Strawberry plant (mills)

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Fruits of Youth
Collect the fruits as soon as they are well coloured and are detached easily. The bits have a rather fragile texture, must be handled with precaution and hardly preserve themselves more than 24 to 48 H with the refrigerator. They badly support congelation and sterilization.

100 G of bits account for 35 , which is very little, knowing that 100 G of apple for example bring 55 from there. Rich person in vitamin C, (60 G, that is to say more than orange), 125 G of bits meet the daily requirements in vitamin C. containing only 7% for glucids, the bit is made up to water 89,5%. This fruit contains also vitamins E and K, as well as fibers and various important rock salt: potassium (150 G), brominates, calcium, iron, iodine, magnesium, sulfur. The strawberry contains also principles which slow down the cellular aging, like the folic acid ( vitamin) which is sometimes lacking with the elderly.

The bit is tasted raw, natural or with sugar. She excels in pastry makings, the ices, the molten metals, the compotes, jams, but supports long cookings badly. Been useful almost tepid, quickly last with the frying pan or on the grill, its perfume is strengthened. It Marie well with the crème fraîche, the wine, the spices (of which the exotic ginger and mint), fruits, citrus fruits.

Plant full sun
Only the full sun gives to the bits their perfume and a high sugar content. The plant is perfectly rustic and supports the frosts in all the French areas. Plant the strawberry plants in a humus-bearing and fertile ground, furnishs even sandy, preferably not limestone. The well prepared ground, carefully weeded, should not dry in summer. At the end of the winter, bring an organic bag of fertilizer containing sons of a bitch and algae for 3 to 2. Bury this organic matter superficially, by scratching the ground between the feet of strawberry plants. With starting of the vegetation and during the season, made a contribution of manure “strawberry plants”.

in spring enters the lines of strawberry plants. A mulching is advised one month before flowering. It maintains the humidity of the ground and protects the strawberries from mud when it rains. You can use chopped straw, spangle of flax, cocoa hulls , a of barks or pine needles. The #841029 plastic film is also very valid because it makes a rampart with weeds. There exists an younger generation of biodegradable films, manufactured containing corn starch.

Do not let the strawberry plants suffer from thirst, because they are very greedy out of water and after one period of dryness, the quality of the fruits feels some. In autumn, when harvest touches at its end, cut and burn all the damaged or dry leaves. Eliminate them weakest and those which you do not wish to preserve.

Delights of balcony
The bit produces easily in suspension or in large bored earthenware jars several openings. It is preferable to choose varieties going up like “Queen of the Valleys” or “ of Wood”. Use a rich mould and do not forget to provide for a good drainage. The contributions of manure will be regular in the course of season, because the strawberry plant is a greedy plant.

A good advice: buy unscathed certified seedlings of virus.

Did you know?

The strawberry is not strictly speaking a fruit, but the result of the enlargement of the receptacle of the petals, which takes a fleshy consistency. Truths fruits in fact small #D25E77 “seeds”, are called , dried fruits and (which does not open naturally) which strew surface with these fleshy envelopes.

The Indians of Ontario think that the core of late remains wandering until it meets a strawberry with the apogee of its maturity. When it tastes there, it can then enter to the Country of Dead and rest in peace for eternity.

The history of the bit with large fruits goes back to 1714, during the American forwarding of engineer François , charged to observe the harbor fortifications of Chile and Peru. More impassioned by botany than by warlike inclinations of the sun king (who will die one year later in 1715), François discovered strawberry plants with large fruits close to the town of Design in Chile. This plant bore fruit only in the presence of one another strawberry plant of America, the strawberry plant of Virginia . From this crossing called “strawberry plant pineapple was born a new species” , which is at the origin of all the strawberries that we consume or cultivate today.

The allergy to the strawberries which results in an urticaria explains by an over-sensitiveness with histamine.

The bit quickly became symbol of pleasure of love. At the century, one appointed “strawberry” the nipples of the women, which involved the phrase “outward journey with the bits” like synonym of .