Everbearing strawberries keep what their title promises. They bloom and fruit continuously from June to October. Here you will get to know the best varieties, along with useful care tips.
What are everbearing strawberries and how to care for them?
Everbearing strawberries are varieties that bloom and fruit continuously from June to October. Popular varieties include Frapendula, Wädenswil, Ostara, Amandine and Waldkönigin. A balanced water supply, fertilization and mulching are crucial for a successful harvest.
A selection of recommended varieties
If you keep an eye out for ever-bearing strawberry plants, they can be found commercially as young plants or seeds, usually under the name monthly strawberries and wild strawberries. The following premium varieties will pamper you with small, incredibly aromatic fruits all summer long:
- Frapendula: an excellent variety for hanging baskets, it thrives on the balcony and in the winter garden
- Wädenswil: is the first to deliver lots of sugary strawberries, does not develop runners
- Ostara: a leading variety among monthly strawberries, well suited for freezing
- Amandine: an interesting new variety with elongated fruits
- Forest Queen: beautiful white flowers and deep red strawberries, good for preserving
Everbearing strawberries have excellent ground cover qualities. In this regard, the Red Panda, Florika and Spadeka varieties have made a name for themselves. Thanks to their strong and numerous tendrils, they transform even large areas into a paradisiacal strawberry meadow.
Useful tips for proper care
A balanced water and nutrient balance forms the basis for magnificent growth and a rich harvest. Everbearing strawberries are watered evenly, ensuring that the surface of the soil always dries out. Do not water according to a fixed schedule, but always after a thumb test. To do this, press your thumb into the substrate. If you only feel the moisture at a depth of 4-5 centimeters, it's time for the watering can.
Since monthly and wild strawberries are cultivated per year, they receive their main fertilization immediately after harvest. Another dose of fertilizer is given in spring, shortly before flowering. The first flowers should be broken out to increase crop yields. If the fruit sets, mulch with straw or bark mulch. In this way you protect the strawberries from contamination and diseases.
Tips & Tricks
Do you love strawberries and raspberries equally? Then just plant the strawberry-raspberry. After a wonderful, white blossom in spring, you can harvest the delicious fruits here from summer to autumn. These are larger than raspberries and taste as sweet as strawberries.
