Varieties of strawberries growing at our plantations.

Early fruiting varieties:
Alba, Kimberly, Olvia, Divnaya.

Middle fruiting varieties:
Gigantella, Roxana, Florina, Arosa, Florence.

Late fruiting:
Malwina, Lord, San Andreas, Vima Ksima.

Raspberry:
Early fruiting varieties: Atlant, Tarusa, Orange Miracle, Heritage.

Late fruiting:
“Rubin”, “Giant”, “Patricia”, “Yellow Giant”

Gooseberry:
“Russian Yellow”, “Izumrud”, “Altai Yellow”, “Amber”, “Redeva”, “Berill”, “Date”.

Currant:
“Jonkheer Van Tets”, “White Fairy”, “Early Sweet”, “Baraba”, “Late Fruiting Black”, “Black Currant”.

Varieties of blueberries:
“Bluegold”, “Duke”, “Toro”, “Pink Lemonade”, “Dushes Blue”, “Nelson”, “Elliot”, “Guron”, “Pink Blueberry”, “Blue Lagoon”.

Blackberry:
“Prime Ark Freedom”, “Boysenberry”, “Ouachita”, “Crown Black”, “Natchez”, “Cinderella”, “Black Butte”, “Ruben”, “Loganberry”.

Cranberry:

“Ben Lear”, “Rumba”, “Piligrim”, “Hoves”, “Bergman”, “Stevens”.
Dogwood: “Vladimir”, “Tourmaline”, “Joy”, “Yoliko”, “Elegance”, “Coral Pink”.

Dogwood

There is a range of plants of dogwood family, consisting approximately of 50 varieties. It is a perennial woody wintergreen plant. Dogwood can grow as a wild plant and also grow in a garden. Jam, jelly, syrup, juices can be made out of dogwood, it can also be dried.

Dogwood leaves have healing qualities. The “father of the medicine” Hippocrates highly estimated its astringent properties and recommended to take dogwood leaves decoction for curing stomach diseases, tiredness, back pain and many other deseases. Homeland of dogwood is Caucasus and Crimea.

Ripe dogwood contains a lot of vitamins (mostly C, A, PP), organic acids, dietary fibers, essential oils. Berries are full of healthy minerals: phosphorus, kalium, magnesium, iron, sulphur, pit is filled with essential oils. Leaves and fruit contain pectin, it helps to cure intoxication.

All frozen berries are being exported to many countries for making yogurts, mousses, purees, it is also being used in pharmaceutical industry.

Storage.
Freezing: blast freezing
Currant, blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry, blueberry, cherry are being spread as one layer on a tray for blast freezing, then put it to containers, close it tightly and then store it in freezer cameras. Now you are able to enjoy whole berries. The best temperature for storing berries is not higher than 18^оС and not lower than -25^оС. Relative humidity of storage should be 90-95%. During all the period of storage melting is not permitted.

The existing cameras of blast freezing for berries are the equipment of Dutch manufacturer STOREX, cameras have glass fronts. The packaging for berries shouldn’t be large, otherwise berries that are in the middle may not freeze. When we speak about quality we mean wholeness of berries, taste, freshness, absence of bruising, mold, mud, minimum number of leaves, branches, peduncles.

Defrosting berries: in order to obtain quality product after defrost we recommend to defrost them at +2^оС - +4^оС for not less than 12 hours. Otherwise they can be defrosted in a special defrost camera.