Growing Strawberry Plants

Fragaria : Rosaceae / the rose family

Jan F M A M J J A S O N Dec
        P P            

(Best months for growing Strawberry Plants in USA - Zone 5a regions)

  • P = Plant out (transplant) seedlings
  • Easy to grow. Plant with crown (of roots) just covered.. Best planted at soil temperatures between 50°F and 68°F. (Show °C/cm)
  • Space plants: 12 - 39 inches apart
  • Harvest in approximately 11 weeks. Strawberries bruise easily when ripe, handle carefully. Pick with a small piece of stem attached..
  • Compatible with (can grow beside): Better in a bed on their own to allow good sun and air circulation
  • Avoid growing close to: If you are using rotation beds, avoid putting strawberries where you have grown tomatoes, potatoes, peppers or eggplant

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03 Aug 11, georgi (Australia - tropical climate)
potash needs to be added to organic fertilizers to promote flower and fruiting
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16 Aug 11, Sally (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Ducks are a great idea.. Be ready for the score to even out!
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02 Jan 12, Richard (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Is April the best time to cut strawberries back and re put new straw down, I am still getting a few strawberries, but no where near th quanity I was getting. Thanks
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09 Jan 12, Ivan (Australia - temperate climate)
Which type of strawberry is best to grow in Maiden Gully, Victoria, if I want to plant some now.?
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10 Jan 12, adam (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Hi Ivan. If you will get another crop of strawbs this time of year, you probably will considering the weather. A really good variety, developed quite a few years ago in Ferntree Gully/Belrave area, is Chandler. Developed by mrs. Chandler of the dandenongs, It gets a good crop in spring, and another big crop later in the season. I bought some a few years back from Diggers. Six plants became 200 after the first year, after that I was forcing plants on people. Fat , red, juicy strawbs, really nice, and bred for your conditions. Just keep up the manure and water. Cheers.
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06 Apr 12, Missy (Australia - temperate climate)
I have a heap of Cambridge Strawberry plants that have gone crazy .... should I be dividing them up and using the runners to make another bed? Will they go crazy if I just "let them go"?
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10 Sep 17, Em Paul (Australia - arid climate)
Missy - I'd love to buy some Cambridge rival strawberry runners if you have some to spare. Happy to pay for these and arrange to send you an express post bag to mail them to me. I live in Sydney. Thank you. Regards. Em
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05 Aug 12, Eva (Australia - temperate climate)
I am in Adelaide and have alpine strawberries ready to plant out. There is a good spot which gets shade in the Afternoon but I have a tamarillo tree on a tobacco rootstock growing there. Strawberries don't like solanum plants like tomatoes and potatoes and I was wondering if it was a good idea to put my strawberries next to a solanum rootstock.
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05 Aug 12, Jen (Australia - tropical climate)
Could I grow strawberries in hanging guttering 15cm deep by 4m long? Do they need full sun or can they handle part sun?
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06 Aug 12, Eva (Australia - temperate climate)
We had Strawberries growing (thriving) in germany and they were in part shade THERE! It's colder and wetter there than in england.
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Your title says strawberries - your question is regarding peaches. You seem to have two issues. The first chilling hours -- which the net (FTN) defines as: Chilling hours are the minimum number of hours that a peach tree needs to get, specifically, nighttime temperatures between 32 and 45 degrees Fahrenheit, in order to produce a good crop of peaches.. If the hours are not met (say in a warm winter), the blossoms mostly just fall off the trees and do not set fruit. Additionally you mentioned humidity which for peaches is leaf curl: (FTN) Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease of peach and nectarine. It is favoured by prolonged wet, cool weather in the spring as new growth is developing. Infected leaves become thick and curled with red and yellow discolouration. Infected leaves eventually drop. Again FTN Peaches with the fewest chill hour requirements are all yellow freestones. Cultivars needing 100 chill hours or less, the lowest requirement, include Gulf Queen (Prunus persica “Gulf Queen"), Mid Pride (Prunus persica “Mid Pride”), Bonita (Prunus persica “Bonita”) and Ventura (Prunus persica “Ventura”). Also Eva's Pride. additionally: With one exception, white peaches with low chill requirements are all freestones. At 200 chill hours, Tropic Snow (Prunus persica “Tropic Snow") has the lowest requirement. If you think a nectarine might work then: Desert Delight is a good choice --- but it seems to me that you might want to think about persimmons.

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