Strawberries are a very tasty and healthy berry, widely used in cooking and food industry. In natural and frozen form, in compotes, jams, liqueurs and other kinds of products, it can be present all year round on our table and not get bored! Probably, that is why so many varieties of this wonderful berry are bred by breeders. We will now talk about one of them.
Variety of strawberry Zeng Zengan
Strawberry Zeng Zeng as such in nature did not exist. It appeared through the crossing of two different species - the wild self-mating duck with the garden plant ziger. The homeland of the new variety is Germany, more precisely, the FRG. As a plant that has undergone careful selection selection, the berry has many positive indicators: it tolerates frosts of the average temperature regime, it is resistant to dry, dry summer, it resists fungus well enough. With regard to taste, the strawberry Zenga Zenga surpasses many other varieties. It is distinguished by a pleasant, pronounced sweetness with a soft sourness. In berries that have reached full maturity, these flavors are particularly strong and leave the most positive impression. Moreover, the variety has one remarkable feature. When the strawberry Zenga Zenga is in your hands, you clearly feel, in addition to the characteristic aroma plant, the smell of pineapple. And when you put the berry in your mouth, then the taste of this fruit. Here it is, the "calling card" of the grade! Still, a strawberry with the smell and taste of pineapple - like in nature you will not meet! Thanks to this amazing property, this garden culture is very popular among owners of small household plots, as well as farmers who grow products for sale. Strawberry Zenga Zenga is well bought up in retail outlets and is readily accepted by canning and processing enterprises.
Main characteristics of the variety
The variety in question refers to fruit and berry crops, ripening in the middle of the late season - in the second half of June. If the summer is not arid and warm, the harvest can be harvested in early July. Each plant is a fairly tall and powerful bush, which forms a small mustache, compact, stretching well to the sun. Zeng Zengana herself is a strawberry, whose berries resemble hearts in shape, i.e. Rounded-conical. The size can be different - from medium to fairly large, weighing about 28-30 g. The color of ripe berries is saturated red, some can even notice a dark cherry hue. The fruit itself is shiny, hard, seeds from the pulp do not protrude. The flesh also has a characteristic red tint, dense, so the strawberry of this variety easily tolerates transport. The given culture rejoices and high productivity - from one bush it is possible to remove up to 2,3 kg of berries. As for eating, the strawberry of Zeng Zengan, the description of which you read above, is also best suited for jam and frost.
Pests and diseases
Among the main enemies of this variety in the first place are strawberry mites and gray rot. Therefore, before planting the seedlings in the ground, and then during the care of the plant and other field work, it is necessary to thoroughly treat the soil in order to disinfect it a little and protect the planting. It is also necessary to regularly inspect the bushes to pick up the cobwebs and cut off the sick leaves.