Growing Strawberries from Seeds (Tarpan)

This page provides instructions and photos on Growing Strawberries from Seeds. Vegetable Gardening Made Easier will be using the Tarpan F1, pictured at the right.

There are three categories of strawberries:

Day Neutral strawberries produce fruit throughout the growing season. The Day Neutral is a good plant when short on space.

There is the Everbearing strawberries that produce two to three harvests of fruit intermittently during the spring, summer and fall.

The last one is the Junebearing. These strawberries produce a single, large crop per year during a 2 - 3 week period in the spring. Junebearers are the traditionally grown plants, producing a single flush of flowers and many runners.

The Tarpan is a Day Neutral type. Plant in a hanging basket, container, or in the ground. The bright red, small (an we mean small) to medium-sized fruit are plentiful, tasty, and will produce from midsummer to frost.

Sow seeds thinly in March or April in a fine soilless mix. Press seeds into moist mix and keep moist until plants emerge in 2-3 weeks.

Keep soil temperature between 60°F and 75°F , if possible. Transplant to plug trays or 1-1 CULTURE: 1/2" apart in flats, then to larger pots or planters for retailing full-size plants: 1 plant/3-4" pot; 3-5 plants/8" pot. Transplant outdoors anytime, 1' apart. Tolerant to partial shade, and they prefer moist soil.

For seeds, OG means "organically grown" and signifies seeds harvested from plants grown organically, without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides and according to National Organic Program standards.

For supplies, OG signifies products that are approved for use in growing certified organic crops; supplies are listed by OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute) when noted in the product description.

The picture below is one where I am growing strawberries from seeds. I have not done a very good job of it. I believe I made two mistakes. Not enough light and I used a potting soil instead of a soilless mixture.

A good gardener evaluates where they went wrong and tries again.

02-01-2010

Below are Growing Strawberries from Seeds that I planted. They have been the hardest thing I have tried to grow to date. It took almost three weeks for them to germinate and then they did not grow very fast at all.

Below is a picture of a Tarpan strawberry plant from seed that I planted back in October. It is growing well but I do not recommend using the planter with the type of stuff I used. It does not hold moisture and drys out within a day.

The second picture is my Tarpan plant. I took it out of the hanging basket and planted it in the greenhouse since it was too hard to keep the plant watered.

The Tarpan is a small berry, but it has a lot of taste.

June 2010

Below is a picture of a Tarpan Strawberry. I did not realize it at the time but this is more like a berry. It is real small but loaded with taste.

For more on Strawberries visit Growing Alpine Strawberries and Growing Strawberries Garden finally Growing Strawberry Plants.

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