Mieze Schindler Strawberry

[sda]

I planted some Frau Mieze Schindler strawberries hoping to have a small crop of delicious strawberries. I knew they'd be small, but these were tiny and the flavour was not as expected. I got a split second's worth of intense strawberry and that was it, apart from a bit of bitterness. Has anyone else grown this strawberry? What were yours like?

[doofaloofa]

Hey! 40,000,000 Germans can't be wrong!

The small size suggests some cultural requirement was lacking

How is your fertility

[diggernotdreamer]

Are you growing another strawberry alongside it for pollination

[sda]

I used a small wood crate to creat a bit of a raised bed for them; this might have caused me to plant them closer together than whatever the recommeded distance is, although I did plant some of them around it, not wanting to crowd them. I planted the extra one next to them, I think it's a Cambridge somethingorother that they provided.

[diggernotdreamer]

I don't think one plant of Cambridge Favourite is probably enough ,Kings sell 12 Schindler and 5 Cambridge Favourite as a ratio. If your plants have made runners, pot them up, get a few more Cambridge Favourite. Also, did you water the strawberries enough in the hot weather, they need moisture, maybe they will do a bit better next year. Mine were all grown in a gutter this year, but they were very well watered and fed with comfrey liquid and produced a lot of juicy fruit

[sda]

I'll make a note of that.

[sda]

Does it have to be the Cambridge strawberry or will any other one do?

[diggernotdreamer]

I think they choose that one because it is reliable and flowers at the right time to pollinate the other ones you have

[Pumkinpie]

I had 5 ripe goodsize strawberries from my patio plants, don't know what type they are but it is October and they are outside!