Kitchen Garden Forum

Hi all

If you can spare the time I would love to hear your recommendations for strawberries before I go and buy the wrong ones.

I understand they are like spuds and you buy different varieties to get through the year?

These will be for planting outside on the plot but i do have some greenhouse space if thats a good thing to do too.

Thanks for any advice,

David

Hi David. You are right that there are different fruiting times for strawberries that will take you through the summer and there are also ones named perpetual, that produce smaller fruits right through the summer. You are a bit late now for bare root plants, but at this time of year you can buy ones that have been frozen so they can be planted late. Try the seed company websites or a speciailst fruit supplier like Ken Muir. You'll get much more choice than container grown plants in garden centres and they usually offer collections of early, mid and late season varieties.

I bought Marmello bare root plants the winter before last and they produced massive fruits that had a brilliant flavour last summer, so if you only have 1 type, I would recommend them.

Sue

Marshmello were great last year, so much so that I now have two beds of them.

Funny enough I planted a 12 Cambridge Favourite yesterday, sourced from HDRA.

Nice flavour though can suffer from mildrew.

Jerry

Checkout Dobies. They have some 90-day specials that will crop this year, a special non-commercial one called Perfection with thin skin that sounds like the ultimate. I bought some of the ordinary ones, they were delivered last week, might still give me a small crop this year.
Allan

Marshmellow every time! I am also trying Mae in my new garden.