Welcome to a journey of discovery through the colorful world of fruity strawberry varieties. Meet your next favorite variety for growing in the garden and on the balcony here.
What types of strawberries are there?
Strawberry varieties can be divided into early, medium and late ripening varieties. Well-known varieties are Donna, Lambada, Senga Sengana, Elsanta, Symphony and Pandora. There are also monthly strawberries like Ostara, old varieties like Mieze Schindler, as well as wild strawberries like Mignonette and special climbing strawberries like Hummi.
Exquisite varieties for the early harvest
Can you hardly wait to enjoy your first strawberries in early summer? Then you should delve into the following overview of the best early ripening strawberry varieties:
- Donna: the newest early variety with light red, sugary fruits
- Darselect: an interesting immigrant from the south of France with a wonderful aroma
- Lambada: the variety impresses with bright red, shiny fruits and unique sweetness
- Honeoye: a particularly rich variety with even, dark red strawberries
- Daroyale: the red to dark red fruits can be stored for a long time
Selected strawberries with medium late ripening
The following selection of varieties represents the 'golden mean' in a balanced planting plan. While the early strawberry plants have already been cleaned out and the late ones are still waiting, the hour has come for these breedings:
- Senga Sengana: considered the ultimate variety for the allotment garden, aromatic, large fruits
- Polka: adaptable variety that thrives in heavy soil, the ideal choice for the garden
- Korona: likes light soil and impresses with its tightly upright growth for an effortless harvest
- Elsanta: the most popular variety in commercial cultivation also thrives in allotment gardens
- Sonata: delivers juicy, sweet fruits in abundance
Late ripening strawberry varieties worth waiting for
The concentrated power of countless hours of sunshine accumulates in the fruits until they are ripe for harvest. At least one of the following late-ripening strawberry plants gets a place in the bed to ensure a furious finale.
- Pandora: is one of the last to ripen in the bed and spoils strawberry fans with a slightly sour taste
- Vicoda: provides first-class material for preserving with solid fruits
- Nerid: scores with remarkable resistance to diseases and juicy strawberries
- Symphony: delicious, firm fruits for fresh consumption and for pickling
- Sweet Mary XXL: she lives up to her name with huge, tasty strawberries
Forever fruit enjoyment with monthly strawberries
In contrast to the classic garden strawberry, monthly strawberries come from the local wild strawberry. Therefore, the following varieties combine the remontant properties of wild species with the juicy, sweet taste of imported cultivated strawberries. These attributes make ever-bearing monthly strawberries the ideal varieties for pots and flower boxes.
- Ostara: the most popular snack for children with a delicious taste
- Amandine: interesting new variety with elongated, light red strawberries
- Mara de Bois: medium-sized fruits, does not develop offshoots
- Merosa: adorns the balcony with pink flowers in the hanging basket
- Hummi Praline: rightly bears its tempting name, ripens medium early
- Wädenswil: the earliest variety among the monthly strawberries
Old varieties in trend
They have been continuing their triumphant march in private kitchen gardens for years. Old vegetables and fruits are more modern than ever. This applies not least to the following classic strawberry plants:
- Mieze Schindler: 90 years old and still young with small sugary fruit candies
- Queen Luise: on the market for 75 years and trendier than ever, early ripening and wonderful in taste
- Reusraths Very Earliest: a traditional connoisseur's variety, seduces with an intense aroma
- Herzbergs Triumph: develops particularly solid runners, a first-class climbing strawberry
- Beautiful Meissen woman: already delighted our ancestors with her excellent aroma
Wild strawberries – perfect as ground cover and for delicate locations
Local wild strawberries don't have to hide behind the mighty garden strawberries, because they know how to score points with other attributes. The following varieties are so undemanding by nature that they can transform even partially shaded locations near the forest into a snack garden. In addition, they have proven themselves excellent as ground cover. Not to forget the special qualities in the planter on the balcony with countless fruit chocolates.
- Forest Queen: also enriches the ornamental garden with white flowers and deep red fruits
- Mignonette: the gourmet variety of wild strawberries with a wonderful scent
- Rubra: a feast for the eyes with bright, pink flowers and countless fruits
- Alexandria: height 15-20 centimeters, long harvest season from June to September
- Waldsteinia: a real ornament with yellow flowers
- Alpine Yellow: whitish-yellow variety with a wonderful taste
- Pink Panda: popular ground cover with pink flowers and rich red strawberries
A rarity among wild strawberries comes under the variety name White Soul. Small white fruits thrive here on shoots up to 20 centimeters high.
The gifted climbing strawberry
Although every climbing strawberry variety is predestined to become a climbing strawberry, resourceful breeders have managed to create a particularly suitable variety. Known as Hummi, this plant has excellently developed, stable tendrils. If a fence or trellis is available to help, it will climb up to 150 centimeters towards the sky.
Tips & Tricks
Do you like to make a splash in the garden? Then the pineapple-strawberry with white fruits and red nuts is an excellent choice. If you plant the black strawberry in a community, the sensation is perfect.
