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Cambridge Favourite Strawberry Plants

Which

Early - Main Season

  • Medium sized fruit, large crops.
  • Superb flavour, great for jam & freezing.
  • Disease resistant.
  • Crops from Mid June when grown in the open.
  • Great for not-so-sunny sites
  • RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Description

Cambridge Favourite Strawberry Bushes

Description of Cambridge Favourite Plants & Fruit:
Cambridge Favourite is rightly named - it is still the number one strawberry for planting on pick your own farms and no market stall selling soft fruit is without them. It's a very reliable plant and one of the best choices for poorer planting conditions.
The fruit are a decent size, with a rich flavour.It's one of the most common fruit for making jam commercially.

Browse our variety of strawberry plants or see our full range of soft fruit bushes.

Characteristics of Cambridge Favourite Bushes:

  • Very reliable cropper, with plenty of medium sized fruit.
  • Excellent for jam & freezing.
  • All round disease resistant.
  • Good for growing in pots.
  • Crops from mid-June for about 4 weeks.

Growing Cambridge Favourite Strawberry Plants:

You can bring the harvest forward by covering your plants, but we find that the best crops come later from plants left in the open.
All strawberries will do best in full sun, but this is the best red one to use if you are stuck with some shade.

Read our detailed information on how to grow Strawberries here.

Background Information on Cambridge Favourite Strawberry Bushes:

An old British variety, bred in the 1930s by Mr Boyles of Cambridge.

What to expect

It's Summer Planting Season 2025

Pot grown plants on the nursery

Pot Grown & Plug Plants Delivered

From seedlings in jumbo plugs; Dahlia tubers; small P9 & 1 Litre plants; up to trees in big 15L pots
Expertly packed plants ready for delivery

Direct from the Nursery Value

We batch orders to save you money. Lead times for plants in stock are around 2 weeks
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No more broken plants in the post!

When your order is ready, it's expertly packed by Rodney and delivered by next day courier; if anything goes wrong, call Dan on 01963 359 444
Planting out potted plants in Summer

Summer is good planting time

New roots love the warm soil, as long as you water well! Just don't plant during a heatwave.
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