New Strawberry Plants - Any recommendations ?

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  November 2018

  There's a recent thread here as your starter for 10
  
  I planted mine out a few weeks ago. They've each grown a single leaf then stopped for a winter rest.

  
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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  November 2018

  I grow Elsanta. It's a decent cropping, easy, reliable variety, with a nice flavour. Fruits here mainly around July, and you get plenty of runners. 
  Doesn't mind loads of rain, cold, or anything else, and doesn't get too  much slug damage, as long as you get in quick 

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  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• ColinA Posts: 392

  November 2018

  I have grown Cambridge Favorite for a few years with good results and are now trying Flamenco from Kings Seeds

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• Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

  November 2018

  Cambridge Favourite for us too.  I bought a dozen from Marshalls a couple of years ago, we weren't disappointed.  They have grown into large plants from the original bare roots that were sent.  Don't be surprised if the plants look all root and not much crown when you receive them - that is quite normal when they arrive and provided you give them the right soil and location conditions and have just the crown just showing above soil level when planting they should do well.
  

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  November 2018

  If you have space, go for a mx as varieties fruit at different times and some fruit over a long period so go for earlies and lates so you have fruit when they're at their most expensive in the shops and then continuing supplies when they start to disappear from shops.
  
  We have Gariguette - an old French variety but avaialble in the UK, plus Gento and Cirafine which give us a long cropping season and good flavour and I haven't seen them in shops.  
  
  Have a look at this site for more info on strawberry varities - fruiting times and flavour -
  https://strawberryplants.org/strawberry-varieties/ 
  

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

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• Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

  November 2018

  Good point regarding the mix of varieties Obelixx, in fact we do have two or three varieties in our strawberry bed, I just couldn't remember the names of them all - Cambridge favourite has been around for a long time - tried and tested over the years, so came to my mind immediately as one that I planted in there.
  

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