Which Strawberry is the best? 12 Varieties in Quick Review
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2020
- Strawberries are the first of many berries we are enjoying from our garden in early Summer. In this video we're briefly reviewing 12 different varieties and i'll be talking about cropping, flavour and how early they're producing runners. There is one variety we've had for 11 years now. We've been bringing it with us from one garden to the next and it's been generous to us fruiting reliably and multiplying year after year. This year we started a strawberry experiment adding 11 more varieties and to our surprise they're all very different. We are growing half of the new plants in crates filled with compost. These were started in the greenhouse and moved to tables made from pallet wood placed right outside our backdoor. This way we are keeping an eye on ripening strawberries when we're walking by on a daily basis and beat the birds to it!
The other half of the new plants are growing in our woodchip mulched garden. Although these will take a little longer to start cropping they are thriving and scrumches harvests are almost guaranteed for years to come. Remember minerals is what gives flavour to food, so always a volcanic rock dust when gardening. Traditionally straw was placed under the berries to prevent them from touching off the soil and turning moldy. The original name is groundberry. Perhaps if we all start growing strawberries in woodchip mulch garden beds, we can rename them woodchipberies. :D See link below for table of varieties and ratings.
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I enjoyed your video very much but living here in the US I have not herd of any of the varieties you are growing. Thanks again for an interesting video.
Thanks for leaving a comment. There are hundreds of strawberry varieties around the world. It would be nice to find out which ones are the best from the US. :D
Thank you so much for this information I have been looking for decent flavoursome strawberries and have scribbled down 4 varieties that you mentioned 😁
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
Strawberries are amazing~ We have a few hundred strawberry seedlings in the window at the moment, the variety is unknown as we seeded from every source of strawberry seeds that we could get started, including frozen strawberries from our previous patch that were still in the back of the freezer.
Cool, so you can name your own variety because you started it from seed! Hopefully some of them turn out really good, they will be unique anyway!
Depending on how well it goes, we're going to call it "Damnit!" or "Shots in the Dark"
Very interesting video. I glad you liked Pegasus strawberries. I got some on order from Marshalls. Apparently they are better resistant to crown rot. I had to destroy some of my strawberry plants this year, so I thought I try more resistant varieties like Pegasus plus a few other varieties which are supposed to be more disease resistant.
A really good one
Thanks Alex!
thank you
You're very welcome!
I grew honeoye, cambridge favourite and florence using "plasticulture" method and the soil was really good since we lived near the coast. I think there were 100 plants total and i remember they all did quite well, i remember going there every few days to harvest and having far more than we could possibly eat so had to make jam.
Strawberries are a bit of work but well worth it, same as tomatoes. :D
We can grow it all here in cali but I’m trying to find a tasting test
A lot of the strawberry varieties are regional and may not be available world wide. The most important thing is to just grow your own berries at home, any variety at all will taste better than what you can get in the shops.
How do you keep the pest away from your strawberries & what kind of fertilizer are you using on your strawberries?
Also, where can we purchase pegasus strawberry from?
We simply place the strawberry crates off the ground and right at the back of the house where there's no slugs and very few birds go near them. The idea is to place them in zone 1 where you walk by them every day. This way you pick them before the birds do. :D We bought ours off a nursery in the UK, but you can try ebay as well. Bare root season is more or less over, so you mightn't be able to get them any more until next Winter. We will have all the strawberries again from November onward. We don't use fertilizer, except for compost and the occasional sprinkle of volcanic rock dust and seaweed dust.
@@GardensforLife thank you so much. 💯💕❤️
how do you overwinter them ? I have some outdoors and some in a glasshouse now. Should i put them all outdoors over winter or all indoors over winter, i know you cover them with straw and clip the dead leaves off but do you need to keep them moist or are they ok to leave dry in pots etc. Any help would be great thanks, i dont want them to die
We just keep them outdoors in the winter and replant last years young plants into fresh compost in Spring.
Thanks for your video. I checked my local seed sources here in America but none of them seem to carry the varieties you mentioned. Oh well. Are all of the 12 varieties everbearing or June bearing or day neutral?
Yeah there's like 1000 varieties worldwide, so it's hard to find any particular ones. We only grow June bearing plants. We prefer raspberries, gooseberries and currants now because they're nearly zero maintenance.
Oh, I see. Do you have a video on growing those berries?
Hi can delizz strawberries grow in the ground in shade or does it have to be in full sun ?
Hi! All berries will ok in semi shade, but they're 3-4x more productive in full sun.
Also my strawberry come out perfectly shaped but tiny as well
Pot them up into a bigger pot and give them good compost. I would suggest 2-3 liters of root space per plant, so you can keep 5 plants in a 14 liter bucket (with a hole in the bottom for drainage).
Thusia too. Makdoo
I am growing Strawberry Delician F1 by Mr Fothergills. I was hoping you grew them
Create video. Could you collect seeds from those strawberries and plant them, would the seed germinate?
You certainly could, but you would get a new variety :D
Hahaha..here in New England. Nvr heard of one of those varieties. Beautiful berries though! Ty for sharing! 😊
There must be hundreds of varieties world wide, if not more. We're having to try out what ones work best here in our location, as i haven't found anybody else doing it. :D
@@GardensforLife although I only have a small space, I am doing the same! It makes sense! Grow what works in your yard!
@@gibsongirl6816 Actually as it happens we just made a video on our micro food forest which is only 2x2 meters. Going to be published next week! Container gardening is also a powerful tool :D
@@GardensforLife lol..its not so much my space, it is that I rent, and have a new grumpy landlord who said in my lease I have " a small portion of the yard". I took my 16x16 area and have it planted well and use containers just edging my " small portion of the yard " lol. I am planning as much as I can in my " allowed area" hahahaha. I am interplanting, densely planting, and looking into microgreens also. I have added blueberries, blackberries, sunchokes, and more in pots hoping for the best. 😉Ty for your encouraging words! Will keep watching and getting idea's! I love the tubers! That's ideal for me with small space and using pots! Ty again!
Did you say there fruiting in winter??
No none of our varieties are everbearing, most fruit from early to mid summer and then we're onto currants, gooseberries and raspberries.
strawberry milk!
I suspect that Irish varieties were bred in Ireland, or possibly the U.K. or E.U. Most commercial sorts (as opposed to Alpine & Musk strawberries) in the USA were bred here, so the available varieties would be completely different. Moreover, we have (except for the Pacific Northwest, and I don't live there) mostly continental climates with much colder winters (except in our South) and hotter summers (practically everwhere) than your (Gulf Stream moderated) maritime Irish climate, so stuff that works in Ireland or the U.K. will probably die in the USA except along our West Coast. Still, we have a "Mara des Bois," allegedly developed in France, that seems to have been aiming at the same target (F. vesca flavor in a size closer to modern hybrids) as your "Pegasus." Have you heard of that one? Is it simply a case of different marketing names for the same plant, used to market that plant to different countries? Or if distinct, which is better, and why? (If Pegasus does better in cool summers, y'all should grow Pegasus and most Americans should try to grow Mara des Bois because of our hot, continental summers. )
I think Mara des Bois is day-neutral. That may be a difference. In this country, the urban population will never buy a small or ugly berry (having been trained by the industrial agriculture/grocery complex to love big, tasteless, long-storage monstrosities) so fruit with flavor is marketed exclusively to home gardeners. The concentrated harvest of Junebearers is probably better for commercial growers and for those gardeners who only cook their harvests and therefore need a big crop all at once. However most home gardeners (@ least of sweet fruits) are looking for fresh snacks and tend to prefer the prolonged harvests of the day neutral types.
@@erikjohnson9223 Thanks for your comments. Have heard of Mara des Bois but haven't grown it yet. It's hard to get here in ireland, like almost everything else. We do need to grow more ever-bearing varieties, i haven't because i heard years ago that they're unnatural and won't have as much flavour as the ones that fruit once off. Perhaps this is a myth. And yes domesticated consumers are trained to like big tasteless storable but good looking produce. Sounds a like hollywood. :D
I thought that Pegasus strawberries are medium to large
They are medium in size compare to regular strawberry varieties, but much bigger than wild strawberries however almost as tasty :D
@Gardens for Life I live in New York zone 7B, and I have a very small yard. What type of strawberries can I plant here?
Also, can I grow strawberries in the holes of cinder blocks sitting on a concrete floor?
If yes , what type, and would they come back?
Will it survive the winter (5°F-10°F)?
We have short seasons.
the answer is scottish, if you've never tried a scottish strawberry in season, you should visit us in May-June
Any particular variety?
i just watched you swallow a huge strawberrys with 2 bites :O wtf
lol
u straight up just dont chew stuff my dude lol!
All the strawberries that you were eating were not ripe
Nearly :D
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