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Strawberries
Warm from the plant, they taste nothing like supermarket punnets. Perfect for small spaces.
Easy
Rose
Fruits the season after planting
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Strawberries seeds
£3.49 in the shop
Calendar
Sow
Usually grown from runners or plants
Plant out
Plant bare-root runners in autumn or early spring
Harvest
June – August (later for everbearers)
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 with the stalk on, in dry weather
Storage
Eat same day; jam or freeze the rest
Good companions: Borage, Chives, Lettuce