Strawberries, I never thought I'd say this

agree its been a great year  and i now distribute strawberries to all my neighbours....i do plan on using the runners to plant more for next year....and they look sooo good

 

What varieties do you all have? I know I'm quite a long way north, but mine are still nowhere near ready! Mine are Elsanta(?), and I have loads of green strawbs, but still quite small, so I reckon it's 2-3 weeks before I'll get any.

Ditto.  Although not quite as far north as you Lazza.  I managed to pick a cereal bowl's worth yesterday but as many have been chomped by slugs or just gone mouldy before being fully ripe.  There are loads of green ones that I'm hoping will be ok but this continuous rain isn't going to help.  Growing six different varieties I think,  as some were given to me of unknown variety.

Quote from: lazza on June 29, 2016, 12:06

What varieties do you all have? I know I'm quite a long way north, but mine are still nowhere near ready! Mine are Elsanta(?), and I have loads of green strawbs, but still quite small, so I reckon it's 2-3 weeks before I'll get any.

I'veno idea. I've been propagating from runners off plants I planted about 12 years ago. I just replace the entire stock every three years from newly rooted runners.
I think we are ahead of the dark side of the Pennines because of the gloriously warm weather we had for a few weeks when you had dull, cold North Sea conditions at end May and early June

 

fair enough. I replaced my strawberries a couple of years ago with completely new plants, and am expecting this year to be the peak year....! When you replace them, do you plant the new runners back in the same bed? I grow mine in a purpose-made raised bed in my back garden, where there is no room for another bed, so I have to plant back into the same bed, which worries me about the build up of disease. I try to replace the soil, but I am not sure that even this will be enough to prevent problems.