Sow a large-fruited strawberry on the snow in January

I chose to plant 2 varieties: the Black Prince and Ljubasha. This remontant strawberries, so I will wait for the harvest this year.

Black Prince

This sort of large-fruited strawberry with Medium early ripening, which was created by the Italian breeders. Characterized tasty maroon berries, reaching up to 50 weight c. It forms a powerful shrubs, taller than many other varieties of strawberries.

A bush is formed a large number of ovaries. Characterized by long fruiting. green berries are formed in the beginning of June. At the ripe berries are very pleasant taste, they are juicy and sweet, may be with slight acidity. With the bush in the season you can collect up to 1.2 kg of large berries. This variety bears fruit up to 7 years, in contrast to conventional varieties.

Lyubasha

This grade remontant strawberry differs powerful semi-spreading bushes. One of the characteristics of the variety - whiskers are formed, they do not exist. The average weight of berries - 20-22 grams. A distinctive feature of the juicy pulp - a high content of sugars and vitamin C. Fruiting long - up to 3 months. Taste qualities are excellent.

How to sow

The substrate will use the normal universal soil and peat moss, which is acquired in the store. These two mixtures are mixed in a ratio between 1 to 1. The soil became looser.

As capacity took ordinary plastic boxes, which are sold at the grocery store, they did a drainage holes. Bowls filled pochvosmesi and razravnyala soil surface.

Sow will be on snow, which I took to the streets. In each container snow spread ground soil bed of 1 cm. Evenly scattered seeds strawberry on the box surface. Each box has signed, not to mix varieties. Covered glass container. You can also use ordinary plastic bags for this purpose.

Then I put in refrigerator boxes on the bottom shelf for 5 days. Seeds will be stratification procedure (cooling). After this period the vessel immediately placed under fitolampy. After about 10 days to appear shoots of strawberry.

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