Which is better, ever bearing or June bearing strawberries?

Question

I like to make jam out of my berries. They say the plants need replaced every three years, the runners will be the replacements right?

Answer 1

June bearing will be your best choice. They are also the best berries for size and flavor.

The trick I do is to think of your patch as a checkerboard. Every other square is blank. The new runner plants go into those blanks and in a couple years, you can till up the original full squares and start over.

Answer 2

Yes they replace themselves-- put straw or grass clippings between the rows--and plant the offshoots-- old folks made the rows really wide apart-- so there is room between for the babies.
If you make jam and/or jelly-- the june might be better--you'll get a lot at once-- the everbearing spread out the amount produced.
good luck.

Answer 3

I accept as true with the different solutions. yet in basic terms one element. determine which you decrease or pull off the runners. Runners are the vegetation way of reporducung itself. Runners take power far flung from the parent plant and would retard blooming. do no longer over water the two.