Effect of combined seasonal coverage on northern production of strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch)

Eivind Uleberg, Inger Martinussen and Ragnar Samuelsen
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Eivind Uleberg: Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Ås, Norway
Inger Martinussen: Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Ås, Norway
Ragnar Samuelsen: Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Ås, Norway

Horticultural Science, 2017, vol. 44, issue 3, 148-155

Abstract: Two field trials with five strawberry cultivars planted on a woven black polyfibre ground cover sheet with or without translucent sheet plant coverage during winter and the growing season as combined treatments were started in 2004 and 2005. In total, nine different cultivars were included in the two fields. One early cv. 'Polka' and one late cv. 'Korona' acted as standard cultivars, while the other cultivars were new, named or labelled selections from Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish breeding programs. Winter survival, spring vigour, earliness, saleable and total berry yield, berry size and berry quality were registered for three years. The cultivars differed in earliness, berry size, yield (gram per plant) and total production (sum of all years). A combination of fibre sheet winter and spring coverage and more open net sheet harvest season coverage showed favourable results for overwintering, earliness and berry yield, and enhanced the ripening process in all cultivars.

Keywords: cultivars; winter survival; earliness; berry yield; berry size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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