What Kind of Strawberries Produce All Summer?

Tristar

• The Tristar is a hardy day-neutral cultivar well-suited to the cool spring weather and short summers in areas such as the Northern United States. It produces small to medium berries that are, like other day-neutral varieties, typically smaller than the berries produced by cultivars that bear fruit only once during the season. These berries can withstand the trauma of being packaged and frozen, making them ideal for saving until the winter. The growing season of the Tristar begins once the temperature is consistently about 35 degrees Fahrenheit and continues throughout the season. This cultivar is known for its ability to produce an ample amount of fruit early on in the season. Production continues on a smaller scale throughout the summer.

Seascape

• The Seascape is a cultivar better suited to warmer climates such as the Midwest and Southern United States. The fruit of the Seascape is on average the largest of any day-neutral varieties, and it does not require direct or incessant sunlight to thrive. The cultivar is so hardy that it is being explored as a variety of strawberry to grow in space. With a high yield for the amount of space it requires, low maintenance and large strawberries, it does well in shady areas, greenhouses or even in containers.

Tribute

• The Tribute strawberry is slower to start producing than the Tristar, but produces more berries over the length of the season. Berries are small or medium-sized and can be frozen or eaten fresh. This variety of consistently producing strawberry can be particularly desirable in areas where plants have been susceptible to a disease called verticillium wilt. This bacterial disease can lay dormant in the soil for several seasons and infect new plants. Strawberries are not recommended to be planted in areas where tomatoes and potatoes have recently been, as this makes infection more likely. The Tribute is highly resistant to this disease, however, along with several other fungal and bacterial diseases such as powdery mildew and red stele.

Day-Neutral Versus Everbearing

• The names of the different varieties of strawberries can be deceiving. Day-neutral are so named because the length of the day does not impact the growth of the strawberries. Everbearing strawberries, however, produce not all season long but yield three main crops -- spring, summer and fall. Depending on the length of the winter, the temperature of the spring and how early fall comes, everbearing strawberries may not produce the first or last crop of the season. Day-neutral strawberries rely more on temperature than on the length of the day. As long as the temperature remains between 35 and 85 F, all day-neutral varieties consistently produce berries.