Strawberries "Geneva", 10 pcs

is characterized by intense growth. The bush is squat, fruit twice a season, with a pronounced dormant period (almost three weeks). On the mustache of the current year, flowering and fruiting occur at the stage of the formation of seven leaves, so plantation with this variety gives the crop constantly. The berry is large, dense. The stalk does not rise, lies, taking a clusters with berries outside the bush in different directions. In unfavorable spring, in the case of a large number of cloudy days, in the second half of the summer, the variety is able to compensate for this drawback and endow the crop, regardless of the number of sunny days.

The seedlings most often appear unevenly within 30-40 days (up to 60 days).

Seeds for seedlings can be at different times of the year, but the best time for sowing is winter (end of January - March). The preparation of the soil mixture is as follows: 3 parts of the sand are mixed with 5 parts of crumbly humus and heated in an oven for 3-4 hours at a temperature of 90-100 ° C. Seeds are gently laid out on the surface of slightly compacted and moisturized soil, covered with a layer of snow with a thickness of 5 cm, on top the pots are covered with a film to prevent the soil drying out. For 3-5 days, sowing pots are placed in a cold place (temperature 0... +5 ° C), then for the germination the seeds are kept at a constant temperature of +22 ° C, avoiding the soil drying out.