Honey Strawberry Variety - Differences From Strawberries, Description, Care And Other Features

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

Early and productive: everything there is to know about Honey garden strawberries

Many gardeners are used to the fact that garden strawberries, which are often called strawberries, can be tasted in early summer - they open the berry season. But it has long been no secret that there are even earlier varieties that yield in May. One of these is Honei (or Honeoye). This variety is special. He is often talked about, discussed, planted and rejoiced at the results. And all because he has a number of qualities that help him to be considered one of the best.

Content

• 1 Strawberries or strawberries?

  1.1 Photo Gallery: Comparison of Strawberries, Plain and Garden Strawberries

• 2 Description and characteristics of the garden strawberry variety Honey

  2.1 Advantages and disadvantages of the variety - table

• 3 Planting and care

  • 3.1 Site selection, soil preparation

  • 3.2 Scheme and time of boarding

    3.2.1 How to plant garden strawberries - video

  • 3.3 Watering and feeding

    3.3.1 Fertilization - Table

  • 3.4 Features of further care

• 4 Reproduction

  • 4.1 Mustache
  • 4.2 Dividing the bush
  • 4.3 Using seeds
  • 4.4 Photo gallery of the stages of growing garden strawberries from seeds

• 5 Diseases and pests

  • 5.1 Diseases and pests of Honey's garden strawberries, control measures - table

    5.1.1 Diseases and harmful insects in the photo

• 6 Harvesting and storage of crops
• 7 Reviews of gardeners

Strawberries or strawberries?

Of course, the name strawberry has long been rooted among the people, in relation to bushes with large juicy berries, while strawberries are considered a plant with small and very fragrant berries with sourness, as in the forest. And the phrase "garden strawberry" baffles some gardeners. To understand the names, in fact, is not difficult.

Strawberries are wild varieties of berries that have migrated to gardens from forest edges and meadows. Its berries are comparatively larger than strawberries, but they are inferior to what we used to call strawberries. They are almost always sweet and covered with a little fuzz. Conical or spherical in shape. Often such a plant is called a wild strawberry - it rapidly multiplies in the garden, if not looked after, and forms a green carpet. At the same time, there are not many berries on it, so this culture is not particularly popular.

Strawberries - the berry queen of the forest - everyone knows. But garden strawberries - these are the very big berries under dark green large leaves. This is a cultivated version of the forest strawberry. She gives a rich harvest (of course, with proper care), and some specimens of berries, without exaggeration, can take up half of the palm. And Honey is exactly garden strawberries. So we will call it further.

Photo gallery: comparison of strawberries, regular and garden strawberries

Strawberries are low-yielding, but their berries are a masterpiece of aroma and sweetness.

Common strawberries produce small and very fragrant berries

The full name of this culture is large-fruited garden strawberry

Description and characteristics of garden strawberries of the Khoney variety

Glossy, like plastic berries have good keeping quality and have a pleasant aroma

Honey is a rather old variety, it has been known since 1979, when it was bred in the city of the same name as a result of crossing the varieties Vibrant and Holiday. They were famous for their excellent productivity, the berries grew on the bushes large and covered with a dense glossy rind. And delicious, and rich, and the very thing for sale. All these qualities were inherited by the new variety. Due to the peculiarities of the transcription of the name of the city, this garden strawberry can also be found under the names Honeoye and Honoai.

Erect bushes of this variety grow large and spreading, building up a strong root system and a large number of mustaches. The flower stalks are strong enough to hold numerous large berries. The leaves are dark green, the stems are slightly pubescent. By the time of technical ripeness, berries in the form of a cone become bright red and acquire a glossy shiny surface. With proper care, the fruits can reach a weight of 30 g. The pulp of the berries is firm and firm, has a pronounced taste and aroma. In the third week of fruiting, the berries become smaller, but at the same time they become even juicier and more fragrant.

Honey's yield is one of those pluses that has secured this berry a place among industrial varieties.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety - table

Benefits	disadvantages
High yield (up to 1.2 kg per square meter and at least 400 g per bush), excellent taste and aroma of berries.	For all their hardiness during a drought, berries can lose their charm in appearance and taste.
No transportation problems (thanks to dense pulp).	Plant roots can undergo verticillary wilting, which leads to the death of bushes
Resistance to common diseases and pests.
Increased winter hardiness and drought resistance, easy survival of seedlings after transplanting.

Planting and leaving

Site selection, soil preparation

In order for the planting of garden strawberries to be successful, you need to know such points as the preferences of the planted culture, the criteria for high-quality seedlings. Everything is justified - Honey will bear fruit better if the soil is chosen correctly, the place is prepared correctly, and the bushes themselves will be healthy and strong.

Garden strawberries love the sun, but against drafts, so a place for it should be chosen well-lit, but protected from winds, especially northern ones. It is often planted next to other taller crops such as onions, garlic, spinach, lettuce, or beans. You can create joint plantings of garden strawberries and marigolds, which will protect the berry from pests. Groundwater should be at a level not higher than a meter to the surface of the earth, and even better - lower.

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What should be a quality seedling? First of all, its root collar (also called a heart) should be at least 6 mm in thickness. Roots over 7 cm long are also an indicator of quality. One plant should have at least 3-5 leaves, a strong apical bud and fresh white roots 3-5 cm long.

The soil in the selected area is prepared in advance. If planting is to be carried out in the spring, digging is carried out in the fall (in October to a depth of 25–30 cm) and immediately before the procedure, and if it is planted in the fall - in 2–3 weeks. In order to etch harmful larvae (wireworm, strawberry nematode, Colorado potato beetle) from the soil, it is treated with Roundup (2.5 liters per 1 ha) or ammonia water (20 kg per one hundred square meters).

After planting, keep the soil around the bushes loose so that the roots are saturated with oxygen

Scheme and landing time

You can plant garden strawberries in early spring (the earlier, the better) or early autumn (this period starts on August 10 and lasts until September 25). You should not delay with this event - this will affect the yield. Before planting, the roots of the plants are dipped in a clay mash (half a bucket of orange clay is poured with water on top - the water slightly covers the clay - and infused, then stirred). The bushes are planted in moist soil and watered well. To prevent the formation of an earthen crust after watering, mulching with earth or humus can be applied. Periodic loosening in the future will contribute to the saturation of the roots with oxygen and moisture.

Schemes for planting bushes of garden strawberries

Garden strawberries are planted in three ways - one-line, two-line and two-line in the beds. The latter is most often found in garden plots for a simple reason - it is convenient to process the plants, moreover, excess water from the beds flows down into the aisles, saving the gardener from unnecessary trouble. When landing, you must adhere to the following rules:

• A distance of 60-70 cm is observed between rows of bushes, and between neighboring plants - from 15 to 20 cm. If garden strawberries are planted in beds, a gap of 30 cm is left between them.

• The heart (growth point) of the bush must be level with the ground when planting. If you deepen it, the plant will rot, and if you raise it too high, it will freeze.

  

  When planting, make sure that the growing point is not covered, otherwise the plant will begin to rot

• It is better to choose cloudy weather for this event. If it rains recently, it will even benefit the business. By the way, according to the assurances of some gardeners, sunny weather is not a hindrance if you choose morning or evening hours for planting. In the very sun it is not worth working in the garden. And you are hot, and for plants the risk of burning in a new place in the first hours of being there is too great.

How to plant garden strawberries - video

Watering and feeding

Watering for garden strawberries plays the same important role as for other plants, but with one caveat - the Honey variety tolerates drought a little more easily compared to many others. But you should not actively use this property of it, since the quality of the crop may decrease because of this. If you can, water your plants 3-4 times a week. If you can visit your summer cottage only on weekends, this will not be a terrible blow to the berry. But in this case, irrigate with plenty of water, be sure to mulch the bushes to prevent rapid evaporation of moisture.

Garden strawberries love feeding and respond well to them. Usually it is fertilized three times per season.

If the owners of the site come to it only on weekends, drip irrigation can be a good solution.

Fertilization - table

Application period	Fertilizer proportions
Early spring	Top dressing is carried out with nitroammophos (a tablespoon per 10 liters of water) or mullein infusion (1:10). One bush takes 500 ml. Alternatively, use a solution of chicken manure (1:12). Boric acid in combination with ammonium molybdate and potassium permanganate is good for foliar feeding - all substances are taken at 2 g per 10 liters of water.
Formation of buds and fruits	Spraying with boric acid solution - 2 g per 10 liters. Nitroammofosku (2 tablespoons per 10 liters) is used after harvesting and trimming the leaves.
August	Use a urea solution (30 g per 10 L). After fertilization, the bushes are watered abundantly.

Features of further care

Garden strawberries are successfully grown under spunbond or foil. Therefore, when planting, a piece of material is cut out to a size slightly larger than the garden bed, the location of the plants is noted and cuts are made, bending the edges of the fabric inward. Thanks to the covering material, the berries of garden strawberries will ripen better and faster and at the same time will not rot when in direct contact with the ground. But you should not leave spunbond or film for the winter - the ants will choose this place and create their colonies in the garden. It will be very difficult to etch them out of there, and the plants from such a neighborhood are likely to die.

In the first year of plant development, all peduncles and whiskers are usually removed so that it can build up a strong root system. Bushes two years old and older at the end of the cold period are freed from mulch, remove old leaves and loosen the ground.

After the end of fruiting, it is recommended to cut the leaves together with the mustache, and treat the ground with a solution of potassium permanganate (1.5 grams per 10 liters).

Straw can warm bushes well for the winter, while allowing air to flow to the roots.

In dry weather, to protect the plants, they shade them with green branches or burlap, and after each watering they loosen the ground. When preparing for winter (in November), if there is no snow, they also use a shelter, only of a slightly different kind. Straw, spruce branches, corn stalks, fallen leaves, covering material like spunbond or lutrasil - all this will serve as a good protection for bushes at low temperatures. If none of the above is found, the bushes simply spud without dropping the growth point.

Reproduction

Garden strawberries are propagated in three ways - with a mustache, dividing a bush and seeds. The first method is the most suitable for the Honey variety, which throws out many mustaches per season. Dividing the bush, the second method, is used less often, since it is more suitable for remontant varieties that almost do not give a mustache. And the third is considered the most time consuming.

Mustache

A fairly simple method, in which a mustache with formed rosettes is chosen and added to pots or containers. In a few days, the rosette has time to take root. When the number of leaves in it is from 4 to 6, the mustache can be cut off. Now it is an independent plant, which is planted in a new place and watered abundantly. Sometimes the rooting rosette also produces a mustache, but they should be cut off so that the bush does not waste extra energy.

The Honey variety allows itself to reproduce well with a mustache, which it produces in large quantities

Dividing the bush

The easiest way to reproduce garden strawberries involves dividing an adult bush into several component parts. Each of them must have at least one leaf rosette and roots. For division, two or three-year-old bushes are dug, since plants aged four or more years do not have high yields, and there is no point in separating them. This method is used mainly to rejuvenate the planting of garden strawberries on the site.

Dividing the bush allows you to rejuvenate plantings using uterine bushes

Using seeds

The most painstaking and time consuming way. It consists of several stages that must be carried out strictly following the rules.

1. Garden strawberry seeds (collected by hand or purchased from a store) are soaked in melt water (in February, it is not difficult to find and melt snow) for several days, changing it twice a day.
2. You can also soak the seeds in a growth regulator solution (for example, Epin - 1-2 drops per 100 ml).
3. The container is filled with a mixture of leaf humus, river sand and soil from the site, taken in a ratio of 2: 1: 1. Grooves are created at a distance of 5 cm from each other, moistened with water and spread the seeds, which are immersed in the ground by 0.5 cm and lightly sprinkled with earth. The container is covered with glass and placed in a warm room with a temperature of + 20 … + 25 ° C.
4. For two weeks, the plantings are regularly ventilated and water is added to the pan.
5. When shoots appear, the container is placed in a lighted place.
6. After two weeks, the first true leaves appear. At this time, the plants dive into cassettes at a distance of 2–3 cm from each other, pinching the tips of the roots.
7. When 4-5 true leaves appear, the plants are planted again, this time leaving a gap of 5 cm between them.
8. Before planting in open ground, seedlings are helped to get used to the outside temperature. To do this, she is taken out to the balcony for 5-10 minutes or a window in the room is opened. The cooling time is gradually increased.

Photo gallery of the stages of growing garden strawberries from seeds

At the second pick, one seedling is left for each compartment of the cassette

At the first pick, pinch the tip of the main root - this stimulates the active growth of the seedling

One and a half to two months after planting, plants may already have several true leaves, including triple

When the plant gets stronger, it is planted in open ground, having previously hardened

Diseases and pests

Honey's garden strawberry is considered resistant to numerous diseases and pests, but it is quite vulnerable to such ailments as verticillary wilting. Also, in some cases, there are lesions by aphids, strawberry mites and nematodes.

Diseases and pests of garden strawberries Honey, measures to combat them - table

Disease / pest	Signs of manifestation	Control measures
Verticilliasis	The bushes begin to lag behind in development, the leaves become smaller, reddening appears on the petioles, and sometimes dark spots form on the leaves, turning into necrosis. The plant gradually dies off in parts, and dies completely in 2–3 years.	Watered under the root with a 0.2% solution of foundationol (10 g per 10 l) - used only on uterine bushes. The infected plants are dug up and destroyed. Green manures like mustard or lupine are grown as precursors.
Aphid	Clusters of insects are found on the petioles and leaves, young rosettes twist and begin to dry out.	Spraying with 6% soap solution (60 g of soap per 10 l). Processing with a decoction of onions and garlic: 200 ml of garlic juice, 200 ml of onions, 150 ml of juice dandelion in 10 liters of water. Manual collection of the pest.
Strawberry mite	The leaf plates curl, wrinkle and darken.	Before planting, the seedlings are warmed up to +50 ° C. Bushes growing on the beds are sprayed with a solution of colloidal sulfur or Karbofos (8 g for a bucket of water - enough for 1 hundred parts). If the case is neglected, the dose is increased by 15%.
Nematode	Leaves curl into a tube, fruiting branches grow short, the plant becomes fragile - the leaves break off easily when touched	Seedlings are dipped in water at a temperature of + 60 ° C, and then sprayed with ice water before planting. You can plant marigolds on garden strawberries - they successfully drive out the pest. Affected plants are isolated or destroyed along with the land on which they grew.

Diseases and harmful insects in the photo

Verticilliasis

Strawberry mite

Aphid

Nematode

Harvesting and storage

The harvest season of Honey is a small holiday for the gardener, these berries look so attractive and appetizing. It is especially gratifying that already in mid-May you can taste them.

Honey berries are not only pleasant to eat - it's a real pleasure to just pick them

For harvesting, it is better to choose the morning hours, when the dew melts. It is important that there is no rain at this time, otherwise the harvested berries will quickly become limp and will not be stored. The fruit can be torn off the stalk, but it will be safer to cut it off with it. The flesh of the Honey berries is very dense and tolerates transportation perfectly, but garden strawberries still remain quite vulnerable and sensitive to impacts and damage. Do not overfill and transfer it from place to place once again.

For harvesting, it is better to take a wicker basket, in which the crop will "breathe". If you plan to consume the berry almost immediately, then the container can be enameled, porcelain or plastic. Remember: harvested strawberries are stored at room temperature for no more than a day. Of course, due to its density, Honey will stay longer, but it is hardly worth relying on this quality. It is safer to put the berries in the refrigerator, where they retain their first-class appearance for 4–5 days at a temperature of 0 … + 2 ° С.

Garden strawberry jam will become a real joy of the gardener in the cold season

The Honey variety is good both for fresh consumption and for various preparations - rubbing with sugar, preserves, jams, etc. Of course, freezing the berries is a good way to preserve strawberries, but in this case, try to use it as soon as possible after defrosting because it loses its qualities very quickly. Before freezing, rinse and dry the berries and arrange them in containers. Cellophane bags can also be used, but when stored in them, the taste of strawberries suffers.

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The Khonya garden strawberry variety very well adapts to difficult weather conditions, which makes it a suitable variety for growing in the conditions of Central Russia. It is considered an industrial variety, so gardeners often note the lack of sweetness of the berries with a high pulp density. However, it should be borne in mind that the taste can be actively influenced by the weather, as well as the quality of plant care. Therefore, provide the bushes with the necessary comfort, and you can taste the best berries of garden strawberries in May.