What variety of strawberries?

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cootamber, I ate lots of mara des bois last year, gorgeous too but I haven`t eaten the others yet. The ones I had last year were babies and so I cut the flowers off.

I am looking to reap my rewards this year!!! and hoping to freeze lots as puree. Anyway all plants now look strong and healthy, if only the rain would stop

browneyedbazzi

Hi all, thanks for all the advice. I didn't want to wait for an online order so I popped along to my local garden centre and came home with some cambridge favourites which have been duly transferred into a planter and enshrined in the sunniest bit of my balcony. I also managed to bring home some pepper and chilli plants...I don't think my partner will let me near a garden centre again as there will be no space left for us on the balcony soon!

Farway

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

Hi all, thanks for all the advice. I didn't want to wait for an online order so I popped along to my local garden centre and came home with some cambridge favourites which have been duly transferred into a planter and enshrined in the sunniest bit of my balcony. I also managed to bring home some pepper and chilli plants...I don't think my partner will let me near a garden centre again as there will be no space left for us on the balcony soon!

There will not be once the peppers get going

cootambear

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

Hi all, thanks for all the advice. I didn't want to wait for an online order so I popped along to my local garden centre and came home with some cambridge favourites which have been duly transferred into a planter and enshrined in the sunniest bit of my balcony. I also managed to bring home some pepper and chilli plants...I don't think my partner will let me near a garden centre again as there will be no space left for us on the balcony soon!

you did well getting them from a garden centre

they are tasty

cootambear

decent article here

I liked the point that older does not equal better

btw, dont confuse their description of cambridge favourite as the `elsanta of its day` as an impilication that they are of equal flavour

all it means is that cambridge were widely grown by farmers

cambridge have a good flavour, elsanta tastes like turnips

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/food/2012/05/do-strawberries-taste-as-good.shtml

cootambear

in general terms I would say, plant for flavour not for yield, otherwise you might as well go to the supermarket

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today I had my first ever taste of gariguette, well I had 1/2 as I shared it. It has been dangling from a tall planter and I had to rescue it before the gales hit it again. It was divine!!! probably the best strawberry I have ever tasted. So thank you cootamber

I am giving up strawberries on the ground on the allotment as they are too tricky and one better reason is that strawberries in planters at home are doing so very well. I have two lots of 8 clover shaped planters, one on top of another all with a cane right down the centre wedged into a slot below. Restrained with canes too at the top so they will not blow over in the gales. Amazing what you can do with strawberry plants and I love that they grow down the sides and stay clean and slug free

Ken Muir is fantastic for plants, they are such good quality. I have now ordered autumn raspberries from them to replace the allotment strawberries, standing up to pick has a lot of appeal at my age

LincolnshireYokel

I have no idea what mine are. I was at horticultural show, on a stand with my then-employer, and a friendly company across the isle had a couple of growbags with strawberries in to demo use of the growbags. At the end of the show they were going to skip them, so i claimed them, and extracted 10 strawberry plants from the growbags. I planted them on the lotty three years ago, and so far they have produced two massive crops of really sweet strawberries, and have spread like mad.

Wish I knew what they were !!!

Pipkin

I have to say that we have elsanta plants that we bought from Lidls a few years ago and the taste of the strawberries has been AMAZING - I've never tasted anything so good..maybe we have just been lucky?

Farway

Pipkin wrote: »

I have to say that we have elsanta plants that we bought from Lidls a few years ago and the taste of the strawberries has been AMAZING - I've never tasted anything so good..maybe we have just been lucky?

I also had Elsanta from Lidl, mine were rubbish, but this may have been due to me as I had them in a large tub

Glad yours were fine