The first strawberries ripened in the south of the region. This year the berry season started much earlier than usual. So far, gardeners collect this yummy only in greenhouses, but if such hot weather stays for another week, strawberries will go in the open field.
Ripe, fragrant berries tend to the ground. The ties on the branch cannot be counted. Raisa Sotnikova, a gardener, says nature surprises this year. The scorching spring sun helped the plants ripen earlier than usual, and frosts did not interfere. The berry will sing on the bush, as in July.
She is sweet this year, there is a lot of sun, she has enough. My kids are coming, my great-grandson can’t tear himself away, this is the beauty we have this year.
Raisa Sotnikova, gardener
So that the heavy berries were not in the sand, the savvy hostess used ordinary plastic plates, the berries are clean and do not deteriorate. Birds that settled in the garden even got into the habit of flying to the strawberry beds. From the raids of uninvited guests, the gardener had to install nets on the windows and doors, but this does not save him, now he is thinking of making a scarecrow.
It is impossible to collect the first local vitamins on the market. While the strawberry plantation in the greenhouse is small, the gardener does not count on industrial volumes, he says, then other varieties will have to be bought. And these seedlings are local, exclusively for delicacy, which is customary in our region. There is a bed of strawberries in almost every garden.
Buying Turkish strawberries on the market seems to bite for the family budget, and secondly, the quality. Our berry, look, it is fragrant, bright, sweet. Because we grow it on land without chemicals.
Raisa Sotnikova, gardener
During the season, the gardener plans to harvest several crops; in summer, a vitamin dessert is always on the table, almost until the first snow. If the 30-degree heat without rain in the south of the region stays for another week, the well-known Saturday strawberries will ripen on open-air berry plantations.
