Strawberry Plant ‘The Big Crop’ Collection
- Largest sized fruits
- Highest yielding varietiesÂ
- Overlapping harvest periods for a long season
- Great value as a single election
If you love strawberries, this is the collection for you. We have chosen three different varieties, with the highest yield and large sweet fruits.
You can expect one plant to give you about half a punnet in the first year and then a full punnet in the following two years. That is around 75 punnets of delicious strawberries from just 30 plants. The varieties we have selected are:
Strawberry Marshmello (Main)
Possibly the sweetest strawberry you’ve ever tasted! Mid-season Strawberry Marshmello produces exceptionally sweet fruits with superb flavour. Strong and vigorous, with good resistance Verticillium Wilt and crown rot.
Because the tender fruits have a short shelf life, you won’t find these strawberries in any supermarket, so the only way to taste them is to grow your own! Marshmello is an early Main season variety which starts to fruit in Mid June to Mid July.
Strawberry Malwina (Late)
Bred in Germany in the late 1990’s this variety has become the standard for all late varieties of strawberries. Considered to have one of the best flavours for late summer picking. Starts cropping mid July and continues to mid August. Fruits are produced on short stems and is contained within the foliage, giving some protection from birds and heavy rain splash.
Fruits are particularly high in sugars and so very sweet. Skin is dark red and glossy, flesh has a sweet aroma and excellent flavour. Majority of the fruits get to over 3.5cm diameter. Resistant to mildew and tolerant to Verticillium and Red Core.Â
Strawberry ‘Elsanta’
Hugely popular and well know variety. Has been a great variety choice for gardeners for many decades. Main season variety and will fruit from Mid June to Mid July. Fruits are medium to large and can be a bit variable in shape, so don’t worry if you see this as they grow and ripen, they will all be delicious.Â
Suitable variety for all soil types, but best crops come from lighter sandy  soils when the soil can warm quicker and there is less lying moisture on the soil surface. This can cause some rotting if crowns are sat in water for too long.
