Strawberry variety

D.T. Brown are selling off their strawberries now, you may be in time to get a bargain.

I recently got some "Elegance" strawberries from DTB for my raised new strawberry bed because they are supposed to be a firm but juicy berry and I thought they sounded ok. I garden on heavy silt soil hence the raised bed and am hoping for good results.

I'll second the earlier suggestion of Gariguette and Mara de Bois. Both are French varieties, delicious and grow well on clay, although Gariguette isn't as heavy a cropper like some of the newer varieties. Taste makes up for it though! Marshmello was great last year too, this year I've added a few Royal Sovereign to see what they're like.

I have about 6 varieties from Earliest to Late to spread the cropping season. I did buy some Everbearers too, but although they produced all season long they never produced enough that we could have a family meal from them, let alone enough when we had guests ...

I took runners off the plants in year one and used them to increase my stock.  I suppose I have about 18 plants of each variety now. (I planted them with "space inbetween" for the extra ones.

I planted them in fruiting order, so I can move the netting along after the flowers finish, and before the berries are ripe, to keep the birds off.