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Growing Strawberry Plants

(Fragaria)

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(Best months for planting Strawberry Plants in USA - Zone 5a regions)

P = Plant direct in garden where they are to grow.


  • Easy to grow. Plant with crown (of roots) just covered.. Best planted at soil temperatures between 50°F and 68°F. (Show °C/cm)
  • Space plants: 12 - 39 inches apart
  • Harvest in approximately 11 weeks. Strawberries bruise easily when ripe, handle carefully. Pick with a small piece of stem attached..
  • Compatible with: Better in a bed on their own to allow good sun and air circulation
  • Avoid growing with: If you are using rotation beds, avoid putting strawberries where you have grown tomatoes, potatoes, peppers or eggplant
  • Ripening fruit
  • Strawberry plants

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06 Aug 12, Eva (Australia - temperate climate)
We had Strawberries growing (thriving) in germany and they were in part shade THERE! It's colder and wetter there than in england.
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05 Aug 12, Eva (Australia - temperate climate)
I am in Adelaide and have alpine strawberries ready to plant out. There is a good spot which gets shade in the Afternoon but I have a tamarillo tree on a tobacco rootstock growing there. Strawberries don't like solanum plants like tomatoes and potatoes and I was wondering if it was a good idea to put my strawberries next to a solanum rootstock.
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06 Apr 12, Missy (Australia - temperate climate)
I have a heap of Cambridge Strawberry plants that have gone crazy .... should I be dividing them up and using the runners to make another bed? Will they go crazy if I just "let them go"?
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10 Jan 12, adam (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Hi Ivan. If you will get another crop of strawbs this time of year, you probably will considering the weather. A really good variety, developed quite a few years ago in Ferntree Gully/Belrave area, is Chandler. Developed by mrs. Chandler of the dandenongs, It gets a good crop in spring, and another big crop later in the season. I bought some a few years back from Diggers. Six plants became 200 after the first year, after that I was forcing plants on people. Fat , red, juicy strawbs, really nice, and bred for your conditions. Just keep up the manure and water. Cheers.
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09 Jan 12, Ivan (Australia - temperate climate)
Which type of strawberry is best to grow in Maiden Gully, Victoria, if I want to plant some now.?
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02 Jan 12, Richard (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Is April the best time to cut strawberries back and re put new straw down, I am still getting a few strawberries, but no where near th quanity I was getting. Thanks
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16 Aug 11, Sally (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Ducks are a great idea.. Be ready for the score to even out!
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03 Aug 11, georgi (Australia - tropical climate)
potash needs to be added to organic fertilizers to promote flower and fruiting
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13 Jul 11, gigi (Australia - temperate climate)
how often do you need to feterilise your strawberry plant?
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13 Jul 11, martin sanders (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I live just sth of Brisbane. My strawberries are being eaten from the bottom I have straw mulch and don't think its birds. I have'nt seen any slugs can u please assist
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