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Strawberries

From healthy plants and a well-made bed to the June harvest, renewing the planting from your own runners and a rotation that keeps strawberries healthy

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Strawberries

In short

  • Plan standard: 1 kg/m² of bed, roughly 9 m² per adult. A good bed gives more in its second year.
  • A bed 1 m wide, 2 rows, 25–30 cm (10–12 in) apart in the row: 6–8 plants per m².
  • The crown at soil level: neither buried nor with bare roots.
  • A planting lasts 3–4 years. Plant a new bed every year and remove the oldest.
  • Don't plant after potatoes, tomatoes, peppers or aubergines, nor where strawberries grew before.
  • Straw or mulch under the fruit, frequent picking and good spacing protect the fruit from grey mould.

What's inside

Chapters

  1. Strawberries on the holding
  2. Varieties
  3. Planting stock
  4. Site and bed
  5. Planting step by step
  6. Care through the year
  7. Early crop: tunnel and fleece
  8. Picking and storing
  9. Runners and renewing the planting
  10. Strawberries in containers and along garden edges
  11. Strawberry health
  12. Common mistakes
  13. Printable checklist

Worksheets

  • Bed plan
  • Plant and mulch calculator
  • Renewal plan
  • Strawberry calendar
  • Shopping list
  • Harvest log

Fields and checkboxes can be filled in with Adobe Acrobat Reader (desktop and mobile), and the calculator adds up by itself. Filling in may not work in some browsers. A print version comes with the screen PDF.

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