Watery strawberries

Mae is a very good one.

Thank you. I thought I might try to have some variation in when they are ready, too.

That's an early/mid-season variety. Probably classed as the latter. It finishes nowish.

Irresistible is, as the name suggested, very good and produces plenty of runners. T &M say you are not meant to propagate from them so I have tried to stop them propagating by partly burying the runners and regularly pouring cold water over them. It does not seem to be working

The watery taste is literally just that in most cases. The berries absorb too much water after rainfalls or too frequent watering. It then takes a few days for the berries to lose some of the excess water which is why jam berries are best picked after a few days of no rain - less water content.

Taste can also be affected by what you feed the plants with, and when. Ideally, plants should be well fed after cropping rather than before or during. Fertilizers tend to give great plants but less flavor. Manures give better flavor but aren't always available to everyone.

Also, the variety can be less than tasty. I stayed with one variety, Kent, for years until I tried Honeye (not sure if available in UK) which is so sweet and tasty, and will now be the only berry I grow. It'll be a matter of trying numerous varieties to see what you like best, then stick with it.

We enjoy the Cambridge Favourites the best - an oldie but a goodie. However we found Elsanta to be watery and quite tasteless, so have got rid of those. Some of it I'm sure is personal taste, some is growing conditions and some the variety.
Perhaps this is an excuse to buy lots of varieties and experiment? (Strawberry plant shopping - yeah!)

Irresistible is, as the name suggested, very good and produces plenty of runners. T &M say you are not meant to propagate from them so I have tried to stop them propagating by partly burying the runners and regularly pouring cold water over them. It does not seem to be working

I did that, that, then tried snipping them off and partially burying them in a small pot.

It didn't work for me as the darn things grew, so I tried throwing them in a hole on the plot. They're that tenacious they carried on growing. Maybe someone else will have more sucess in not propagating them.

i asked my neighbour why my strawberry,'s didnt have a lot of taste but hers did    (she give me some to try)      and she said well they are the same variety but if you water them to much they loose their taste .
i stopped watering and they soon got their flavour back