Best strawberry variety for Scotland?

[*Lavender*]

Hello,

I'm planning my strawberry bed and am looking for advice for which strawberry varieties to buy please!

I live in the central belt and it's usually rather wet here, plus my allotment has heavy clay soil.

What preparation should I do for a strawberry bed, and which varieties would do well here? Ideally I'm looking for early, mid and late varieties as we really love strawberries!

I've read that Symphony is suitable for up this way - is that right?

I've also had Gariguette and Mara des Bois recommended for flavour, Christine and Pegasus for cropping, but no idea how well they would do here.

Any recommendations? Thanks!

[BUFFS]

Hello,

I'm planning my strawberry bed and am looking for advice for which strawberry varieties to buy please!

I live in the central belt and it's usually rather wet here, plus my allotment has heavy clay soil.

What preparation should I do for a strawberry bed, and which varieties would do well here? Ideally I'm looking for early, mid and late varieties as we really love strawberries!

I've read that Symphony is suitable for up this way - is that right?

I've also had Gariguette and Mara des Bois recommended for flavour, Christine and Pegasus for cropping, but no idea how well they would do here.

Any recommendations? Thanks!

we have loads of alpine strawbs and a late season cropper (6 offshoots we were given 10 yrs ago ,now about 60) but find the alpine do best for us here,when we get a lot of rain (as always) the normal strawbs start tasting like shop ones = no real flavour...

[FB.]

I would have thought that the sweeter flavour (and strong vigour) of Christine (very early) and Pegasus (mid-late) would be better suited to a duller, cooler climate.

Alpines still produce edible fruit when grown in heavy shade that only gets an hour or two of sun a day. Alpines take over from where the maincrop strawberries end.