Growing Strawberries in tubs
By growing a number of different types of strawberries in containers on your balcony, you can have over 4 months of fresh juicy home grown strawberries.
Growing Strawberries in Containers, the best combination to have the longest period of fresh strawberries is:
Strawberry Christine – This strawberry is an early variety, cropping outside from the first week in June, and from mid-May under cover. The fruit is large, firm and extremely juicy and sweet giving a wonderful start to the strawberry season. Christine strawberries are easy to grow and have good pest and disease resistance.
Strawberry Alice This strawberry has been bred to have the very best of everything its fruits are large, firm and juicy, and has a flavor that is indescribably delicious! The Strawberry Alice plants are vigorous and show good resistance to Verticillium Wilt and Crown Rot. The perfect choice if you only have room for one variety, as it is trouble free and easy to pick. Strawberry Alice is one of the best mid season varieties.
Flowers in May and fruits from June until early July. Suitable for growing in containers.
Strawberry Albion - Strawberry Albion is a heavy cropping and disease resistant variety which produces a good crop of large, deliciously flavored berries right through the summer. Plants are moderately resistant to Verticillium Wilt but highly resistant to Crown Rot. Albion crop from late June to early October in several flushes. It is an ideal variety for containers on the patio.
So by combining 3 different varieties it is possible to have fresh Strawberries straight from your garden or patio.
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