Anyone know anything about planting strawberries?

Almost all store bought strawberries are hybrid varieties, so their seeds are infertile (hybrids of almost any plants or animals have this problem). If you can find a non-hybrid, true "heirloom" variety, then the seeds should sprout... but these varieties tend to produce very small strawberries. This is why strawberries that are produced commercially are almost exclusively hybrid daughter plants that have sprouted from runner vines from the mother plant. If you buy some plants, this is how you can get more plants for the future, too.

The main concerns when growing strawberries are that the soil has good drainage (water doesn't puddle around the plants), that the plants get plenty of water, and that there is lots of sunshine for the plants (strawberries prefer full sun). Clean away any dead strawberry leaves or rotting strawberries to prevent the spread of fungi that cause rot. Try to keep the berries themselves dry, too.

Strawberries can grow almost anywhere. Many varieties do need a few weeks of cold to move them through their yearly cycle, but some tropical and sub-tropical varieties do quite well without the cold period. The nurseries in your area should be able to help you pick out a variety that will do well where you live.

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Growing from seeds is extremely difficult. Best to buy plants. They need constant weeding year round or they will not spread out. It takes several years for a patch to develop into quantity producing. Some areas of Texas are too dry and will need irrigation.

i offered a strawberry plant on the tip of February that looked the comparable way.... one in each and every of them ripened and grew to become captivating pink final week (so approximately 2.5 weeks when I planted it) however the others purely gotten smaller up. I asked approximately it right here and somebody advised me the plant is working on its roots now and could start to produce lower back interior the summertime i think of.

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