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STRAWBERRY VARIETIES FOR INDIANA Early Season Varieites
Earlidawn is the earliest of the commercial varieties; usually ripening about five days ahead of Blakemore and Premier. Frost hardiness is about equal to that of Premier. Fruits are large in size, have a bright red color, tart flavor and rate high for freezing.
Plants are vigorous, but do not make many runners.
Premier (Howard 17) has been a widely recognized standard variety in Indiana for many years. It has been especially valuable because of its frost hardiness and earliness of bearing. Berries are soft, and size tends to be small in late pickings. This variety is being replaced by Earlidawn in commercial plantings.
Blakemore has been an old standard variety in southern Indiana. Fruit size is too small to be an acceptable variety for commercial plantings. It is being replaced by Pocahontas.
Vermillion, an early red stele-resistant variety, appears to be an excellent variety for home gardens. It has resistance to leaf spot and scorch and verticillium wilt. It produces good yields of moderately firm, medium size, good quality fruit.

Mid-Season Varieties
Pocahontas is an outstanding variety widely adapted throughout Indiana.
It is a moderately firm, bright red in color, well-shaped and good for freezing. It has been consistently rated as one of the most productive varieties tested by the Agricultural Experiment Station.
Pocahontas is susceptible to leaf spot, and fungicide sprays should be applied, especially when the planting is to be carried over for a second year.
Dixieland is another recently introduced variety which has rated very high in experimental plantings. It has ranked a close second to Pocahontas in yields. Fruit is very firm and dark red. It is susceptible to leaf spot to the same degree as Pocahontas. This variety is highly suggested for commercial plantings.
Surecrop ripens along with Pocahontas. Berries are medium sized, bright red, very attractive and firm. Plants are extremely vigorous, produce many runners and are resistant to all of the known races of red stele disease. It shows resistance to leaf spot and scorch disease. Surecrop has given good yields, about equal to Dixieland, in the experimental trials in Indiana.
Redglow produces excellent quality, attractive fruit, but berry size is
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Agricultural Extension Service « Lafayette, Indiana Department of Horticulture