Garden Strawberry Marmalade - Description Of The Variety, Rules Of Care And Other Important Nuances + Photo

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 22:26

Garden strawberry Marmalade: how to grow a marmalade beauty in your garden

Garden strawberries have been and remain the most popular and widespread berry in the beds of Russian gardeners. Dozens of varieties, Russian and foreign, are grown in gardens. One of them is Marmalade. A native of Italy with a sweet taste can bring two harvests a year, drought is not terrible for her as much as other varieties. However, there are also disadvantages.

Content

• 1 What are the differences between garden strawberries and strawberries?

  1.1 Photo gallery: external differences

• 2 Description of the variety of garden strawberries Marmalade

  • 2.1 Video: flowering garden strawberry Marmalade
  • 2.2 Advantages and disadvantages (table)

• 3 Reproduction

  • 3.1 Antennae
  • 3.2 Dividing the bush
  • 3.3 Seed
• 4 Site selection
• 5 Landing

• 6 Care of the Marmalade variety

  6.1 When and what to feed garden strawberries (table)

• 7 Pest and disease control

  • 7.1 Table: diseases and pests of garden strawberries, preventive and control measures
  • 7.2 Photo gallery: how to recognize pests and diseases of garden strawberries

• 8 Harvesting and storage

  8.1 Video: how to make marmalade from garden strawberries Marmalade

• 9 Reviews of gardeners

What are the differences between garden strawberries and strawberries?

Garden strawberries and strawberries have many differences, but they are often confused with each other.

1. Strawberries have female and male plants, garden strawberries are self-pollinated.
2. Strawberries grow in the fields, rarely cultivated, garden strawberries in gardens.
3. Ripe berries of garden strawberries are colored red, and strawberries are colored raspberry. In addition, light spots often remain on strawberry fruits.
4. Strawberry plants are higher than strawberry plants.
5. Strawberry flower stalks rise above the bushes, while strawberry flower stalks, on the contrary, hide.
6. Strawberries do not separate well from the receptacle, so they are collected and boiled together.
7. Strawberry fruits are much smaller than garden strawberries.

Photo gallery: external differences

Strawberry flower stalks above the leaves

Strawberries do not separate well from the receptacle, so the fruits are harvested with them

Strawberries are smaller than garden strawberries

Large berries of garden strawberries

Description of the variety of garden strawberries Marmalade

The variety was developed by Italian specialists in 1989. "Parents" - Gorela and Holiday.

The bushes are sprawling, powerful, with a lot of whiskers. Leaves are dark green, medium in size. The flowers are large.

The berries are juicy, dense, slightly sour, fragrant, sweet. Bright red, slightly shiny, dark red when fully mature. The tip of the berry often remains whitish even when fully ripe. The shape is a cone with a sharp tip. Some fruits stand out from this description - they seem to be corrugated, like an accordion. Berry weight: 25-30 g.

The tip of the Marmalade berry may remain whitish - this is a feature of the variety

Video: flowering garden strawberry Marmalade

Advantages and disadvantages (table)

Benefits	disadvantages
The variety is resistant to root diseases, verticellosis wilt, chlorosis	Sugar content drops in rainy summer
Can produce two crops in a year	With dense placement, the fruits become smaller
Yielding	Accepts only neutral soils
It tolerates transportation well: does not wrinkle, does not give juice	Susceptible to spotting
Suitable for industrial cultivation, one of the best commercial varieties	Abundant harvests - only in the first two years
Drought tolerant	A variety bred in a Mediterranean climate is more suitable for the southern regions of Russia, since cold winters do not increase yields.
	With a lack of moisture, the fruits become dense and dry

Reproduction

Mustache

This is the best and most common way to breed garden strawberries. Moreover, Marmalade has no shortage of mustaches.

As mother plants, you need to choose bushes without diseases and damage, the most fertile. When they have a mustache with new bushes, press the rosettes (the first or second from the main plant) a little into the ground, loosen the soil around, water. Seedlings prepared for transplantation look like this: root collar more than 6 mm, well-developed root system, 3-5 leaves.

Reproduction by antennae is the most suitable way for Marmalade

By dividing the bush

After fruiting, dig out the most productive bushes from the ground. Cut with a sharp knife, taking into account that hearts remain on both halves. Trim the roots to a length of 8–10 cm.

Seeds

There is another way to grow garden strawberries - by seeds. The process is quite long and time consuming. Suitable time: late February - early March. The sequence is as follows:

1. Make holes in the plastic container for ventilation.
2. Fill three quarters with soil (universal is suitable), water.
3. Place seeds in container without burying in soil.
4. Fill to the top with snow.
5. Cover and refrigerate for 2 weeks.
6. After this time, remove and put on the windowsill.
7. Seedlings will appear in 1.5–2 weeks. Make holes in the lid.
8. Watering seedlings: as needed with a spray bottle.
9. Dive when two sheets appear.

10. Seedlings are ready for planting in open ground when 6 leaves appear.

    

    Seedling of garden strawberries

Site selection

Marmalade loves sunny places with neutral soil. The average value of the acidity of the earth is pH 6.5–7, higher acidity will lead to low yields. A week before planting, make a garden bed - dig up the ground with the addition of fertilizer (a bucket of manure and peat for each square meter).

Landing

The best time to plant garden strawberries is the end of August. The plants will have time to root well and gain strength for wintering.

Plant Marmalade according to the scheme 30–35 by 40–50 cm, since the plant needs more free space due to the large number of peduncles. The hole for the seedling is such that the roots fit completely in it. The heart remains above the ground. Fill up the hole without compacting the soil too much so that oxygen flows to the roots. Water abundantly.

Planting garden strawberries - right and wrong options

Care of the Marmalade variety

The care is as follows:

1. Mustache trimming. A frequent recommendation is to cut off all flowers and whiskers in the first year of life so that the bush gains strength. Not all gardeners follow this advice when trying to harvest immediately after planting.

2. Watering. For Marmalade, it is optimal to organize drip irrigation. It is a system that supplies water to the root zone in small portions on a regular basis. If it is not possible to arrange such watering on the site, then garden strawberries need to be watered regularly, depending on the weather (1 time in 4-7 days, about 20 liters of water per 1 sq. M. In the heat, 10-12 liters for the same volume in cool weather). The water should not be cold (above 15 ° C) so that watering does not contribute to the development of gray rot.

   

   Drip irrigation has a beneficial effect on the soil and prevents weeds

3. Loosening and weeding. After watering, loosen the soil 8–12 cm deep in the aisles, closer to the bushes, not so deep so as not to damage the roots. The procedure makes the soil loose, provides air access to the root system. This has a beneficial effect on the life of the bush and fruiting. Remove all weeds when loosening.
4. Transfer. Garden strawberries bear fruit well in one place for about 3 years. After this period, you need to change the site, thereby ridding the plants of depleted soil, accumulated diseases and pests.
5. Mulching. For the winter, cover the ground around the bushes with spruce branches or needles, cover with non-woven material on top. This will protect the plants from freezing. Many gardeners use mulch in summer too - it protects berries from pollution, prevents weeds from developing, retains moisture in the soil for a long time, and protects the garden from drying out.
6. Top dressing.

With proper care, Marmalade gives a bountiful harvest

When and what to feed garden strawberries (table)

Garden strawberries love organic and mineral fertilizing.

Period	Fertilizers
Before boarding	Options: Peat and humus, 5–8 kg per 1 sq. m. Mullein solution (1 part mullein per 6 parts water) + superphosphate (60 g) + wood ash solution (150 g per 10 l water).
When the first leaves appear	Urea solution (15 g per 5 l of water).
Flowering period	Potassium nitrate - 25 g per 10 liters of water. Feed at the root.
Preparing for winter (early September)	Mix fermented manure (bucket) with half a glass of ash. After 1.5 weeks, fertilize: 2 tablespoons of nitrophosphate, 30 g of potassium sulfate, 1 glass of ash per 10 liters of water. Phosphate and potassium supplements: superphosphate (40–50 g per m²), ammophoska (4–5 g per m²), bone meal solution (1–4%), potassium magnesium (no more than 40 g per m²) and others.

Pest and disease control

The variety is resistant to diseases of the root system, verticellosis wilt, practically not affected by chlorosis; but prone to various spots.

Table: diseases and pests of garden strawberries, prevention and control measures

Diseases and pests	Signs of illness	Prevention and control measures
Anthracnose	Leaves: brown spots appear, over time they dry up and fall off. On the berries, depressions and sores can be seen.	For prophylaxis, before planting, immerse the seedlings in a fungicide solution for half an hour. Preparations Antrakol (10 g per 10 L of water), Quadris and Metaxil (according to the instructions). If the plants cannot be saved, destroy the bushes. Spray the garden with 1% Bordeaux mixture before planting new strawberries.
Brown spot (fungal disease)	Leaves, peduncles and berries are covered with brown (brown) dots, which then develop into spots. The damaged parts of the plant dry up and die off, but they still have spores of the fungus, which can "spread" to other plants.	Remove fallen leaves in time, thin out the beds. Avoid heavy watering. Treatment with Falcon preparations (10 ml per 10 l of water), Switch (8 g per 10 l of water), Euparen (30 g per 10 l of water). Especially effective in spring. Bordeaux liquid: 2–4% solution.
White spot (fungal disease)	You can recognize a white spot by the presence of red spots on the leaves, about 2 mm in size. Over time, they get even larger. The disease weakens the plant, if you do not take any measures, it will die.
Weevil	The weevil feeds on plant juices. On the bushes, there are pedicels without buds, as if they were cut off.	Spraying with potassium permanganate solution: 5 g per 10 liters of water. Inta-vir preparation: 1 tablet per 500 ml of water. As a folk remedy, a mixture is used: 100 g of garlic, 2 tablespoons of boric acid, branches of a coniferous tree, insist in a bucket of water for a week. Spray the leaves. Collection of insects by hand. Removal of gnawed peduncles.
Strawberry transparent mite	The berries were crushed noticeably. Wrinkles and depressions are visible on the leaves.	Prevention: loosen the ground, remove weeds regularly, feed the strawberries properly. To fight, a decoction of tobacco is used, the beds are sprinkled with tobacco dust (10–20 g per m²). Preparations Karbofos (3 tablespoons per 10 liters), Metaphos (10 ml per 10 liters of water) or Phosphamide (according to the instructions).
Nematoda (worm)	Small worms 1 to 2 mm long. They multiply very quickly. The affected plant practically ceases to bear fruit. The leaves curl and dry up.	Weed removal. Compliance with crop rotation. Before planting, place the seedling in water with a temperature of 45 ° C for 15 minutes, then rinse in water at a temperature of 10-15 ° C. Planting plants that repel nematodes - marigolds, calendula - next to the beds. Spraying plants with 0.02% solution of Mercaptophos, Lindane or Phosphamide (2 or 3 times with an interval of 4–5 days).

Photo gallery: how to recognize pests and diseases of garden strawberries

Brown spot develops towards the end of summer

Weevil damages peduncles

Strawberry anthracnose affects all parts of the plant

Heavy watering and dense planting result in white spotting

Harvesting and storage

Marmalade has an average ripening period - the main harvest is harvested by gardeners in the second half of June. Productivity 800 g - 1 kg per bush. A peculiarity of the variety - sometimes it can give a second harvest per year (although these are not remontant strawberries). To do this, you need to mow the bushes after the first fruiting. However, this phenomenon is not observed in the first year of life. The yield of the variety is high in the first 2-3 years of life, then a change of location is necessary.

The purpose of the berry is fresh consumption, conservation, sale. Due to its dense pulp, it tolerates transportation well. It will pass even better if you collect the Marmalade a little unripe, at the time of the so-called technical maturity (until the color of the berry turns dark red.)

Video: how to make marmalade from garden strawberries Marmalade

Gardeners reviews

So, the reviews about the garden strawberry Marmalade were contradictory. The variety does not always deliver what is expected of it. However, this is due to either unfavorable climatic conditions (let's not forget that Marmalade was bred in warm Italy), or improper care. Compliance with all conditions and rules gives a fruitful berry with an unforgettable taste.