Strawberry Syria is quite popular with gardeners. She is one of the best varieties created by breeders from Italy. This variety of sweet berries belongs to mid-season, has excellent taste characteristics.
Grade characteristics
Strawberry Syria was bred by the specialists of the Italian company New Fruits in the city of Cesena. The variety is universal. The berries are beautiful, large and medium in size. Their weight ranges from 30-35 grams. Individual copies can reach 60 grams.
Berries have a conical regular shape and have a bright red color, less often - dark cherry. The core of the fruit is whitish. Thick and juicy pulp is very tasty. Pleasantly combines sweetness and sourness. Berries are perfectly transported, well stored and sold.
Powerful and tall bushes of strawberries Syria have large peduncles. The leaves are dark green, well hide the crop. The variety is grown in open ground for 2-3 years. Italian breeders recommend leaving strawberries for the third year, while the berries do not lose their taste.
Variety Options
The description of the Syria strawberry variety includes such parameters as:
- resistance to diseases (powdery mildew and root damage);
- poor resistance to fungal diseases, transparent mites;
- low winter hardiness (it is better to cover plants for winter)
Syria flowers do not affect spring frosts, as they appear much later. But the variety is subject to the negative influence of the bright summer sun.
Seedling preparation
Strawberry seedlings can be obtained using seeds, rooting mustache or dividing the bush. The fastest way to root a mustache. On the market they sell strawberries with an open root system. It is safer to buy such specimens, although it will take longer to root them.
High-quality seedlings have root shoots up to 8 cm. In the aerial part there are 3 or more leaves. Take plants with weak roots is not worth it. Purchased bushes should be planted on wet soil almost immediately.
Landing
Strawberry Syria grows on any soil. However, fertile options have proven themselves best. She prefers light and medium soils with an acidity of 5-6.5.
The beds for Syria are sent from north to south. It is important that in winter they shelter with snow 20 cm or more thick. And in the summer you need a lot of sunlight. Cold and damp lowlands are not suitable for growing strawberries. In such places, the berries will ripen for a long time, increasing the likelihood of disease damage.
When planting strawberries, you need to take into account the cultures that grew earlier in this place. Such predecessors are best suited:
- onion garlic;
- spices;
- marigolds and other flowers;
- beet;
- legumes;
- oats or rye.
It is not recommended to plant a crop after nightshade, cabbage and cucumbers. Groundwater should pass no closer than 1 meter to the upper soil layers.
In the fall, green plants can be planted on strawberry beds. During the winter, they will rot and make the soil fertile, suitable for growing berries. When planting in the ground add humus or compost, as well as ash. After that, it is thoroughly mixed.
Care Tips
Having planted the berry in the spring, then you need to take care of it. For this, mustaches and buds are cut off. The bed is insulated with fallen leaves. The following spring, the shelter is removed so that the soil can dry and warm.
Dry and diseased leaves are removed from the bushes. The beds are fertilized, the soil is loosened. Spray from parasites. You can cover the strawberries with a transparent material that will retain heat, but at the same time will let in sunlight.
When buds appear, they put a layer of mulch - peat, straw or sawdust. So the berries will grow in a dry area.
Reviews and recommendations
Strawberry variety Syria has good reviews from gardeners growing berries. They note a long fruiting period, good size and attractive appearance of the fruit. The berries on the bushes are quite large and bright. Gardeners like the resistance of the variety to heat. True, residents of the northern regions complain of its thermophilicity and freezing of the kidneys.
Experienced farmers say that strawberries tolerate rainy and hot summers equally well. It grows well on film, not susceptible to chlorosis. Berries are perfectly transported, keeping invariable commodity qualities. Similar reviews of strawberries Syria make this variety one of the best commercial options.
Gardeners give such recommendations for the care of the crop to obtain high yields:
- it is better to prepare beds for planting in August, and mother plants for seedlings must be stocked in spring or autumn;
- the optimal distance between the bushes is 30-40 cm;
- plant better on agrofibre or film;
- during frosts, you need to cover and ensure that the film does not come into contact with the flowers, otherwise they will freeze;
- by the fourth year, strawberry yields are reduced, so by this time you should take care of its propagation or the acquisition of new seedlings.
Following these simple rules, you can grow a good berry crop in your garden.