Types of Strawberries
Three Main Types of Strawberries
- Everbearing – These strawberry plants begin to form flower buds when day length is 12 hours or more per day. They produce two to three separate yields of strawberries, one crop in spring to early summer, another crop in midsummer in cooler climates, and the last crop in late summer to early fall.
- Early – Early season varieties are also known as early summer fruiting. These varieties are the earliest to crop and you can expect to be harvesting fruits from as early as June.
- Day Neutral – These strawberries usually produce fruit throughout the growing season. They however, do not tolerate high heat well.
Best Performing Strawberries
- Albion – Very resistant to disease, large, firm fruit, numerous runners (Day Neutral)
- Tillamook – Resistant to some disease, fruit is excellent for preserves or eating out of hand (Early)
- Northeaster – Large fruits and high yield (Early)
- Elsanta – Not resistant to some diseases but large, firm, sweet fruit (Day Neutral)
- Jewel – Big firm fruit, some resistance to leaf disease, moderate runners (Everbearing)
- Earliglow – Resistant to leaf and root diseases, very flavorful berries (Early)
- Quinault – Resistant to many diseases, large, soft fruit (Everbearing)
Native Strawberry Varieties
- Alpine Strawberry – They were more popular with our ancestors but are similar to modern strawberries, alpine strawberry plants are smaller, lack runners, and have significantly smaller fruit, about the size of a fingernail.
- European Strawberry – Truskawka Kaszubska (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland), Wexford Strawberries (Wexford, Ireland), Fraise du Périgord (Dordogne, France), Tortona Strawberry (Fragola di Tortona)(Tortona, Italy), Fraises de Nîmes (Gard, France).
- Fraises de Boise – Found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, making it the most widespread wild strawberry. Its native to Europe , North America and tropical Asia. Its red and sometimes white.
- Woodland Alpine Strawberry – This is a fruiting, evergreen groundcover native to woodland habitats. They are native to Europe and Asia, however, these plants can be found naturally all across North America too.
- Wild Strawberry –Sometimes called Alpine or Woodland. They are miniature, juicy red strawberries on the grassy banks of limestone and chalk downlands, open woodland, scrubland and railway cuttings. They are wild so not as tasty as the other varieties.