Growing strawberries in the home garden, Types of Strawberries
- Shidonna Raven
- Jul 18
- 2 min read
Source: University of Minnesota Ext.
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Types of strawberries
There are three types of strawberries available to the home gardener.
June-bearing strawberries produce a large, concentrated crop in mid-June to early July.
Ever-bearing types produce two crops, one in early summer and the second in early fall.
Day neutral plants produce fruit throughout most of the growing season.
Of the three types, June-bearing strawberries normally produce the largest yield per season, but in a short period of time.
Strawberry plants usually begin flowering in mid-May in southern Minnesota. For June-bearing varieties it takes about four weeks from plants flowering to picking fruit.
Day neutral and ever-bearing types begin flowering around the same time in the spring and take about the same time between flowering and harvest. The difference is that they keep flowering through the summer months.
In addition to leaves, flowers and fruit, a strawberry plant has a crown, roots, runners and produces daughter plants.
The woodland strawberry
The woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is a day-neutral strawberry species. You might also see it called alpine strawberry, fraises des bois, wild strawberry or European strawberry. The plants produce small, sweet fruit with maybe two to three berries per plant per week.
Because many of these plants are grown from seed, the plants can either produce runners or not. They tolerate shadier sites and can be planted in perennial beds, walkways or containers.
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