Besides being an excellent dessert fruit, strawberries are a good source of vitamin C as well as being low in calories (1/2 cup fills an adult's daily need for vitamin C and equals about 25 calories).

Fragaria x ananassa or strawberries are available in the four most popular and easy to grow varieties for your gardening pleasure.

ALL STAR Allstar bears in late midseason and produces berries actually as large as plums! Frost resistant. Excellent flavor with fruit that’s big, firm, sweet, extra juicy and red. No wonder this is considered a super star variety! This strawberry is a June bearing variety.
June bearing strawberries produce a single crop each year during a 2-3 week period.
Tip: If you get blooms the first year while the plant is getting established pinch the blooms off to ensure a large fruit crop the next year.

OZARK BEAUTY The absolute hardiest, most vigorous and one of the heaviest producing everbearing plants we’ve tested. The Ozark Beauty Strawberry plant produces excellent quality berries that are bright red, amazingly large and firm with a sweet, luscious flavor. You’ll be feasting on big crops of these exceptionally delicious scarlet-red berries from early summer until the first frost. And all winter you’ll savor preserves and frozen desserts. Zones: 4-8
Everbearing Strawberries produce an early summer crop and also a fall crop with some berries on and off all summer.
Tip: Pinch off blooms for first two months on everbearing strawberries to promote larger harvest.

HONEOYE Got a hankerin’ for one of the tastiest strawberries ever? Honeoye, introduced by the Geneva Station in 1979, boasts large, firm, juicy fruits with a wonderfully tart, distinct flavor. Produces runners very freely, so it’s a perfect ground cover. Long season of heavy crops in early June. Zones: 4-8
Honeoye Strawberry plants are vigorous and very productive, bearing over a longer period than most varieties. Flesh is firm. It is winter hardy, and a consistent producer. Used extensively for "Pick your own" or home garden.
June bearing strawberries produce a single crop each year during a 2-3 week period.
Tip: If you get blooms the first year while the plant is getting established pinch the blooms off to ensure a large fruit crop the next year.

SWEET CHARLIE Just like the name says. These berries taste like they have sugar on them fresh from the field. Sweet Charlie plants are vigorous, disease-resistant, and produce large firm fruit. Plants are medium in size making harvest easy. Sweet Charlie is an early season, June bearing variety. Zones 4-8
June bearing strawberries produce a single crop each year during a 2-3 week period.
Tip: If you get blooms the first year while the plant is getting established pinch the blooms off to ensure a large fruit crop the next year.

All varieties come bareroot, 25 to a pack 9.95 / pack. Purchase 3 Packs, or 75 plants for 23.85 and save 2.00 per pack.

Planting and general care tips for strawberry plants.