Strawberries

 A most interesting variety for it’s late Summer season crop [ripening just before the Autumn fruiting varieties] The berriesd are large, irregularly wedge shaped and a pleasing light orange red. The flavour is full-on and robust – not overly sweet but hardly lacking in flavour! Crops can be very good and the foliage is pleasionhly clean and disease resistant. Well worth considering; released in 1940. Photo is generic.

A superb new late season variety from the Scottish Crop Research Institute. Every now and again we have had the pleasure to introduce a new variety that is just that ‘extra’ special. Rhapsody is just such a a variety, a name that will give you pleasure for many years to come. Raised from a cross between 61G5 (Talisam x Cambridge Vigour) and Cambridge Favourite. The season is late with a 50% pick date some 10 days after Cambridge Favourite. In ministry trials, Rhapsody has had a consistent record of very good health including resistance to Red Core. The yield has…

A new Day Neutral Strawberry which is producing much improved results over other varieties of this class. The fruits are of higher quality, the flavour is better, and the cropping is more concentrated into definite flushes, meaning there is usually sufficient to pick for most purposes. The total yield that this variety will produce during the course of 3 months is quite amazing, the plants are neat compact and with healthy dark green foliage. With it’s better flavour, higher quality and improved fruiting habit, Seascape is a very welcome addition to the range of Day Neutral Strawberries and we feel,…

A superb variety with exceptionally large fruits. Heavy cropping and reliable with excellent, firm textured juicy fruits. Very good colour. In California yields 81b per plant have been picked in just 24 weeks during the summer!

In the first year the crop is early with large fruits, in the second season onwards the crop reverts to mid/late season with heavy crops of medium sized berries, fruits are an attractive conical to wedge shape with a fair flavour. Plants are very susceptible to Crown Rot in some soils. Now a well established very heavy cropping variety from Holland. A good choice for the north, plants will often crop well for five years or more.

A new ever-bearing variety from H.R.I. East Malling. From a cross between Rapella and Selva. Tango is unique in that it typically produces the bulk of its crop during the mid-July to mid-August period, significantly earlier than all other ever-bearing varieties. The cropping then continues with a small yield until late in the year. Tango has consistently outyielded all ever-bearing and day neutral varieties in trials and is at least 50% higher yielding than Rapella! Fruit size is also superior with 45% of the yield as large class 1 fruits. The fruits are an attractive orange-red with a good conical…

 Fruit large, short blunt conic, irregular, skin bright vermilion red, attractive, seeds yellow, flesh pale orange red, subacid, high dessert quality, ripens in midseason and the plants have good general disease resistance. Named for the pleasing light shiny orange skin colour which is salmon-orange inside and well flavoured. Another heirloom of the strawberry growing history, this variety was raised in 1950. Photo is generic.