Strawberry, or wild strawberry garden – plant which breeds creeping escapes (mustache). On mustache root sockets from which new bushes of strawberry grow are formed. But today the new grade which does not throw out mustache is removed. This type of garden strawberry is called remontant wild strawberry Alpine.
Differences of strawberry without mustache
Except lack of mustache (escapes), remontant strawberry has some more differences from normal. The main thing – it fructifies much longer. If the strawberry season at the plants forming escapes comes to an end in July, then remontant gives berries to the frosts. For the entire period of fructification which can last under favorable conditions from May to October the amount of berries from one bush reaches thousands of pieces.
Remontant grades without mustache for the winter need the shelter. It is the best of all to use mulch from sawdust, pine needles or lawn grass.
Taste at remontant strawberry without mustache fragrant, sweet, more reminding not strawberry, but wild strawberry, only not garden, but the real forest. Large berries. In comparison with wild strawberry, four-five times more largely, approximately as average klubnichina.
The property not to form escapes considerably simplifies care for strawberry without mustache. Harvest from such plants it is possible to receive stable. And bushes are only enough to be fed up, watered and hilled. There is in the fall no need to be engaged in trimming of mustache and jigging of children. But, as well as any strawberry plantation, without mustache it is necessary to update each 4-5 years too. How to make it without mustache?
Reproduction of strawberry without mustache
Strawberry without mustache breeds seeds. Way this troublesome, strawberry seeds small, sprout long and demand at initial stage of thorough leaving. Plant remontant wild strawberry at the very end of spring – not only fertile soil, heat and moisture are necessary for seeds for successful germination, but also it is a lot of light. 2-3 weeks sprout seeds. By fall they can already be landed to the open ground. And in the spring – the plantation without mustache which will yield harvest is ready. But there is one more way of updating of landings of strawberry without mustache. This culture during third or fourth of life has partikulyation. It is natural process which to rather suitable gardeners. On bush die off old rhizomes, breaking up at the same time to several parts (partikul). These parts can also be transplanted as moustached children, it is only simpler – nothing needs to be cut off.
The strawberry without mustache planted on film or roofing material, directly on foliage by means of watering can with the breaker plate pours down.
The covering from film or roofing material put directly on beds helps to fight against weeds. In it crosswise cuts become and saplings land. Then, when they expand and begin to fructify, berries do not concern the earth. They ripen in the sun, keeping all the taste and aroma.