Ozark Beauty Strawberry Plant

This information varies depending on variety, but a general rule is that the most plentiful crops occur on plants that are 2-4 years old. As your strawberry plants grow they will put out runners to spread and grow into new plants. Every other year or so pluck some of these baby plants and transfer them into a newly prepared bed. These plants will grow and begin producing heavily by the time your original plants start to dwindle in production (2-3 years later). Then sacrifice the originals and prepare the bed to receive the third generation of plants from runners of your second bed. Alternating back and forth every 2-3 years or so will always ensure 1 bed is always at peak production.

In southern Michigan we don't do anything to protect our berries. We have a 25x60 orchard where we use ozark beauties as ground cover. My attitude is very much that a harsh winter can't kill all of them--nothing can, they are strawberry plants. :)

Any other everbearing strawberry will do. Amity is a great new variety.

Yes, they will set fruit long before that; but I pinched a good deal of it off so the plants could focus their energy on growing strong for the winter. I did keep some for snacking later in the season, though. They were wonderful producers in their first year.

They are very easy to plant. I plant mine in little two gallon pots which I keep
on my patio. They produce lots of great ripe berries all summer.
You can also simply prepare a bed and stick them in there. as well. Truth be told, they are very easy to grow. You just stick them in the soil - pots or beds - water and soon the leaves will come out. The hard part is getting to the ripe berries before your backyard wildlife does. They like strawberries even more than you do.

Thank you for your question. The happy answer is, "yes!" It is actually best to plant strawberries in the fall, as they develop a strong root system that gets them off to a great head start the following spring. Keep us posted on your progress.

They are sweet- probably a 6 on the 1-10 scale. I don’t prefer this variety. It sets fruit very low on the plants- the fruit has been very small in comparison to others. ( I’d stay more with other varieties-

You can plant it in the fall and it will produce a few berries next spring. There's really no need to keep it in a pot over the winter.

That figure will vary a great deal depending upon how much sun the plant receives, what kind of fertilizer it gets, how much rainfall there is, etc. This is a heavy producer, so it will produce on the high end of the range from 2/3 cup of berries per plant to 4 cups per plant.

Yes it does., I live in Michigan and it handles our harsh winter very well,. Come every june this Ozark beauties are producing very well. I use starks strawberry fertilizer as soon as the weather breaks, sometime in April is when I feed the berries. One other thing I do is in late fall I spread Cow manure around my plants. and or cow tea into my strawberry beds. After My first June crop., I thin my patch out. then use Starks Strawberry fertilizer every 2 weeks thru the entire summer,. my Berry patch keeps producing berries all season long., Side note fertilize in early morning or late evening., Good luck Chris C