You’ll be eating strawberries all season long with this very productive everbearing selection that gives you a multitude of medium to large berries starting in June. Fruit is firm and sweet tasting and will work perfectly for freezing or eating fresh.

Freezing strawberries to extend the eating season is great, but still a poor substitute for eating them fresh and juicy right off the plant. ‘Record’ is a groundbreaking selection that will help stretch the fresh season even longer with berries that mature the first week of July through the middle of the month! No strawberry matures later and few strawberries will taste better because ‘Record’ is not just about how late it will mature. This Italian based selection has large, firm, bright red, very tasty strawberries that you’ll find yourself eating by the handful as you harvest. Even better, its plants are strong, vigorous and resistant to many of the strawberry diseases that can trouble your edible garden. ‘Record’ is so carefree to grow and, yes, you can still freeze its berries very successfully and get high quality taste and texture even after the picking season is over.

You might think of this Strawberry as the generous type with its generously large size and it overly generous sweet taste. There’s nothing wrong with generosity and you’ll be thankful for it once you start picking and munching on these oversized beauties in early June. You might even get a little addicted to their taste, trying but failing to resist eating them right off the plant! If they do make it in the house, they are perfect for freezing and the plants themselves are easy to grow in any sunny, well drained garden soil.

This New York Experimental Station release is destined to find a fond place in your heart. Blessed with the classic conical strawberry shape, deep red color and a calyx that adds just the right frilliness to the top of the berry, ‘L’Amour’ is as pretty as it is tasty! You’ll find it to be a great edible landscape plant not only because of its great looks but also because of its cold weather hardiness, its great disease resistance, its propensity to produce high yields and its sweet, satisfying taste that will always have you looking for more. ‘L’Amour’s’ mid-season fruit will be one of your favorites fresh out of the garden, but its firm fruit will allow you to stretch the strawberry dessert season even longer since it freezes so well.

High yields and success are the two traits that make this day neutral selection developed in England such a hot commodity in the backyard edible garden. Its breeding makes it far less sensitive to heat fluctuations and far more productive with heavenly tasting, large, deep red berries starting in early June. ‘Evie 2’ fruit is perfect for fresh eating and for freezing and will be a cherished addition to your garden.

This old time selection is still one of the most sought for the home garden because of its heavy fruit set and because it is the earliest variety to set and mature fruit in the garden. ‘Earliglow’ is a vigorous plant that will runner well and, to go along with its heavy, early setting and maturity, has a taste that will always have you coming back for more of its bright red, medium sized tastiness. It’s perfect for eating fresh or freezing and will be a welcome addition to your home garden!

Heads up all you northern strawberry growers… if you’re looking for big fruit and big taste, ‘Cabot’ is your best choice for the home garden. Rated as one of the most hardy selections you can grow, ‘Cabot’ does not skimp on size or flavor, offering you massive, deep red fruit with a dreamy, sweet taste. And, just because the fruit is large, don’t think you’ll only get a bare handful. ‘Cabot’ is a vigorous, heavy producer that will give you more than your share of its delectable fruit. Besides great size, taste and hardiness, this selection is also blessed with strong disease resistance that makes this mid to late season berry a joy to grow in your edible landscape. You’ll even like how well ‘Cabot’ will freeze, making this firm berry good for fresh eating and for future tasty snacks throughout the rest of the year, too!

One of the all time favorite home gardening varieties, ‘Allstar’ is the garden star of June bearing varieties producing an abundant crop of large, sweet flavored light to medium red fruit in early to mid-June. Fruit is fairly firm and excellent for freezing, canning or just eating right off the plant!

A hybrid of 2 Strawberry varieties, White Carolina lives up to its name producing unique red seeded white fruit that taste like pineapple! Productive and easy to grow, its a great plant to surprise your friends and eat right off the plant!

The miniature 1-1.5 lb. fruit of this Butternut gives you just enough of its sweet, deep orange flesh without a bit of waste! Bred at Cornell, it is the perfect garden selection for the north with vigorous, cold tolerant vines and lots of long lasting fruit.  Butternut is the most popular winter Squash and the most versatile. It has a myriad of tasty uses from soups to pasta and everywhere in between. Squash is often mentioned in European history but they are likely referring to gourds in these writings. Squash, like Butternut, are uniquely American and were imported to Europe with the return of the first European explorers