Strawberry Cultivar Testing in Norway

Abstract

During the 1960's the garden strawberry became the economic most important domestic fruit in Norway. It is now grown commercially in almost all parts of our country, in the south to about 500 m altitude; in northern counties it has become an appreciated plant even in Finmark at 71° latitude. Earliness is a trait of increasing importance to the north and at higher altitudes due to later and shorter growing season. In the Norwegian strawberry breeding program this trait has always been regarded important.