Northern Strawberry Variety Advice Please

[It never rains..it pours]

Hello

Could anyone please recommend good varieties for us damper norther growers who do not use fungicides

One list I have seen for the north with good disease resistance is

Eros (mid)
Honeyoye (early)
Mae (early)
Pegasus (late)
Rhapsody (late)

[burnie]

I grow Cambridge favourite outside in Scotland and not too many fruits lost to grey mould.

[SelkirkAlex]

I grow a mix of honeyoye and cambridge favourite, although I grow in vertical pouches off the ground

[Birdie Wife]

I grow a mix of honeyoye and cambridge favourite, although I grow in vertical pouches off the ground

I like that idea - I grow Honeye (similar to Honeyoye?) and it produced a good crop but the slugs got there before me! THe 1.5 strawbs I had were very tasty though. The plants themselves were very healthy and vigorous.

One thing I found - it threw off runners like there was no tomorrow and I propagated quite a few but I have to stop because I have far too many. I do hate chopping them off though.

[burnie]

I've just got a soft fruit catalogue in the post, there's loads to choose from, I am making a new bed next year, the old one still has one year to go, but I fancy trying several different varieties. I have Mara des Bois in the greenhouse, so planning on new varieties I've not had before along with one I have, just in case. Hapil is one I am considering, anyone grown it? Symphony is one developed in Scotland that thrives in damp conditions, so the book says.

[It never rains..it pours]

Thank you for all the replies, I will investigate the varieties suggested

Seems to me in the north need a good spread of harvest dates, so a few different varieties then hopefully get one lot in decent weather ie here July was great, rest of summer poor

Came across the below, Korona got top score for flavour and good scores for disease resistance and yield. Self life poor so will never get them in a supermarket

Strawberryplants | Vissers Plant Innovators

[burnie]

Thank you for all the replies, I will investigate the varieties suggested

Seems to me in the north need a good spread of harvest dates, so a few different varieties then hopefully get one lot in decent weather ie here July was great, rest of summer poor

Came across the below, Korona got top score for flavour and good scores for disease resistance and yield. Self life poor so will never get them in a supermarket

Strawberryplants | Vissers Plant Innovators

That link is interesting, not sure I'd buy a product with only one or two stars for quality though

[It never rains..it pours]

Burnie, I take your point on board but your Mara des Bois had a similar low score. As they sell to commercial growers, suspect self life and quality are inter linked to some degee. This weekend I dug over the bed and added horse manure, so its decision time on which 2 or 3 to get.

[It never rains..it pours]

Looked at above suggestions thank you

Having done some reading, as Im running a tight rotation, Verticillium wilt resistance seemed to be an issue

Unfortunatly as Honeyoye is weak on that I had to discount it, already have Cambridge favourite and have added syphony to my order list as read like Bernie said it likes us northerners

So have ordered bearing in mind Verticillium wilt resistance , a spread of maturity to catch whenever our summer is next year and what the supplier offered

Christine early
Korona early main
Main is filled by exsisting cambridge favourite
Cupid & Symphony (Symphony only mid on VW resistance) late main
Flamenco Everbearing

Time will tell, but think its more fun with a selection of varieties unless they spread disease to each other

[4Shoes]

I'm finding that Flamenco Everbearing are not ripening down here in Wigtownshire.

They have a good fruit set, but not had the sun / weather to ripen them.

Perhaps next year when I get my polytunnel, I can move them inside and they will ripen.

is it true that if you prevent the 1st Flamenco flowers fruiting (cut them off) you can force an earlier heavier 2nd /late crop?

It was a month between late strawberry fruiting and the Flamenco coming back into flower

[It never rains..it pours]

4shoes, thank you for the Flamenco info. I plan was if its not an Indian summer again next year to cloche the outside ones, some rebar with water pipe and plastic sheet is best idea ive seen on here so far