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Strawberries, as garden strawberries are often called, are fragrant and tasty even without chocolate and whipped cream. It is low-calorie and at the same time is a valuable source of fructose and vitamin C, contains s alts of salicylic acid. In folk medicine, berries are recommended for gout (s alt deposition), rheumatism and arthritis, and inflammatory eye diseases. Berries can remove plaque. A mask of mashed strawberries is a remedy for sunburn, for cosmetic improvement of the skin. Thanks to vitamin C, strawberries have antioxidant properties. Only those who are allergic to strawberries (urticaria) will refuse strawberries. Those who react to aspirin should not eat berries. Small seeds cause intestinal irritation in those with colitis.
Choose the best strawberry varieties
This culture has been known to mankind since the Stone Age. Breeders tirelessly improve the quality of the plant and bring out the best varieties of strawberries. To get a good harvest, choose them, because they are resistant to pests and diseases, high-yielding, large-fruited, and have excellent taste.
Early best strawberries
Super early - Desna (also very sweet). Under cover, they give a very early harvest Darenka, Joseph Mohammed. Alba (transportable, disease resistant, maintains an even size of large berries throughout the harvest), Octave (very fragrant), Clery (Italian selection, dark cherry color of berries, disease resistance), Rosanna (friendly ripening), Kama (winter-hardy variety, few mustaches, when the berries are fully ripe, it gives a bright aroma and taste of wild strawberries), Divnaya (the name itself speaks of the qualities of the variety), Elkat (resistant to frost and heat, friendly return of the crop, easy to grow and propagate), Munichberg early II (but only fresh is good), Evangelina, Sequoia, Stolichnaya (allows planting compaction and is good for those who do not have a large area).
Sweet strawberry varieties
Super-variety in aroma and taste - Vienna (high yield, extended fruiting, large berries). Eldorado - of the early varieties, the largest and very sweet berry, the bushes are planted no less than 60 cm. Carmen is a beautiful berry with an excellent taste, the variety is very productive. Anastasia is a medium-sized berry of medium ripening with rich sweetness, the variety is resistant to major diseases and many pests. Princess Diana is an English high-yielding variety, fragrant berries with firm flesh and real strawberry sweet taste.
Large varieties of strawberries
The largest is Gigantella Maxima. Japanese varieties Strangol and Kipcha are popular:the mass of their berries at the first harvest is 60-90 g, the taste is excellent, besides, Kipcha is resistant to diseases, undemanding to conditions, shade-tolerant. Among domestic varieties - Moscow Jubilee, berry weight up to 80-100 g.
The best high yield strawberries
New varieties from Holland - Vima Xima (from a bush up to 800 g, few mustaches), Vima Tarda (harvest over 600 g from a bush, berries are ideal for freezing, the variety is resistant to diseases and tolerates frost well). Of the old tested varieties - Zenga-Zengana (for the 2nd year it gives 2, or even 2.5 kg of delicious berries per 1 sq. M.).
The best varieties of strawberries in terms of resistance to diseases and pests
First Grader and Purple are not afraid of "strawberry" diseases and resist pests, are high-yielding varieties. Resistant and Cinderella Kuban (berries with raspberry flavor). Anastasia, Solnechnaya Polyanka, Kokinskaya Zarya, Sunrise are good and hardy.
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