Whats the season for planting strawberries?

Question

What climates are they usually planted in?

ok so u can get them at like home depot? whats the best place to get the seeds at?

Answer 1

Most people do buy the plants, which are planted in spring in most climates. And strawberries are pretty adaptable and can be grown almost anywhere.
If you want to start your strawberries from seed, late winter/ early spring would be good, so they have time to grow to a reasonable size before you plant them out in your garden. Since the seeds are so tiny, you would be much better off starting them in containers inside, so they don't get washed away or eaten by bugs the moment they germinated.
A number of the larger seed companies have strawberry seeds. I know that Park Seeds (parkseed.com) has Fragaria strawberry seeds. These are the alpine strawberries, smaller than the ones you find in the store, and some people consider them to be tastier than the big ones. I would really recommend that you check out Thompson & Morgan's online seed catalog (seeds.thompson-morgan.com). They have 3 varieties of strawberry seeds, color photos, and detailed information for sowing the seeds and tending the plants.

Answer 2

I rather have been starting to be strawberries for some years. After fruiting the flowers will start to deliver out "runners" that develop into new strawberry flowers. to maintain my strawberries starting to be reliable and healthful I facet-gown with composted manure and save the beds weeded. as quickly as a 300 and sixty 5 days I additionally sprinkle some handfuls of bone meal over the mattress. My strawberry mattress has produced nicely for the previous 8 years, or maybe produced sufficient berries and flowers to grant away to friends.

Answer 3

There are basically 3 types of strawberry plants to choose from: June bearing, Everbearing and Day Neutral.
June Bearing strawberries produce a single, large crop per year during a 2 - 3 week period in the spring. June bearers are the traditionally grown plants, producing a single flush of flowers and many runners. They are classified into early, mid-season and late varieties. The largest fruits are generally from June bearing varieties.

Everbearing strawberries produce two to three harvests of fruit intermittently during the spring, summer and fall.

Everbearing plants do not send out many runners.
Day Neutral strawberries will produce fruit throughout the growing season. These strawberries also produce few runners. Everbearing and day neutral strawberries are great when space is limited, but the fruits are usually somewhat smaller than June bearers.


Where to Plant Strawberries
Basic considerations when locating a strawberry patch include:
Full sun

Well drained, sandy loam with a pH from 5.8 to 6.2 is ideal

Don't plant where tomatoes, potatoes, peppers or eggplant have been grown recently (Verticillium Rot)


Planting Strawberry Plants
What ever planting method you choose, the following rules apply:
Plant in the spring as soon as the soil is dry enough to be worked. or in late fall

Be sure you have certified disease free plants

Select plants with large crowns with healthy, light-colored roots

Amend soil with 1-2 inches of organic matter like compost or well rotted manure

Keep weeds from competing with your strawberry plants
Make a hole large enough to spread the roots. Hill the center of the hole and place the crown at soil level. Spread the roots downward on the hill. Bury the plant so that the soil only goes half way up the crown.
Matted Row System for June Bearing Strawberries

The matted row system works well with strawberry plants that send out a lot of runners. Set plants 18 inches apart in rows of 24 inches, with 4 - 4 1/2 feet between rows.

Leaves and flower buds will emerge shortly after planting. Pinch off all flowers during the first year in the garden, on June bearing varieties, and all flowers that form until July 1st on ever-bearing and day neutral varieties. This will encourage both plant vigor and production of runners to fill in the mat. Pinching off this years flowers means no crop this year but a much better crop next year and several more years of production.

As runners form from the plant crowns, train along the row and space 6 to 9 inches apart. Press the runner gently into the soil, hold in place with a rock or cover with about 1/2 inch of soil until roots form. Do not sever the runner from the mother plant.

Day neutral and everbearing strawberry plants don't send out many runners and instead focus their energy on producing multiple harvests. The hill system is basically a raised bed 8 inches high and 2 feet wide. Plants are set out in staggered double rows, about 12 inches apart. All runners should be removed as well as all flowers until July 1st of the first year. Plants may then be allowed to produce fruit. Multiple harvests are exhausting on plants and both day neutral and everbearing varieties should be replaced about every 3 years or whenever they seem to slow in vigor.

Answer 4

in Oklahoma I have had my best luck and crops planting in early spring!

Answer 5

spring

Answer 6

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