Plant your strawberries so that the base of the crown where the leaves emerge is at soil level. Space them inches cm apart in both directions to allow plenty of room for weeding, watering and picking.
Strawberries also grow well in containers filled with quality potting soil where they can be planted a little closer together. You will need to water your plants more frequently because containers dry out rapidly, but the fruits are less likely to be damaged by slugs.
For an extra-early harvest of strawberries, simply cover early varieties with a cloche, row cover or polythene tunnel from the end of winter. Once the plants come into flower, remove the covers on warm days to allow insect pollinators access.
Forcing strawberries in this way will give a crop up to three weeks earlier. Keep plants well watered in dry weather so that the fruits can swell to a good size.
Stop mud from splashing up onto the developing fruits by laying down special strawberry mats shortly after planting. Allstar is a June-bearing strawberry that looks like the prototypical strawberry. Having an almost perfect strawberry shape, glossy red appearance, and good firmness makes it well-liked by gardeners far and wide. It also produces very large strawberries that only slightly diminish in size toward the end of its season.
It is a late mid-season producer. It only takes Allstar strawberries to fill a one-quart basket. Its mild but sweet flavor profile makes it ideal for fresh eating or freezing. Plants are vigorous and have good disease resistance. Click here to buy Allstar strawberry plants. Ozark Beauty is the most popular everbearing strawberry. Its popularity stems from its large yields of unusually large strawberries for an everbearer.
The red strawberries are sweet, but the most significant benefit of Ozark Beauty is its production profile. While June-bearers produce one early crop and then are finished, this everbearer produces a large early crop and a second crop later in the season with a few berries produced in between also. Click here to buy Ozark Beauty strawberry plants.
For a detailed discussion of this June-bearing strawberry, see this profile page on Chandler strawberry plants. Click here to buy Chandler strawberry plants. Jewel strawberries are well-known as a good variety for both pick-your-own operations and fresh shipping due to its firmness and abrasion-resistant skin. Jewel strawberries are wide and large wedge-shaped berries. It is well known for its excellent flavor and high-quality.
It is also a favorite for fresh markets due to its consumer appeal. It also has longer season yields. Click here to buy Jewel strawberry plants. Seascape is an everbearing strawberry variety that was initially developed for the California strawberry industry as a variety resistant to viral diseases common there.
However, it has proven to be tolerant to early heat, requires less chilling, and even grows well on the East Coast. It is a dependable choice. Its fruit is large and conical to round with an attractive glossy red color. The strawberries are not just red on the outside, however.
They are also bright red on the inside as well. It is one of the most reliable producers in the fall, and it even performs well in hot, dry climates. It produces fewer runners than the June-bearers. A drawback of Seascape plants is that it is patented. This means that it is technically illegal to propagate this variety. Click here to buy Seascape strawberry plants. Tristar is a day-neutral strawberry variety that is excellent for both fresh eating and freezing.
The berries are firm, red, very sweet, and solid with no hollow cores. They are conical in shape but only medium-sized. A big advantage is their production pattern. They begin producing with a bang early, will produce all summer long as long as conditions are tolerable, and will increase production again in the late summer to fall as they produce maximally at that time. Runners from Tristar plants will flower and fruit even before rooting.
They are an excellent choice for hanging baskets. Click here to buy Tristar strawberry plants. Sparkle strawberries are a classic favorite and have been a popular strawberry variety for over 60 years. It is widely considered the best strawberry variety for making jam. Sparkle strawberries are medium-sized and ripen late. Planting Sparkle with other earlier varieties extends the fresh fruit season. Strawberries from Sparkle plants are deep red and have excellent flavor. Click here to buy Sparkle strawberry plants.
Tulips are one of springtime's favorite flowers. While there are thousands of individual varieties, all these different tulips can be separated into 16 main categories. Every tulip cultivar is placed Brighten up your garden with pink tulips! Tulips have so much variety and pair well with other flowers. Today, we are going to cover the many varieties of pink tulips and which ones will be best for Everbearing, remontant or perpetual strawberries deliver crops in small, irregular bursts all summer, stopped only by the frosts in autumn.
Alpine or wild strawberries have tiny fruits but a great flavour. These small, tough plants thrive in semi-shade and make useful ground cover below other crops or at the edge of a border. They produce fruit from spring to autumn. An early strawberry, it also possesses good disease resistance. These soft strawberries have a good flavour and are ideal for using to make sauces and juices.
It reliably produces medium-sized, orange-red berries with a good flavour. This reliable mid-season variety will produce a good crop of large fruits, even on poor, drier soils.
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