what strawberries are people growing

**Furny** · 28-03-2010, 08:58 AM

Elsanta bought from Lidl. I've planted them in a good sized hexagonal container & put them out on my decking they look really healthy at the moment (touch wood).

**wollyanna** · 28-03-2010, 10:31 AM

I managed to get the free Elsanta strawberries on offer with the Daily Mail last week at Homebase then yesterday went to Aldi and got Christine,Honeyoye and Red Gauntlet. I would have liked to have tried Mae but couldn't find any at the 2 Aldi stores in the area.
I have some Alice and Marshmallow which I bought at Hampton Court and Gardeners World live . Has anyone grown Christine I wondered what they were like.

**northepaul** · 28-03-2010, 10:34 AM

I have 6 marshmello, 1 unknown and 2 cambridge favourites in my new strawberry patch

**pippabot** · 28-03-2010, 07:28 PM

I am trying out Florence for a late crop - bought them from a local florist, I have Cambridge Favourite and Darselect from Homebase.

**Hermit** · 28-03-2010, 08:47 PM

Last year i had, honeyoe-early mid, alice-mid and florence-late mid, i grew rossa and yellow wonder from seeed as well. This year ive got, judibell- very late, amelia-late and albion, day neutrel/everbearer. Ive got some red alpine strawberrys from seed. Next year im going to try the gigantella maxim [giant], bakker [trailing] and mount everest, climbing.

**Nykied** · 28-03-2010, 09:01 PM

I've got Honeyoye and Elsanta, both lots were free. I've never grown strawberries before, so I have no preference so far ;o)

**voddybabe** · 29-03-2010, 07:45 AM

Im growing free strawberrys, probably the best sort you can get lol
My mother in law gave me some but forgot to ask what variety.
Hey ho cant beat a freebie

**cupcake** · 29-03-2010, 01:02 PM

I got a dozen very healthy looking Elsanta plants from Lidl last week.

**Llamas** · 29-03-2010, 01:21 PM

I'm growing Honeyoe and Symphony for the first time this year. Cant wait for that first homegrown strawberry!

**Flummery** · 29-03-2010, 04:03 PM

Marshmello in the garden - dunno what the new allotment ones are though. I shall taste-test them this summer!

**amandajcd** · 29-03-2010, 05:08 PM

I've never grown strawberries before but this year I've got some Alpine Baron Solenmacher seeds, which I'm starting off in the mini-propagator. According to the packet they're:

easy to grow - check!
compact and good for containers - check!
particularly winter hardy - check!
delicious small berries - check check check!

So fingers crossed

**StephenH** · 30-03-2010, 10:11 AM

I've never grow strawberries before either, but I'm thinking of growing alpine ones around the bases of my raspberries, since alpines seem to be the easiest, from what I've read (although none of them are difficult - however, it seems that alpines self-seed readily if you leave a few fruit unpicked, so you can just pull up each year's plants in the autumn, and will get new plants from seed the following year, which sounds nice and straightforward to me. That's what one of my books says, anyway.)

**Ashley@GS** · 30-03-2010, 10:31 AM

I'm growing Alice and Christine here, I think Christine is the sweetest of the two though.

**Dane End Dolly** · 30-03-2010, 12:02 PM

I am trying to grow alpines also, they are in the propogator but seem to be very small and take an age growing

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