Strawberry Elizabeth 2 and lawn strawberries - cultivation and care
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Growing strawberries Elizabeth II and lawn strawberries
Grass strawberry
We are all used to planting lawn grass on lawns, but few people know that there is a lawn strawberry. Three years ago they sent me seeds of strawberries Yellow miracle. Sowed in the spring, in March. Of the 20 seeds, 7 rose. Three bushes grew Yellow miracle, and 4 bush grew, and although I have been doing strawberries for 27 years, I have never seen such ones.
The bush is small, the height is 5, see Usov throws out so much that the soil surface becomes like a green carpet, suppressing the growth of weeds.
The flowers are bright yellow, the legs of the flowers are very short, which is why when ripening berries it seems that they just lay on a sheet.
The ovaries are arranged in a peculiar box similar to the ovary physalis.
The size of the berries depends on the fertility of the soil. The berries resemble graceful red pebbles in a silver frame.
Flowering begins in May and continues until frost. Practically all this time it forms a mustache, a berry inedible. AT encyclopedia of garden plants I found from the description that it was Indian strawberry, or dyumenyaya, the botanical name of the flag. It occurs from India, its mountain regions, therefore it is very, very undemanding to the soil, unpretentious in the care.
With seeds I plant this strawberry so. In March I take a box, fill it with earth. I take the earth from the forest, I interfere with sand and humus in equal parts.
From above on a damp earth I put seeds. I put the box in a cellophane bag - and in a warm place. The main condition for germination of seeds is a temperature of at least 25 degrees. When there are shoots, I open the cellophane slightly. When two real leaves appear, I open it completely, then I dive into the cups. I pour with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
In April, I plant 50 × 50 cm into the ground. One week after planting, I feed with mullein 1:10. Add a tablespoon to a bucket of water of ammonium nitrate. Then once a month I feed with one mullein.
Strawberry Elizabeth 2
Most gardeners and truck farmers at least once growing on their own land strawberries / strawberries consider large-berry varieties of strawberries unsuitable for eating fresh - they say, it is empty, unsweetened (and even acidic), is susceptible to all the diseases and pests that strawberries have. Well, in part this is correct, but concerns only varieties of derivatives from Strawberry Giantella (including Maxi) and their shortcomings.
But this variety is already 20 years old, and many other varieties with sweet, high sugar, and fragrant berries have appeared, and most importantly - much more productive than small-fruited varieties. One of my best varieties is Elizabeth II selection of M. Kachalkin. I two years could not find the "real" Elizabeth-2, because they sent the wrong sort. I had to go to Moscow, and I bought 18 bushes in the firm "Sadko" from the author of this grade M. Kachalkin.
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In the strawberry Elizabeth 2, the quality of the berries is excellent, despite the fact that the variety is not new, when planted on my site, it showed no signs of degeneration for 6-7 years. The berries of the variety with proper and timely care can easily weigh under 90-100 grams. There is almost no void inside - dense and juicy. Very lezhkih what drew the attention of all sorts of second-hand dealers - the first thing in the wholesale purchase arriving from a distance, buyers ask if there is Elizabeth 2 and if there is then the first thing it loads it.
So for sale there are fewer varieties, but the variety is also very productive.
Berries are good to freeze.
By the way, to avoid getting trapped choosing Elizabeth II on the market (if you take strawberry and berry bushes for breeding), remember that the first berries are with 5 or more often 6 faces (the photo below), very similar to the crown, I did not see other strawberry varieties of similar shape.
In the spring, bushes were sold in Krasnodar on the Senna market. There was a large sign "Elizabeth II", but the berry was small, pointed, similar to the Moscow delicacy.
Another plus of the strawberry "Elizabeth 2-II" is its repair.
On a note: What is remoteness? Repaired is the ability of plants to bloom and yield throughout the entire vegetation period, in simple terms - the entire warm season.
It blossoms continuously, for example, from May (in May, it can give the first harvest of berries) and October (in open soil, of course - growing a variety of Elizabeth ii in a greenhouse you can get berries all year round).
The breeding of Elizabeth 2 is a mustache, i.e. as well as many other varieties of strawberries. Berries after reproduction can be obtained in the year of planting.
Reference by topic: Propagation of strawberry seeds
At whom the small area of a garden site, for cultivation in a greenhouse it is possible to use containers. I'll tell you how I grew on containers Elizabeth II.
The primary business is the selection of land, soil under the variety of Elizabeth 2. Neither the usual earth, nor clay categorically for this strawberry is not suitable. The earth should be such that from frequent irrigation it does not condense.
I, for example, took a peat land produced in St. Petersburg, because we do not have it.
For the frame I used a plastic mesh with cells of 5 × 5 cm, 1 meter high. I cut a piece of mesh 1,2 m and rolled up a roll with a diameter of 200 mm with an overlap of 4-5 cells and fastened the whole thing with an ordinary wire.
Then he made a package of a film of black color along the entire perimeter of the frame and the bottom sealed. He pulled the bag on the frame (the procedure is like putting the package on a trash can). In the middle of the container's capacity, I placed a plastic tube with a diameter of 50 millimeters and from the bottom to the top in the tube I made several holes of equal diameter 5 millimeters.
I begin to fill the container with peat. Peat lay in layers and slightly tamped. The film will be slightly pressed through the grid cells.
When the container is filled, start planting the bushes. The first bushes I plant at an altitude of 30 centimeters from the bottom of the "strawberry" container.
The last bushes - ten centimeters but already counting from the top. I make a cross-shaped cut of the film in the cell, and then - a groove in the groove. In it I insert roots, cropped up to 5-6 see.
Attention - be careful to ensure that the roots of the bush do not bend.
After that, I put moist peat into the hole to fix the roots. The head of the bush can not be buried.
So I produce a planting of seventeen or twenty strawberry bushes.
At the bottom of the container I recommend making small holes (5-6) for draining excess water during irrigation.
I water strawberries three times a week, and when it's hot - more often. In any case, peat should not be allowed to dry.
For fertilizer Elizabeth ii use only "Kemira" - not more than once every 7 days.
To strawberry caught on better - flowers I try to clean in time.
This scheme of planting and growing a strawberry variety Elizabeth 2 is also good because the container can be rotated periodically so that all bushes on all sides are warmed by the sun, which greatly increases both the yields and the percentage of surviving bushes - likes Elizabeth II Sun.
I have other large-berry varieties of strawberries: Tsunaki, Cortege, Czech, Gigant, Brighton, Svetlana (variety of my selection: Tsunaki + Home delicacy - berry large, 60- 70 g, very sweet, strong bush, tall, up to 40 cm), Venus and others, total 25 varieties, including trellis, but strawberry Elizabeth 2 all the same the most beloved - you can always boast of her large berries and abundant harvests before the guests and amuse your self-esteem gardener.
Growing strawberries Elizabeth II - personal care experience
Elizabeth on the Fence
Although I am “long-standing” (in a sense, I am no longer young), I do not leave gardening. This is not even a hobby, it is my soul. And therefore there is enough experience and knowledge. But I don’t refuse a new one either. Even when I worked as a labor teacher, I always tried to talk with children about modern agricultural technologies in the classroom. Here, for example, so much has already been written about strawberries, which, it seems, is nothing to talk about. But I still share my experience. Moreover, there have been many trial and error in its lifetime, and each of them is a lost calendar year.
I give preference to Queen Elizabeth, who in my own way I call Lisa. I noticed that she is very fond of fresh land. But digging, plowing is both laborious and costly, so I’ve made it easier: I take a black film, cover it with a selected area and press down on it with some kind of load.
And then darkness and mice do their job, the soil becomes loose and without a single weed! I can only open it with a plane cutter and mark out the places for landing. I have rows 60 cm wide, 50 cm paths between them. For each meter of the row I plant 4-5 plants - Lisa loves the space very much, I can’t refuse her that.
Everyone knows that strawberries are a “straw” berry, she needs a litter so that moisture does not come from the ground. But where to get so much straw? I tried hay (specially dried), but it quickly gets wet, mold appears on it, and the berries are even worse than from contact with the ground.
I tried to mulch with sawdust - I didn’t like it: large ones cut into the fruits, and small ones stick to them. And moisture is also taken away. This is what I came up with. I take small sections of the old hedge from the slats pinned with a gap of 5-6 cm, and lay them along the rows, and lay the brushes with berries on the slats. Dry, blown and warm to the fruit on the boards.
And now the main secret: to get a good harvest, I regulate the number of berries and brushes on each plant.
If this is the landing this year, then I do not let the brushes work and delete them - let the bush develop. Next spring I check the plants and remove the old ones again, because the flowers will open very early on them, and frost will certainly destroy them. I do not touch those brushes that appear after them, I allow them to bloom and give to the berry. But the main crop of Lisa (and other varieties too) is the second ripening period, so I again take up the regulation and leave only 5-6 brushes on the bushes. When the first of them bloom, I pluck the last (small) buds from them and leave 5-6 berries on each brush. What for? And the second harvest is already in the fall, and all the berries on the hands still do not have time to ripen, the plants only give them power in vain.
But those that remain are large, sweet and strong. I'm not saying that my methodology is an example to follow, but maybe it’s useful to someone. Especially for those who are not particularly lucky with either soil or climate.
© Author: Valentina SUKHANOVA, Kiselevo village
Strawberry on the sprinkle
A few years ago grandchildren appeared in our family, and I decided to make strawberries. Before that, I was not particularly involved in the cultivation of large-fruited strawberries: several bushes grew, I did not even know the names of the varieties, and I was fond of flowers more. Strawberry is a very laborious berry, and my goal was to get a good harvest with minimal care. And I did it (see photo).
Three beds (yet!) - this is my strawberry.
My husband made me sandboxes (he jokes like that): the lower layer is half-rotten hemp and branches from the forest, then clay, and the upper layer is ordinary garden soil. The soil was poured with a solution of effective microorganisms and covered with dense black lutrasil. Then she made cross-shaped incisions and landed rosettes of the Tsaritsa variety. I added a glass of ash to each well. On top of the gravel and pebbles that remained after the construction of the pond. On the site we have a lot of gravel beds: it’s beautiful, and weeds do not break through the stones.
Berry is clean, no rot, no hot water in the hot summer. I really liked the queen: a wonderful variety, delicious berries, do not crumple during transportation. Once we had hail, so all the berries remained intact. Appreciated and the grandchildren taste the strawberry, and even about the birds and say nothing. I had to put a couple of decorative ducks for protection.
The second garden in the foreground is Elizabeth II. Also a good variety, but the hail test failed.
Both beds were made four years ago, they turned out to be low, and this summer the husband will lift them to be more convenient to handle sitting on a bench. Last summer, the left far bed was made taller (about 40 cm), I changed the varieties on it, and planted Albion.
It so happened that I bought it in July, immediately decided to plant it - and did not regret it.
July last year in the west of the Moscow region turned out to be cool. The bushes quickly took root, and already in the middle of September we harvested the first harvest. The photo shows that Albion begins to blush from the tip-this is very unusual!
And what a delicious berry! Imagine the twentieth of September, and we have strawberries. not only that the variety pleased with an unexpected tasty crop, but also a lot of mustaches appeared! I immediately put a container next to the ground, and the mustache quickly took root. And in early October, cut them off, separated from the mother bush, and planted separately.
I hope my Albion overwintered well. I do not know yet how this fall harvest will affect this year, I want to believe that it will not reduce it. Also in July, planted a late variety of Borovitskaya, and he also gave beautiful berries in September.
A bit about caring for strawberries in stones. In the spring I cut dry leaves, water with any complex water-soluble fertilizer. After harvesting I sprinkle some ash. As necessary, I trim my mustache, for the winter I cover it with fir spruce branches from the Christmas trees growing on the site - that’s all. I believe that strawberries should not be planted in well-fertilized soil: it will begin to “fatten”, and there will be no harvest.
Of course, my method will not suit everyone. I have a very beautiful garden and beds, too, should fit into the design. You can cover lutrasil not only with gravel, but with bark or branches, finely shredded shredder. Often energy services cut down trees along roads and finely cut them with special equipment, but this mulch is short-lived (2-4 years).
© Author: Ekaterina Ivanovna CHUMAKOVA Moscow
Elizabeth and mulching
Strawberry ... How many articles are dedicated to her, my beloved! How many opuses and praises were written in her honor! And she, I confess, is worth it. I can not imagine a tea party without a jar of jam from this wonderful berry. What about cold compote? I cook it with a very small amount of sugar, for the "languid" sourness, adding lemon to boiling water. Not to mention cakes and pies. Well, what, for example, a sour cream would do without a cream hat topped with beautiful, one to one berries?
Therefore, I didn’t even imagine my dacha without beds with strawberries (and I don’t even imagine). A close acquaintance with her began after my mother-in-law gave me some Queen Elizabeth bushes to our country housewarming party, which I “temporarily” prescribed in the autumn to a hastily prepared garden bed: there was a lot of work, so I decided to put off the efforts of planting berries until spring . In winter, the bushes slept under the fluffy snow, and in the new season, I rolled up my sleeves and solemnly moved them to their place of permanent residence.
For thanks
Before this, of course, I thoroughly prepared. But! Mastering the "strawberry" science, I emphasized one nuance, which almost all summer residents consider secondary. You probably often saw road workers cutting alder along the roadsides, and then special equipment crushes the lying branches. And voila! Along the road lie whole heaps of wood chips. The material is priceless. Mulch is great! And what is her structure! And not small, and not large, beautiful color and smell. Excellent coverage on both beds and paths. And most importantly, absolutely free!
You look in the supermarket how much a bag of such mulch costs. And then rowing with bags, you will also be thanked for it. Well, we are happy to try: we loaded this stuff with a whole truck. Then I dried it all up in the sun and left it freezing for the winter so that there were no insects and harmful microorganisms in the chips.
In the spring I dug over the most beautiful, sunny piece of land under the windows in order to admire the berries. By the way, this place used to be a nettle jungle, which indicates fertility and soil health. I also helped her a little: I added fresh ashes, rich in minerals, and covered the ridges with cardboard that would not allow harmful weeds to go and subsequently decomposed remarkably. Outlined nests for saplings and carefully planted the bushes, not deeply deeper. Polila. And then the most pleasant part of the work came: gently, without offending the plants, I began to fall asleep the ridges of chips. The beauty turned out to be incredible!
No weeds, no rot, between the rows can walk in slippers, because it is dry and clean. And it is not necessary to water, because under such mulch there was more than enough moisture. And worms there divorced!
Elizabeth was very responsive to such a departure. If in mother-in-law she looked shy (affected by acidified soil, lack of crop rotation and top dressing - an elderly person did not have time to keep an eye on everything), then I turned around truly royal.
Berries enough for my family, and friends, and for sale. And the mulch was then useful in the garden. The summer was dry, all the evenings at the neighbors were busy running around with watering cans, and I read magazines on the veranda.
Four years later, it was time to change the place of residence of strawberries. New chips prepared in advance. And the old, on strawberry beds, pereprepila and made the soil grainy, lively, fragrant. Oh, how the varietal potato was delighted with such a gift!
In general, thanks to the mulch! After all, life in the country should not turn into endless plowing until the seventh sweat. We also get tired at work like horses. Labor on earth brings recharging and joy for as long as a person maintains a balance between work and rest. And so, dear gardeners, dare, make rational decisions to facilitate your already difficult life. Good luck, health and victories in the summer field!
© Author: Anna Vitalevna
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My mother-in-law once brought such bushes. When I asked, she replied that it was a decorative strawberry. And if you plant it in the flowerbeds and under the trees, there will be such beauty that you cannot even convey in words. The peculiarity of such a strawberry is that its small berries stick up and do not close with leaves, which is why they look like bright beads. My mother-in-law tried to dispel the assurances that her close friends plant such a strawberry and can’t get enough. Well, beauty is a must. And the mother-in-law was satisfied with such a “design element”.
After a while the neighbor-old woman planted very similar bushes, and on a large bed. Of course, I suspected something was amiss and asked: what is it that she got interesting? She said that she bought a patchwork strawberry in the market, which should give all summer (and autumn) aromatic delicious berries. I decided not to upset my grandmother with hasty conclusions and began to watch her "remontant fragrant strawberries." But I must say that this sort of variety is difficult to confuse with anything: leaves are oblong, pointed, carved and small enough in comparison with normal strawberries.
So, by autumn this miracle had covered the whole bed so much with a hat that not a single patch of land could be seen. And everywhere there were bright red beads, which, as the unhappy neighbor complained, turned out to be quite tasteless. That's all, the doubts have disappeared, and further to hide the truth has become useless.
I told her about my mother-in-law's strawberry and promised to share her remontant strawberry, which she bought on the eve of the Internet. By the way, it is not terrible to buy in "electronic" stores, but only if the seller lives somewhere nearby and you can meet him personally to discuss everything and touch the goods.
And the normal honest traders have photos of plants on the site not edited and not decorated with any asterisks and hearts for zama-nuhi: there should be regular pictures from the beds, no frills. So I bought 40 bushes of strawberry remontant, and none of them disappointed me.
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I want to share a way to plant remontant strawberry Elizabeth 2.
For 2 weeks before the planting of seedlings, ridges were made in the form of high ridges with the introduction of compost and complex mineral fertilizers. Over the ridges I introduced coarse-grained sand to reduce silting of the soil during subsequent watering.
Before sheltering the ridges with a film abundantly I spill them with water. For the experiment one ridge was covered with geotextiles. The beds were covered one at a time, fixing the edges of the film with soil taken from the next path. On the prepared
in the form of beds. I cut through the holes in the template, at a distance of 40-45,
In them, and planted seedlings of strawberries. At the same time, I'm careful not to bury the plants (photo 5), otherwise they will grow slowly, and the mustache will begin to germinate under the film. Immediately after planting, I pour every hole from the watering can without a nozzle. To preserve moisture, I cover the holes with cut out parts of the film. If planting was carried out in August last year, then this spring you can expect a good harvest.
Well, in the spring planting, you will get a taste of delicious berries in the second half of the summer.
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I want to tell the story that happened to me. I think readers will draw the right conclusions from it. It all started with the fact that one agrotechnical firm, from whom I ordered the planting material, suddenly sent me a bag of strawberry seeds, Queen Elizabeth, as a gift. I twisted it with incredulity in my hands, but I decided to put it into practice: it will not lose me, but the strawberry, maybe, will grow. True, she did not prepare a special bed for her, she planted seedlings on a flower bed among the flowers.
I did everything as it was written on the bag. My queen began to look prettier, matured and blossomed in the same year, but went away under the snow with green berries. Since this is the case, the next year from spring I planted strawberries on a special ridge. She became even better, she gave red berries until November (autumn then stood out extremely warm). And suddenly a cataclysm happened; frosts hit, but the snow did not fall. And the Queen froze ...
By next spring, only 9 bushes survived. And behind the house, I grew up with junk strawberries, which I’d dig in a landfill and planted in my own area, so that the children would train to take care of the plants on it. But it turned out that they were not interested in it, but I also did not have time to look at such strawberries, and so it grew with me almost wild: it bears fruit for two weeks, and the rest of the time, you won’t understand what you are doing.
And then the most ridiculous (or sad) swayed. In the same spring, I cleaned the stoves and asked my husband to throw ash on any ridges,
ku. He also poured it out one heap to where I grew this strawberry. I grumbled: it was necessary to scatter ash all along the ridge! But it's done, what's there now. It was snowing, and all this bundle of ashes fell only on one bunch of strawberries. I thought: everything is gone. And he, surprisingly, among all this wild strawberry has grown so that the eye does not tear! It is worth, handsome, green, fragrant. Beauty! Yes, and fruited longer than all of his fellows. Well, I wrapped my eyes on the fact that the Queen also needs to be so fertilized. And what?
I landed those 9 surviving bushes in August to another place, and until the fall they took root with me. Snow fell, and I sprinkled ash from the heart of the whole garden. She also boasted to her aunt (she grows strawberries for sale) that she would share her rich harvest with her. And then…
And then came the spring, and the strawberries burned beneath the ash layer. So it turned out that as it came, it was gone.
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It so happened that the most important and favorite berry, which grows and fructifies in my area, is a strawberry. I'm looking for seedlings of this berry and in exhibitions and markets. I try every season to please myself and my family with new varieties. Last year, in the end of summer, I bought a woman 15 bushes seedlings of strawberries, which she very much praised ("large, sweet, early") at a fairly high price. I brought it to the station, planted it on a well-fertilized bed, and since the seedlings were
really good quality, with proper care, she began very quickly and went under winter in excellent condition.
This spring I bored strawberries, burst out, well fed, and she quickly grew. The bushes were gorgeous: the leaves were powerful, corrugated, green, and at the top of the peduncle with many white flowers - just such a white blooming ball. I was glad: this is what a wonderful strawberry I bought, thanks to the non-seller wives! When it came time to tie berries, I started
look carefully at the already faded bushes, and my surprise was no limit when, tearing off the faded flower stem and pushing the green petals, I did not find the berry! It was simply not there. There were green leaves closely adhered to each other, but there were no berries inside. And then I realized that I was sold a sort of weed ZHmurku. It was a pity both of his work and of the useless expectation of the harvest.
Galina Fedorovna