Currently have 5 strawberry/herb type planters with a mixed variety of strawberries in. Going to expand and wondering which varieties I should go with if going for say 20 plants for a high yield. Something that does well in Yorkshire would be nice :) Any advice/opinions on prolific types? tia
I live in the north east and am looking at these plants to harvest strawberries Jul-Oct, though they are out of stock at the moment:
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/fruit1/product/cww3183/1.html
Ken Muir has them, £17.45 for 10 plants which with P&P is about the same as T&M.
Should have added that they are the frozen plants so will crop within 60 days. Available until end July.
I bought two varieties in France last year and am enormously impressed. You can google them: Gariguette, and Mara des Bois. Huge, juicy, delicious flavour. M des Bois is supposed to be "perpetual" and I am watching it hopefully for signs of performing for months after the first flush.
I have Flamenco - I can say that it is the only strawberry I don;t like. Firm dry flesh - nasty :P
Quote from: artichoke on July 03, 2010, 17:38:01
I bought two varieties in France last year and am enormously impressed. You can google them: Gariguette, and Mara des Bois. Huge, juicy, delicious flavour. M des Bois is supposed to be "perpetual" and I am watching it hopefully for signs of performing for months after the first flush.
I grow both. Gariguette is sublime, but the plants are quite weedy and the yield is low.
Mara des Bois, well, just keeps fruiting and fruiting and fruiting. The fruit are large, juicy, taste is exceptional, can't fault it.
My favourite variety, though, is Cambridge Late Pine, the taste is just out of this world and has converted to sworn non-strawberry eating chums to the way of the strawberry.
umm, I don't bother with perpetual/everbearer types anymore - dry, chewy! and tasteless (Flamenco and Challenger). And measly too.
Oh no, I was thinking of buying Flamenco too! Mr Fothergills still had some last time I looked yesterday. (Bit confused - aren't they all owned by one company these days?)
I was torn between gariguette and mara des bois, but assuming they might have a low yield, I was thinking of going for a reliable if less exciting variety as well.
I suppose that won't be flamenco now... :-\
Maybe Cambridge late pine?
Bringing this thread up again to ask if anyone has grown Florence. There's an offer in the guardian for 10 "free" plants for £4.50 p&p which seems a good deal if they are a nice strawberry.
I find Bolero is a good everbearer (perpetual) strawberry, nice and juicy, smallish fruits, doesn't store long aftert picking.
<< Gariguette is sublime, but the plants are quite weedy and the yield is low. >>
By "weedy" do you mean "grows like a weed", meaning it is flourishing and large?
Or do you mean it is small and miserable?
I was surprised by how huge my plants grew, large leaves on tall stalks. I can't comment on the yield because after the first flush of many large shapely fruit, the weather became just too hot and dry, and they are wilting - I can't water them enough.