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best strawberry
advise on which seeds or plants to buy to start my strawberries , never done them before so any advise from you experienced growers will be good, I can wait for seeds to start or can go for runners I dont mind i,m here for the long run just enjoying growing and eating and giving to friends all help is good TAR
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I didn't want to make jam, so didn't want a variety that produces masses of fruit for a few weeks then nothing.
So I got perpetual strawberries - Mara des Bois.
They've grown quickly.
You should remove the flowers that form until around June, otherwise you'll just get small berries.
From late June they're ready to start harvesting and carry on fruiting until the weather gets cold and the berries don't ripen - around late Sept/Oct.
Mara des Bois are sold in their millions every year in France where they are they choice of top chefs.
When properly ripe, the perfume and flavour are outstanding - so long as the blackbirds don't get there first
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I bought my bare rooted plants from Ken Muir - they were good plants and not expensive - £16 for 12 plants inc P&P.
They're not in stock atm, presumably as it''s the wrong time of year for selling bare root plants.
They should be available again a bit later in the year.
I planted mine in Nov.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I also grow Red Gauntlet which are lovely too.
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