Strawberry

Strawberry plant with fruits

Scientific classification

Order: Rosales

Family: Rosaceae

Subfamily: Rosoideae

Genus: Fragaria

Species: F. × ananassa

Cultivation

This strawberry plant is about half a year old. It will give fruits in the next year and the year after.

The strawberry can be propagated from seeds or by using the new shoots that mature plants make, usually after the plant has given fruit that year. The shoots quickly make their own roots and when they have grown big enough, you can select the best ones and give them their own place.
Wild strawberries grow mostly on open places in forests, so give your strawberries a sunny place and make sure that the soil is rich of humus.
The best time to do this are the first few weeks of August. These plants will give harvest for the two consecutive years, therefore make sure that you renew your strawberry plants each year, for example half of them.
The strawberry fruits don't like to come in touch with wet soil. You can protect them by covering the soil around the plants with a layer of mulch, straw or sawdust. They will reward a rich gift of compost with giving ample fruits, up to a few hundred per plant in each season.

Gardeners distinguish two main types of strawberry: The "June-bearing" strawberries, which bear their fruit in the early summer, and "ever-bearing" strawberries, which often bear several crops of fruit throughout the season.

Gallery

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  Harvest of strawberries

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  Strawberry flower

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  Frozen strawberry leaf

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  Flower of wild strawberry

See also

• Gardening courses
• Knowledge base:Gardening

External links

• Garden strawberry Wikipedia
• Strawberry A Modern Herbal by Mrs M. Grieve