Strawberry Albion

My patch of Albion strawberries is a row of last year's runners; although the plants were obviously quite small they have already produced their first crop of strawberries, and are now busy growing into quite large plants and I expect a substantial second flush of berries sooner rather than later (just like their parent!)

The theory that the better you let the plant establish the more fruit you will get next year is no doubt quite sound, hence the removal of first year flowers, but all I've done is remove the new runners (if you have mixed feelings about strawberries you won't once you taste these!) 

Again with re-planting in the same soil, strawberries can suffer from various viruses and also like well-drained soil with plenty of humus; you would have to cross your fingers for the former and prepare the bed well for the latter (there aren't that many really unbreakable rules, and some people are forced into less than ideal practices by various limitations, usually lack of space in my case!)

Thanks.

So they taste good? I'm growing 'Florence' now which are big and delicious. The fruiting season is really long (started in early June and still loads more to go) but will eventually run out of steam.

I heard about Albion and thought I'd extend the season with them.

They are an everbearer (a pretty vague term if ever there was one!) and this is what an RHS "blog" has to say about them (for some reason he seems to have hedged his bets as to whether they are the same amazingly deep red throughout but I can assure you they are!) 

They sure do produce runners; that's where this year's plants came from - all 30 of them (from a single parent, but they are clean, well fed and perfectly behaved!) 

I know what you mean by a double crown; mine was the same but with only one plant I didn't want to push my luck by dividing it and losing them both - others might have a better idea whether dividing is a good practice or not.

Popped into two local garden centres today but no Albion plants to be had.

Plenty of other varieties though and eventually settled on one plant each of Loran and Roman at £1.40 apiece. Labels say they both fruit from June to first frosts. Are they everbearers or have I been taken in?