Strawberries should not be missing in any garden. Their sweet aroma in combination with the juicy pulp ensure exciting taste experiences. If you want to enjoy strawberries throughout the season, combine early, mid, and late varieties.
Strawberries are not just strawberries
Early Varieties
If you can hardly wait to enjoy sweet strawberries, we recommend early-ripening varieties. They bear red fruit as early as mid-May when the weather is warm. Early varieties can bear fruit until the end of June. For a high yield you should plant at least two square meters.
Strawberries for early enjoyment:
- 'Darselect': French variety popularly planted in self-picking fields
- 'Honeoye': improved cultivar of the cultivar 'Lambada' that is resistant to disease
- 'White Dream': white fruit with a sweet aroma reminiscent of pineapple
Medium grades
If you have already harvested the fruits of your early varieties, strawberries of the middle varieties will slowly ripen. Fruit ripening often overlaps with strawberry harvest from early-bearing plants.
summer varieties:
- 'Polka': adaptable and undemanding variety for every garden
- 'Korona': tightly upright growth, so that the fruits can be harvested more easily
- 'Sonata': suitable for cool climates, very productive
late varieties
These plants get a particularly large number of hours of sunshine and develop tasty and large fruits from the end of June. With these varieties you can enjoy the strawberry season to the full. The fruit harvest extends into September.
Strawberries with harvest time until autumn:
- 'Symphony': very good yield, high fruit firmness
- 'Salsa': very appealing fruits that taste intensely aromatic
- 'Mieze Schindler': old favorite variety, the fruits of which are ideal for making jam.
monthly strawberries
These varieties are known as reblooming strawberries. They come from the wild strawberry and convince with sweet fruits that can be harvested until autumn. Between June and July, the varieties produce a particularly large number of strawberries. After a period of dormancy, fruits develop again in autumn. Since the plants grow compact, they are ideal for container planting.
Repeat bearing varieties:
- 'Selva': very firm fruits with a fine aroma, easy to cultivate
- 'Ostara': abundant flowering between July and November
- 'Mara de Bois': intense aroma reminiscent of wild strawberries