Translated from French, the word "remoteness" means "blooming again". This is the name of any variety of plants that blossom and bear fruit throughout the season. Repaired may be raspberry , some citrus. Especially popular are the remontant varieties of strawberries and strawberries.
Distinctive features of repairing strawberries
After the first fruiting, new kidneys begin to be laid on the repair strawberry and other full fruits are tied. This is its main difference from the usual garden strawberries, which can yield only one harvest per season. Care for this strawberry should be more thorough. It should be watered more often. Soil must be very high quality and fertile. Then strawberries have enough strength to bear fruit from the middle of spring until late autumn.
The foliage of the repairing strawberry is weaker than that of the garden, the berries are smaller, and the bush itself is short-lived. After all, the repair strawberry is under heavy load, yielding twice a season. And the first crop is usually even smaller than the second one. So do not be surprised if, after you have harvested the first harvest, you will see that some bushes of repairing strawberries perished, unable to withstand the heavy load.
The best varieties of remontant strawberries
Every year the varieties of repairing strawberries become more and more. How to understand this diversity, how to recognize which grade of patchwork strawberry is better? Let's look at the most common ones.
- Variety "Albion". A strong bush has a flower stalk that never wilts. Large dark-red berries with a glossy luster have a round-oblong shape. Strawberries are high-yielding, resistant to temperature changes. This unique variety fructifies almost continuously, having several fruit-bearing peaks: in May, July, August and September.
- Variety "Lubava". Berries ripen both on uterine, not very large bushes, and on rosettes. Red berries of the aroma of forest strawberries have an oval-rhombic shape. The variety is resistant to diseases, wintering, berries ripen very amicably.
- Sort of "Queen Elizabeth." Very early variety. Strong bushes form very little mustache. Peduncles are located under the leaves. A large dark crimson berry of this variety sometimes weighs up to 100 g. The fruits are very fragrant and tasty. From one bush you can collect up to one and a half kilograms of strawberries. Fruits this variety all season without interruption, and if it is grown in a greenhouse, you can get a crop even by the New Year.
- Giantella Maxi (very sweet and large berries over 100 grams), the Crown (red fragrant berry perfectly conveys transportation), Kimberly (large sweet berries that taste caramel-like taste) are among the Dutch varieties of a large remontant strawberry.
- The varieties of the uncut patch of strawberry are large-bodied, like, for example, a coquette with orange-red fruit of conical shape, or a high-yielding variety of Bolero, which can be fruitless from late spring until autumn. A small-fruited varieties of an indescribable patchwork of strawberries, for example, Baron Solemacher, Snow White, Alexandria and many others have a special flavor and a more sweet taste than large-bodied ones.
- Varieties of American breeding Albion and Brighton are high-yielding, frost-resistant, have large red and very fragrant
berries. But the new American variety of patchwork strawberry Sante-Andreas is considered the most promising in the world selection. Its sweet and beautiful fruits have an amazing aroma.
As you can see, each grade of patchwork strawberry is good in its own way. And it is impossible to single out any one of them. The berries of one are very sweet and fragrant, others start to bear fruit very early, others are extremely productive and so on. Repaired strawberries are becoming more popular among gardeners. And if you strictly adhere to the cultivation techniques of her growing, this tasty and healthy berry will be on your table from early summer until late autumn.