Early croppers
‘Honeoye’ AGM: A darkish berry with excellent flavour. Can be susceptible to mildew. Fruits during early summer.
Mid season
‘Cambridge Favourite’ AGM: - A traditional favourite, this variety can have a few disease problems but the fruit is juicy and possesses an excellent flavour.
‘Alice’ AGM: - One of the best midsummer strawberries with a sweet flavour and juicy texture with good disease resistance.
‘Elsanta’: The most widely grown commercial cultivar, it has superb flavour and large yields of glossy, red fruit. Can be prone to disease.
‘Hapil’ AGM: This mid-season cultivar produces heavy yields of light red fruits. Fruits are firm and have excellent sweet flavour.
‘Pegasus’ AGM: A good, reliable cropper with excellent disease resistance, particularly to mildew and verticillium wilt.
Late season
‘Symphony’(PBR) AGM: Acultivar from Scotland with attractive, glossy, red fruit and excellent flavour. is hardy and has good disease resistance, although it can be susceptible to mildew.
‘Florence’: A late summer strawberry with good disease resistance. The large, bright, glossy fruits have good flavour.
Pepetual
‘Mara de Bois’: Well liked for its crop of intensely flavoured fruit that is said to be reminiscent of wild strawberries.
‘Aromel’ AGM: a cultivar popular for its delicious flavour.
Other Suggestions
‘Rosie’: This is a very early summer bearer with good flavour.
: This is a reliable and heavy cropping summer bearer, cropping in late summer with good flavour.
‘Aromel’ AGM: This is a moderately heavy cropping perpetual strawberry with very good flavour.
'Buddy': Everbearer variety being trialled by Beechgrove
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