The Best Tasting Strawberry (I Grow)

[@violetofthevalley]

Your new puppy is adorable!

[@julie-annepineau4022]

I am in east coast Canada. I love my Albion. Everbearing, delicious, very hardy, large berry. Will even keep ripening after frost and light freeze and those berries takes so very sweet.

[@MichaelJosephJr934]

So I never enjoyed strawberries. But two years ago I decided to plant some in a pot. When the first Strawberry appeared and I took a bit I was blown away. Now I have a big plot of them! Same happened with Potatoes. The taste difference is crazy good.

[@fillmorehillmore8239]

Zone 3a - Seascape. Had only 10-15% die off with a light covering of leaves during winter. Its a sweeter berry when left to ripen deeply on the plant.

[@GreenhornBonsai]

I live in Southern Colorado and I really like Eversweet. It produces constantly, even in the hottest weather, and the berries have a good sweet flavor. They're pretty big, too. I want to try Quinalt to compare them. I think Eversweet is only hardy to Zone 5, so a bad winter might cause some loss. Unfortunately, hotter summers and milder winters seem the norm now.

[@Dirt-Fermer]

We will probably see swings towards cold and hot every couple of years

[@GardenerScott]

Thanks for the suggestion. Others have recommended it too.

[@lisalarson902]

I grow both Eversweet and Quinalt. I have a sweet tooth, and I like Eversweet better. My 2 cents. 🙂

[@joycedagostino8869]

Thanks Scott. I'm in the Denver area. Thanks for the recommendations. I have a granddaughter that also loves to do taste tests for me!

[@famous9222]

Hood strawberries are the sweetest and juiciest without a doubt...but they are a June berry and so for about 10-11months of the year you will have no berries from the plants. Here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon we are blessed with local farms that grow Hood's so I buy plenty and freeze them, saving my garden space for Tristar and Seascape fresh eating.

[@dangalimidi]

Mala and the new pup playing in the background! 😍

[@dorptruth]

Been growing Quinaults in western WA for years in containers and raised beds. Glad they also thrive in Colorado. The only down side is your family will hate store strawberries forever.

[@scottolson6201]

Here in Zone 9b my favorite is Albion. It produces all season long and the berries are moderately sized with a deep sweetness. My least favorite is Seascape. I've tried growing it several times and have not had much success with it. I'm rooting runners right now to increase my plantings. Love the new puppy!

[@melissadavis5954]

Interesting! This is why Ive been doing my own trials the last couple of years! For me, the Tristars usually taste almost fermented and I am ripping 2 3x8' beds of them out this year and replacing them with Honeoye and Earliglow. Earliglow is my favorite for flavor and honeoye for production. Ive also got another bed started with other varoetoes to trial in case I find one I like better. 😊

[@heidiclark6612]

Thank You for your taste comparison of your strawberries. Great information!

[@eddieslittlestack7919]

Nobody ever told me the difference between store and garden strawberries was so much, I know everything tastes better in the garden but garden strawberries are like garden tomatoes in the different in taste!! For 20+ years I was under the impression that strawberries were hard to grow! How wrong I was. Southern MN zone 4, I have jewel & sparkle (June baring). Both are crazy good & crazy yielding.

[@jenpalazzo5728]

Please incorporate close-up shots of the plants you are showing us in the future. Thank you!

[@kisha_78]

I'm in zone 8B, east coast. Albion are my new favorite, this is my 1st year growing Albion. I also have Quinalt, Ozark Beauty and another variety.

[@donbert]

Love the Tristars! Especially the tiny ones, so much concentrated flavor. They’re great for baking too!

[@RobinGardens]

I love tasting videos...while everyone's taste buds are different, it's nice to hear opinions. My best producers are the Alpine. Small but consistent. I'm growing more from seed right now and hope to have success in a green stalk.

[@mattridout2403]

I'm in Colorado too and this is also the very first year I got fruit from my June bearers. I grow an everbearer called Tresca that is out of this world good. It makes small berries that are bursting with flavor and candy sweet in summer. It performs reasonably well for me in CO.

[@wendyburston3132]

I'm in zone 5 Canada. Looking to make a strawberry bed. Had Alpine strawberries run wild on the property and now they're in the grass😮. One of the plants became isolated by a bush and grew huge but the berries are still very small. Looking for a bigger strawberry for the beds. Still have to make the bed. 😂

[@beskamir5977]

Alpine strawberries are by far my favorites and slugs don't really go after them, so win win. Yellow wonder is even better in terms of slugs not knowing they're edible. Otherwise, raspberry strawberries are some of the most delicious and sweet I've ever eaten. Pineberries are great too for the novelty of their taste profile being so unlike any other strawberry I've had.

[@TheBackyardGardeningChannel]

The deer absolutely decimated my garden this year. Thankfully, all of our main strawberry beds did survive. I agree, the quinalt variety is terrific. I don't have any tri-star but the others I have growing are: surecrop, allstar, ozark beauty (which I didn't get to eat a single one), and alpine. The berry patch is a special place for papa and his grandbabies.

[@dangalimidi]

I'm growing strawberries in a greenstalk but have yet to have a single strawberry. One of the varieties was labeled as june bearing, so I wasn't expecting them to fruit this year. However, some of them were labeled everbearing. The runners are growing, so I am trying to propagate off of those. It could be that that set was mislabeled, and they're all june bearing, but we'll see next year...

[@aloras405]

Question, could you try the cavendish strawberries in the greenhouse? It might protect them from the freezes in the spring.

[@GardenerScott]

That is a possibility. I'll see if my GreenStalk strawberries make it through the winter and then consider different ones in it next year.

[@zazugee]

I live in the sahara in Algeria on the 32deg latitude, we get temperature up to 45C during the day, and my strawberry bed is struggling to stay alive, but tbh it's a miracle they survive the hard summer here, i keep the beds moist using drip irrigation but sometimes it fails and i lost half of them, but i also stop weeding during summer, bc weeds protect the berries from being scorched by hot air and the sun, and i only weed in autumn and winter. i also tend to eat the berries here there bc they barely produce one berry per week xd

[@TheSeedsower107]

I love your fence panel cover. What size did you use ? Thank you !

[@GardenerScott]

It’s a basic welded wire fencing. The opening is about 2x3inches.

[@TheSeedsower107]

@@GardenerScott Thank you !

[@debbievaughan4053]

Thank you for your very informative posts. In 2023, I purchased a Greenstalk into which I planted strawberries that I left to root. This year, the plant produced a lot of leaves and runners but ZERO flowers/fruit. I have tried fertilizing with products with higher PK and lower N, as well as tried to add some sulfur to lower the PH which tested relatively high. Still nothing. Could you recommend anything to help next year?

[@GardenerScott]

Inconsistent watering can cause that. Some varieties set less fruit when they're young. I have new Ozark Beauty strawberries in beds and haven't seen a single flower. You can wait and see if it's better next year and wait before adding more fertilizer.

[@number6803]

In another video you mentioned building raised bed gardens for wheelchair users. I need to do that but cannot find a video on it. The garden needs to be elevated and able to be rolled under with chair (just like at a table). Do you have a video on how to do this? Thank you.

[@GardenerScott]

I don't have a video on that yet.

[@LadyRenira]

I added two more varieties to my garden (PNW) this year so it'll be next year before I'm able to see how well they do. The couple plants I let fruit tasted okay but I hope that improves when they're established. I have Eversweet in my GreenStalk and it doesn't produce much, but the berries have a decent size and taste. They don't compare to Sweet Sensation though, which I have in a raised bed and in the GreenStalk. Those are amazing, but my crop got decimated by slugs in the bed. They're a June-bearing but continue to produce later through the season. Unfortunately, their flavor disappears. Not sure why as they seem well fertilized and happy, but alas. The ones I put in my GreenStalk taste the same but produce a lot less. They don't get hit with slugs though. ;) I also keep some day neutral (unknown variety I got from my brother in law) in the bottom of my GreenStalk that produces small berries, but they taste decent. Sadly, they are just not happy this year, but their runners are. :P Sweet Sensation surprised me with how well they did this spring, as our weather was also wonky. The two I added this year are Puget Crimson (summer bearing) and Sweet Sunrise (June bearing).

[@ernestoginebra9651]

Try to put that strawberry inside of the greenhouse to see if can give you fruit there before eliminating forever.

[@janetthornton7909]

Ft. Laramie has been recommended in my area (Buena Vista Colorado). This year I got beautiful plants and no strawberries. Wondering if too much nitrogen and not enough phosphorus would cause this?

[@LadyRenira]

@@janetthornton7909 It could be a few things. Nutrients, like you mentioned, weather with temp swings, or the age of the plants (strawberries produce berries for about 3 years). At least the plants are happy! Grow yourself some daughter plants and have some new plants on standby for next year. :)

[@tonybaggett1984]

Another great well timed video. I’d like to have a dedicated garden bed of strawberries like you have. I’m in Zone 9a. After researching I’m overwhelmed and I’m guessing that where I live is too hot for the perennial variety but I just don’t know. If you have any suggestions or resources I could use to find out what strawberries grow well in my area I’d appreciate it. Thanks for all the great information. My garden is basically totally influenced by you.

[@GardenerScott]

I've heard Albion can be good and this article confirms it: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210602130401.htm

[@tonybaggett1984]

@@GardenerScott thank you so much!

[@LisadeKramer]

What % of shade is your shade cloth on the greenhouse? My strawberries are doing ok in the GS in the GH but I think I have too much of a shade cloth. I think mine is 70%. Have peppers in the greenhouse and they are doing ok. I think I will add the Quinalt berries next year. They are popular on the West Slope.

[@GardenerScott]

I use 40%. My tomatoes and peppers are doing good.

[@cbrisalchemist6887]

I’m in S.Colorado…but that has different meanings for different people. 😂 wondering what you mean by that. I planted a tower with a variety but none that I would plant in larger bed. I’ll try some of your suggestions and would Tristar be an honorable mention? Thanks.

[@GardenerScott]

Tristar is good and a worthwhile strawberry. I just like the others a little more.

[@ericorange2654]

I am planning my strawberry patch, going in spring 2025

[@petrusvanderMerwe-o9k]

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[@mattbartels781]

I've been growing Everglows, a June bearing variety, for a couple of years now. The plants in my Greenstalk really struggle to produce good fruit because once the berry gets to a certain size the stems kink over the edges of the pockets which pretty much stunts the berry. Anybody else have trouble with their Greenstalks like this? Should I start over with different variety?

[@GardenerScott]

I don't have that problem with the two varieties in my GreenStalk. I chose the Tribute variety for its ability to hang over containers.

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[@eliandkate]

So what’s your favourite thing to make with all those strawberries?

[@GardenerScott]

I love making strawberry jam. Until the new patch is fully established, I'm loving eating strawberries every time I go to the garden.