Jim’s Favorite Strawberry Seeds
Strawberry Seeds
Useful gardening information
Select an area of your garden that receives full
sunshine as this is one of the main ingredients for a sweet
crop. They will grow in areas that are sunny most of the day,
but really need full sun to develop to their fullest and
sweetest potential. Once planted, strawberries will produce
well for three to four years. So, select a location that will
not be disturbed. While strawberries like lots of water, they
need well drained soil. This is accomplished by creating raised
rows. Add fertilizer and compost into the soil and elevate the
rows a few inches above the garden soil level. This will allow
those heavy spring rains to quench your plants’ thirst, but
drain away any excess water. Space rows three to four feet
apart to allow room to walk and harvest between the rows.
Sowing Instructions
Easy to grow in containers, moisture must be
maintained and plants should be fed once a week with soluble
plant food when fruiting. Cover seeds lightly in warm soil.
Keep soil moist until seeds germinate. Will germinate in 21-45
days.
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Seeds
NB76 Alexandria (Fragaria vesca)
Alpine strawberries from seed.
Day-neutral. These decorative little plants produce delicious, aromatic red strawberries, about twice the size of wild berries but much smaller than the standard type. Perennials, Alpine strawberries stay compact and produce few runners, making them suitable for rock gardens, path edgings, pots, and window boxes. They begin producing the second spring, sometimes the first fall. Grows best in zones 5-8. 100-120 days to bear fruit.
3691 Baron Wild Strawberry ( Fragaria Vesca Baron Solemacher )
Known as Wild Strawberry, Woodland Strawberry or Alpine Strawberry, this wild Fragaria Vesca is very hardy and a strong grower. This edible, cold tolerant Strawberry is known to have been harvested and eaten by stone-age man, traded from Europe along the Silk Road into Asia.
Alpine Strawberry plants have quite a history! Wild Strawberries do not send out runners like other Strawberry plants do, so they are easier to contain and keep them where you desire for them to grow.
FB145 Rugen Improved Strawberry
Alpine strawberry, red fruits, good basket plant
3312 Yellow Wonder
Yellow Wonder Alpine strawberry seeds are a bit easier to start than some others. Start the seeds indoors as early as December, and transplant outdoors one week after your last average frost date. That’s around the first or second week in April. With this kind of head start, the plants will produce fruit in the first year. Yellow Wonder has the lovely oblong shape of alpine types, but with yellow skin and flesh and incredible sweetness. The plants are low growing, but very productive, even in containers. The seeds can also be sown later in the year, but plan on harvesting berries from the second year of growth forward.
2705 Strawberry Mignonette
French wood type, vigorous, runnerless, many miniature 1″
delicious fruits, fragrant white flowers, ideal for patio
pot.
3475 Musk Strawberry ( Fragaria moschata )
It can be found growing wild in parts of Europe but is not readily available in cultivation.
Fast-growing and withstanding most weather conditions, they make very good ground-cover plants.
The taste is so different than other strawberries that they have been nicknamed Bubblegum Berries by some. Here is an interesting article about Musk Strawberries we found on the web.
3438 White Soul Strawberry
Ongoing large white fruits, very sweet with pineapple overtone, runnerless, birds avoid it.
3475 Musk Strawberry ( Fragaria moschata )
It can be found growing wild in parts of Europe but is not readily available in cultivation.
Fast-growing and withstanding most weather conditions, they make very good ground-cover plants.
The taste is so different than other strawberries that they have been nicknamed Bubblegum Berries by some. Here is an interesting article about Musk Strawberries we found on the web.
For more Strawberry selections, visit our Strawberry Seed Page
Indian Strawberry Seeds
SF140 Tuttifrutti Indian Strawberry ( Duchesnea indica )
This rare ground cover plant will get second looks! It’s a Strawberry plant with lovely yellow blooms, and it produces small red Strawberries all summer long on a creeping evergreen carpet. Tuttifrutti is well-suited for hanging over a wall or as a ground cover plant.
Duchesnea Indica is naturalized throughout the United States, and it is found growing in shady places in woods and grassy slopes. Prefers a moist, but well-drained soil in a partially sunny position. Once plants are established, the matted root sends out runners to set new plants. Indian Strawberry leaves are light green and finely haired.
The small, yellow flowers are 5 petaled, and first appear in April and will bloom throughout the summer until fall. The fruit is small, about 1/2 inch round. It is edible, but many say the taste is un-noteworthy. Birds, however, love the red fruit. Grows about 5″ tall. Hardy to zone 5.
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