The best choice of strawberries for your family
Yes, covering strawberries with straw for the winter makes sense.😄
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To ensure that strawberries in containers overwinter well, perform the following actions🙂:
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Growing strawberries in polytunnels is an excellent way to extend the harvest season and protect the plants from adverse weather conditions and pests. For amateur, home cultivation in polytunnels, it’s particularly suitable to choose varieties that are disease-resistant and have good taste properties. Here are a few strawberry varieties that may prove successful in this type of cultivation:
‘Honeoye’: An early variety known for its hardiness and abundant harvests. ‘Honeoye’ strawberries are quite attractive in taste and appearance. Plants of this variety thrive very well in the tunnel.
‘Elsanta’: A very popular variety valued for its large, juicy fruits with excellent taste and appearance. ‘Elsanta’ responds exceptionally well to tunnel cultivation.
‘Clery’: A very early variety yielding sweet, aromatic fruits. ‘Clery’ is also relatively disease-resistant, making it just right for tunnels.
‘Korona’: This variety is known for its large, tasty fruits. ‘Korona’ adapts well to various conditions and is relatively easy to cultivate, even under covers.
Vibrant: A very early variety with long fruiting (up to 60 days) and beautiful, delicious fruits. An excellent choice to plant in a tunnel.
‘Kent’: Characterized by tasty, vividly red fruits with exceptional post-harvest durability. This very fruitful variety is resistant to gray mold and begins to fruit very early in tunnel cultivation.
‘Aprica’: Valued for its tasty and extremely attractive fruits, which are large, shiny, and durable. A fruitful variety that is resistant to many diseases of the leaves and root system, and it loves to grow in a tunnel.
‘San Andreas’: A repeat-flowering variety distinguished by large, shiny, and extremely tasty fruits. In tunnel cultivation, San Andreas fruits from the end of May to late autumn.
‘Ania’: Similar to San Andreas, it fruits from spring until the first frosts. This variety features large, oval, highly shiny, and extremely sweet fruits. Thanks to its relatively high resistance to many diseases, it is quite easy to cultivate, even in tunnels.
To prepare strawberries in pots for wintering, you should🧐:
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Protecting young strawberry plants 🍓🌱 from freezing during the winter months requires special attention, especially in regions with harsh winters.
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Frozen ❄️ strawberry flowers are a common sight in early or even mid-May. Practically every year, numerous reports of losses due to this issue come from various parts of Europe. Strawberry flowers need very little to freeze.
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To protect strawberries in pots during winter, a few steps should be taken:🙂
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Different varieties significantly differ in terms of their frost resistance or, more broadly, winter hardiness. Many of them have been known for years, and we know that they are excellently adapted to our climatic conditions. They rarely freeze, even in very harsh winters. However, in recent years, many varieties bred in countries with a warmer climate than ours have appeared on the seedling market.☀️
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Yes, I am convinced that it is worth taking advantage of this convenience in practice and I strongly encourage it.
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