitated by mulching the surface under plantings with straw or dry grass. This is not only additional nutrition, but also the ability to retain moisture in the soil, avoid the growth of weeds, and the berries will be clean.

   

2. Summer plantings require abundant watering during budding and flowering. During the mass ripening of berries, strawberries are watered less frequently and in a smaller volume so that the fruits are not watery.
3. Along with watering, fertilizing is introduced. Plants respond well to foliar feeding with ammonia at the beginning of the growing season. It is useful to water strawberries with mullein, infusion of green grass and nettle. It is also necessary to sprinkle the plants and soil with wood ash. Top dressing of strawberry plantings with boric acid:
   BORIC ACID IS THE KEY SECRET OF A SUPER HARVEST STRAWBERRY! CARE DURING FLOWERING!

4. Since the Temptation variety is famous for its huge mustache, this makes it somewhat difficult to care for. But these parts of the plant must be removed, as well as drying leaves.
5. Treatment for diseases and pests should be regular. No need to wait until the plants begin to wither: prevention is the best cure.
6. Before wintering, strawberries are cut, but not at the root, otherwise growth buds can be removed. Landings are treated with Bordeaux liquid and covered with spruce branches. If a variety plant is grown in central Our Country or in the northern regions, a serious shelter of the beds will be required.

Remontant ampelous strawberry Temptation F1 is an interesting hybrid that yields a crop with any method of cultivation. In an apartment or a heated greenhouse, it is fashionable to pick berries all year round.

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