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Everbearing strawberries uk
Overthehedge
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Does anybody have any advise on a good Everbearing Strawberry to grow in the North East area of England. 🍓
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Planted in autumn 2018, I got a small handful of strawbs most days from mid July to early Sept. last year.
This year the plants are huge. I also let too many runners take root and it's more of a mat of plants atm so I need to sort them out.
I picked my first strawberry on 23rd May this year and they produced a cereal bowlful most days until late June.
Then they started flowering again and I'm now picking 12 or so big fruits a day, but there are lots more flowers appearing now, so expect a lot more soon.
Mara de Bois are considered the best tasting and most perfumed strawberry available and when they are fully ripe they are very special indeed.
I don't know about their suitability for NE England.
Billericay - Essex
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I grow Mara des Bois in southern Scotland .... so they should be fine with you.
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No they are like standard cultivated strawberries but they continually flower and produce fruit all summer (well in 2 flushes normally) rather than producing one huge crop in June/July.