How To! Growing Strawberries From Seeds (2019)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- Grow unlimited strawberry plants from their seeds! In this video, I show you how to grow hundreds of new strawberry plants for seed. I show you what strawberry fruits to use and which ones not to use, plus I show you the two techniques for removing the seeds from the outer skin of the fruit.
Once the seeds are removed, I show you how to plant the seeds in a standard nursery cell tray, and await germination.
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Wow as a beginner gardener I feel like you are one of the few gardening channels that actually explain everything that the gardening pros overlook and believe to be common knowledge
Thanks so much for that Daniel! It is very much appreciated. I figure if you're going to make a how-to, or might as well explain everything. I look to videos for knowledge all the time and I hate it when they expect me to know half of what they are talking about already! Cheers for this man, thanks a lot!
Yes. It seems like he do it for the love…instead of trying to sell something to us
Daniel and Tiffinie. I completely agree. As an intermediate/advanced gardener myself, there are still so many areas where I am very much a beginner… I love that he does not assume that we know everything, ha ha this channel is awesome.
Thanks for this video! I started to germinate strawberry seeds LAST NIGHT and the next morning I check and there’s already to seeds with little little little tiny roots! Wish me luck on my strawberry bush journey!
About a month ago I had a bunch of strawberries go bad in the fridge, I buried them and didn't think much of it. They are now starting to sprout!
Ha ha no way! So awesome! Some say that the seeds actually sprout better after sitting in the fermenting fruit. Much like we do when we save tomato seeds! Cheers!
I have seen other fruits actually growing from the putrid remains, but Never with strawberries, it would be nice that happens to me. Good luck budy!!
@@Risetzu definitely Risetzu... In fact, many fruits actually REQUIRE the fruit to ferment and break down the seed coat before they can even germinate! Fascinating stuff!
Me too! I've had tomatoes that sit on the counter too long have the seeds sprout inside. Also, granny smith apples that have been in the fridge for a while will have sprouted seeds imside. 😀
@Wayne Flanigan Fingers crossed. If they sprout, separate them as soon as they get their first set of true leaves.
Trying to grow my first strawberry plant. Coming across your page has been the best thing for me. Thank you for all your videos! I'm trying my best to get into growing my own fruit and vegetables so my son can grow up knowing how to do this himself
Right on nikole! Best of luck!
May I add a tip for people reading the comments. Before I planted any strawberry bad I would do you get the year before and I would work in dried acidic clippings Pete Moss etc. and leaves and overwinter it. The berries tend to like acidic ground but the best thing you can do is instead of mulching with straw I collect bags of white Pineneedles that are dry And use them as the mulch because as they break down they feed the ground and they’re also a great mat for the strawberries to grow in keeping them clean. Strawberries seem to be heavy organic feeders so bear that in mind when you’re preparing your strawberry bed. As with most gardening it always helps to be doing some thing a year before are you getting your dirt ready it’s the most important thing you can do in gardening.
Thanks for the tip! i have huge pine forest in the area, i'll give it a try.
Great Video. Thanks
The easiest way to grow from seeds is to take ripe strawberries (like you did) and simply squash them in your hand and berry them in potting soil. After a while they will sprout and you will notice that they are pretty crowded. Once they are about 1.5-2 inches in size, simply pull them from the potting soil (water it before to make the process easier) and place individual sprouts in individual cups.
The other method I use is runners which is even easier.
I am a small scale commercial farmer and I do that every season and it works like a charm.
Awesome! Runners are truly the easiest if you only need a few!
Good morning. Can strawberry grow in tropical climate such as Jamaica where it's very humid and hot. Awaiting your feedback thank you.
Indeed when it comes to nature, what's most simplest is usually the way to go!
@@caroldavidson-hylton900 I am SURE by 2023 there are some topics varieties that you can look into getting. You might need to mail order them but I sure they exists.
I really appreciate that the language you use is so easy to understand for beginning gardeners like me. It's been a huge help. Thank you! How do you keep birds, slugs, etc. away from your strawberry plants naturally? They were a big issue for my berry plants last year.
Thanks so much for watching and for the comments! For birds, only netting seems to work. For slugs, coarse mulches and/or beer traps seem to really fend them off. I've also heard food grade Diatomaceous Earth also works. Best of luck!
The Ripe Tomato Farms Thank you for the tips! Will be implementing them this season. Wish you continued success with your channel.
I believe you can place a copper pipe around the garden and slugs will get electrocuted when they touch the metal through static electric
@@installtekzdotcom9777 I've heard that too! Easy enough to try, that's for sure!
Regarding slugs, water your plants in the morning and not in the evening. Keep the area around the plants clean and tidy of any rotting leaves, debris. Hunt them at night, picking them off, eventually you’ll win. I net mine against birds. Hoops or frames works well to support the netting.
Which type of fish, are in your rain water??
After watching your video, I just finished planting my strawberry seeds as per your tips. So here's to a successful germination of strawberry plants. 😊😊
You are so brave to put only one seed in each hole! I find myself putting 2 or 3 seeds in each hole just to be sure *something* sprouts 😁
Ha ha totally.....I do the multi-seeding with many other plants, just to make sure!! :-)
@@user-iluvmyfriends I just "throw" seeds into a huge tray and then seperate seedlings once they are a bit large for the container. Or heck leaves them for "baby" reharvests.
I am learning how to grow strawberries since a few plants that survived the winter are producing strawberries in my garden so I will try to propagate and maintain them ...
Right on Maria! Runners are the easiest way if you can get them going at least 8 weeks before your first fall frost: th-cam.com/video/qBEeDWanjTw/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/LXYe4os3jGY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for such a great video. I have grown strawberries often on over 45 years. I would usually order a variety of plants but it does get expensive especially since every 2 to 3 years I would move the bed running from viruses. I was looking at a basket of berries but I picked last weekend add an organic farm and I had perhaps 10 barriers left that are now over ripe. I go to this farm because they’re the nicest tasting berries I’ve had in a long long time. I am going to set the berries aside and I will grow them from seed even if it takes me until the spring of 2023 I am looking forward to growing several hundred plants. I have successfully done the runner method over the years I am intrigued by the seed method. Thanks so much again I love your channel. One of the best gardening channels on the web.
Right on!! Try and get those seeds sprouted now...! If you can grow up the plantlings to a decent size, set them into dormancy this winter, you'll be getting fruit next summer no one question! :-)
Thank you for this video. My family used to run a berry farm, now I have 12 first years plants that I am trying to grow. The variety I have is named after my county, Benton berries 😊
Right on Dominique! Hopefully you'll be swimming in berries soon!
Thank You So Much For Your Technique and Dos and Don'ts of Growing Good and Reliable kind of Strawberry Plants.
Seemingly to select right seeds of right type of strawberry fruits is important to have right strawberry crops!
Thank you so much for the support and the kind words! I hope you grow the best strawberries this year!
Only ever grown from runners. Will give this a try. Looks like a good thing to do to expand cropping thankyou
Runners are definitely the superior method mike! :-)
Thanks For Educating Us About How To Plant A Strawberry Seed.
This is incredibly helpful! You explain everything so well, a lot of people don't do that! Thank you so much!
Hey, thanks for that! Very appreciated. Happy seeding!
I bought heirloom strawberry seed this year from true leaf market. I must have done something wrong. Not one single seed germinated. I don't think it was the seed I think it was me cause I buy from true leaf market a lot. I've never got a bad batch of seed from them. I just can't seem to get strawberries to grow from seed. I try every year I figure I'll get the hang of it so oner or later. Everything else I can grow from seed but then came along strawberries 😜 I'm glad you did that part on growing from seed and gathering good seed from your own patch. Thank you this year I bought runners from the store.
The one thing I would suggest would be to stratify the seeds. That is, freeze them for a period of 3 months, then plant. Super moist, 80F, and seedlings are TINY!
This video is awesome. As I write this, I am planting some run or less, alpine strawberries from seed. They were not seeds that I harvested. I bought them. I love that you not only talk about planting from seed, but harvesting the seeds as well. A couple of months ago we put out a video on our channel talking about how to manage and handle runners. The timing for this video is perfect because our Ozark beauties produce runners easily but these alpine strawberries do not. I feel like you answered every one of my questions in one video, ha ha this is great and exactly why I am subscribed to you.
Right on! Best of luck with the crop! Can't wait to hear about your berry success!
I actually got this to work as a newbie. I have 4 plants growing from seed now in a tent. No idea what to expect really :p
I've been wanting to plant my own strawberries for a while now and your video really shows how easy it is to start. Thanks for the help, mate.
Awesome Ali, glad you liked it!!
I’ve learned more about strawberries, thanks
Anytime Sky, thanks for watching!
I love how informative your videos are! I just started a little patio garden in my apartment, and your videos have helped so much!
Right on Stephanie, thanks so much for watching and for the support!
Hi Ripe Tomato, this is my first time trying to grow strawberries from store bought seeds and your video has great tips thank you!! 😊🙏🙏
Best of luck Aida! It truly is the hardest way to grow strawberries....keep us posted on how it goes!
Only taken from runners in the past never collected seeds which are expensive to buy. Many thanks for this tip.
Thanks Billy! If you already have mother plants, there's a 3rd way to grow Strawberries and its even better!: th-cam.com/video/-pkXdVStYes/w-d-xo.html
Got a tray to germinate indoors per your method. I placed the young sprouts outside on the picnic table for full sun. The sparrows loved every one of them. Be careful where you put them when small. Starting over.
Noooooooo!!! Dang dale, sorry to hear that!
Just started more seeds. Had to use store-bought since we don't have anything ripe now. The store's berries are much bigger and they are locally grown (fingers crossed). I scattered the seeds rubbed from dried skins, (we ate the inner parts), in a flat of fine potting soil then covered lightly. I lightly sprinkled water over that so the seeds stay buried. I'll probably purchase bare root plants in case. Can't have too many.
Getting nice strawberries this year. Used seeds from store berries grown in this part of the state. Trying blueberry now. Thanks for the great tip.
I've always just left mine in the pot left them outside and they keep coming back thank you Jesus
They do Pearl, they do! One of life's great fruiting perennials!🍓🍓🍓
All glory to the most high YHWH
@@Juduh so strawberries.. Right?
The Ripe Tomato Farms unsure by what you mean by that, but if you’re saying that strawberries are what I’m referring to in that statement then no.
@@Juduh my bad, I thought for some reason a comment might be actually relevant to the video itself. No worries. :)
Thanks , now i shall extend my 5 plants to many.
Nothing wrong with many many strawberry plants!!!
7:20 if you have another tray, you can set it on your filled one and press it down all at once and maybe more evenly. Love your videos 👍
Well thank you for that tip. I'm learning and hope I can plant some. I dont know when to plant strawberries. Just found th8s guy and binge watching his Playlist. Hopefully he'll cover that. Again thank you
Yeah, he covered it. Plant spring to summer but ck your area😁
Thank you for showing us how you grow the strawberries .
Cheers June, thanks so much for watching!
Definitely going to try this, as my bought strawberry plants don't have any runners yet.
Yeah, runners should be coming soon... But there's quite a few varieties where they seemed to have bred the ability to send out runners out of the plants! Something to watch out for!
I have wild strawberries on my land, I have wanted to get more productive varieties planted though. Thanks for the info and insight!!
That's awesome. The wind strawberries are so tasty.. They just don't produce enough of those tiny berries!
Thanks now I know where I messed up I didn't wait for seeds to pop
Could definitely be Maria! Immature seeds have poor or zero germination success so that could very well be the problem. Be aware though that strawberry seeds do take a while to germinate and send up that shoot. Very slow growing at that stage. So give the seed trays a little longer than normal, you could still be successful! Cheers.
Great video camera wise and great explanations. Thank you.
Thanks! Appreciate the kind words!
WOW! THANKS FOR SHARING, I'LL TRY TO PLANT TOO! GOD BLESS
Thanks for watching! Strawberries are the best, no matter which way you grow them!
Lol thank you so much for this video! I'm on my 2nd or 3rd batch of store bought strawberries with no results :( and getting seeds was extremely time consuming. Your video was a save the day for strawberry growers! Thank you 🙏
Thanks so much for watching and for the support. Fingers crossed that you get some to germinate!!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you! 😊
@@paralegal4016,
I'm thinking of trying to germinate strawberry seeds, how did you fare, were you successful?
It would be good to know.
Just followed your guidelines ..mymy what fun this was! Thankyou
Right on Edward, happy to hear!
Thank you so much! I watched your video on runners and my strawberries don’t have any. So I will give this a try 😀
They will....its still early in the year. Although, some varieties send out more runners than others. :-)
That strawberry looks perfectly ripe for eating! Thanks for this great video.
Thanks! Strawberries from the garden are sometimes too good to be true! All the best!
About paper towels. I really don't worry about drying any seeds on paper napkins or paper towels because I'm not going to be growing hundreds of plants. After the seeds are dry, I simply take a pair of scissors and cut out the seeds I want then stick the seed + paper into the hole I made in the seed starter mix. The bit of paper simply decomposes after a while.
Since I'm not worried about the paper, some of my favorite places to source seeds are restaurants. Sure, I never know the variety of cucumber or tomato or whatever I'm getting but if it tastes good then I'm going to give it a try next season in my garden. I save a couple seeds, stick them onto a paper napkin, use a pen to mark the date and where I got the seeds then fold up the paper napkin + seed and stick it into my pocket. Later when I unfold the bit of paper, everything I need to know is right there (very important when one is 74 years old, LOL!)
Grow gardens, not lawns!
Thanks so much for this video I can now take my bad strawberries and plant them to create my own. Always wanted to plant strawberries.
Thanks for sharing! This was awesome. Hoping my pink berries galore gives me a couple strawberries before summer is over since I accidentally almost killed it. 😅 can’t wait to try this.
We're totally going to try this with the strawberries we have in our fridge.
Let us know how it works out for you guys!
Did they germinate yet? I tried with some from Coles and they didn’t germinate
Iam Indian love your video sir my age is 11yr
Love you
Man I really needed this. Thank you. Keep up the great work.
Cheers, thanks so much for watching!
If you happen to put the seeds on a paper towel you can just rip a small part off with that seed and just plat that as well. It doesn't matter
Totally true....all is not lost. Sucks for storage for hundreds of seeds though! Cheers!
I just did it today and it’s my first ever attempt 🤞 wish me luck 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓I germinate them on a paper towel and they grew a little green heads 🌱 then very gently I put them in the soil and lightly sprinkled with little soil on the top 🥴hope I won’t kill them 🤞🤞
@@iaiavao any luck?? Did they grow it's been 4 months
@@cashcase8968 unfortunately no, my child kicked it with a ball so it’s gone 🙈 I’ll try again in spring 🤞 thanks for asking though :)
@@iaiavao You could do it right now, you could keep them right beside your window. I did mine, but I have a green house, yumm yumm yumm delicious strawberries. Good luck @laiavao
Subbed when i heard you use rainwater with fish in it...would love to hear more on that tech. Also laughed when you said theyre prime for germination when the seeds look like they’ll pop off if you look at em the wrong way😂😂
Right on Cristian, thanks for the support! I harvest all the rainwater from my greenhouse roof and it feeds 3 100L barrels with fish growing in them. I use that water for most of my garden the last few years. Its worked out amazing so far!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms OK but more details, please. (A video?)
How many fish? What kind? What do you feed them? Winter? Etc?
Yes, give some spotlight on the rain barrels plz!😊
Thanks for the tips, great lesson. Now I know how to grow strawberry thanks again.
No problem Esther! It is definitely easier to propagate from runners... Especially if you only run about 5-10 strawberry mother plants.... Not if you need quantity, growing them from seed is easy enough! Cheers!
Thanks for the nice crash course tutorial, I will try to do it here in hot and humid Philippines. Cheers!
Best of luck Erwin...try to work with varieties designed to work in your climate!
I cut the outer skin into thin strips and put onto a sheet of paper. Place in a window seal and they'll dry out fast. Then just flex the paper over a paper plate and presto. The seeds fall while the skin is dried to the paper. There may be a few stubborn seeds that have to be scraped off but most easily gall off.
Nice! I'll have to try that!
Hi buddy just an idea, I personally think it'd be easier and quicker to take the seeds directly from the strawberry then Into the cells, instead of putting. The seeds on paper :)
My daughter has been w@nting to try this! Now we now how!
I just get a bunch of strawberries with raised seeds and put them in a blender. The seeds separate from the meat of the fruit and fall to the bottom. The I strain them out so the are clean and won't get moldy. Wet some potting soil and and spread them out. And bingo! Pinch of the first set of flowers so the plants get bigger. And in about a year strawberries. And btw the were from the supermarket. And they turned out fine.
Yup... You can do that with blueberries as well.
I am in the tropics so have been trying with seeds from the package (no luck), was lucky to get some seeds direct from the fruit and some have hatched so I am keeping my fingers cross. Also brought some black berries so also trying those hope I will get them hatched and they will grow in the hot climate.
Yes, But The Fellow Here On ""The Ripe Tomato Farms"" Didn't Say You Can't Grow The Seeds Off Strawberries From A Supermarket,,,,, What he is saying is that you will not know what type of strawberries you will get exactly, And That Is So True !!!!!!!!
Great video, recently made a wooden rack where i made cut outs for a sew small pots where ill plant the straberries in and allow them to hang once it bears fruit.
"4 liters, half an inch deep," I love the politeness in your voice.
Ha ha, thanks Kyle... I'm Canadian... I have to be!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms if you don't mind following the rabbit hole, I'm uploading a video tomorrow morning on the garden project at my house. Any tips and pointers would be appreciated.
@@der_pinguin44 heck yeah! Post it on my community tab and I'll get tagged right away. Might send a few people to your channel too in the process!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms appreciate your help! We're going through your catalog right now trying to learn as much as we can.
@@der_pinguin44 awesome Kyle!, glad to have you aboard! Don't hesitate to ask any questions!
Just planted some strawberry seeds as shown here today. I live at altitude so we will see how they grow !!
Awesome Julie! Any idea what variety?
It is interesting to grow strawberry plants from seeds, because it is not always possible to buy in your country the varieties you want.
For example, during a trip, I managed to bring back seeds of several Japanese and French varieties, unavailable where I live.
If you grow your strawberry plants indoors, it is possible from seeds to have fruits the same year. My strawberry plants start to produce runners after 3-4 months, and many fruits start after about six months.
Great points Pierre!
Interesting that you can healthily get fruits from them sooner than later if they grown indoors. :)
@@rickytorres9089 After several tests, the problem I have encountered while growing strawberry plants from seed is that the fruits are small and not the same as the original strawberry plant. Other than that, this technique works well.
@@pierreshasta1480 Interesting, gonna have to keep in mind. So thank you. :)
i love to hear how you maintenance such as pest, fertilizer on growing season till harvest season.
Thanks for getting back to me God bless you
No problem, thanks so much for watching!
Thanks for walking us through the entire process. I have been watching videos for days and gathered more from this video than others by far thank you.
Thanks for watching Monica... I do suggest growing from runners wherever possible.. I also have a video showing actual mother plant division... A very underrated way to grow more strawberries!
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Wow thank you so much for sharing this informative video. Really helpful for a new gardener like me.
Cheers Leah, thanks for watching!
Do you have to use stratification to get them to germinate?
when i google growing strawberries your video pops up at the top taking half the screen. good video by the way. We started some berries a bit late for outside this season, but are going to see what happens to them inside hydroponically. fun stuff :)
That's awesome, thanks for watching and for the support. I haven't tried strawberries in full hydro yet, only setting up new crowns as well as runners in water and/or a nutrient solution (th-cam.com/video/-pkXdVStYes/w-d-xo.html). Be interested to see if you succeed! Cheers.
Your videos are quite informative.. thank you..
Happy 2024!
Cheers, thanks so much for watching!
I love the blender method for saving strawberry seeds.
They just fall to the bottom of the pitcher below the blade.
All you have to do is rinse out the pulp.
So awesome Valerie...works for Blueberries as well! :-)
I had NEVER heard of such a "invasive" method that works because it's not "invasive" to the seeds due to the natural separating of them!
Fully watched . Thank you for tutorial how to plant strawberries seeds.
Thanks! Not the best way to grow Strawberries...but certainly a way to grow a LOT of them, LOL!
Fantastic videos and very well explained! Keep them coming many thanks
Thanks Seeker! Much appreciated! They are getting better I hope. Cheers
I love your channel soo much I started gardening and it did not work but when I watched you my plants worked. Thanks so much. (I subscribe to your channel..
Hey, thanks for the support! All the best this growing season!
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Thanks for the advice. Before I watched I wasn't sure if they needed to be stratified or not but it looks like they don't.
Hey Rich...they don't necessarily have to, but you often get better germination rates when you do.
I'd have to bring trays in to the house for winter, as I have nothing outside to keep them from freezing temps. I live in West TN, in 102 year old house with no heat (has never had it) and use a room heater to keep them fairly warm. Maybe they'd be alright. Guess 'll have to find out ... I really want strawberries!!
I think you'd be ok... Strawberries tolerate the cold much better than they tolerate the heat. You'd be surprised at how well they adapt to cold temperatures.
Put them into of electric drive,it's good place to keep seedlings warm
Thanks for the video. Super informative and helpful. Good step by step guide.
Cheers Russell, thanks for watching!
I just want to say thank you and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Do you know anything about storing them for the coming year?
im north of the landing and a neighbor gave me a small plants in pots and i planted them some time in june i never got any fruit they said i would get them next year i just wondering about these alpine strawberries if they actually will survive the winter here in saskatchewan do i need to cover them with straw before the snow comes ?
will they establish and bear fruit next year ?
i planted them next to my special medicine plants i got from seeds last year they look amazing they started late but i hope they finish before the snow next month
great videos thank you very much for the time and knowledge you put in them
Yes, when planted, strawberries normally give fruit the following spring/summer.... As for winter protection, in colder climates it's never a bad idea.
Thanks to my nonno he’s got me gardening 😂
I only have June bearing strawberries, but I'm going to try this method (don't need to because they send out runners, but it'll be fun to see if they produce for next year)
Definitely Linda! Get the seeds going earlier the better. You want to maximize their vegetative growth all the way to and possibly through fall. Don't let the little plants flower, and don't let them send out runners of their own. If you can get them to a decent size, they will bear fruit next summer! Cheers.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms This might be a silly question, but once they've become a real plant (say by autumn) do I bring them inside or allow them to stay out with their cousins till next year?
@@LindaCasey not a silly question at all. Strawberries are quite cold tolerant. Unless you live in Alaska, no need to bring them inside. They will need to become "outdoor" plants by the time fall hits, do if you're growing them inside, make sure to harden them off by taking them outside late summer. After that, they can be treated like small mother plants. Mulch heavily do that they're all tucked in for winter and you're gravy!
@@LindaCasey having said that, what I haven't tried is growing the babies right through winter.. Grow them huuuuuge inside over winter then put them outside... You might come out ahead... Tough to say. I know those cold tolerant plants sometimes need that cold dormancy to trigger proper growth and flowering, so you might be messing with them if you don't provide a winter rest period. Interesting stuff!
Found your channel this week and subscribed. Great, easy to understand info!! I've got several packages of strawberry seeds I'd like to get started. I'm in Southern New England in the US, Zone 6a, with an average first frost date of October 5. Am I better off starting these now and keeping them indoors (potting up as needed) until spring, or should I wait until December of January? Thanks!
Right on Linda, thank you for the support! Yes, I would definitely start them now. Likely not enough time to germinate and plant outside, but also, seeds don't really produce fruit in the same year they germinate. So waiting for next spring means you won't be harvesting berries until 2022....so definitely get them going!
Epic strawberry plant videos! I’m learning sooo much. You say store bought berry plants aren’t a good idea, but surely if the berry is amazing the plants grown from it will be too?! I understand seeds aren’t clones, but if they’re pollinated by themselves or other plants and produce amazing berries - you can’t go too wrong....can you?
if you just want "generic unknown strawberry" you can plant the ones from grocery store. but if you want to know the specific variety , either for your own consumption or if you plan to sell the fruits or the plants, then you can start from a known variety.
someone who is planting 1000s of strawberry plants is probably doing a long-term project of selling the plants or the fruit, not just eating them for home consumption.
@@pershop4950 Gotcha, that all make sense! I bet this works great for things like donations and such where people aren't gonna care which types of berries they are since they aren't PAYING for them or the plants.
I wanna grow the variety that has chocolate on them. Any tips on how to do that? XD
We'd be millionaires if we could figure that out!
I've had success by planting my strawberry seeds with chocolate chips to achieve those delicious treats.
@@ronjamhey9851 YUM! ;)
I believe this person is asking what 'type' of strawberry; honeoye, earliglo, allstar, pineapple, etc. What type of strawberries are used to dip in chocolate that are sold on valentine's day, etc. I may be incorrect, but I believe that is what the commenter is asking. :) All strawberries would be good dipped in chocolate, too.
@@alisonleah8714 haha nope! It was totally a joke about growing chocolate covered strawberries :)
Excellent video and advice, my friend. Thanx for posting x.
Hey Fergus, thanks so much for watching! Cheers.
I'm a beginner. I grew a few cucumbers last year and some onions but that's it. A couple months ago there were white strawberries at jungle Jim's and I decided to bury the seeds. I kept them close to a window with plastic wrap over them and eventually gave up watering them because nothing happened. Today I took the wrap off and I have a bunch of sprouts. Now... I'm afraid I won't keep them alive. If I could drive them to you I would. Kinda nervous about what to do next but right now they are tiny and bright green little seedlings.
I'm in the UK, I always get strawberries on the same year I sow them, I start them about 6-8 weeks inside then put them out.
Wow...I have never seen this done before. Very interesting. I'm going to try it this summer. How do you protect in the seed trays over winter?
Hey Andi, great question. I always leave growing seedlings indoors over winter...they are large enough to get planted out in the spring. Gives them a bit of a head start! :-)
That's awesome in 2 weeks results. Is strawberry plant need lots of sunlight to grow?
I am definitely subscribing! Thank you!
I always bury my old veggies and fruit in my soil. And turned over the garden twice a year. Our soil has red clay so by adding scraps and a load of course sand this keeps the soil from compacting. Every spring I have new plants popping up. Peach trees, potatoes, and herbs. Often my peach trees from pits grow and produce in 2 years, but then I work the soil.
Even though it's winter, can I germinate using a cold frame? Or would it be better to grow them indoors?
Hey Nicolas, I would germinate them indoors...75-85F would be ideal. Very controlled conditions would be the best.
Thanks for the tips im growing my own and question when should I plant them in bigger pots?
Thanks man for the tips
Wild seeds good .I know where a patch it .they a very small
Hi, I really enjoyed your video and learned a lot. I have seeds from wild strawberries in Oregon. I live in Southern California. My question is did you just leave the seedlings in the the little tray or should you plant them in the ground before winter? Thank you
Hey Denise, thanks for watching! If you already have little seedlings (or even runners) growing and established, you can move them on to larger pots, or into raised beds, or in your garden once the roots are established. I'd do this at least 6 weeks before your first frost date to ensure they'll survive winter. Cheers
Thank you for this video. I'm really excited to get into gardening. I know a few people that use red light or something for their nurseries. Do you recommend that? Like is it really necessary?
Awesome thank you. I found the perfect strawberry. Ava star I grow strawberries it’s a constant battle for the perfect one. Or few. This year is a very short fast season it seems. I’ve only harvested about 3 kilo I need to renew my plants or at least add some and improve the conditions but the later is easy. Keeping the ducks and chickens off them is the first thing. My strawberry bed is a happy bed if you know what I mean the local children love coming to pick the berries on occasion and I enjoy the strawberry wine as well as the jellies and juices I make. My mum especially and other folk who suffer diverticulitis enjoy the seed free juice and syrup I make I shall try my hardest this year to increase my harvest of our humble strawberry 🍓 thank you for your information and help stay safe Pop by mine and say hi 👋 I have subscribed thanks again Ange and the feathered ones x
nice video ! well detailed and nicr charisma ! youre fun to watch!
Thanks Vee, too kind! :-)
Very nice work
Hey thanks, appreciate that! :-)
Learned a lot!!! Thanks.
Awesome, thanks for watching Kathy!
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@@thomashaugh8720 thanks Thomas!
blend up those strawberries in a milkshake. The seeds sink to the bottom of the glass for easy pickings and you get a strawberry shake. Just rinse them off and good to go.
You briefly mentioned winter a couple times but didn't get into how to overwinter your strawberry plants. We are in USDA Zone 7B so have relatively mild winters (compared to the winters I experienced growing up in Ohio in the '50s).
Do I leave them in pots outside all winter or should I bring them into my unheated garage like I do with my pepper plants? Some of my peppers are 4 and 5 years old, BTW.
Hey Terry, most Strawberry varieties are quite hardy. I'm up in Canada and all I do it defoliate mine (take off all the browned out leaves) and then mulch with straw. That's it. They come back every year, without fail. Definitely don't need to bring them inside.