All mine have finished is anyone picking them now, if so what variety.
I have some Florian which will be ready soon, but not sure if they are cropping now because they were sown from seed this year.
Perpetuals have given up.
Mine have finished now also, not sure of the variety, bought them from the top of someones drive felt sorry for them as they were half dead. Took them home and showev the 6 plants in pots on the patio.
Then last year pegged all of the runners down around the outside of the patio and bingo this year 15 plants all bordering the patio which my son of 19 months has adored all summer just being able to pick "stawbies"
Fingers crossed for the same situation this year!! ;D
Some years ago (2003/4?) I bought a packet of "Sarian" (F1 Hybrid) seed which I sowed in the spring, assured by the packet which promised fruiting in the first year, which they did, in August, continuing well into the Autumn. This was in an unheated greenhouse. The following and subsequent years the plants duly delivered around Wimbledon time (early June) until at least the middle of October, somewhat later if the weather was mild. They were unusual, for a Strawberry, in that the plants did not EVER throw runners, though I did manage to propagate a couple by cuttings. The last of these cuttings was looking poorly last year, so, more in hope than in anger, I saved some seed from one of the last fruit in October and sowed them. They germinated, over-wintered in my little plastic greenhouse, were planted on in the spring and are now covered in flowers and nearly-ripe fruit which I should be able to start picking during the next week. The bonus is, as expected from seed from an F1 hybrid, the seedlings haven't "come true", and there's an abundance of runners as well 8) ... we'll have to wait until next year to see if the fruiting season is as long as the original plants ... ;D
Yes i sowed some Sarian seeds Feb 2009 and like Kypfer said
i was picking fruit from early June right through to late October
they just keep fruiting all the time.
Will try saving some seeds like Kypfer to see what we get
Bison..............
You might want to try shearing off the leaves, giving them a good watering and feed. I generally get a smallish second crop about August doing this.
i plan on starting 36 seed cells tonight fore next season.
Florian are perpetual flowering type.
I have six plants, variety Loran. They look beautiful, lush green leaves, the plants get to a good size quickly and the berries are ginormous. Trouble is they taste of nothing. Not even as good as Tes/Sains/Morr/Spencers >:(
Note to self, get a decent variety ;)