Welcome to a journey of discovery through the colorful world of fruity strawberry varieties. Meet your next favorite strain for growing in the garden and on the balcony.

Exquisite varieties for early harvest

In early summer, can you hardly wait to enjoy the first strawberries? Then you should delve into the following overview with the best early ripening strawberry varieties:

  • Donna: the latest early variety with light red, sugar-sweet fruits
  • Darselect: an interesting immigrant from the south of France with a wonderful aroma
  • Lambada: the variety impresses with bright red, shiny fruits and a unique sweetness
  • Honeoye: a particularly high-yielding variety with even, dark red strawberries
  • Daroyale: the red to dark red fruits can be kept for a long time

Selected strawberries with medium-late ripening

The following selection of varieties represents the 'golden mean' in a balanced planting plan. While the early strawberry plants have already been cleaned and the late ones are still waiting, the time has come for these varieties:

  • Senga Sengana: considered the ultimate allotment strain, aromatic, large fruits
  • Polka: adaptable variety that thrives in heavy soil, an ideal choice for the garden
  • Korona: likes light soil and impresses with its tight, upright growth for an effortless harvest
  • Elsanta: the most popular variety in commercial cultivation also thrives in small gardens
  • Sonata: delivers juicy-sweet fruits in abundance

Late ripening strawberry varieties worth waiting for

The concentrated power of countless hours of sunshine accumulates in the fruits until they are ready for harvest. At least one of the following late-ripening strawberry plants gets a place in the bed to ensure a furious finale.

  • Pandora: ripens as one of the last in the bed and spoils the strawberry fan with a slightly sour taste
  • Vicoda: supplies first-class material for preservation with firm fruits
  • Nerid: scores with remarkable resistance to diseases and juicy strawberries
  • Symphony: delicious, al dente fruit for eating fresh and pickling
  • Sweet Mary XXL: she lives up to her name with huge, tasty strawberries

Everlasting fruit enjoyment with monthly strawberries

In contrast to the classic garden strawberry, monthly strawberries come from the local wild strawberry. Therefore, the following varieties combine the reproductive properties of wild species with the juicy-sweet taste of the immigrated cultivated strawberry. These attributes qualify everbearing monthly strawberries as the ideal varieties for pots and window boxes. (€16.99)

  • Ostara: the most popular sweet variety for children with a delicious taste
  • Amandine: interesting new breed with elongated, light red strawberries
  • Mara de Bois: medium-sized fruits, does not develop offshoots
  • Merosa: adorns the balcony with pink flowers in the traffic light
  • Hummi Praliné: rightly bears its enticing name, maturing medium early
  • Wädenswil: the earliest variety among the monthly strawberries

Old varieties in trend

In private kitchen gardens, they have continued their triumphal march for years. Old vegetables and fruits are more modern than ever. This applies not least to the following classic strawberry plants:

  • Mieze Schindler: 90 years old and still young with small sugary fruit candies
  • Queen Luise: on the market for 75 years and trendier than ever, maturing early and delicious in taste
  • Reusraths Very Earliest: a traditional lover's variety, seduces with an intense aroma
  • Herzberg's Triumph: develops particularly solid stolons, a first class climbing strawberry
  • Beautiful Meissner: already inspired our ancestors with excellent aroma

Wild strawberries - perfect as ground cover and for delicate locations

Local wild strawberries do not have to hide behind the mighty garden strawberries, because they know how to score with other attributes. The following varieties are so frugal by nature that they even turn semi-shady locations close to the forest into a snack garden. In addition, they have proven themselves excellent as ground cover. Not to forget the special qualities in the planter on the balcony with countless fruit chocolates.

  • Queen of the forest: enriches the ornamental garden with white flowers and deep red fruits
  • Mignonette: the gourmet variety among wild strawberries with a wonderful fragrance
  • Rubra: a feast for the eyes with bright, pink flowers and countless fruits
  • Alexandria: growth height 15-20 centimetres, long harvest period from June to September
  • Waldsteinia: a real ornament with yellow flowers
  • Alpine Yellow: whitish-yellow variety with a wonderful taste
  • Pink Panda: popular ground cover with pink flowers and rich red strawberries

A rarity among wild strawberries comes under the variety name White Soul. Small white fruits thrive here on shoots up to 20 centimeters high.

The gifted climbing strawberry

Although every climbing strawberry variety is predestined to be a climbing strawberry, resourceful breeders have succeeded in finding a particularly suitable variety. Known as Hummi, this plant features superbly developed, sturdy tendrils. If a fence or a trellis is available to help, it climbs up to 150 centimeters into the sky.

tips and tricks

Do you like to make a splash in the garden? Then the pineapple-strawberry with white fruits and red nuts is an excellent choice. If you also plant the black strawberry together, the sensation is perfect.

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