Any Strawberry experts or knowledgeable enthusiast help me get up to speed?..

When I moved into this house nigh on 30 years ago, we inherited a bed of strawberries that were identified as an older kind (from 1956?) called Senga Sengana. They taste as strawberries should. The advice we got from a pro grower here was....just water them. No mulch, feed, anything else, only water in the evenings if needed. During the Spring that follows the third crop, new plants are taken from the runners, and the old taken to the tip.

Despite the fact that "experts" (I use the term loosely) keep telling me that they will become diseased if left in the same place for more than 10 years, they've always been fine. The only difference noted is that nowadays, they ripen about 2 to 4 weeks earlier than they used to do.

Not sure that this variety is available any more though.

 

@Sandy Ground Seem to be, less than a tenner for five, seems reasonable...

Senga Sengana Strawberry Plants - Chris Bowers

Nick

 

Although I've no experience of them, another older variety that is popular here is Zephyr. One for the Ford lovers on the forum perhaps?

 

Honeoye a nice one with large fruits, elsanta is the variety most like bought from the supermarket

 

I've grown Honeoye,Florence but my particular favorite by far is Alice.

 

Excellent post.

 

Did anybody order Senga Sengana from chrisbowers? I bought last September, now I see I was sent smth Elsantish instead :(. Emailed them, no response yet.

 

@Alisa have you had any reply as yet?

 

nope, nothing at all. Decided to pull everything out in the autumn and buy another varieties somewhere else.