Cultivation of strawberry varieties Elsanta, Polka and Lord in Siberia - my reviews (Tomsk)
STRAWBERRY IN SIBERIA AND MY ADVICE ON CARE OF IT
I also want to tell you how my relationship developed with my favorite berry - large-fruited garden strawberries. And I’ll say right away: there were more failures than successes.
When we bought the land more than 40 years ago, there were already strawberry plantations there, and we harvested good harvests from them. But gradually they decreased. I was a novice gardener, I did not know many of the intricacies of caring for berries. Therefore, it came as a surprise to me when the strawberry bushes suddenly began to wither, and the fruits became smaller.
I later learned that it was the result of the presence of the strawberry mite. It all ended with the fact that the strawberries had to be eliminated. At that time, in our gardening, they stopped growing it at all due to the mass spread of the tick. For ten years, this culture did not exist at all on my site.
Everything changed when I retired. Grandchildren grew up, I wanted them to eat enough of this wonderful berry. I collected planting material from friends and planted the first bed. Then, in the XNUMXs, there was no question of buying varietal strawberries - they were not on sale, and there was no money for them either. The varieties were dominated by the old ones, under the common name Victoria. Probably, the British would be surprised to know that the strawberry plantations in the Soviet Union were named after their queen.
Gradually, I expanded my berry garden, planting mustaches from my own beds. My family cheered up: all summer they ate berries, although not to satiety, but in considerable quantities. And I, remembering my previous failures, tried to prevent a new invasion of the tick. When the first signs of it appeared, she treated the plantings with preparations that were then on sale.
I tried to process early in spring and autumn, so that by the time of fruiting the chemistry was neutralized.
STRAWBERRY SEEDLING
Gradually, I replaced my Victoria with new varieties - Elsanta and Lord. The latter is my favorite: it ripens earlier than others, and its fruiting is longer, and the berries are very tasty. Bought Kimberly last summer. I could not resist, I allowed the bushes to release a peduncle, I wanted to know the taste of the berries, are they inferior to the Lord? They are inferior, but it is still too early to judge definitively.
One early spring, I bought seedlings of Polka frigo at the garden center. After the snow melted, she landed on the garden, the bushes began to grow, released new leaves.
But one day I come to the dacha, I look, and my Polka is cut off at the root, all the bushes to one. Either the mice had lunch, or the hares. It is noteworthy that there was a bed with overwintered strawberries nearby, young leaves also grew on it, but no one touched them. Apparently frigo tastes better...
I tried several times to grow strawberries from seeds. Followed all the recommendations, but there were no shoots. Perhaps the seeds came across old, or maybe everything had to be done contrary to the recommendations. So, by the way, some sellers advised. I still do not lose hope: I bought the seeds again, I will make another attempt.
Somehow I was treated to large sweet berries of an unknown variety. From the most ripe, I cut off the pulp with seeds from the sides, mashed it and diluted it with a little water. It was at the height of summer, there were no free beds - not a single one, and I splashed this mixture into the aisles of black onions sown on sets.
The harvest time was approaching. Having removed it, I completely forgot about the sown strawberries and loosened the bed. And in the spring I was very surprised when I saw patches of strawberry leaves on it! Over the summer, the bushes grew, and I transplanted them in place. The next year they gave the first harvest, but the berries were different from the mother variety.
See also: Care for strawberries in autumn in Siberia
STRAWBERRY MORE AND MORE
Planting strawberries occupy a solid area for me. We have a southwestern slope at the end of the site - we arranged terraces there, fenced off the beds and took them under the strawberries. This is the best place for her. Bushes of the first, second and third years grow simultaneously on the site.
On each individual bed, I plant only one variety, so as not to mix up the planting material (whiskers).
It turns out that the number of beds of each year of planting increases in proportion to the number of varieties. The southwestern slope is no longer enough; strawberries have to be planted in a lowland on previously fenced beds.
On one bed, I keep strawberries for no more than three years - then the yield drops. After harvesting, I dig up three-year-old bushes, fertilize the bed and sow green manure. I plant onions or garlic there, and after harvesting them, I plant seedlings of strawberries again.
Today I have more knowledge on agricultural technology of strawberries than at the dawn of my garden epic. I am especially grateful to Nikolai Rozshibin for his articles for 2012. I still use his advice to this day. By the way, I learned about frigo seedlings from him.
True, contrary to his advice, I still mowed strawberry leaves after harvesting. But this is only because of the threat of the spread of ticks. I treat the growing bushes and plantings of the first year with a tick preparation, I carry out the same treatment in the spring before flowering.
Now I use for processing a biological product, which is a natural mixture of substances secreted by microorganisms. When spraying, I add a few drops of a growth stimulator to it. I fertilize bushes with humus, feed with infusions.
Last summer, I didn’t mow the leaves: the plantings looked quite healthy.
In early spring, after the snow melts, I water the strawberries with a hot (60-70 °) solution of urea (100 g per 10 liters of water). I feed with ash, alternating treatments with a solution of iodine from gray rot and coniferous broth prepared from the needles of Christmas trees. I carry out preventive treatment with bioinsecticides with hay bacillus and trichoderma, during the flowering period I spray with a solution of boric acid.
EM preparations help very well in improving plantings - I water them during the season, and also shed the vacated beds. On hot days I spend abundant watering with water, but during the fruiting period I try to water less: excess moisture causes the appearance of gray rot. In rainy summers, it always destroys part of the crop.
I can’t say that my harvests are fantastic, but what I have is enough for my relatives, neighbors, friends, relatives. I don’t make any special preparations, I cook several jars of jam and freeze berry puree with sugar in containers.
We mostly eat fresh strawberries. I believe that this is the most correct use of the crop.
Of course, everyone who grows strawberries knows how hard work it is, how much time and effort it takes. But I forget about it when I see with what pleasure my grandchildren, and now my great-granddaughter, eat this wonderful vitamin berry!
I wish health to all readers.
Reference by topic: Varieties of strawberries for the Novosibirsk region: description planting and care
STRAWBERRY IN IBIR - GROWING ON VIDEO
© Author: Valentina Aleksandrovna SAGEEVA. Tomsk
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