I bought a strawberry plant that was dying. Cost me 50p I planted it in a pot to see what would happen. Iv had the plant about 5 years now and each year it has given me lots of yummy strawberries

I had birds eating every strawberry before they could even ripen but I didn't want to bother with the hassle of netting. So I tucked my strawberry container amongst my aromatic herb containers. (Dill, basil, oregano, cilantro, chives, and mint) Seems to have properly confused my feathered thieves because I haven't had a single strawberry nibbled on in a over a month.

I heard of a grandma who painted some small stones bright red. She placed the stones among her berry plants well before they fruited. The birds learned that the bright red "fruits" were not worth the trouble and never bothered the real strawberries once they arrived. Maybe this idea will keep our birds at the feeders and off the berries!

Pine needles also make a great mulch for strawberries. They seem to really like it.

I had alpine strawberries growing in deep shade under trees and what a treat! They came back every year and not only did they attract the birds but the birds took care of any insects in the garden too!

I put a coffee filter over the drain hole to keep soil in the pot..works for me...I can't wait for spring 🙂

Great feature on strawberries! We inherited a lot of old plants, which weren’t very productive, and we only got a solitary bowl out of them last year. I got some tiny plant pots, put in some compost, and just tucked in a runner into each one. Once the runners had rooted in the pots I cut off the plant umbilical cord and replanted the baby plants into the original bed, now cleared of the old plants. I then spread Strulch over the bed. We ended up with 50 new plants for free this way. We have had a very productive season this time with something like 10kg of strawberries resulting in 14 jars of jam and a lot of desserts. I’m planning to repeat this propagation process every three years so my plants are always quite young. Top tip: If you have a bread machine, see if it has a jam setting as it can save a lot of burnt pans. You might need to run the setting 2 or even 3 times to get the perfect consistency, maybe adding a little pectin, but if you’re busy, this is a real boon.

Also I may have mentioned this before, but one of the perks of working in a university for me is that I get access to all the plant science research papers I have time to read, even though I am not a plant scientist! There was a very good study into how to increase strawberry yield and it found planting borage near the strawberries helped pollination a lot, leading to better cropping. What the plant scientists neglected to add is that this is also handy for making the subsequent Pimms ;.)

Oh my memories. The alpine strawberries used to be grow all over these Mtns when I was a child. We called them wild berries. Daddy would find us a big patch, and we all went, 5 of us, to pick for the winter’s jam. 1 gallon containers. As the youngest I remember having a measuring cup having to pick it full. We all had to fill our containers to Mother’s satisfaction. Being reminded that the jam will taste better on our biscuits (scones to you )than a snowball, lol. These days you hardly ever see them, and if you do they are very tiny. But I grow my own “tame” ones. Thanks for the advice

In an attempt to prioritize time, as well as letting nature do it's thing, I mow my yard less often. Doing so presented a large area of ground cover berries, which kept my two-year-old granddaughter very busy. By the end of her daily interest in harvesting and eating ripened berries, her hands, arms, hair, and smiling face were strawberry red. Who would imagine doing less work would produce such joy. Good stuff, and thank you!

Yes Ben , you’re right , “the best things in life aren’t complicated” Cheers !

I have wild strawberries growing on mountain scree in Mid Wales. They have spread into the cracks of my terrace providing more fruit for free. This year I'm harvesting 600g of fruit every two days.

This is absolutely the best video for growing strawberries, I have found, much good information here. ❤ Thank you for posting it. I just started planting strawberries a few weeks ago in containers and really enjoying it so far. North Carolina girl..

Hello All, We are in Australia where the summers are very hot, even in Melbourne, for a long time I have been lining my terracotta pots with bark from a paper bark tree, but I think you could use a thin flexible bark from any tree. The bark slowly breaks down over years, but in the meantime insulates the roots and slows water evaporation and stops the root ball in the pot from drying out. When you want to re-pot, removing the roots from the pot is easier as the bark helps the root mass and soil just slide out. It is organic and cheap, I just pull some of the excess bark off the tree, and the paper bark tree is generous and gives me plenty without being harmed in any way. Cheers, Bron

Thank you so much for your strawberry video ! 🍓 I look forward to part two later on this Summer! I’m needing to learn what to do with the runners , so this will be very helpful !

Really appreciate this! I have quite a long balcony that gets lots of sun from May onwards and I've been wanting to grow strawberries for ever. This has given lots of great advice and I'm excited to get planting once I can find the plants in my local garden shop.

If you're in Australia or a hotter, drier climate remember to keep up the watering! Also if you're considering using netting on any fruit trees or vertical growing areas, make sure to use small aperture netting, small enough that you can't stick a finger through it as the larger stuff is deadly to fruit bats.

Such a helpful video, thank you! I always appreciate that you use seasons for reference rather than specific months for those of us in a different hemisphere. 🙂🇦🇺

I have grown strawberries for a few years, and I have still learned some great tips from your video Ben. Thanks for making and sharing and your strawberry harvest is making my mouth water. Yum!

Gift that keeps on giving as long as you figure out how to manage baby plants and are willing to pull out older ones when they stop producing.

Thank you for the tip about the homemade strawberry tower. I will do it this summer. I have strawberries called corona😄they fruit once during the summer and are super sweet. I also have wild strawberries. I have planted strawberries around bushes and trees in large potting.

I'm starting my first garden this year. I'm trying to learn so much, thank you.

Hi Ben. This is my first year gardening and I am loving your channel love❤ I saved some strawberry plants from the b&q clearance aisle and put them in containers and they have already given me some fruit. Happy days x

Thank you. I'm looking forward to the season!

Just planted some this weekend using a felt strawberry bag! Can't wait for the fruits! Also keen to learn how to preserve the plant for next year. Looking forward to the next video :)

I sure wish I had watched this back in July. LOL Super info and I will use it from now on.

Brilliant as always. I've not grown strawberries for years, I'm going to try this year ....

I have new raised beds where I've planted Quinalt and Ozark Beauty strawberries. Next summer I hope to put some in my Greenstalk planter on the patio. Thanks for the tips. USA

Very comprehensive video. Thanks so much for your thoughtful content

Several years ago I planted up a metre square raised bed with some strawberry plants. I knew nothing about growing fruit but I had beginner’s luck because I had bowlfuls and bowlfuls of strawberries that summer. Years later and I’m going to do it all again. The raised bed is in, the compost and soil are in, the barefoot strawberries arrived in the post and are now in! Hopefully, after settling in over this coming winter, they will give me lots of berries next summer and autumn 🥰

Super useful to know about waiting until the following year to make the most of the runners. I'll be getting 5 Aromel strawberry plants and 5 Norfolk Nectar this year, I've decided on a nice sunny spot in the middle of the garden and am hoping for the best!

Thanks for mentioning mulch or straw. I will do that now.

Have a lifetime supply of various pots. Thanks for the idea of a homemade tower!

You are AMAZING! I can see why you are a Master Gardener.

Hi Ben,we have had our allotment for 15 years ish & we can tell you the best strawberries we have found are Marshalls Marshmellow ,sweet juicy and quite large fruit,we have set runners and our fellow plot holders who also agree,next year we will try potting some for an early crop,they also make great jam,the first fruit are usually 2nd week in June,we still have a few on now but soon we will collect new plants for a new bed next year although 2 year plants are stronger,you can’t rush gardening it takes time,good luck & happy gardening.

Thanks Ben, another excellent video. Catching up on viewing while the daylight hours are short. I grow Elsanta which has an excellent flavour and is very productive both in a polytunnel and outside (netted). I've been growing it for about 10 years, taking runners and starting a new bed after 2 years giving the runners a year to bed in before clearing the original bed.

Lovely ideas and great tips as always! We had a volunteer strawberry and have merit out going on the greenhouse a couple of years now. I also decided to try some white alpine strawberries and they are tiny but have a delicate sweet flavor

You just inspire me to grow strawberries, good info & tips thank you

thank you so much, very good explanation "on how to grow strawberiies on the pot", i will try that I wish to find good one that stays longer..thank you and see you..for my feed back after i do grow my own.❤

Thanks so much, your videos are so great for beginners and the tips such as if you're not able to water whilst away etc are brilliant thinking

Thank you . I do have the ground cover strawberries, the small ones which I have never eaten. I am going to do a tower as I have containers plus some strawberry plants. Thank you for an informative video. As always very helpful

Thanks for the info, I am planning on planting strawberries this spring.

This is just the video that i needed and came at the perfect time! Thanks Ben! :)

This is my first year planting strawberries plants. Just learned from you my Sweet Ann variety are day neutral. Excited to see the fruit next year. Saludos!- Los Angeles

Ha, I just planted 50 strawberry plants in some meters of gutters, fixed on the fence of my kitchen garden! It makes me so happy!!

Everbearing and June berries. All my Gardening are in raised beads. This video helped !

Howdy Ben!👋 I plan on adding strawberries to our garden next year. Someone suggested the Alpine ones. After your tutorial I might do two kinds...the Alpine for garden snacking and the June bearing ones for jam.😀 Thanks for the knowledge!💕

Bought some strawberry plants and transplanted recently. I can't wait for the harvest as strawberry can be quite dear here in New Zealand

Thank you for your tip on how to plant in a pot

I absolutely adore your videos. Thank you for sharing your expertise. --gardener in Minnesota, USA

Useful tips to try. Thank you.

Thank you, Ben. I’m planning to plant up strawberries in hanging pots in our polytunnel. This is partly to try to deter our Blackbird strawberry thieves. And partly because, even with a straw-based mulch we have issues with mould on our fruit. So your video has been really useful. It confirms that I am doing basic things right, but has also given me tips for ensuring the plants grow healthy and strong. I’m using Marshmello for the pots, following the advice of a local polytunneler. Here goes!

Thanks for some great, simple tips.

Epic stuff, black pepper with strawberries..amazing

I have been growing strawberries for years and grow all the varieties. This growing season I have purchased two Green Stalks growing towers to fill up with strawberries, I am excited to get started but I live in Western Montana with my last frost date in mid-May however strawberries plants don't mind some frost, but snow would not be good for them. Thanks for sharing your beautiful berries with us.

I’m so glad I watched this video before trying to plant strawberries I didn’t know they needed straw or hay

I'm growing strawberries as well and I've got a hand full from two of my plants I'm also growing peas,cucumbers,carrots,brokoli,lettuce, tomato's, radishes and sunflowers. There all growing very well :). Also your videos have helped me sooooo much and I just wanted to say thank you.

Excellent idea you mentioned in this video ♥️🥰 make a tower so it won’t dry quickly cuz I have those strawberries pot and they don’t live longer so I will make them top on another pot so it won’t dry during summer 👩‍🌾🥰👍👍 thank you again!

This is a great video and very informative.I am in phoenix Az I grow Gurney Whopper and Ozark Beauty it took me years to learn how to grow strawberries here but now I am trying new kinds next season

A lot of good information. Thank you.

I have all ever bearing berries...I think the variety is one of the most popular. I grow in containers now but am thinking of devoting a section of my raised beds this year. Still learning about berries but loving the harvest so far.

I remember picking wild strawberries from the hedgerow while hitching through Devon. I also had wild strawberry jam made from fruit picked in the forests of northern Poland. Although the fruits are small, the taste is simply incredible! 100% more sweet, delicious, and strawberryish than anything I've ever had from a shop. I didn't know they were called Alpines but that's definitely the variety I'll be looking out for.

Thank you for the lesson on growing strawberries. Live on Hatteras Island (North Carolina - USA) and have never grown them. Want to give it a try this season. Appreciate your expertise.

I sowed a variety called Temptation earlier this year, and planted them out some weeks ago. They´ve been flowering and will continue to set blooms throughout the summer. Would like to add a variety called "Korona", suitable for colder climates, but this will be in a few years time. Thank you for a very informative video 🌻🍓

Very informative thank you!!!

Thank you

Great job on this beautiful video of strawberry 🍓

Berry good sir! And thanks for the alternative thoughts for veganic gardeners 👍

Great video really enjoyed it. I have some in hanging baskets and they have done incredibly well.

Thanks very much for sharing this video. I've started growing strawberry plants in my balcony (in Bangalore, India). Your tips help a lot.

hello..I started Ozark strawberries last year in Hay rack baskets. The baskets were suspended horizontally between metal arbors . this added extra growing room in my small garden to grow beans up the arbors at the same time. There was a fence about 3 feet from the structure which blocked the morning sun, so i painted it white, which should help reflect the noon and midday sun light . hopefully this will give what need light is required to develop delicious Strawberries. Thank you for all your helpful garden tips and planting suggestions.

I'm planting some bare root strawberry and raspberry plants tomorrow. Very informative video. Thanks! 👍

I've never tried pepper on a fresh berry. Going to give it a go soon my first berry is almost ready to pick. 😊

I’ve had strawberries do well in hanging baskets too.

Thanks for another informative video.

Strawberries and pumpkins are the most fun things to grow with kids!

this is my first year in the new house and i can finally grow strawberries! i will be planting some everbearing and some junebearing. because while i do want to make some chips or freeze them, i mostly eat them fresh so a few over the long haul sounded better. IN addition i got seeds for alpine strawberries, and i will be planting them all over where we have a bit of shade

Fabulous thank you

I have a hanging upside down garden in my chook coop. Strawberries are prefect for it! The berries hang down, no dirt for them to sit and rot on, and easy to pick. I have some herbs growing in the top too. Considering trying chives in the top to deter bugs

Thanks for sharing all of this information. I didn't know that is why they were called strawberries. I will add some pinestraw to ours. God bless!

Thank you : )

Some great advice! We had good success with Gariguette strawberry plants a few years back. Then mice started to come into the netted strawberry bed under a neighbour’s fence eating every scrap of fruit long before they were ripe. Attempts to stop this were unsuccessful and so I gave up, donating the plants to a colleague with a larger garden. Last year I decided to try again with different plants in containers; I bought Mount Everest plants, sold as ever bearing with long runners that would provide the additional plants that could be positioned above the originals. We had what I thought was a good site but while the plants produced plenty of flowers at the start of this year they all withered away to nothing. Runners are now growing but nothing like the 1m lengths advertised. I will look after the plants as best I can and let them have another year to produce some fruit. Meanwhile, I found 1 Gariguette plant hidden under other things at the back of the old bed. I dug this up a few weeks ago and transferred it to a pot where it has gone from strength to strength. Plenty of strong runners bearing baby plants that root easily. I’m hoping for perhaps 20 small plants by the end of summer that I will grow on, protected from mice, in our “catio”. Having failed to find much success with strawberry towers in the past (great for a year but the plants below the top layer didn’t thrive) I plan to grow the individual plants in good sized pots hanging from the wire walls of the catio. Fingers crossed for Gariguette strawberries next year! They really are tasty strawberries and worth growing despite a short fruiting season. Happy to receive any advice on succeeding with either variety. 💐

I haven't had luck growing June-bearing strawberries, but refuse to give up. My Pacific Northwest weather seems too cold and rainy for the raised bed (mold and powdery mildew). This year I tried a wood half-barrel but we had an even longer cold and rainy spring. The plants are short and produced small berries that rotted just as there was a blush on them. Ben's video showed me a few things I did wrong, so hopefully there will be a decent crop next year. Thanks, Ben! The tasty alpine strawberries around my blueberry bushes are tough guys. Two years in a row my brother weed-whacked them to soil level and they grew back. I recently put up a border and a sign that reads "back off, Bob!" : ) Maybe I'll get a crop of alpine berries next year.

Great video. I might dig up my strawberries in the polytunnel and get the space for more carrot

Brilliant thank you nice and easy to understand

I have not tried the alpine strawberries. I grow both June bearing and everbearing. I have to grow them with partial shade, as the sun burns up the leaves here in North Texas. Thanks for the tips. I struggle growing them and am always appreciative for all the tips to try to get a better growing crop and harvest.

I don't know the strawberry varieties, but my partner gave me a pack of six plants for Easter to give our kiddos in their Easter baskets, and they all decided they wanted them on the fence! I bought 2 felt bags with six rows of pockets and used UV zip ties to secure them. It's a beautiful back drop! The strawberries have produced beautifully.

Thanks for the tips in the video! I will be trying to grow strawberries in Florida this fall/winter (summer is too hot for them here, and the plants are usually treated as annuals.). With any luck, we'll have some beautiful berries for the holiday season!

You have persuaded me to try out a perpetual variety - I'm thinking Flamenco. Also, the Cambridge variety that I have in normal beds, always start well, but then end up rotting, so I will try using some form of raised planter.

strawberries are my very favorite

I just bought some Bubble berries at the nursery. AKA fragaria Moschata. They’re a light pink strawberry. I’ve never grown these before but they’re supposed to have a hint of pineapple and raspberry flavors.

I grow day neutrals, exclusively, here in Southern California. I have Albion, Eversweet, and my favorite - Sweet Ann. They slow for only about 2 months during the coldest part of the year, then they get right back to it. Nice video :)

I’m planning to grow them again next year. I got 40 bare roots and 10 plants last summer and not a single one survived my 5b winter. I grew the roots in towers. I never clipped the runners and they only produced a few berries. I’m learning what to do and not do. I’m not sure what my failure was with them, so before I order any more I’m relearning!

Ben- YOU are so enjoyable to watch and wonderfully knowledgeable! I'm thrilled to have found your channel! I have grown strawberries in the ground, big fat juicy ones, until the slugs munched them into oblivion. This year, I planted in a grow bag, but the soil settled and the plants sunk. How can I remedy? I've eaten several delicious berries already. I added more soil around the plants leaving the crown showing, but I nearly killed them. Can I pull them out and add soil, then replant so they are even with the edges of the container? I just LOVE the idea of using clay pots for a tiered strawberry planting and may give it a try. THANK YOU!!!

I'm thinking, in the next year or two, about growing some strawberries in a vertical pallet planter to try it out on my small deck. I'll probably try ever bearing and June bearing together.

I've got Montana strawberry coming soon so figuring out what planter to put in. Will plant more soon...but thisnis a first go.

3gen farmer from Iceland with disability that had to move to the capital city. I find you're videos informative and insightful a long time ago my farm had plant research by my grade grand parents, then animals by grandmothers older brother and now we have still have animals by my mothers disabled little brother.

Hi, Ben. I love homegrown strawberries😋

This is my first year growing strawberries. I have Ozark Beauties growing in containers on my deck. I'm letting berries grow on the first-year plants (and I've eaten a few already), but I'm removing all the runners.

I want to grow june bearing strawberries and I found the strawberry tower interesting and useful, I really want to try that one.