After all that hard work and care, your strawberries are finally ready to harvest! These simple tips can help them to taste ...
Water regularly until the first frost. After the first frost before temperatures consistently drop below 20ºF, add 3 to 5 ...
Strawberries propagate themselves through stolons that grow out of the plant's crown; thus, growers often follow suit and plant starts, then allow them to fill out a bed. Strawberry plots can produce ...
What sounds more summery and dreamy than picking homegrown strawberries in the glorious sunshine, even enjoying them fresh off the plant? It is an idyllic vision and easily achievable as strawberries ...
CORVALLIS, Ore. - In a perfect world, garden plants would feed themselves. As it is, we've got to help them along sometimes. Plants take up nutrients from the soil but when those nutrients are missing ...
Strawberries have a reputation of being difficult to grow, especially organically, though that’s only true if you don’t know the tricks. Their beauty is that they are perennial: plant them once, and ...
Strawberries are a delight in any garden. Strawberries are cultivars mostly developed from Fragaria x ananassa, a hybrid plant created in France in the middle of the 18th century by crossing a North ...
Strawberries are a common pick for container gardens — there's even a specific type of planter designed just for them, the strawberry jar. But is that the best method for growing strawberries? Not ...
Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...
Want to grow strawberries at home? Our step-by-step guide has all the care tips you need for a fresh, sweet harvest in your ...