GROWING STRAWBERRIES - Tips on Planting

The best strawberries you'll ever taste will come from a garden, because fully ripened strawberries have a rich, aromatic flavour unmatched by their supermarket counterparts. Savoring the melt-in-your-mouth juiciness of freshly picked strawberries is but one reason to grow your own. As the first fruits to ripen in spring, strawberries are nutritious assets to any garden. How to grow strawberries. Everything you need to know about growing strawberries. Strawberry plants come in four types: June-bearing strawberries bear fruit in one go, usually over a period of three weeks. The berries tend to be larger. Despite their name, you can choose from early-, mid-, and late-season varieties. that fruit anytime from early to late summer. Everbearing strawberries (also called perpetual or all-season strawberries) produce steadily throughout the summer and even into autumn. They have smaller berries and are great for making jam or freezing. Day-neutral strawbrries (closely related to everbearers) also produce fruit continuously through the season. Insensitive to day length, these varieties produce buds, fruits, and runners continuously if the temperature remains between 35° and 85°F (1° to 30°C). Production is less than that of June-bearers. Alpine Strawberries: In a little world of their own are the alpine and wild strawberries. These are much smaller plants that form far smaller berries, but they have an almost impossibly intense flavor - perfect for topping your morning cereal, for example! They require less attention than bigger strawberry plants and, once established, will pretty much look after themselves, making an attractive edging plant or even growing out from the cracks or walls. They will naturally self-seed to create a useful edible ground cover. For the home garden, we recommend June-bearers. Although you will have to wait a year for fruit harvesting, it will be well worth it. #gardening #garden #strawberry

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