Honeoye Strawberry Junebearer Plants
$19.99
Begins shipping spring 2025
Zones 3-8
Self-Pollinating
One of home gardeners’ top picks.
Honeoye has been a favorite for more than 30 years for its hardiness, consistency, appearance and exceptional flavor. These strawberries are the gold standard for use in jams/preserves, desserts and homemade wine. Delicious fresh or frozen. Honeoye propagates itself with numerous runners for future crops and is an all-around rugged plant. Cold-hardy. Ripens in June. Self-pollinating. A licensed variety of Cornell University.
Characteristics
| Bloom Color | White |
| Fruit Color | Red |
| Fruit Size | Large |
| Ripens/Harvest | Late May, Early June |
| Taste | Sweet |
| Texture | Firm |
| Shade/Sun | Full Sun |
| Soil pH | 5.5 – 6.5 |
| Soil Composition | Loamy |
| Soil Moisture | Well Drained – Average Moistness |
| Years to Bear | 1 |
| Hardiness Zone Range | 3 – 8 |
Size & Spacing
Pollination
This variety is self pollinating.
In many cases, you may still want to plant pollinating partners to increase the size of your crops, but with self-pollinating varieties doing so is optional. You’ll get fruit with only one plant!
How do I find my Hardiness Zone?
Canada’s Plant Hardiness Zones will tell you which plants will do well in your particular climate. Each zone is determined by the lowest average winter temperature recorded in a given area. Hardiness Zone information is included on all tree and plant product pages, so you know instantly whether a certain plant is likely to succeed where you live. Natural Resources Canada provides helpful options to find your zone:
Pt Pt –
Wow, I couldn’t be happier! Shipping was fast. I took a chance ordering the strawberry berry plants in June. I watered the garden first then planted. The plants looked real nice with some green growth. A week later all 25 are leafed out. Thank you perfect!
Kim Maxim –
I planted 50 bare root about 6wks back . 3 died but the other 47 have produced about a pint every 3 days . They are super tasty but small berries . Maybe next year the berries will be larger ?
Marianne Leclerc –
Only 4 plants survived. Still in the first year so no idea how the taste is yet.
Steve Steve –
I decided late in the season to plant a couple of small beds of strawberries to have for the Grandkids and myself too, so I order the Honeoye plants and planted them a couple of days later due to rain and working late. These were bare root plants and the visible foliage was a pale white to washed out green at the time of planting. Two days later they had dark green leaves and were actively growing! 1 week from time of planting I’m having to pick the blooms off of these plants, couldn’t have imagined that happening so quickly! Back in the mid to late 70’s my Dad had a Pick-Your-Own Strawberry business with 3-1/2 acres every year and another 1-1/8 acre field to replace the oldest patch the following year. He always got his Plants from Stark Brothers, so when I decided to put out some, I didn’t have to think of where to go to get quality plants. Thanks Stark Brothers for exceptional quality and now the enduring the temptation to let just a few blooms to mature to sample the full flavor of a vine ripened strawberry, that’s going to be tough!
Steve Steve –
I decided late in the season to plant a couple of small beds of strawberries to have for the Grandkids and myself too, so I order the Honeoye plants and planted them a couple of days later due to rain and working late. These were bare root plants and the visible foliage was a pale white to washed out green at the time of planting. Two days later they had dark green leaves and were actively growing! 1 week from time of planting I’m having to pick the blooms off of these plants, couldn’t have imagined that happening so quickly! Back in the mid to late 70’s my Dad had a Pick-Your-Own Strawberry business with 3-1/2 acres every year and another 1-1/8 acre field to replace the oldest patch the following year. He always got his Plants from Stark Brothers, so when I decided to put out some, I didn’t have to think of where to go to get quality plants. Thanks Stark Brothers for exceptional quality and now the enduring the temptation to let just a few blooms to mature to sample the full flavor of a vine ripened strawberry, that’s going to be tough!
Eric Rothrock –
I also planted Ozark Beauty and Sparkle, but this variety performed the best. I’m getting perfect deep red berries full of rich strawberry flavor. They are much less sour/tart than the other two varieties which I like. The other plants look very vigorous/healthy and set lots of fruit but the quality is very low. Many of the berries are shriveled or damaged by insects. Not the Honeoye however. They have somehow escaped whatever is plaguing the others and produced amazing fruits in good quantity. I will focus on propagating this variety now. I live on the front range Colorado BTW.
Robert Trachy –
Did not survive the winter cold as was the other parts of my order
Harry Graver –
Very Tart-Only good thing made a excellent syrup for ice cream
Christopher Schrock –
I bought these strawberry plants at a discounted price in June. I planted them in 6” pots upon arrival in June and then transplanted them in a raised bed in mid October. The strawberry plants survived the winter did very well in their spring. I pinched off the blossoms and did allow them to set fruit in this their first spring.
Mark Klett –
Currently picking our first crop of berries. Planted last June and mulched for winter in November. It reached 33 below zero here in northern Wisconsin last winter but bed survived and we are enjoying the fruits of our labor!