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Alpine strawberries
Tiny, intensely flavoured berries on compact plants suited to edging and pots.
Easy
Rose
Fruits the season after planting
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Alpine strawberries seeds
£2.49 in the shop
Calendar
Sow
February–April indoors or spring from plants
Plant out
Pick ripe berries often; plants fruit without sending out many runners.
Harvest
June–October
Conditions
Sun
Full sun
Water
Regularly, at the base to keep fruit dry
Soil
Fertile, well-drained, slightly acidic
Spacing
35cm apart, rows 75cm
Containers
Superb in hanging baskets and towers
Indoors
Cloche in spring for earlier fruit
Care and harvest
Feeding
High-potash feed from flowering
Pruning
Cut back foliage after fruiting; peg or remove runners
Harvesting
Pick ripe berries often; plants fruit without sending out many runners.
Storage
Eat same day; jam or freeze the rest
Good companions: Borage, Chives, Lettuce