Who's got Honeoye?

**SarzWix** · 25-06-2009, 10:37 PM

I've got them, they're a very nice strawberry. Not anymore brilliant than the Florence and Alice that I also have, I wouldn't say.
They used to be a favourite for PYO farms, I was told by the farmer when I went picking last year. Marshmello from Marshalls was his new favourite.

**FB.** · 25-06-2009, 11:37 PM

I've got a few and I've not been impressed.
They don't establish easily and are one of the most water-dependent varieties that I've seen - they require careful monitoring and a heavy and regular watering routine.
Fruits have been nothing special - mis-shapen to the point of being almost useless.
Mine will probably be going into the bin at the end of the season.

Sorry, but that's the way it is.

We've been very impressed with:
Christine (early)
Hapil (early-mid)
Pegasus (mid-late)
Symphony (late)

We have some Alice (early), but at the moment, it looks as if Christine will replace some or all of them in coming years.

**Two_Sheds** · 26-06-2009, 06:14 AM

I bought half a dozen (T&M Young Plants) I think, and all but one died.

not impressed. All the Elvira survived, and my own grown ones are indestructible

**Graham S** · 26-06-2009, 07:26 AM

I grow honeoye along with other varieties. Very good flavour and firm flesh. I'd give them another go.

**SarzWix** · 26-06-2009, 08:58 AM

That's not the experience I've had with them FB, perhaps they prefer the damper conditions up here.

Mine were planted along with Alice and Florence into a large wooden trough. They were watered very occasionally, fed once or twice when fruiting and otherwise left to their own devices. The fruit were all a good shape, nice taste, and no plants were lost! I took a single runner from each plant last year and 3 out of 4 of those have grown away too

**FoxHillGardener** · 26-06-2009, 12:41 PM

I've had 5 in a giant grow bag since last year. I've been my usual slack self with watering, but they've thrived anyway and I've had loads of lovely fruit. I'll definitely be rooting some runners from them for more plants

**HotStuff** · 26-06-2009, 01:21 PM

I have a tower with nine plants in, mixture of Honeoye and Elsanta, not sure which are which. They've all performed well, had several bowls worth off them already and they haven't finished yet. Never been sure exactly how to pronounce it, OH & I refer to them as "honey eye".

**coreopsis** · 26-06-2009, 09:31 PM

There might be something with the watering-I got some plants from ebay last year-well established runners with good root system.They were half-dry at arrival and didn't survive the winter.I don't give a hoot about the shape of the fruit,I heard this is good variety for making jams,that's why I'm asking.I'll get another few plants then,thank you for your advice.
I have Alice and Elsanta,they weren't too happy in pots(I lost a few plants)so I had to dig up a lawn to plant them in the ground

**FB.** · 26-06-2009, 09:40 PM

In my area, Honeoye is a much more troublesome variety than Alice.
Apart from the difficulty in establishing Honeoye plants, if you saw how badly-shaped many of my Honeoye fruits were (almost unrecognisable as strawberries), you'd understand that there's a limit to how badly shaped the fruits can be before it makes them unpleasant to eat (e.g. the twisted fruits have masses of pips in the knobbly areas that make for very gritty eating).
Alice has been trouble-free for me (establishes easily, grows well, fruits well, resists diseases).

**coreopsis** · 26-06-2009, 10:32 PM

I was asking about Honeoye because everywhere I looked at this variety it was recommended for making jams.I had a look at earlier threads-plenty of threads"the best strawberry"but it applies to eating the fruit straight away.I know that if you have a wrong variety for making jam,then it will be "watery"-I had it a few times.
Yes,I had the problem establishing them,but then it was November,weather was cr@p-maybe they didn't like the conditions.Alice arrived roughly at the same time and survived-they were planted one beside each other.
I think I will have another go-I'll try to get them around September so plants will have some time before the winter and I'll try another supplier as the roots were nearly dry.

**WeeGarden** · 26-06-2009, 10:52 PM

I have 5 plants of Honeoye - they came with Alice and another variety in a GYO mag offer a few months ago.

They were the first to flower, and I've had about 3 strawberries since...they were all a bit sour... >.< Maybe they'll get better as the weather warms up? Is that how it works?

**Lavenderblue** · 29-06-2009, 10:39 AM

I've got loads of these. Strawberries just seem to do well on our soil for some reason, they don't get any special treatment, I just bung them in, water a few times and let them get on with it. They have given us more fruit than we can eat, millions of runners to replace them with next year and for very little effort on our part really. Just goes to show its the right variety for the right place.

We are growing - cambridge favorite, Elsanta (yes i know but it tastes wonderful if you grow it yourself) Honeyeo and symphony. All cropping heavily and shooting out runners all over the shop. We've about 12 million strawberry plants from 50

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