The best choice of strawberries for your family
Yes, covering strawberries with straw for the winter makes sense.😄
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Diet plays a crucial role in combating diabetes and insulin resistance, two common metabolic diseases. However, the question often arises whether sweet fruits, such as strawberries, can be safe and beneficial for those affected by these conditions?
Strawberry 🍓 enthusiasts, rejoice because we have good news for you! Strawberries not only provide pleasure in terms of taste but are also low in calories, rich in fiber, and full of nutrients that offer numerous benefits for diabetics, individuals suffering from insulin resistance, and other metabolic diseases.
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Growing your own strawberries has numerous advantages that can benefit both our health and the environment. In this article, I will present the most important reasons why it’s worth considering growing these beautiful fruits on your own.😊
1. Freshness and Taste 🍓
Nothing beats the taste of freshly picked strawberries from your own garden. By growing strawberries ourselves, we can be sure that they are the freshest and most delicious. Access to fresh fruits straight from the bush is not only a guarantee of the best Continue reading “Benefits of Growing Your Own Strawberries: Why You Should?”
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.
Thirty years ago, the situation was simple: we planted strawberries in spring or autumn, as those were the only times when nurseries had large quantities of properly rooted seedlings available. 🌱 Today, thanks to the incredible development of nursery technology, we can plant strawberries throughout the entire growing season. We have at our disposal not only green (dug up) seedlings but also frigo-type seedlings and potted seedlings. And, indeed, it is difficult to answer the question of which planting term for strawberries is the best, as each has its good and bad sides. Below I present a few relationships between the type of seedlings we have decided on, the timing of their planting, and the height of the first yield:🧐📆 Continue reading “When is the Best Time to Plant Strawberries?”
This is one of the key care treatments in strawberry cultivation. If we neglected it, our strawberries would quickly become too dense and nothing good would come of it. Why?🤔
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In gardening practice, we distinguish three planting terms for strawberries: spring, summer, and autumn. It’s hard to say which one is the best, as each has its advantages and disadvantages.
The most popular is spring planting after the frosts have ceased, usually from mid-March to the end of May. Plants planted at this time benefit from:
While the first crop from spring-planted strawberries may not be abundant, the plants have plenty of time until autumn to:
Summer planting (July or August) is also highly recommended. Key benefits include:
Additionally, the period requiring maintenance treatments is shorter compared to spring planting. However, summer planting has its drawbacks:
To solve this, we recommend purchasing potted seedlings, which are available at our farm.
In July, we usually offer large quantities of well-rooted seedlings in a full range of varieties.
Autumn planting (September, October) is also common. The main advantage of this period is the availability of strongly rooted seedlings in large quantities. However, late autumn planting comes with a higher risk of the plants freezing during winter, especially for strawberry varieties from warmer regions than Central Europe.
To protect the plants, we recommend using white agrotextile, which will help them survive the winter months.
On average, strawberries🍓 should not be grown in the same spot for more than 2 to 3 years. Extending beyond this period is not advisable as several factors come into play:
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Strawberries are not particularly “greedy” plants, however, without fertilizing them, there is no talking about successful cultivation.😀 Strawberries grow in one place most often for two or three years, sometimes even longer, so their fertilization, as in the case of all perennial plants, takes place in certain stages. Continue reading “Fertilization of Strawberries: Key to a Successful Harvest. How, When, and What to Fertilize with Strawberries”
“Frigo” (or “bare-root”) refers to both a type of strawberry plantlets and a specific production technology, nothing more.
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