In midland of Russia grow up large number of grades of strawberry which differ among themselves in terms of maturing of fruits. It is important to the beginning plant breeder to study all characteristics of specific plants in time to plant saplings to the open ground and it is correct to look after them. At certain skill it is possible to receive in the spring the first harvest of early strawberry from own site.
Usually seedling strawberries land on beds in the second half of summer or the beginning of September to give to plant the chance properly to take root and pass test by winter cold weather. If you have missed this term, then it is recommended to postpone landing until the middle of April. Skilled summer residents land early grades of strawberry under film – it allows them to receive the first harvest of berries in May.
That the nobility when early strawberry ripens, it is necessary to study features of grade. This grassy plant can fructify only once for warm season, or have sposobost repeatedly to blossom and bear new fruits within one period of vegetation (remontant strawberry).
It is possible to distinguish such early grades as Olviya, Kleri, "the Czech Beauty", "Dawn", Kama from the first group. At the correct thorough care for saplings they can begin to fructify already at 15-22 dates of May. Within the first summer month you can reap quite abundant crop of strawberry. The activity period at grades with unary fructification very short, however they are capable to pass one more cycle of development in favorable weather conditions and to bring new, but any more not such abundant, harvest. Berries of remontant grades if they are grown up under film flooring, begin to ripen early too – since the end of spring. Fructification of strawberry will wavy happen: in June you will gather additionally the first harvest; in the first decade of July on bushes the second batch of berries will appear; in the middle of August the third stage of fructification of grassy plant will begin. Among popular remontant grades of strawberry there is "Queen Elizabeth 2", Brighton, "Lubawa", "Rhine Waltz", "Tribyyut", Uralochka. If there are no frosts, they can present you fresh berries even in September. In the fall winter-hardy plants cover, and the wintered leaves on spring begin "to work for harvest at once". At some grades the wintered sleeping buds remain. As soon as warms the May sun, at strawberry there occurs early blossoming - and you receive long-awaited sweet berries.