Grow Gallons of Strawberries

You can grow amazing strawberries this year! These easy tips will show you: which kinds will give you the best harvest; the right sun, water, and soil for strawberries; and how to keep bugs away.

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Strawberry Varieties

There are three main varieties of strawberries: everbearing (also called day-neutral), June-bearing (also called short-day), and alpine.

Sun, Water, Soil for Growing Strawberries

Choose a sunny area for your strawberries, because they need at least 6 hours of sun per day. We planted ours in a corner of the yard near the path to the front door. Every time the kids walk by, they grab a strawberry to munch on.

Planting & Spacing Strawberries

Crush the peels and buzz them in your coffee grinder until you get a fine powder.

Cooking With Lemon Peel Powder

As the strawberries get established they’ll send out runners, or stolons. Runners are a long stem that leads from the main strawberry plant (the “mother”) to a new area of garden. A new strawberry plant will develop at the end of the runner, and once it gets established the stem linking the two plants will die.

Harvesting Strawberries

Once your strawberries start ripening, you should pick them every couple of days. Only pick strawberries that are completely red all the way to the calyx (the green part). This little beauty needs one more day to ripen.

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