All Summer Long Strawberry Plant Collection

I cannot think of any strawberry plants which will NOT come back year after year unless you live in an area with extremely harsh winters.

In the first year, the blossoms should be removed from june bearing strawberries. Ever bearing flowers should be removed during spring flowering and summer flowers can remain. Yield the first year of ever bearing is low.

Strawberry plants themselves are very tough, but once they're blooming you need to protect the blossoms against frost & freeze. I toss a blanket or floating row cover over mine if the plants are blooming and we're expecting a frost or freeze overnight. I've never had frost or freeze while the plants have berries -- I suspect the berries could withstand a light frost, but that a freeze would turn them to mush.

I have found you don't need to fertilize but your crops will be small in number. With miracle grow you'll get much healthier plants and a much heavier production of fruit. When you first plant your strawberries use the regular miracle grow to give it strong roots and good leaves and then in the second year switch to the bloom booster so you get a lot of flower that produce fruit.

Yes, they do. Many folks mulch them with straw, but I leave mine alone, and replace them every 5-7 years.

Strawberry plants require 1 sq. ft. of space each, so if you have 16 sq. ft., you can fit 16 plants.

In our organic garden, strawberries and asparagus grow happily in the same beds. We exercise caution in cultivating in early spring, pulling weeds among the strawberries by hand, so as not to damage the asparagus that hasn't sprouted yet. We also work to keep the strawberries from getting too thick and overgrown and competing with the asparagus. Plenty of compost feeds both plants. Have had these beds going for 5 years at about 2000 ft. Altitude in northeast Tennessee.

They were tied together in a bunch by variety and wrapped up, and yes they were clearly labeled by each variety.

You'll definitely want an everbearing variety. Tristar will give you berries virtually all summer, until frost. The summer crop will be lighter, but the spring and fall crops will both be full-size. Tristar has wonderful color and flavor. We sell a lot of them.

Strawberry varieties that are "day-neutral" or "everbearing" will produce fewer runners than varieties that are "June-bearing". Some examples of everbearing strawberry varieties include Eversweet, Ozark Beauty, Tribute, and Tristar.