Everbearing strawberries live up to their title. They bloom and bear fruit incessantly from June to October. Here you will get to know the best varieties, in connection with useful care tips.
A selection of recommended varieties
If you are on the lookout for everbearing strawberry plants, they can usually be found on the market as young plants or seeds under the designation monthly strawberries and wild strawberries. The following premium varieties will spoil you with small, incredibly aromatic fruits all summer long:
- Frapendula: an excellent traffic light variety, it thrives on the balcony and in the conservatory
- Wädenswil: is the first to supply many sugar-sweet strawberries, does not develop any runners
- Ostara: a leading variety among monthly strawberries, well suited for freezing
- Amandine: an interesting new breed with elongated fruits
- Forest Queen: beautiful white flowers and deep red strawberries, good for preserving
Everbearing strawberries have excellent groundcover qualities. In this regard, the varieties Red Panda, Florika and Spadeka have made a name for themselves. Thanks to their strong and numerous tendrils, they transform even large areas into a heavenly strawberry meadow.
Useful tips for proper care
A balanced water and nutrient balance forms the basis for splendid growth and a rich harvest. Everbearing strawberries are watered evenly, always allowing the surface of the soil to dry out. Do not water according to a fixed schedule, but always after a thumb test. To do this, press your thumb into the substrate. If you only feel the moisture at a depth of 4-5 centimetres, it is time for the watering can.
Since monthly and wild strawberries are cultivated for several years, they receive their main fertilization immediately after the harvest. Another dose of fertilizer is given in spring, just before flowering. The first flowers should be broken out to increase the crop yield. If the fruit set forms, mulch with straw or bark mulch. In this way you protect the strawberries from dirt and diseases.
tips and tricks
Do you love strawberries and raspberries equally? Then simply plant the strawberry-raspberry. After a dreamy, white bloom in spring, you can harvest the delicious fruits here from summer to autumn. These are larger than raspberries and taste as sweet as strawberries.