Planting and Growing Strawberries

Growing strawberries is easy and enjoyable activity that offers numerous benefits. Strawberries are by far the most popular berries, almost everyone loves them. Strawberry plants give you fresh, juicy and delicious strawberries at the same time as being a decoration in your garden. Therefore they not only have practical purpose, but also decorative function. Growing strawberries is fairly easy, but you have to stick to some basic rules. You should follow these tips.

Very important are variety and location. It is highly recommended to choose pest and disease free sorts of strawberries when planting them. When selecting seeds for planting you should choose "virus free" variaties. You can find these in and around your local and established nurseries. Another benefit of area of local nurseries is that you are getting strawberry plants which fit your local area. These plants should be well equipped to handle local soil, weather and climate conditions. Another option is to purchase strawberries through mail order or via gardening catalogues. These days you can even order them on the Internet. This should give you wider selections and greater choice.

There are three basic sorts of strawberries that are available to you. There are June bearing, perpetual and day neutral. Obviously they all have different characteristics and features, June bearing strawberries produce a large and very concentrated crop of strawberries. As a gardener you get more berries per season and ripening is very fast, it takes only about 3 to 4 weeks. However, there is a considerable disadvantage, you get berries only once a year, in June. Perpetual strawberries produce berries twice a year, in Spring and Autumn. On the contrary, day neutral strawberries are only able to produce crops during growing season.

Location of site where you are growing strawberries is crucially important. You must make sure that your garden or a spot is in the right location. You need enough sunlight, so that strawberry plants can grow. In addition to that, strawberries need enough water. However, you need to be very careful about watering strawberries and make sure that they are not waterlogged, because that would certainly harm them. Too much water can actually be more dangerous to your strawberries than too little of it. Finally, one handy tip, make sure that the strawberry growing spot is located close to the water source. It is important that you don't have to carry water through a long distance. Your strawberries will require considerable amount of water and this extra work could hurt your enthusiasm and strawberry growing effort.

I hope this article will help you with growing strawberries. I wish you a lot of luck.