Eden Seeds - Strawberry - Baron Solemacher

Baron Solemacher

(Fragaria vesca)

Small sweet, juicy deep red fruit, highly fragrant, hardy alpine type, suited to cooler areas.

Ideally suited to baskets and containers.

Packet (75 seeds)

General information:

The ideal fruit that we can all grow a home, a fruit that can be grown in any type of home - in a small pot, large pot, a hanging pot, a polystyrene box, a garden bed or even in a bag of potting mix. Home grow strawberries are simple to grow, have more flavour than store bought ones and have no dangerous chemicals on them or in the soil where they are grown.

The Strawberry that we commonly grow today is referred to as the Garden Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) which was a result of Europeans crossing the flavoursome North American (Fragaria virginiana) strawberry with the large Chilean (Fragaria chiloensis) strawberry in the 18th century. Previous to this Woodland Strawberry (Fragaria vasca) which is also known as the Wild Strawberry and Alpine Strawberry was the only one grown in Europe. This still grows wild in the northern hemisphere.

Strawberry Baron Solemacher is a German variety that yield dainty clusters of berries that are very deep red and incredibly fragrant! The berries are good-sized for an alpine type and very sweet and juicy. It makes a superb edible ground cover when planted on 15cm spacing and is wonderful in containers and baskets.

Non-Hybrid, Old Traditional, non-GMO, Open pollinated Varieties.