We’ve been working on a nice strawberry area this spring and I’m hoping to plant it this fall. Which strawberry varieties have folks had the best luck with? I would like to get an even mix of June bearing and everbearing so we can make preserves and have strawberries all summer long. Curious which varieties have been good producers with awesome flavor?
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I really like the Darselect variety by Nourse Nursery. Sweet with good flavor and excellent runners. They also has many good varieties to offer.
Tony
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I have Jewel, have been happy with them, but have really never tried anything else (except for store bought junk)
Rutgers Scarlet Select
Jewel
Sequoia
Flavorfest
are all great varieties, my first year with the Rutgers, they are winners
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Where did you get the unique varieties you listed? Anyone tried candler or seascape?
all but sequoia can be ordered from Nourse Farms.
Chandler? That’s what I’m growing now
We planted Seascape this year, the few berries we’ve gotten have been large and richly flavored. We also have Albion, and Tri-Star. I’m going to pull Albion out, the tri-stars are average flavor, but productive.
My husband was impressed with Chandler.
I can say more after this season because we didn’t get to try much of them last year.
We have Mara de Bois, Chandler San Andreas, only 3 Florida pearls and honeoye.
We have those other varieties because we were not impressed with the honeoye, which we got first.
Not only was it not great. Some of the berries even had a funky taste.
We gave that berry three years and finally said the heck with it.
I ordered a lot more than three Florida pearls, but they arrived all dried up and only three survived.
We got the Mara des Bois from an Etsy seller and boy they were really nice roots. We got to try a couple little berries and we also got a lot of daughters plants so we are hoping we get to try more of all these other ones this year.
@Mickster … your zone 7b… could be way different than my zone 7b (southern middle TN).
Some strawberries that do very well in other locations just cant hack it here with my heat and humidity.
Early Glow produced some nice flavorfull and early berries here… but most of them died of some brown funk by year 3.
Eversweet and Sure Crop have done well here and lasted thru my heat and humidity many years.
Seascape were not impressive at all.
Eversweet is about as close to a true everbearing strawberry as I have seen in my location. They will continue to produce thru the heat of summer and late into fall. They were not the largest or best tasting berries… but they were good… med/small… and I got berries off them when nothing else would produce.
Mine were growing in a food forest bed… no irrigation. They would probably do much better more favorable conditions.
TNHunter
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