Find a spot in full sun with good, well-drained soil (or improve the soil, or create a raised bed.) Get some strawberry plants from your favorite locally-owned garden center or nursery. Choose a variety that performs well in your area.You can choose from "June bearing" or "everbearing" types, depending on your eating and preserving habits. If you mainly want strawberries to eat fresh, and want the harvest to last longer, plant "everbearing." (They bear smaller crops over a longer period of time.) If you want to make pies and jams or jellies, then you may want "June bearing" which bear more heavily but for a shorter period of time.
Ask for planting directions from your strawberry source-- they know the best time and methods for planting in your area. Pick off the flowers in the first year and begin to harvest your own juicy sweet strawberries next year. Strawberries? You can grow them!
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I bought a hanging basket of strawberries three years ago from a local farm. Transplanted the plants into a larger pot and ate strawberries on and off all summer. Then I moved the plants into their own bed and netted it from maurading deer. This year I dug up some of the smaller plants for a new strawberry jar. They are so easy to grow ... everyone should try them.
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