Meet Malwina Strawberry — The Strawberry That Keeps the Season Going

Just when you think strawberry season is coming to an end, Malwina is getting started.

Malwina Strawberry is a late-season June-bearing strawberry known for its large, deep-red berries and exceptionally sweet, rich flavor. For gardeners who wish strawberry season lasted just a little longer, that’s exactly what makes Malwina interesting.

Plant it on its own for a delicious late crop—or combine it with earlier-ripening strawberry varieties and turn what might have been a short harvest into a much longer strawberry season.

What Makes Malwina Strawberry Special

Malwina isn’t trying to be the first strawberry of the season. Its specialty is being one of the last. This late harvest makes Malwina particularly useful for gardeners who want to extend the fresh-strawberry season beyond the harvest period of earlier June-bearing varieties.

Malwina offers:

• Late-season fruit
• Large berries
• Deep-red color
• Sweet, rich flavor
• Firm fruit
• High natural sugar levels
• June-bearing production
• Good disease resistance

Greenwood recommends Malwina for USDA Hardiness Zones 4 through 6.

Is Malwina a June-Bearing Strawberry

Yes. Malwina is a late-season June-bearing strawberry. The term June-bearing can be slightly misleading because the exact harvest doesn’t necessarily happen in June everywhere. Climate and spring weather influence when strawberries flower and ripen.

What’s more useful when comparing varieties is their relative harvest season. Malwina ripens late in the June-bearing strawberry season, making it an excellent companion to earlier varieties.

When Do Malwina Strawberries Ripen

Malwina is notable for its very late harvest. Rather than producing alongside the earliest June-bearing strawberries, it waits until late in the season. That means gardeners can use Malwina strategically.

Plant an early variety. Add a midseason strawberry. Then plant Malwina to finish the season. Instead of every strawberry ripening within the same short period, you can enjoy successive harvests as different varieties take their turn.

What Do Malwina Strawberries Taste Like

Flavor is one of Malwina’s standout qualities. The berries have high Brix readings, which indicate a higher concentration of natural sugars, contributing to their sweet, rich flavor.

Commercial strawberries are often selected partly because they need to withstand picking, packing, shipping, and time on a store shelf. A backyard gardener gets to prioritize something much simpler: how good does it taste when I pick it ripe? Malwina is an excellent strawberry for gardeners who put flavor high on that list.

What Do Malwina Strawberries Look Like

Malwina produces large, deep-red berries with firm flesh. That rich coloring contributes to their appeal whether you’re eating them directly from the garden or bringing them into the kitchen.

Enjoy Malwina Strawberries fresh from the garden, with breakfast, on shortcake, in pies and desserts, in smoothies, in jams and preserves, sliced over ice cream, or frozen for later. Or simply eat them while you’re picking. That’s one of the privileges of growing your own.

Where Should You Plant Malwina Strawberries

Choose a location in full sun. Plenty of sunlight helps strawberry plants develop vigorous growth and produce a good crop of flavorful berries. Good drainage is also important—strawberry roots need moisture, but they shouldn’t remain in continually saturated soil.

Raised beds can be particularly useful where native soil drains poorly, while traditional garden beds work beautifully when drainage is already good. Strawberries can fit comfortably into vegetable gardens, dedicated berry beds, raised beds, edible landscapes, and sunny garden borders. The important thing is giving them enough sunlight, good soil, adequate moisture, and room to grow.

How Do You Plant Malwina Strawberry Plugs

Greenwood’s Malwina Strawberries are sold as strawberry plugs, which arrive with an established root system growing in a small amount of growing media. When planting strawberries, pay particular attention to the crown—the point where the leaves emerge above the roots.

Plant with the crown at approximately soil level. Planting too deeply can bury the crown, while planting too shallowly can leave roots exposed. After planting, water thoroughly and maintain consistent moisture while the roots establish.

How Far Apart Should Malwina Strawberries Be Planted

Give strawberry plants enough room for foliage, runners, airflow, and easy harvesting. Spacing will depend somewhat on the growing system you’re using. Some gardeners maintain individual plants in tidy rows, while others allow runners to develop into a wider strawberry bed.

Whichever method you choose, avoid packing plants so tightly together that foliage remains constantly crowded and damp. Good airflow is one of the simplest tools gardeners have for maintaining healthier strawberry plants.

Does Malwina Strawberry Produce Runners

Like other June-bearing strawberries, Malwina can produce runners, sometimes called stolons. These horizontal stems grow outward from the mother plant and can develop new rooted strawberry plants.

You can allow some runners to root if you’d like your strawberry bed to expand, or remove excess runners when you want the original plants to direct more energy toward crowns and fruit production. It depends on whether your goal is more plants or a more controlled planting.

How Should Malwina Strawberries Be Watered

Strawberries have relatively shallow root systems, so consistent moisture is important. Water deeply enough to moisten the root zone, particularly after planting, during dry weather, while plants are flowering, and as berries are developing.

Try to water the soil rather than repeatedly soaking the foliage and fruit. Mulch can also be useful around strawberry plants—it helps conserve moisture, suppress weeds, and keeps developing berries from resting directly against bare soil. There’s a reason straw is right there in the name strawberry.

Is Malwina Strawberry Disease Resistant

Malwina has several useful disease characteristics. The variety shows resistance to mildew and tolerance to Verticillium wilt and red stele, according to Greenwood’s growing information.

That doesn’t mean the plant is immune to every strawberry disease or that good garden practices can be ignored. Healthy strawberry growing still begins with proper spacing, good airflow, appropriate watering, well-drained soil, removing diseased or damaged plant material, and keeping the planting reasonably weed-free. Disease resistance is an advantage—not a replacement for good gardening.

Can You Grow Malwina With Other Strawberry Varieties

Absolutely—and this may be one of the best reasons to grow it. If you plant only one June-bearing variety, much of your crop may ripen within a relatively concentrated period. But strawberry varieties don’t all ripen at the same time.

Planting early-, mid-, and late-season varieties lets you create a progression. One variety starts producing, another follows, then Malwina brings up the rear. Instead of trying to make one strawberry variety produce all summer, you’re allowing several varieties to do what each does best.

Are Malwina Strawberries Good for Home Gardens

Yes, particularly for gardeners who value flavor and want a later strawberry harvest. Malwina’s late ripening period gives it a purpose beyond simply being another strawberry variety. It’s especially worth considering if you already grow an earlier strawberry, want to extend strawberry season, put sweet flavor as a priority, prefer large berries, garden within its recommended growing range, or want a June-bearing variety for a succession planting.

Sometimes choosing the right fruit variety isn’t about finding the single “best” one—it’s about finding the one that fills the gap in your garden. Malwina fills the late-season gap beautifully.

Quick Answers About Malwina Strawberry

Is Malwina a June-bearing strawberry?
Yes. Malwina is a late-season June-bearing variety.

When does Malwina Strawberry ripen?
Malwina ripens very late in the June-bearing strawberry season, making it useful for extending the harvest.

Are Malwina Strawberries sweet?
Yes. Malwina is known for high Brix levels and sweet, rich flavor.

What color are Malwina Strawberries?
The berries develop a beautiful deep-red color.

Are Malwina Strawberries large?
Yes. Malwina produces large, firm fruit.

Does Malwina need full sun?
Yes. Plant Malwina Strawberries in full sun for best growth and fruit production.

What growing zones are recommended for Malwina Strawberry?
Greenwood Nursery recommends Malwina for USDA Hardiness Zones 4 through 6.

Does Malwina Strawberry produce runners?
Yes. As a June-bearing strawberry, plants can produce runners that root and develop into additional plants.

Is Malwina disease resistant?
Malwina shows resistance to mildew and tolerance to Verticillium wilt and red stele.

Why plant Malwina with other strawberry varieties?
Its late harvest can follow earlier-ripening varieties and extend the overall strawberry season.

Let Malwina Have the Last Word

The first strawberry of the season gets a lot of attention. But there’s something to be said for the last one, too.

By the time Malwina begins ripening, you’ve already had weeks of watching the garden change. Earlier strawberries may be winding down, summer is settling in, and it would be easy to assume strawberry season is nearly over. Then Malwina turns red.

That’s its place in the strawberry garden. Not necessarily first. But very happily last. And when the last berries are large, deep red, and wonderfully sweet, waiting a little longer doesn’t seem like much of a hardship.

Grow Malwina Strawberries at Home

Greenwood Nursery offers Malwina Strawberry Plugs in groups of four plants, ready to establish in your home strawberry bed, raised garden, or edible landscape.

Malwina Strawberry Plugs — 4 Plants per Order