Strawberry in Belarus, landing and care

Strawberry is one of the most sought-after berries grown on private socodes. The climatic conditions of Belarus make it possible to successfully grow strawberries, which is also called strawberry garden. Collect the harvest of delicious, sweet, useful berries throughout the summer season. Grow strawberries in some regions and for industrial purposes. In this article we will look at the most damned and delicious varieties of strawberries, and we will also learn about the secrets of planting this culture in their garden.

Strawberry varieties in Belarus

Early strawberry varieties in Belarus

• Strawberry dawn. This early strawberry grade can be successfully grown not only in the open soil, but also in a pot in ornamental purposes. A distinctive feature of the variety is its insensitivity to changing the light day. Under favorable conditions of growth and proper care, the berries grow large, the right shape, with a sour-sweet taste. Mass mature strawberries can reach 20 grams. The flesh is light red, medium density. Strawberry Zarya grows with high bushes that can reach 25 cm.
• Strawberry Masha. This early grade is highly popular among the gardeners of Belarus. Mature strawberries can reach 50 gr. Berries have a comb-shaped shape, fightened on both sides. To multiply such a strawberry can be seed and with the help of a mustache. Strawberry Masha has a pulp of high density, thanks to which it is perfectly led by storing and transporting. You can use both fresh and use for processing.

• Strawberry Clery. This variety is derived in Italy and is successfully grown in Belarus. The variety is early, grows in lush bushes. Berries have a cone-shaped shape, a brilliant surface, a sour-sweet pulp with high density. Strawberry as it acquires a dark-cherry color.

• Strawberry Olvia. One of the earliest grades of strawberries that are suitable for growing in Belarus. The advantage of this type is that strawberries due to its early ripening avoids almost all pests, which are subject to other grades with later maturation. In the second year of growth, one bush of Strawberry Olvia is able to give a crop of 1.5 kg. Berries have rounded and slightly elongated. Strawberry has excellent taste characteristics, well stored and transported.
• Strawberry Magomet. This variety with early ripening dates is also popular among the gardeners of Belarus. In the southern regions of the country, this variety, if we grow it under the shelter, can become the earliest. Strawberry large, oval shape. A feature of this variety is that the bush is developing a very powerful root system. Thanks to this feature, Magomet variety is considered to be resistant to weather conditions.
• Strawberry Pink Miracle. This strawberry grade is often grown not only in the open soil. But in pots. A bush has a high decorative value due to the colors of a beautiful pink color. Pink miracle grows compact bushes with a highly developed root system. The variety is resistant to adverse weather conditions, as well as resistant to diseases and pests. Berries begin to ripen almost simultaneously, painted in red. The flesh of this strawberry is gentle and very sweet.

• Strawberry Kiss Nellis. If you are in the search for a variety of strawberries, which will give a crop of huge berries, then take a look at the middle-and-and-arsa Kiss Nellis. Mature strawberries can reach the masses of 100-150 gr. In its form, the berries are truncated-conical. The pulp is not water, very sweet, the variety is well stored and succumbed to transportation. The peculiarity of the sort of Kiss Nellis is that the berries grow on very durable flowers, which hold the strawberry above the ground surface.

• Strawberry Eldorado. American hybrid variety was distributed in Belarus. The main feature of this variety is incredibly large size of berries. Strawberries can reach 6 cm long and exceed a mass of 90 gr. The pulp is not water, tasty, contains a large amount of sugars. If you follow the rules for planting and care, then from one adult bush can be collected up to 1.5 kg of harvest, which is well resistant to storage and transportation.

Average strawberry varieties in Belarus

• Strawberry festival. This variety of medium ripening time is a high-yield. Every year the number of berries on each bush increases twice. Fruits are large, red and sweet.
• Strawberry Belarusian Mara. The variety of average ripening time with pretty good yield. Berries are large and sweet. In the spring, such a strawberry requires the introduction of organic and nitrogen fertilizers.
• Strawberry desnyanka Kokinskaya. The variety of average ripening time. A bush intensively forms a mustache, has good decrepitude and average growth. Berries can reach a mass of 50 grams, have a spherical conical form. Strawberries possesses high taste characteristics, reminds to taste strawberries.

• Strawberry Gianthal Maxi. Sort with stretched ripening time. Grows a large bush, with a highly developed root system. Strawberry showed excellent endurance and resistance to pests and diseases in the climatic conditions of Belarus. Ripe berries can exceed 100 gr.
• Strawberry ruby \u200b\u200bpendant. This strawberry grade in the climatic conditions of Belarus has average maturation. For greater yield requires a minimum of 2 feeding for the season. Berries, although they do not differ in large sizes (25-35 Gy), are valued by gardeners for the sweet taste and a strong fragrance.
• Strawberry Crown. The variety is derived by Dutch breeders in 1972. Well suited for cultivation in Belarus. Berries as ripening are painted in red or dark red, have a shiny surface. The pulp of ripe strawberry is light pink, sweet. The strawberry of the crown variety can be used both in a fresh form and use for processing. The advantage is good frost resistance of strawberries and the average resistance to fungal diseases and pests.
• Strawberry Lord. The variety that is used for both industrial purposes has earned the love of many gardeners of Belarus. A distinctive feature of the variety is its high yield, which is only increasing every year. The bushes grow high - up to 40 cm in height. The root system of this strawberry is well developed, the leaves are large, the flowers are strong, but since the berries are ripening very large, they cannot withstand their gravity. The advantages of the variety is that it perfectly tolerate frosts and practically immune to gray rot.

Late strawberry varieties in Belarus

• Strawberry Talisman. This strawberry grade is half removed. If spring is cold and protracted, then the raspberry will be fruit and autumn. If spring is very warm, then fruiting will be only summer. Berries reach in weight from 25 grams to 70 grams, sweet taste, red.
• Strawberry Malvina. This late satiety was led by German breeders and has long been popular among Belarusian dacifics. Strawberry bushes form a very powerful root system. On the stems are dark-green large leaves with a shiny surface. The variety is self-polished. The undoubted advantage of this variety is the quality of berries. Strawberry reaches large sizes, has a pulp with high density, with a saturated strawberry aroma and a very sweet taste. Berries can be used both in fresh form, and use for conservation, frost.

• Strawberry Triploid. This variety is considered among Belarusian gardeners by one of the most crop, the most late. Strawberry of this variety is also considered one of the largest. This variety is advised to disembark next to the strawberry Moling Pandora's strawberry, so that they pollinate each other. Berries with an increased sugar content have excellent taste characteristics, can reach a mass of up to 80 grams.
• Strawberry Vikhod. Lovely variety, perfectly arrived in Belarus. Bushes begin to be fruit from the second half of July. With proper care and comfortable conditions from one bush, you can collect up to 900 grams of delicious harvest. A distinctive feature of the Vioda variety is its high resistance to most fungal diseases. Berries with a saturated strawberry aroma are well transported, storage, freezing.

• Strawberry Molling Pandora. This late satiety was bred in the UK and is gaining increasingly popular among Belarusian gardeners every year. Berries as ripening achieves just huge sizes, acquire a rich red color and an unusually bright strawberry flavor. To pollinate this variety, it is necessary to plant a partner variety, for example, a lateral variety Triploid.

Strawberry removable varieties in Belarus

• Strawberry Yellow Miracle. The removable grade was led in Holland. High strawberry bushes grow very quickly. Mature strawberries reaches a mass of 4-5 grams and has a weak yellowish tint. The advantage of the variety is that fruiting occurs to the most frosts.
• Strawberry Vima Rina. The removable variety of Dutch selection is a relative novelty for Belarusian gardeners. You can collect the harvest from the middle of the summer and to the very first frosts. Some gardeners advise to cover strawberries with the arrival of frozles, extending such an image of fruiting until November.

• Strawberry Moscow Delicates. Strawberry removable grade is suitable for growing as an ampel plant. As the berries ripen is painted in a rich red color, bright aroma acquire.
• Strawberry Albion. New grade derived by American breeders. Fruit continuously. A distinctive feature of this variety is the unique taste of berries. They are very sweet, fragrant, with a dense pulp, perfectly carry storage. Transportation, freezing. The grade has good resistance to fungal diseases, as well as adverse environmental conditions.

Vintage varieties of strawberries for Belarus

The most urgent varieties of strawberries in Belarus are actively used not only for growing in private grocers, but also for industrial purposes. There are a large number of strawberry varieties of a different daylight, which, with proper care, only increase yield every year. Among such varieties that are quite accessible to both growing newcomers can be noted as follows:

• Alba,
• Clery
• The festival,
• Monterey,
• Albion,
• Irma
• Charlotte,
• Asia,
• Syria,
• Sonata and other varieties.

Best strawberry varieties in Belarus

What characteristics should the best strawberry grade have? Undoubtedly, berries must have excellent taste characteristics, the yield must be very high. Well, if the strawberry is prone to the formation of a moderate amount of mustache, has a high resistance to adverse environmental conditions, as well as to various diseases and pests. If you plan to grow strawberries for sale, then it should have good transportability. Among the similar "ideal" varieties of strawberries, which are available for cultivation on the territory of Belarus, the following can be allocated:

• Symphony,
• Everest,
• Festival
• Zenga Zeengan
• Dawn
• Selva,
• Lyubava
• Kimberly
• Kokinsky Early
• Queen Elizabeth and other varieties.

Growing strawberries in Belarus

Landing strawberries in spring in Belarus

• Choose a place to plant strawberries in Belarus. Strawberry prefers to grow on well-lit areas protected from drafts. Groundwater should be seamless to the surface is not closer than 1 meter. Sections should be avoided for planting strawberries in the lowland, which are prone to lagarment. When choosing a plot for planting strawberries should also be taken into account which cultures grew up in this place last year. The perfect predecessors are bobwood-cereal cultures, onions, garlic, radishes, carrots, parsley. It is worth avoiding the site if pumpkin cultures, potatoes, beets, raspberry grew on it on it.
• We choose the soil for planting strawberries in Belarus. Strawberry is not too demanding to the composition of the soil. But it is desirable that the soil is weakly acidic or neutral, with a slight content of humus, loamy, soup or turf-podzolic.
• We choose the strawberry planting material in Belarus. You can buy strawberries in Belarus in specialized nurseries, where you can purchase varietal seedlings. Numerous online shopping, gardener shops also begin to sell planting material in the strawberry season in Belarus. If you want to grow seedlings yourself, you can buy strawberry seeds. In Belarus, they are sold in free access in various stores.

• When you choose, always pay attention to the shelf life. It is also worth avoided the purchase of strawberry seedlings in Belarus in the elemental markets, near the road, etc. It is better to give preference to nurseries. Inspect the seedlings before buying. The root system should be at least 8 cm long, and the root neck must reach 6 mm in diameter.
• Strawberry landing technology in Belarus. Prepare a bed for planting strawberries in the fall. Remove weeds, thoroughly shry the ground, make organic fertilizers. If the soil is poor nutritional elements, phosphorus-potash fertilizers also contribute. Starting strawberries in Belarus - approximately in April. The soil must be wet, did not have time to dry under bright sunlight. Flush the garden again, scatter with robbles. Make the wells for planting seedlings at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Every well must be shedding with water. Roots of strawberry seedlings before landing better to dip in the soil bolt. To prevent root drying after landing. Gently lower the seedling in the hole, straighten the roots, sat down the earth. Lightly pull the seedling up. If he is not removed from the well, it means that the landing was made correctly.

To climb strawberries with sawdust. Also, modern materials (spunbond) can also be used for mulching, which will not only hold moisture, but will also get rid of the need to easily strawberries.

Strawberry Care Spring in Belarus

If we divide the care of strawberries by season, then spring care can be called the most time consuming. But in no case cannot be neglected, since the correctness and timeliness of departure in the spring is the key to a delicious and rich crop. Consider the main advice of gardeners of Belarus:

• it is necessary to start care of strawberry in the spring when the snow completely comes down, and it will be possible to calmly move around the garden;
• it is necessary to remove the remaining mustache, dry leaves, the old mulch, in which the pests, fungus could be turned out;
• make strawberry dressing. It is carried out at this stage, without waiting for the time of flowering. You can buy a complete mineral and organic fertilizer and use it according to instructions. You can prepare organic fertilizer alone. To do this, take 0.5 liters of liquid manure and spread it in a bucket of water. You can also add any fertilizer. Under each bush strawberry make 1 liter of such fertilizers;
• next, you need to loosen the ground between the rows to improve the air flow to the root system. If the strawberry harvest has already made in the past year, when loosening useful to add wood ash, which will provide a good prevention against fungal diseases;
• if you notice that after the winter the soil level became slightly lower, exposing the roots of strawberries, then it is necessary to fill up the ground;
• make new mulch layer thickness of about 4 cm from hay, straw, sawdust, or a more modern material;
• if frost is forecast, the strawberries need to hide.

Care strawberries in summer and autumn in Belarus

1. Summer strawberries need to be watered at least three times: during the formation of ovaries, during the berry ripening after harvest.
2. If you grow strawberries with a view to harvest, then you should promptly removed his mustache.
3. Timely remove the weeds which may be a vector of many diseases and pests.
4. Ripe berries should promptly collect.
5. Regularly inspect strawberries. If you notice signs of pests or diseases that use drugs that are permitted for use on the territory of Belarus.
6. In autumn strawberries should prepare for winter. Bushes in the summer grows green leaves that will successfully overwinter. But the young strawberry you just planted in the spring, better cover straw. Also in the fall need to remove old and damaged leaves, stalks.

Diseases of strawberry in Belarus

Even the most experienced gardeners periodically faced with various diseases of strawberries, which can completely destroy a crop. The climatic conditions of Belarus most often strawberries faces the following illnesses:

• powdery mildew. This disease can be seen by a particular white plaque on the petioles, on leaves, on his mustache, and even fruit. Fungus gradually affects the whole plant, leading him to a total loss. At the first sign of powdery mildew it is still possible to fight traditional methods. If the damaged area is already quite extensive, the application of fungicides can not be avoided;

• gray rot. This fungal disease is also particularly dangerous, as it can destroy from 40% to 80% of the harvest. Strawberries are especially susceptible to infection in too wet, raw weather with a temperate temperature. All overhead parts of the bush are affected by fungus. White fluffy raids can be on berries, making them first watery, and then completely dried. The amazed parts of the plant should urgently remove, as they are a source of fungus. It is also very important to plant a strawberry on ventilated, elevated areas, mulch the soil with hay, straw, sawdusts, to avoid contact with strawberries with a soil. If gray rotes struck a large number of plants, it will have to use modern fungicides;

• white spotting leaves. This disease can be suspected of dark spots on the leaves of strawberries. In order to reduce the likelihood of infection with this fungus, you need to withstand the minimum distance between bushes, not to thicken the landing, remove last year's leaves after melting of snow, clean the old mulch.

Strawberry pests in Belarus

• Raspberry-strawberry weevil. This pest destroys strawberry flowers. Methods allow effectively with it. Experienced gardeners advise to plant garlic near strawberries, so that his smell blows beetles. When there comes a period of active flowering, the plants spray with garlic infusion. Weed farm can be trapped from a bottle with an incentive from those who came across the yeast.

• Strawberry nematodes. These worms spoil the root strawberry system, damaging the entire plant. You can suspect the pest by thickened stems, deformed berries and leaves. Amazed plants need to be deleted. The only way to protect is prevention. Seedling strawberries before landing need to be placed in hot water, and then in the cold. If nematodes still appeared on the plot, then a healthy strawberry is better to transplant to a new place.
• Strawberry tick. This pest loves to rummage with juice of strawberry leaves. This leads to their deformation and gradual destruction of the entire bush. Strongly affected plants need to be destroyed. If the tick just began to submit signs of its livelihood, it is necessary to use modern drugs to use modern drugs (Nero, Carbofos).

There is a huge amount of strawberry varieties that can be grown in Belarus. With proper care, you can collect a rich harvest of delicious and useful berries.