Strawberry Roman

Ampel strawberry, to which the hybrid variety Roman F1 belongs, has long been considered by gardeners and landscape designers as a universal plant. It is both fruitful and highly decorative, and at the same time undemanding.

Strawberry Roman is not only remontant, but also ampelous culture. It has a genetically built capacity for continuous flowering and fruiting. The bushes are quite powerful, but at the same time compact, giving long stepchildren, at the end of which new rosettes develop, also bearing fruit. In this case, the stepson can reach a length of 100 cm.

The repaired species of the plant classifies it as an early variety, allows it to bloom and bear fruit throughout the growing season. If the berry is grown in a greenhouse or indoor conditions, then harvesting is possible all year round. The hybrid blooms from May to October outdoors and indoors all year round. The fruiting period coincides with the flowering period.

The bush is able to bear fruit abundantly due to the mustache and good agricultural technology. Its reparability provides a stable, multiple harvest for the entire summer-autumn season.

An elongated large berry of a beautiful drop-shaped shape is painted in dark red color, has a weight of 25-30 g. Fruits with dense, juicy pulp, have a delicate and pleasant aroma with a pronounced sweet taste.

The hybrid is grown not only in garden conditions, but also in pots or balcony containers. The amazing quality of ampel varieties is the possibility of developing stepchildren by air. This allows plants to be grown in hanging planters when the fruit is developing at the ends of the long stepsons.

For growing in pots, the Roman variety requires drainage at the bottom, fertile, breathable soil. When grown in traditional conditions on the ground, plants need sunny places, they need regular loosening after watering and weeding. The distance during planting is maintained in row spacings of 25-30 cm, between bushes 15-20 cm. The variety needs pruning after the first harvest - the lower row of foliage is removed. A large number of mustaches can be thinned out or removed entirely.

For active fruiting, the hybrid variety Roman needs light and breathable soil. The acidity level is close to neutral - 5.2-5.5 pH. The variety does not need shading; an 8-10-hour daylight hours are enough for the development of fruits. Strawberries coexist well with green manure such as phacelia, rapeseed and others. The plant is afraid of frost, therefore, in early spring, when the planting temperature is threatened, it is covered with agrofibre.

The hybrid belongs to self-fertile varieties and does not need the participation of pollinating varieties.

Like any other variety of garden strawberries, strawberries, Roman needs timely application of mineral and organic fertilizers:

• in spring, these are nitrogen-containing compounds;

• summer potash-phosphorus fertilizers;

• in the fall, the introduction of organic matter - compost, humus.

Don't forget about complex special compositions.

The variety, like others, is susceptible to diseases such as:

• gray rot;

• late blight;

• powdery mildew.

And:

• nematodes;

• strawberry mite;

• strawberry weevil.

In the case of fungal diseases, fungicides should be used. As for the defeat by pests, in this case, insecticides are used. In addition, all of these drugs can be used prophylactically.

Garden strawberry Roman is easily propagated by layering stepsons. To get new outlets, you don't even need to have experience - the plant itself will take care of the new planting material. It's all about the numerous mustaches, on each of which young rosette bushes develop.