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Surely, in every garden you can find a bed with strawberries. This berry is valued for its excellent taste and aroma, as well as its rich vitamin composition. Growing it is quite simple, the culture is unpretentious and can bear fruit on the ground of any composition. To get a good harvest, it is better to choose remontant strawberry varieties and take care of the plantings more carefully, carrying out regular watering and top dressing. An important role in the process of cultivating berries is the choice of variety. For each region, you can choose the most suitable strawberry, which will show its best qualities in the existing climatic conditions. So, the article below describes the best remontant strawberry varieties for the Moscow region. They are often grown by professional and novice gardeners in this region.
Delicious berries in early spring
When choosing a variety of strawberries (garden strawberries), it is necessary to pay attention not only to the external qualities of its fruits, taste characteristics, but also to precocity, because it is in early spring that you want to quickly enjoy delicious, fresh berries. Among the remontant strawberries for the Moscow region, you can pick up a number of ultra-early types of strawberries. The most famous of them are:
Alba
An excellent, relatively new variety of Italian strawberries. In the Moscow region, it was widely cultivated in the early 2000s. This became possible due to the high resistance of the culture to frost, bacteria, and decay.
“Alba” is characterized by high yield (1,2 kg / bush) and ultra-early fruit ripening. Already in mid-May, you can try the first berries of this crop. When growing strawberries under cover, the crop can be harvested a few weeks earlier. The taste and external qualities of the fruit are very high. Each berry has a dense pulp, the taste of which combines light sourness with unobtrusive sweetness. The aroma of the product is amazing: bright, fresh. The average fruit weight is 25-30 g, and over a long period of fruiting, the berries do not shrink and do not worsen their taste. The shape of the berries is elongated-conical, the color is bright red. In general, the Alba strawberry, whether in the picture or in reality, makes you want to eat it rather.
You can learn more about Alba strawberries from the video:
Clery
One of the most popular varieties. Its main advantage is the wonderful taste of berries, their size and very early ripening. You can taste the first Clery strawberries already in mid-May. The first large bright red berries weigh at least 50 g, throughout the entire fruiting period, the fruits begin to shrink a little and by the end of the season their weight drops to 35 g, which is also an impressive parameter relative to other varieties.
The taste qualities of the fruits of the Clery variety are wonderful. Berries have a bright, rich aroma. Their flesh is homogeneous, quite dense and juicy. The shape of the berries is conical, their surface is glossy. When exposed to sunlight, the surface of the berries shimmers with a bright sheen.
Gardeners of the Moscow region got the opportunity to grow this amazing tasty berry due to its high frost resistance. Culture in central Our Country does not freeze out in the winter season, even in the presence of severe frosts. At the same time, plants are susceptible to some pests. Therefore, the main care for plantings with such strawberries must necessarily include weeding the ridges and implementing measures to protect plants from insects.
Honey
This remontant strawberry has become widespread throughout Our Country. Such popularity is justified by the excellent agrotechnical characteristics and the wonderful taste of the fruit. Strawberries “Honey” can grow even in the northern regions of the country without shelter for the winter. In the conditions of the Moscow region, plants wake up with the arrival of the first spring heat, begin to bloom in early May for 2 weeks. At the end of May, you can fully enjoy delicious berries. The fruiting of strawberry bushes takes place amicably. After harvesting the first wave of the crop, you can prepare for a new stage of flowering by feeding and watering the plants abundantly. This will allow them to gain enough strength for a new fruiting cycle.
Strawberry “Honey” dark red. Its shape is conical, aligned. Berries have a pleasant sweet and sour taste and rich aroma. The average fruit weight is approximately 30 g. The yield of the variety is average: about 1,5 kg / m2. Berries are great for fresh consumption, long-term storage, freezing and processing.
You can see the Honey strawberry harvest on the video:
Kimberly
A variety of Dutch selection has been gaining an increasing number of admirers among gardeners for several years now. For the Moscow region, the variety is also excellent, since it is characterized by good resistance to low temperatures, the effects of various fungal and bacterial diseases, and insect pests.
Berries “Kimberly” are very tasty and sweet. They exude a pleasant caramel aroma. Experts estimate the taste of fruits as dessert, however, the crop can also be used for processing. Each berry of the Kimberley variety weighs about 50 g. Its flesh is bright red, dense. The color of the conical berries is also bright red.
You can harvest this ultra-early variety as early as the end of May. Each bush of the plant bears fruit about 2 kg of fruit, which makes it possible to obtain an overall high crop yield.
The given varieties of remontant strawberries make it possible to obtain an early harvest of tasty and healthy berries in the conditions of the Moscow region. Based on the experience and feedback of experienced gardeners, we can safely conclude that the listed types of strawberries are the best among other early varieties, their fruits have excellent taste characteristics, and the plants themselves are distinguished by unpretentious agricultural practices and high yields.
The most productive varieties for the Moscow region
Many gardeners prefer to grow high-yielding varieties of strawberries in their backyards. With their help, even on small patches of land, you can get a large number of fruits. They are also used for industrial cultivation of berries.
Queen Elizabeth II
This remontant strawberry is well known to many gardeners. Its distinctive feature is the multiplicity of fruiting and especially large berries. “Queen Elizabeth II” bears fruit 3 times per season. The growing season lasts from May to October. The first berries can be harvested already in early June, the second and third fruiting stages occur in July and August, respectively.
Strawberry varieties “Queen Elizabeth II” can bear fruit in the amount of 10 kg from each 1 m2 soil. However, for this it is necessary to carefully care for the plants, feeding them regularly. Only in this case, all three stages of fruiting will be characterized by large berries and high yields.
The berries of this strawberry are very large, their weight can reach 100 g. The average weight of the product is 60 g. The taste of the berries is wonderful, sweet and sour. A rich aroma is also the “calling card” of the variety. The crop is perfectly stored for several days without loss of quality and can be transported over long distances.
Santa Andrea
A variety of an American breeding company, which since 2010 has become widespread not only on its native continent, but also in many European countries. Agrarians of the Moscow region are also familiar with the Santa Andrea variety. It is characterized by multiple fruiting, high productivity and excellent adaptability to the climate of the region.
“Santa Andrea” bears fruit 4 times per season. In this case, you can collect more than 3 kg of berries from each bush. This allows you to enjoy the berry throughout the summer period and, if necessary, sell the product for sale. It should be noted that the berries of this variety are perfectly stored and transported.
The fruits of the American variety are quite dense. Their taste is wonderful, very sweet with almost no acid. The mass of berries is high, reaches 50 g. The average fruit weight is 30 g. With regular feeding, at each subsequent fruiting period, the berries do not shrink. You can use the product of this variety for fresh consumption and processing, freezing.
The listed high-yielding varieties of remontant strawberries belong to the category of varieties of continuous fruiting. Their feature is a short life cycle. As a rule, seedlings of such strawberries in one season give all their strength to the formation and maturation of the crop, quickly grow old and die. You can extend the life of such strawberries with the help of careful care and regular feeding.
Cultivation of strawberries of varieties of continuous fruiting can be carried out by collecting mustaches. In late autumn, it is necessary to collect planting material, tightly wrap its roots in a fabric bag and place it in a place with a temperature of -1 … -30C. This will allow the seedlings to winter safely. In the spring, with the onset of heat, seedlings are planted in the ground to obtain a crop of the new season.
Exotic in the garden
Red-fruited strawberry varieties are traditional. It is they who are often grown by gardeners in their personal plots. However, they have one significant drawback – allergenicity. Not all people can eat red strawberries due to some features of the body. To solve this problem, breeders have bred a number of remontant varieties of white strawberries. One of them is Pineberry. This is a new variety from the Netherlands. According to its characteristics, it is excellent for growing in the climate of the Moscow region.
The remontant variety “Pineberry” bears white berries with red grains on the surface. Their taste is different from the usual berries and resembles pineapple. The fruits are relatively small, weighing from 15 to 20 g. Analyzing the taste and aroma of berries, experts classify the variety as dessert. It is consumed fresh, often used in the preparation of cocktails, yoghurts, jams. The yield of the variety is average: the crop bears fruit twice during the season, which allows you to collect 2 kg / m2.
You can grow white remontant strawberries in close proximity to red-fruited varieties, since cross-pollination does not occur in this case. The disadvantage of Pineberry white strawberries is the special tenderness of the berries, which does not allow the fruits to be stored or transported for a long time.
In addition to the above Pineberry variety, White Swede and Anablanca are white-fruited. Varieties are unpretentious and require the same care as red-fruited varieties. They can be successfully grown in the conditions of the Moscow region without fear of diseases and low winter temperatures.
Conclusion
The above variety of remontant varieties allows you to satisfy the needs of each gardener. Someone chooses high-yielding varieties for themselves to get the maximum number of berries. For some gardeners, the main parameter is the speed of fruit ripening, since the first spring strawberries are especially pleasing to the consumer and are highly valued on the market. For young children and people prone to allergies, the choice of strawberries with white fruits will be relevant. One way or another, the article proposes the best varieties of remontant strawberries that can be successfully grown in the Moscow region.