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Strawberries or garden strawberries have been grown for centuries. If previously the harvest was obtained only once per season, today, thanks to the hard work of breeders, there are varieties that bear fruit several times.
Strawberry cascade repairable Temptation is just from this line. Description of the variety, cultivation features, reviews from gardeners, as well as photos presented in the article will help gardeners choose garden strawberries for their plot.
Description of the plant
Strawberry Temptation belongs to the remontant large-fruited varieties of early fruiting. Its authors are breeders from Italy. You can pick the fruits all summer long, and the last berries ripen before frost.
The berries of the variety ripen one and a half months after the start of flowering. You can grow cascade strawberries not only in open ground, greenhouses or greenhouses, but also in pots. Pots and flowerpots can be kept on the window in the apartment or in a suspended state. Remontant strawberry Temptations in the photo in a potted culture.
Garden strawberry Temptation is a first generation hybrid, on a bag with seeds icon F1.The remontant strawberry variety is represented by a low, compact bush with medium-sized dark green leaves. Each strawberry bush produces up to 20 tall peduncles with amazingly beautiful pale pink flowers.
The berries of the strawberry variety Temptation F1 are large, shiny, in the shape of an oblong cone. The weight of the fruit is on average 30 grams. At biological ripeness, the berries become rich red. The fruits are dense, the pulp is juicy, fleshy, without inclusions on the cut.
Each berry contains a large number of slightly pressed seeds, yellow in color. This gives the appearance of strawberries a special originality. But when eaten, the seeds are not noticed. According to reviews from gardeners and consumers, the taste of sweet and sour berries contains a nutmeg aroma.
Characteristics
Already in the description of the strawberry variety Temptation, important characteristics of the plant are indicated. But gardeners also need characteristics that indicate the pros and cons of the crop. Only in this case can you decide to plant a hybrid of garden strawberries on the site.
Advantages
Let us first consider the advantages of the remontant variety Temptation:
- Early ripening and long fruiting. Harvesting is carried out as the strawberries ripen in several stages. According to gardeners, autumn berries are even tastier and more aromatic than summer ones.
- The taste characteristics are excellent.
- The harvest is laid immediately after planting remontant strawberries into the ground, and the length of daylight hours for the plant does not matter, just like the time of year. The harvest can be harvested, if conditions are right, all year round. This was the reason for the high interest of farmers in the hybrid form of the remontant strawberry Temptation.
- The high yield is confirmed by the description, reviews from gardeners and photos they send. From a garden strawberry bush, up to 1.5 kg of sweet and aromatic fruits are collected per season.
- The establishment is satisfactory, there is always enough planting material. Even on unrooted rosettes of the Temptation variety of the first order, flowers appear, and later berries.
- The ability to grow remontant cascade garden strawberries not only in the ground, but also in pots. This feature is widely used by landscape designers. Hanging long peduncles with flowers and berries look original when growing the Temptation variety in an ampel manner.
- Hybrid Temptation has average frost resistance; they overwinter without shelter at temperatures down to -17 degrees only under snow. In more severe climatic conditions, reliable shelter should be provided.
- In one place, remontant strawberries of the Temptation variety are grown for no more than three years.
- Resistance to strawberry diseases is high, but preventive measures should not be neglected.
Minuses
Strawberries of the Italian selection Temptation have obvious advantages, but some disadvantages also need to be mentioned. There are few of them, they are not so obvious, but they are still there:
- A large number of tendrils depletes the mother bush, so they need to be constantly removed during the season. Otherwise, the yield is reduced.
- Seed propagation of the remontant variety Temptation is not always possible even for experienced gardeners.
- Unstable watering, leading to drying out of the soil, leads to a sharp decrease in fruiting.
Strawberry propagation
Remontant strawberry variety Temptation reproduces:
- seeds;
- sockets;
- dividing the bush.
As you can see, the methods of reproduction are traditional.For those who have been involved in culture for more than one year, they do not present any difficulties. But from the characteristics it follows that obtaining new seedlings from seeds is not always possible. Let's take a closer look at the process.
Where to get seeds
The choice of seeds is of great importance:
- The seed remains viable for only three years. Therefore, when purchasing seeds of the remontant variety Temptation, you need to pay attention to this point.
- You need to purchase seeds in specialized stores.
- It is better to use the services of agricultural firms that have gained popularity in the Russian market. In these seed companies, the seeds undergo thorough testing and comply with GOST standards.
Companies such as Aelita, Becker, Altai Gardens, Siberian Garden and others are very popular. You can order Temptation garden strawberries by mail or online, since today all companies have an official website.
Soil for seedlings
They have been growing Temptation strawberries from seeds since February in order to obtain high-quality seedlings by spring. The remontant garden strawberry variety requires nutritious soil with good air permeability. When making your own soil mixture, take into account the following ratio: to three parts of sand you need to add five parts of compost or humus.
Three days before sowing the seeds, the soil is disinfected. You can heat it in the oven or pour boiling water over it. Potassium permanganate is added to it. The fact is that the soil may contain spores of black leg disease, which is dangerous for strawberries of all varieties. They die under the influence of heat treatment.
Features of sowing and care
As already noted, the seeds of the remontant strawberry variety Temptation take a long time to germinate.They are sown on soil well-drained with warm water. There is no need to cover the seed, since microscopic seedlings cannot break through even a small layer of soil. The containers are covered with glass.
In a room with a temperature of at least 25 degrees, garden strawberry shoots appear within a month. The shelter is not removed, just opened a little to maintain heat and high air humidity.
In the future, remontant strawberries will require good lighting. Gardeners in their reviews note that seedlings of the Temptation variety require light for 12 hours a day. If there is not enough light, the seedlings will stretch out. Therefore, it is necessary to install lamps to highlight strawberries.
Planting seedlings of garden strawberries (if they are grown in common containers) begins after 2-3 true leaves appear.
In the future, caring for remontant strawberries of the Temptation variety comes down to watering and fertilizing.
The variety's seedlings respond well to watering with wood ash extract, which contains a large amount of microelements necessary for the plant to develop successfully.
Before planting in open ground, the bushes of the remontant strawberry Temptation are hardened off so that adaptation is successful.
Picking seedlings of remontant garden strawberries of the Temptation variety from peat tablets:
Other methods of reproduction
Since the formation of tendrils on the hybrid is continuous, and the unrooted rosettes already have buds, remontant strawberries can be propagated all summer and autumn. And not only with rosettes, but also by dividing the bush.
Growing in soil
Before planting in open ground, seedlings must have at least six leaves. The best place is a sunny garden bed with fertile soil. Since the Temptation variety is grown in one place for 3 years, the soil must be well filled with organic matter so that there is enough nutrition for the entire time. Of course, fertilizing will be required, but in smaller quantities.
Seedlings are planted in May or June, depending on the climatic conditions of the region. The main thing is that the average daily temperatures are positive.
Despite the fact that, according to the description of the variety and reviews from gardeners, strawberries are a compact bush, holes are dug at a distance of 45-50 cm. In this case, onions, garlic, herbs or fragrant flowers can be planted between the plants to repel pests.
Mandatory events
- Delete weeds and loosen the soil. Working with garden strawberries can be made easier if you mulch the surface under the plantings with straw or dry grass. This is not only additional nutrition, but also an opportunity to retain moisture in the soil, avoid the growth of weeds, and the berries will be clean.
- Planting in summer requires abundant watering during budding and flowering. During mass ripening of berries, strawberries are watered less frequently and in smaller volumes so that the fruits are not watery.
- Fertilizers are introduced along with watering. Plants respond well to foliar feeding with ammonia at the beginning of the growing season. It is useful to water strawberries with mullein, infusion of green grass and nettle. You should also sprinkle the plants and soil with wood ash. Fertilizing strawberry plantings with boric acid:
- Since the Temptation variety is famous for its huge number of whiskers, this makes care somewhat difficult. But these parts of the plant must be removed, just like drying leaves.
- Treatment against diseases and pests should be regular. There is no need to wait until the plants begin to wilt: prevention is the best cure.
- Before wintering, strawberries are pruned, but not at the root, otherwise the growth buds can be removed. The plantings are treated with Bordeaux mixture and covered with spruce branches. If the plant variety is grown in central Russia or in the northern regions, serious cover of the beds will be required.
Remontant ampelous strawberry Temptation F1 is an interesting hybrid that produces a harvest with any growing method. It is fashionable to pick berries in an apartment or heated greenhouse all year round.
Therefore, this variety of strawberry is difficult to confuse with any other - it has such pronounced characteristics.